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FeaturesCoronavirus update for construction: 31 July
Build UK’s update the industry amid the covid-19 outbreak
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FeaturesCosting Steelwork 14: Market update
Costing Steelwork is a series from Aecom, BCSA and Steel for Life that provides guidance on costing structural steelwork. This quarter provides a market update and updates the five cost models previously featured in Costing Steelwork
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NewsExtension of Help to Buy set to be announced
Sources say government will not formally extend scheme but will give builders more time to complete homes
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NewsPlans unveiled for revamp of Smithfield meat market buildings
Market due to move to new facilities in Dagenham
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NewsGrenfell Inquiry: Rydon site managers assumed window insulation was safe
Main contractor’s senior site officials say they did not know combustible material was being used to fill gaps
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NewsConcerns grow over Commonwealth Games athletes' village
Birmingham council’s audit committee has given the project a red risk-rating
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NewsIn pictures: HS2’s Chiltern tunnels project hits new milestone
Bouygues, Sir Robert McAlpine, and VolkerFitzpatrick have been carrying out the work
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CommentConstruction industry gossip: One for the pot
As housebuilders struggle to put their falling numbers into words, some wag has at least a suggestion of what they can put into their hard hats
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NewsGrenfell Inquiry: Rydon director ‘haunted’ by lack of challenge to cladding design
Emotional boss believed design process had been correctly followed
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NewsPrevious leaderships struggled with amount of work to build Crossrail, says current boss
Mark Wild adds scheme has 573 tasks to be completed on jobs such as tunnels and shafts
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NewsHomes England to make suppliers meet diversity criteria
Government housing agency says inclusion commitments will be a pre-condition for place on delivery framework
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NewsFirms primed for £1.5bn government consultancy framework
Market engagement sessions to start next month
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NewsWillmott Dixon chalks up £33m Bristol office scheme
City centre office will include energy-generating lifts
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NewsWinners on £260m Highways England framework revealed
Consultancy deal will run alongside agency’s five year investment programme
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FeaturesTen weeks that shook the housing market
We went into lockdown with one housing market and came out of it with quite another. Joey Gardiner reports on what the pandemic means for developers of high-rise housing
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CommentThe Talent Retention Scheme will help construction lead the economic recovery
It is vital firms use the initiative to avoid seeing skills disappear for good, writes Mark Reynolds
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FeaturesCost model: CLT frame buildings
The rapidly expanding use of CLT saw its trajectory arrested in the UK by new regulations in the wake of Grenfell, but if safe solutions can be found then the material offers considerable cost and climate advantages over more traditional frame solutions. Alinea breaks down the costs