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Carillion seals the deal on £300m Tameside BSF
JV with local education partnership to build more than 12 schools reaches financial close
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Steel demand may fall 33% across UAE
Dubai Multi Commodities Centre director says consumption could fall from 14m to 9m tonnes in 2009
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Work on £57m Dubai tower to start next month
Corporate Towers will run across 45 floors and have floor space of 1.1 million ft2
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Leighton says Dubai downturn will not affect work
Australian contractors claims $2.5tr worth of projects in the Gulf will mean continuing opportunities
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London's Monument reopens after £4.5m restoration
Repair and upgrading work on Great Fire memorial includes new viewing platform by Julian Harrap Architects and real-time website views
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Dubai downturn helps developers bargain down builders
Dubai Pearl developer Abdul Majeed Al Fahim says he is no longer at 'contractor's mercy'
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BSEC 2010 moving to the Capital
The Building Schools for the Future Programme, City Academies and the Primary Capital Programme have had a huge impact on education spending in the UK with an estimated £100 billion being spent from now until 2020
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Use of foreign labour at Lindsey 'not illegal'
Acas rules that EU laws not broken by employment of Italian workers that sparked wildcat strikes
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Sin Sabt wins £95m contract at Dubai lagoon
Local contractor will build zones four and seven of Schon scheme, including 900 flats and a mall
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Prince Faisal al Saud vs Kleinwort Benson bank: Saudi prince sues after subsidence at London home
A member of the Saudi Arabian royal family is embroiled in a £1m legal battle with Kleinwort Benson Private Bank over his home in London.Prince Faisal bin Turki al Abdullah al Saud says he was unable to sell his home in Holland Park because the bank failed to obtain a ...
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Inflation, deflation, Japan and paradoxes
So consumer price inflation isn't falling as fast as many commentators had expected. Is that a surprise? Well not really.Ok there are lags in the systems. But with oil price falls, the cut in VAT and deep discounting the big plot twists pre-Christmas, it was hard to see where the ...
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More buyers sniffing around for bargain buys in the housing market, says RICS
More green shoots appear to be sprouting in the housing market with the surveyors' body RICS finding an increase in interest among potential homebuyers over the past three months.Sensibly RICS economists are not getting over excited by this, after all interest from buyers was at basement levels and was almost ...
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Land Securities confirms rights issue plan
Land Securities announces that it is in discussions with investors following press speculation that up to £750m could be raised
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Almost half of small architect practices short of work
RIBA survey reveals that half of all small architects practices are “under-employed”
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Arrest warrant issued following fatal scaffold collapse
Arrest warrant is issued for NNM Scaffolding director who fled country in 2006 after Milton Keynes accident
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Galliford Try wins £103m St Pancras Chambers restoration
Grade I-listed building will be converted into 67 apartments, and a 244-room five-star hotel
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Developer invites bids for eco-transport network on Dubai scheme
'People mover' will serve more than 200,000 people in Jebel Ali mixed-use scheme
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Green campaigners outed as energy wastrels
Boris Johnson, rock singer Chris Martin and LibDem energy spokesman Simon Hughes shamed by thermal imaging survey of their homes
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