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NewsAsbestos halts work on Olympic Stadium
Foundations work on stadium site is halted as precautionary measure after asbestos material found in ground
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NewsCredit crunch slashes 900 flats from Olympic Village
ODA chief executive admits residential units will be reduced by a quarter
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Housing slump hits product manufacturers
Heavy side products suffer sharpest slowdown in second quarter of 2008
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NewsCaroline Flint announces measures to combat housing downturn
Housing Corporation to offer developers larger upfront payments and buy unsold stock through national clearing house
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NewsBiggest fall in workload since mid nineties
RICS survey finds government housing targets under more pressure as private-sector workloads fall
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NewsBalfour Beatty strong after six months of acquisitions
Construction and engineering group releases confident trading update following £320m buying spree
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UK is fifth most expensive place in the world for construction
Global survey by EC Harris shows that costs are significantly higher than many European countries
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NewsPerforming arts college in Dallas gets creative
Allied Works Architecture's design transforms Booker T Washington High School in Texas
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NewsNational Federation of Builders names new chair
Mike Jones of Ellis Building Contractors takes over from Neil Ramsey this week
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Lafarge fined £200k after cement worker loses ear
Cement firm admits health and safety violations caused accident leading to severe facial injuries
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NewsHIPs awareness spending outstrips EPC and DEC budget
Poor customer awareness is leaving industry feeling left in the lurch
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NewsZaha opens Zaragoza Bridge Pavilion
Star architect Zaha Hadid's Spanish pavillion couples architecture and engineering
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NewsAquatics centre construction to begin early
Project team lead by Balfour Beatty, Zaha Hadid and Arup finalise construction plans for roof criticised by the BBC
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NewsGreen light for £66.4m fire station build programme
Government gives go-ahead to build 16 facilities in north of England
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CRH issues profit warning
First-half profit to be down 10% on 2007, with a similar fall likely for the full year
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Housing rescue plan? What housing rescue plan?
Caroline Flint has just announced the much talked of rescue plan for the housing market - couched in terms of affordable housing, but in essence an attempt to bolster the crumbling house building sector.It has been welcomed by the National Housing Federation, so it must be good. And I am ...
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If this is recession - here's what not to do
Given the slew of shocking data and the seemingly inevitable fate that awaits construction I thought it worthwhile casting my mind back to the horrors of the early 1990s and to try to recall the mistakes firms made in reacting to recession.So here is my: Top five mistakes in a ...
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If this is not recession - what is?
However much you may have been expecting it, the pace of bad news is overwhelming. Back to back, undiluted and dismal.The buyers body, CIPS, today reports on construction and unsurprisingly, given the current wave of shocking statistics, its Purchasing Managers Index for the industry plunged to unchartered depths - from ...
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Workload and job prospects crash, confidence plummets - RICS
A dramatic reversal of fortunes saw confidence in the future of construction workload plunge in the second quarter of this year to the lowest level ever recorded by the chartered surveyors body RICS.The figures suggest that more than 11 years of almost uninterrupted growth has come to a shuddering halt, ...
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NewsM&S's sustainable factory in Sri Lanka
Marks and Spencer supplier proves every building can be sustainable, including factories