All Building articles in 26 September 2014
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Government ups renewables budget to £300m
Subsidy for renewable power projects increased under energy market reforms
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Miller Homes shelves plan to float
Miller Homes blames ‘volatility in the financial markets’ for decision to call off plan to float on stock market
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What vacuum cleaners can teach us about zero carbon homes
The industry needs to ensure the low carbon products and services it supplies actually do what they claim
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Singapore is running hot
The gateway to booming South-east Asia, Singapore also has a thriving construction market in its own right
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Developer warns over viability of Ebbsfleet garden city
Developer of government-backed garden city says it is “struggling” to make 15,000-home scheme viable
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Luxury housing markets creating ‘dystopian’ cities
Leading cities expert says emergence of super-prime residential markets in cities around the world for helping create “dystopian” urban environments
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ISG construction boss exits
ISG’s managing director of construction leaves the company after 18 months in the role
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Pickles hails increase in planning permissions
Communities secretary uses party conference speech to hail an increase in residential planning applications submitted in the last year
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Balfour Beatty sells hospital scheme for £61.5m
Contractor sells its 50% stake in the Pinderfields and Pontefract Hospital to a co-investor
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Costain and Vinci win £86m Glasgow tunnel job
Contractors to build the biggest upgrade to Glasgow’s waste water network in more than century
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Galliford Try wins £45m priority schools batch
Contractor appointed to build six schools in London under the Priority School Building Programme
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Willmott Dixon construction boss steps down
Long-time capital works chief executive John Frankiewicz to return in non-executive role
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Two more Balfour Beatty directors leave
Executive director Bob Clark retires from the firm, along with the HR director of the regional business
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HOK's global arm back in the black
Architect’s international arm, which includes its UK business, reports return to profit, although its level of UK work fell
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Atkins aquires UK oil and gas specialist for £45m
Atkins announces acquisition of a Texas-based oil and gas specialist Houston Offshore Engineering
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Sir Robert McAlpine's London boss exits
Exclusive: Vince Corrigan, the boss of Sir Robert McAlpine’s London and South-east business, is to leave the firm
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Bam wins £27m school job
Contractor to build Rydens Enterprise School and Sixth Form College in Hersham, Surrey
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HS2 college HQ goes to Birmingham
College for training next generation of engineers for HS2 to have homes in Birmingham and Doncaster
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Conservatives put housebuilding centre stage
There is much to like about the Conservatives’ push on housebuilding but it leaves renters out in the cold
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Thames Tideway boss to chair government infrastructure group
Andy Mitchell appointed chair of the Infrastructure Client Group set up to drive cost savings on government-procured infrastructure projects