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CommentSomething quite atrocious
A party that thinks an adjudicator has no jurisdiction can save money and bother by simply waiting until the end before making a song and dance about it
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Bam bags the February top spot with Somerset schools win
Business barometer Education continues to be construction’s lifeblood as workload picks up
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Full speed ahead?
The Infrastructure Planning Commission was set up to fast-track projects of national importance, but it remains to be seen how well it will work
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Something might get broken
‘The rough and tumble of normal commercial bargaining” can, clearly, be used to extract a good deal from the other side. But if one party abuses this power, the other could argue later that the resulting contract is not binding. Such an argument is founded on the legal doctrine of ...
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NewsCharter 284 Greening existing stock: Popular and essential
The fourth area of public spending that our Charter 284 campaign defends is the ecological refurbishment of Britain’s houses. Not only is this vital to meet our green commitments, but it is popular, and it could ultimately pay for itself
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Rok on hunt for small M&E firm
Repair and maintenance specialist Rok is looking to bring more work in-house by buying small plumbing, heating and engineering companies
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Bovis Homes to buy land
David Ritchie, the chief executive of Bovis Homes, said the housebuilder would focus on buying land in 2010 in order to get more sites open.
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Calas losses improve
Scottish housebuilder Cala Homes this week reported a pre-tax loss of £33.9m on turnover of £168.9m for the year ending 30 June 2009
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Crosby Homes sales rise
Lend Lease housebuilding subsidiary Crosby Homes has reported improved sales in the first half of its financial year from July 2009
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NewsUK explores German refurb funding model
The government has been in talks with German infrastructure bank KfW as it looks for ways to fund the annual cost of greening the UK’s housing stock. That has been estimated at £2bn a year by the government and up to £15bn a year by the UK Green Building Council
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NewsSign the Charter 284 petition to protect construction
Petition the government to support construction investment by adding your name to the Number 10 website
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NewsThe school's in aisle 46
Tesco is reworking plans for a district centre in Bromley-by-Bow, east London, after Cabe criticised them
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Guernsey pulls the plug on Vinci’s £80m waste power plant
Vinci has lost an £80m contract to build an energy-from-waste plant in Guernsey after the island’s council pulled the plug because of its high cost
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HSE to crack down on refurb deaths
The proportion of fatal accidents on repair and maintenance projects soared by a third between April and September last year compared with the whole of 2008
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NewsGreen park
The Beechwood Business Park office scheme in Dover is believed to be the first office built to Passivhaus standards.
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Latest construction appointments - 12 March 2010
New East Manchester has appointed Ian Slater deputy chief executive for its regeneration arm
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NewsPark your Tardis here: BBC's Cardiff Bay studio
Igloo Regeneration has lined up four contractors to bid for the construction of a £25m BBC studio in Wales
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Legal & General backs away from private rental initiative
Insurer will not invest hundreds of millions in £5bn scheme after Treasury fails to guarantee returns
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Barratt told recession no defence for mothballing scheme
Barratt could be forced to pay £9.5m after losing a landmark lawsuit over a development it shelved during the downturn
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CommentSomething to shout about
One of the best bits of news we’ve heard in a long time was delivered by Ed Miliband last week