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NewsThe Barratt code level six house, a guide
Here's a guide to the Sustainable Small Building of the Year at the Building Sustainability Awards 2008. It looks conventional enough on the outside, but you’re staring at the first Code for Sustainable Homes level six home to be built by a volume housebuilder. Inside it’s an all-out radical.
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NewsNo ladder? Just use a forklift!
By simply tying a rope onto the control lever in the cab of this forklift truck, this cunning decorator has made himself a handy adjustable platform
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NewsCornish wave power scheme launched
JP Kenny to oversee development of scheme demonstrating wave power on a commercial scale
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NewsLib Dems demand lending eased for small firms
Government called on to take radical action, including possible creation of a new bank
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NewsStrong regional trading boosts T Clarke results
Engineer and contractor says 2008 results will exceed market expectations, with balance sheet strong
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NewsMaterials firm fined £4,000 for hand injury
HSE says plasterboard firm Knauf 'ignored basic health and safety rules'
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NewsEC Harris named on €1bn Transylvanian tractor transformation
Cost consultant joins team on 123ha regeneration project in Romania masterplanned by YRM
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Barratt slashes house prices by 43% - good or bad news?
Barratt's attractiveness to investors is a moot point.Some in the City believe the housebuilder is over the worst and say its shares are worth a punt at 60p-ish. They point to the rescue deal it struck with its banks in the summer.Others are more reticent. Included in that camp is ...
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NewsVideos of the Gulf State Building Awards 2008
Watch winners, judges (and stars of English rugby) at a glittering night to highlight the region's finest people and projects
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NewsWolseley to cut 2,300 more jobs
Over 200 branches will also close as profit falls 45% at international materials supplier
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NewsA proper Nelly
Pulling elephants from chimneys is hazardous enough... but without fall protection
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NewsHazardous sculpture costs Heatherwick £1.7m
Designer agrees out-of-court settlement after Manchester council sues over B of the Bang
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NewsBig names vie for Sustainability Awards
The shortlists for tonights’ awards feature the biggest names in the built environment
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NewsAll-party MPs to champion infrastructure
New parliamentary group will promote transport and other infrastructure development to boost economy
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NewsMake and KSS to design Spurs stadium
Make is appointed to masterplan site leaving KSS to work on stadium
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NewsBoris presses for Crossrail start
Transport investment among measures proposed at joint taskforce to help London through the downturn
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NewsBarratt warns of more writedowns to come
Housebuilder reports sales in line with expectations over past quarter but prices continue to slide
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NewsJapan officially enters recession
National economy has shrunk for second quarter in a row, reveals Japanese government
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Axe hangs over Dev Secs' Slough scheme
Withdrawal of council support could kill regeneration scheme that already lost a housebuilder
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NewsBalfour Beatty promotes McNaughton to chief operating officer
Former MD moves up from 1 January, reporting to chief executive Ian Tyler