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NewsCoventry names Balfour Beatty for £250m street lighting PPP
City council appoints contractor as preferred bidder on 25-year installation and maintenance contract
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NewsHouse prices suffer first fall for 10 months
Nationwide says snow is partly to blame for February's 1% price fall
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NewsManchester firm fined £24,000 over scaffolding collapse
Court told that failure to tie scaffolding to building put public at risk
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NewsCarillion seals deal on £600m hospital PPP
Southmead hospital will target a BREEAM 'excellent' rating and low carbon footprint
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NewsNew health and safety advice service launched by Barbour
'Ask Barbour' offers expert written answers to specialist professionals – and Building readers get one question free
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NewsCold comfort – safety advice in the ice
Guides are available on safety issues arising from this winter's extreme cold weather
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NewsOrchard Village gets go-ahead for phase two
Havering estate regeneration by Circle Anglia receives HCA funding and planning approval for second phase of 555-home scheme
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NewsStairway to heaven
John Mayne of T&B discovered this mysterious escape route propped on the top a three-storey flight of stairs. “Not by us!” he adds quickly.
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NewsRenewed energy: Willmott Dixon's primary care centre
Willmott Dixon’s £17m project for Sunderland Teaching primary care trust aims to become the UK’s first BREEAM “outstanding” primary care centre next month
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NewsContractors attack rise of ‘eBay’ tendering
Fears raised over growth of tendering system that allows bidders to compare and revise price
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Brookfield to pay CBUK £3m
The ruling that Cleveland Bridge UK must pay Brookfield Construction £4.2m after its legal battle over Wembley stadium has been partly overturned
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Hammerson to favour French contracts over new UK work
Hammerson is to focus on French rather than UK schemes in 2010 it revealed in its 2009 results this week
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NewsInto the deep: Snøhetta's marine lab
Norwegian architect Snøhetta has designed this 16,000m² laboratory as part of a research centre for marine technology company Marintek
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Proposal to pay off Nimbys slammed as ‘cheque-book’ planning
Tory proposals to allow developers to come to financial arrangements with objecting neighbours in order to secure their support have been denounced as “cheque-book planning”
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The man from Rio
Alexandre Techima, the infrastructure manager of Rio de Janeiro’s 2016 Olympics programme, is the latest speaker to confirm his attendance at Building’s Global Infrastructure Forum in May.
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Stamp duty changes
Stamp duty must be revised to encourage private investment in new homes for rent, according to MPs
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Affordable homes
Housing minister John Healey this week signed off £500m of spending under the National Affordable Housing Programme to pay for 8,000 new affordable homes. He said 3,000 would be available through the HomeBuy scheme.
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Nakheel chief leaves Dubai firm
Nakheel’s chief commercial officer has left the state-linked Dubai developer, as its parent Dubai World tries to restructure $22bn (£14.3bn) of debt
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McCann Homes finance boss buys out chief executive
The former finance director of £73m–turnover family-run housebuilder McCann Homes has bought out the chief executive as part of a major restructure
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NewsMysterious cities of gold: Beijing's energy-producing park
The Chicago and China offices of architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill have designed a plan for an energy-producing central park in Beijing’s Dawangjing district