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Laing O'Rourke sharpens off-site focus with restructure
Second biggest contractor targets 5% margin by 2018
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Online poll: Blacklist
Do you believe that the practice of blacklisting workers has now been stamped out from the construction industry? Vote here
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Green light to restore fire-damaged Battersea Arts Centre
Haworth Tompkins-designed revamp approved
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RIBA damns 'wasteful' school programme
Good design could stop £150m a year being spent on unnecessary operations and maintenance, report claims
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Housebuilders' pact to increase output
Housebuilders and government agree to boost delivery of new homes
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Record number of London office starts
Deloitte Crane Survey reports the capital now has 14.2 million sq ft of office space under construction
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SRM walks away from £60m Viñoly job
Contractor and university fail to agree terms for graphene innovation centre
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PPPs: Step back in time
Public-private partnership agreements could be used to help invigorate the UK’s infrastructure - but only if we shrug off stigma from the past around their use
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Is the door still open on build to rent?
Just when you thought the private rented sector was about to take off, along comes the chancellor and whacks a big tax on the purchase of homes for rent
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Luxury skyscrapers 'good for the neighbourhood'
Report lauds ‘transformational qualities’ of high-end resi towers
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London’s new mayor: Yes, he Khan
Sadiq Khan has the mother of all in-trays to contend with in his first months as London’s new mayor - everything from housing to Heathrow, Crossrail 2 to controversial planning decisions
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WSP PB hires former Sweett MD
Derek Pitcher joins firm to grow property and buildings advisory business
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1984 revisited
As one of our longest-serving columnists prepares to bow out, she looks back at how things have changed in construction law since she wrote her first column for the magazine
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Build to rent: The home straight
Build to rent housing has come on in leaps and bounds and now represents a great opportunity for the construction industry, says Richard McCarthy, but we have to get it right, which means a strong commitment to a positive renter experience
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Dismay at further £2.9bn framework delays
Consultants dismayed as award date slips to three-and-a-half years late
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Willmott Dixon bags £31m uni development
Curzon campus extension will house 3,000 students, lecture theatre and mock courtrooms
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Berkeley to become 'carbon positive'
Housebuilder will slash its carbon emissions and boost its use of green energy
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Sweett bags £1.1bn brace of Scottish schemes
The consultant is to provide quantity surveying and technical advisory services
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Green light for 470-home north London scheme
The developer will start on site at the scheme next year