All Building articles in Blogs – Page 10
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Jobs and pay data do little to perk up waning hopes for growth
Fewer construction vacancies put downward pressure on industry wages
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Happy Birthday Sir George!
Today is the bicentenary of the birth of Sir George Gilbert Scott, father of the Gothic Revival and one of England's greatest architects
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Book review: Architect's Legal Pocket Book
A new pocket-size guidebook aims to be the definitive legal manual for architects and students
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Half-term report for the housing market 2011 – fragile and flatlining
The recent stats to emerge on the housing market make for worrying reading
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Construction output: So far it’s better than last year, but can that last?
Output figures are looking good but why, how and is this sustainable?
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Bonds are back, and they could save infrastructure
The lack of financing available for infrastructure is forcing the government to look at ways of taking on the project risk
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Building materials imports data suggest construction grew in first quarter of 2011
The figures also suggest a surge in construction work in the middle quarters of last year
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Forecasters see pain deferred as recessions takes longer to bite in construction
Latest forecast suggests the slide into recession for construction will be more gentle than first thought
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England’s housing stock grows slower than the population for the first time in decades
The historic trend of increasing the pool of homes faster than population growth looks like going into reverse
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The Secret Garden: Serpentine Pavilion 2011
Peter Zumthor’s pavilion is a mysterious shrine to nature and contemplation
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Mini surge over for plant hire as activity dips in April
Royal Wedding and Bank Holidays will have hit figures but the trend is still downward
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Another step on the long march to improving construction
Construction Excellence's new report on collaboration right focuses on the building's end purpose rather than the actual building itself
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Construction output figures in the dock: the case for the defence
The ONS makes its defence but still leaves questions unanswered
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Construction output figures in the dock: the case for the defence
Government statisticians shed more light on how they collect construction data
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Construction jobs slump to lowest level since 2003
And new data suggests construction pay is stuck at 2007 levels
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Latest housing market weather reports suggest little break in the clouds post's title
House prices are bad, but no worse than we’ve come to expect
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City traders still see dismal future for house prices
Those betting on the future of house prices are predicting a decline of 7.5% in two years’ time
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Few signs in construction output figures of private sector revival. But who really knows?
For all the confusion in output numbers, the conclusions to be drawn are rather disturbing
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Spiralling rents pose a tough question for Shapps: Where will the new homes come from?
The newest survey by RICS ups the pressure for affordable housing
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Speeding up public land sales itself will not boost housebuilding
Housebuilders already have enough land - the challenge is to find buyers