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NewsPioneering UK Passivhaus certified
First Passivhaus in the country to use traditional cavity wall construction cost £141,000 to build and will use 90% less energy for heating than average
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NewsAldar posts £55m first quarter loss
Abu Dhabi developer fails to meet forecasts, blaming the performance on the UAE’s weak property market
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NewsGovernment publishes Part L Approved Documents
Under new rules some non-domestic buildings will be allowed to achieve less than a 25% reduction while others will be expected to exceed the target
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NewsRok issues profit warning
Firm blames severe weather conditions at beginning of year for weak maintenance and improvements performance
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NewsIndustry says Labour is best – but will vote Tory anyway
Building web poll shows Labour is trusted to keep spending, but Conservatives still have 7% lead
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NewsConstruction is second worst investor in IT
But survey shows industry is no longer worst performer – and is closing the gap on other sectors
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NewsEngland's tallest bridge design approved
190m-tall bridge in Sunderland, which will span 336m over the Wear, has received planning permission from council
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NewsRivals circle Crest as merger talk intensifies
Persimmon and Galliford Try were this week believed to be running the rule over Crest Nicholson, which has been effectively put up for sale by the 40 banks that own it
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NewsMorrison nabs £180m of work
Repair and maintenance contractor to provide services on about 28,000
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NewsRichest bosses £1.5bn better off
The wealth of construction’s richest personalities has risen by a third over the past 12 months despite the downturn
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NewsVinci: Luton council broke tender rules
Vinci has alleged that Luton council breached tender rules in the latest chapter of the row over the town’s £52m guided busway scheme
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CommentYuanda vs Gear Construction: amendments to a contract
Did the insertion of a Tolent clause go against the Construction Act?
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CommentCroft House Care vs Durham council : Disclosure in public procurement
A question of which documents must be disclosed to court in a claim involving aggreived tenders
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SME workers’ pay to rise 2%
Workers at SME contractors are set for a 2% pay rise this year following a 12-month pay freeze
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Balfour and Laing O’Rourke vie for Alder Hey PFI hospital
Two of the country’s biggest construction firms will go head to head for a £288m PFI children’s hospital in Liverpool
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NewsGlebe is go
Detailed planning consent has been given to housebuilder Countryside Properties for its 286-home Glebe Farm scheme near Cambridge
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CommentIn praise of doing less: adjudication scheme
The scheme for adjudication is being redrafted to fit the new (deep breath) Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act. If only they would write it on just one page
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The reckoning
Fiona Gill and Mark Roach So what did the Labour party do for (or to) construction during the past 13 years? And what will happen if the Conservatives take over?
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CommentA pain in the NEC
Disputes on NEC projects are on the rise, so if you don’t want to find yourself in a bind, here are some points to be aware of when using this contract
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Nuclear contracts: Ending in tiers
The second of our three-part series on the nuclear decommissioning sector looks at the target-cost clauses of tier two contracts – their benefits and pitfalls