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NewsHousebuyers return after cold snap
Rise in new buyer enquiries is being outstripped by increase in housing supply, say surveyors
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NewsKnotweed under attack as biologists release killer beetles
Government gives go-ahead for Japanese Knotweed's natural predator to be released into the UK
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NewsEcobuild: UKGBC declares war on wasteful non-doms
Manifesto calls on government to force improvement in energy efficiency of non-domestic buildings
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NewsNightingale Associates unveils £23m hospital in Wales
108-bed community hospital in Rhondda Valley includes biomass boiler and other low-carbon features
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NewsMerseyside builder fined £1,000 for Health and Safety breach
Charles Molloy prosecuted after HSE inspector finds him and an employee working on a pub roof without safety measures
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Industry calls for help for ailing professional services firms
Data indicates 54% firms had seen decreases in incomes in the year to October 2009
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NewsImages: England's first Passivhaus office
Office development in Kent claims to be 80% more energy efficient than required by current Building Regulations
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Comment
Is the housing market on the turn again?
Today’s release by the surveyors’ body RICS of its latest housing market survey provides a little bit of support to both sides of the will-they-won’t-they debate on house price rises.Looked at nationally, the broad measures of estate agents experiences and expectations of house prices remain positive.A majority of 17% saw ...
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NewsGovernment green lights £420m of BSF schemes
Six local authorities join schools programme but fears persist over timetable after general election
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NewsBovis Homes posts £4.8m pre-tax profit
Housebuilder overcomes last year's £78.7m pre-tax loss on the back of £281.5m turnover
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NewsKickstart round two unlocks over 5,000 new homes
Almost £83m will boost affordable housing provision and create apprenticeship places
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NewsBam scoops £60m Bluewater events venue
Lend Lease appoints contractor to build Bluewater Events Venue in Kent
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NewsFirst images: Brookfield's Elephant & Castle tower takes shape
Building goes on site at London's tallest residential tower, nicknamed 'the razor', and finds out about the challenges created by its three integrated wind turbines
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NewsThe eco-refurb that could save homeowner £28,000 over 25 years
Keepmoat’s Mark Sapola on the green makeover of a three-bed home in Bristol
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NewsBalfour Beatty wins blacklist tribunal
Construction worker Mick Dooley found to have been fairly excluded from employment
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NewsLack of engineers could scupper renewables revolution
Sunday Times says 60,000 heating engineers are interested in fitting renewable energy devices but are put off by the three-year certification process
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News3DReid unveils Moffat Academy
Multimillion-pound school for primary and secondary pupils has been completed
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Comment
Housing shortage, what housing shortage?
Few people disagree with the notion that there is a housing shortage in England. It is trotted out both as an argument for more social homes and as an underlying case for ever increasing house prices.I too subscribe to the view that we need to increase and enhance the English, ...
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CommentTimber frame insurance controversy: Building responds
We’ve had quite a response to our story on insurers threatening to pull cover on timber frame buildings, here's the gist of it...
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NewsStarting Your Own Business, part 14: Finding your niche
Our industry as a whole may be suffering in recession, but there are still growth areas that need your professional skills