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NewsDisabled denied access on high street as DDA law looms
Survey reveals that thousands of businesses will fail to comply with a new law requiring the removal of physical barriers to disabled.
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Hyde quits Jarvis
Jarvis chief executive Kevin Hyde stands down after disastrous financial year.
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RMI work helps keep BSS profit on track
BSS says government spending was helping to counteract commercial dip as eight more PTS branches are opened.
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Seven in frame for New Islington
Conran and Partners, de Rijke Marsh and shedkm are among the architects on the competition shortlist for a 29-acre Millennium Community in East Manchester.
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Prescott promises £60,000 homes in South East
Surplus public land will be developed to provide young people with up to 10,000 affordable homes from as little as £60,000.
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Carillion JV scoops £50m health treatment centre
Carillion’s joint venture firm Patient Choice Partners wins preferred bidder status for £50m treatment centre in Essex
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Wolseley UK sales hit £2bn
Strong housing market helps builders' merchant Wolseley achieve record UK turnover while world-wide sales pass £10bn mark
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Five dead in Dubai airport collapse
"Multiple" casualties after wall collapse on Laing O'Rourke new terminal job
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FeaturesWhy the public loves an engineer
Open Site proved a roaring success for the projects that opened their doors to an inquisitive public, says Matt Dawson, relationship development manager at the Association of Consulting Engineers.
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FeaturesBoris walks with the dinosaurs
Boris Johnson pays tribute to air conditioning at the HVAC's bash at the Natural History museum.
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Joint ventures help push Pochin profit to £5m
Profit rises to £5m despite slow start to the year in contracting and construction services.
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NewsCITB plans industry-wide apprenticeship scheme
Construction bodies get on board to develop initiative that could entice school-leavers away from university
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Inland revenue probes IT provider BIW
The Inland Revenue is investigating IT project services provider BIW Technologies over tax credits it received on research and development.
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Moayedi makes shock return to construction
Ex-Jarvis boss buys waste treatment specialist to exploit boom in reclaiming contaminated brownfield land.
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Concrete frames
In the first of our specialist market overviews, Gardiner & Theobald examines the concrete sector's lead times and costs
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CommentStand and deliver
Up until two weeks ago, we thought that 150,000 additional households were being formed every year.
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Doorstepping
We has swapped the hurly-burly of management at Berkeley Homes for the post of managing director at Silver Homes, a privately owned housebuilder developing just 20-50 upmarket homes a year in Sussex, Surrey and Kent
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Precious heat
Up until now, housebuilders have responded to demands that they improve the energy efficiency of new homes by simply adding insulation. Next year, they are going to have to do much more …