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CommentThe fracking revolution
Proposals to streamline UK trespass laws could allow companies to extract shale gas from underneath an adjacent landowner’s property without permission
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FeaturesWhat to specify: Housing
This week’s housing products include aircrete blocks used in five luxury apartments in Kent and the transformation of shipping containers into student accommodation in Norway
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CommentHansom: Whatever floats your boat
This week, the construction industry has fun on the water and climbs every mountain - well, three of them - while Berkeley celebrates trickle-down happiness and the chancellor makes a shocking confession
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NewsContractors picked for £1bn rental housing pipeline
Balfour Beatty and Brookfield top list of five firms picked by developer Essential Living
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NewsFirms line up legal challenges to £750m UK SBS framework
Turner Townsend and EC Harris work on claims after losing out on government framework
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FeaturesFrom the archive in ... 1994
This week we look back to the initial rumblings of the Construction Industry Board, later chaired by Sir Michael Latham, as this Building news story reveals
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Sansovino’s Library, Venice
This week’s #buildingdoodle is by Francis Terry, partner in Quinlan Francis Terry Architects.
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FeaturesLatham's report: Did it change us?
Twenty years after the publication of Sir Michael Latham’s Constructing the Team, Joey Gardiner looks back at the report’s impact, whether it changed construction for the better and if its grand ambitions survived the financial meltdown
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NewsHuge profit boost for Hill as turnover hits £200m
Essex-based firm reports a doubling in pre-tax profit for 2013 calendar year
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NewsBouygues scoops Manhattan Loft Gardens tower
Firm appointed preferred contractor on 42-storey Stratford residential tower
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NewsManchester City announce second phase of Etihad expansion
Club plans to build a further three rows of seats to take capacity to 55,000
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NewsBank of England unveils plans to cool housing market
Bank proposes limiting large loans to housebuyers and ‘stress testing’ borrowers ability to repay loans
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NewsSkanska completes Moorgate Exchange in London
HKR-designed 12-storey office building features six roof terraces and a green roof
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NewsSpending watchdog probes payment times
National Audit Office asks subbies on government work if they are paid on time
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NewsGalliford Try announces £82m contract haul
Firm announces four major contract wins across the UK
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CommentLatham was right about partnering
… it’s just taking a long time for the construction industry to do anything about it
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FeaturesThe recyclable house
Technology used to build the world’s largest McDonald’s is being adapted to build temporary, highly flexible, 100% recyclable housing in Holland. Could the model be brought here to solve the UK’s affordable housing crisis?
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NewsGovernment told to take action on infrastructure
State of the Nation report from the Institution of Civil Engineers calls for action in areas of new energy generation, flood defence and local transport
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NewsSouth-east runway plans could be ‘kicked in to the long grass’
Senior Tory and Labour politicians raise concerns that plans will be ignored after next general election
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NewsAdonis calls for HS2 to be built in one go
Labour shadow infrastructure minister makes call as Lord Heseltine confirms interest from HS1 owners