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NewsBillions to be spent rebuilding Gaza
UN demands lifting of ban on construction material imports so rebuilding can start, as cost of war damage put at £1.4bn
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NewsCredit ratings stay strong for Gulf construction firms
Agency says government backing for Gulf construction firms means a stable credit outlook for this year
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NewsJobless figures set to rise again
Statistics out later today are expected to show that claims for unemployment rose by 85,000 in December
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NewsRICS sets up fee transparency taskforce
Working group chaired by president will spend a year investigating the declaration of fees and commissions
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NewsGovernment consults on cash for council house plans
Councils may soon be able to keep rental and receipts from Right to Buy sales
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Danish engineering visionary Borge Ramboll dies
Founder of Nordic giant Ramboll, owner of Whitbybird, mourned as a 'friend of engineering'
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NewsUAE commits to 7% green energy
Leading oil-producing nation pledges to meet new renewable power target by 2020
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NewsCost of solar power could fall 40% by 2015
Technological advances are driving down photovoltaic panel prices by as much as 10% each year
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NewsR&D centre announced for carbon-neutral city
Masdar joins forces with GE to fund a new centre to develop and showcase green technologies in zero-waste Masdar City
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NewsDubai issues new safety code
Emirate's construction department provides English version of new safety standards
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NewsCornish builder goes into administration
John Nicholls Builders of Truro falls victim to credit crunch after 47 years of trading
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NewsNetwork Rail names seven firms for £800m track renewal programme
Amey Colas, Babcock Rail, Balfour Beatty, Carillion, Grant Rail, Jarvis and Trackwork selected to carry out track enhancement
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NewsZaha Hadid unveils 'the Diamond Grasshopper'
Starchitect wins competition for Port Authority building in Antwerp, Belgium
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NewsComplaints commissioner appointed for Crossrail
Transport minister and London mayor make joint appointment to handle complaints about Crossrail building work
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New pedestrian and cycle bridge opens up Rainham Marshes
Thames Estuary Path missing link secures funding
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Greater London Authority makes key Thames Gateway appointment
GLA appoints new director of development and environment to oversee delivery of Thames Gateway projects
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Mortgage lending at 2001 level spells more bad news for home sales
Mortgage lending last year was down about 30% on the 2007 figures and in the final quarter was running at well below half the peak level, according to the latest figures from Council of Mortgage Lenders.CML expects the level of lending to drop further in coming months, which may well ...
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Construction job vacancies collapse
Record redundancies may be the headline in today's news bulletins and tomorrow's papers as the ranks of the unemployed creep towards 2 million.But in the detail of today's labour market figures of more concern to the thousands of redundant construction workers now looking for new jobs is that vacancies are ...
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Plunging sales rates in 2008 and the threat to new housing development
The latest figures show that home sales in 2008 were down 43% compared with 2007, but scarier than that is the drop in level of property transaction over the second half of last year.This poses a real threat to even "technically" viable housing schemes.Sales are running well below half of ...
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NewsFirst carbon-negative residential development breaks ground
National Grid to take excess power from 172 homes