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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 …
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Planning approvals
Approvals have grown significantly in London and East Anglia over the summer. In Wales, however, there is little evidence planners are responding to warnings of undersupply
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New-build completions
The housebuilding industry has been hard at work over the summer, maintaining steady completion levels, but daily sales dipped in June and July. Thank heavens they picked up in August. Maybe the downturn won’t happen after all …
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Buyer demand
SmartNewHomes reports that London bore the brunt of the summer slowdown with a fall in demand of 8.5%. That figure almost exactly matches the rise that Wales enjoyed. Meanwhile urban exiles continue to flock to the South-west
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Expert eye
What are developers cooking up in kitchens? James Pilling, senior designer at interior specialist Connections in Design, looks at the growing importance of kitchen design and its relationship with modern lifestyle
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£300m hospital takes Bovis to the top of August league
After a quiet July, Bovis Lend Lease climbs 29 places – and stays well ahead in the annual contractor charts
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FeaturesMillau Viaduct: C’est magnifique!
Foster and Partners’ Viaduc de Millau in southern France is the highest, longest cable-stayed bridge in the world, and it opens in December. We admire the view, talks to the engineer and meets some enthusiastic locals.
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People who need people
This year’s Building/Hays Montrose careers survey found that construction’s workforce is overwhelmingly concerned with the problem of recruitment and training staff. We analyse the statistics
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FeaturesSpecialist costs: Concrete frames
In the first of our specialist market overviews, Ian Purton of Gardiner & Theobald looks at the concrete sector’s lead times and costs
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FeaturesSpecialist Q&A
John Doyle Construction, part of the John Doyle Group, specialises in the construction of substructure, superstructure and infrastructure projects. Stef Stefanou is the firm’s urbane chairman.