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NewsLengard aims to break into M&E market
Refurbishment contractor Lengard set up an M&E firm this week, headed by two former employees of failed subcontractor ECG.
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NewsAukett Fitzroy Robinson plans for profitable future
Merged architect draws up five-year plan to double turnover and move to alternative investment market
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Housing benefit rethink
Last week's Budget signalled a switch in the government's attitude to housing benefit.
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Legislation set to boost real estate trusts
The British Property Federation has predicted that changes to the rules governing property investment vehicles will spark an upsurge in interest in residential trusts.
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NewsDevelopers shun Treasury's grant allocation programme
Budget report reveals housebuilders have won just 1.6% of Housing Corporation's £3.9bn grant initiative
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NewsBrown snubs brownfield sites
The government's commitment to urban regeneration has come under scrutiny after last week's Budget.
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Museums spearhead carbon reduction scheme
A consortium of museums and academic bodies in South Kensington, London, has been granted nearly £3m in the Budget to reduce carbon emissions in their area.
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NewsReady for the off at Aintree
Contractor Laing O'Rourke has completed the first phase of the £30m redevelopment of Aintree racecourse in Merseyside in time for next month's Grand National.
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70,000 building workers join strike over pensions
About 70,000 construction workers joined a national strike of 1.5 million council workers over pensions on Monday.
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Senior civil servant leaves
The most senior civil servant responsible for construction affairs, Elizabeth Whatmore, is to leave her post at the DTI next month.
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Museum will bring the Mary Rose back to life
Architect Wilkinson Eyre is to enclose the Mary Rose warship in Portsmouth in a concrete shell roof measuring 80 × 34 m.
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Three women join CABE's board of commissioners
Design watchdog CABE has appointed four new commissioners, including three women, to its board.
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Laing and Serco tipped to be PFI pioneers
The Treasury is looking to infrastructure groups Laing and Serco to pioneer "project delivery organisations", a PFI concept that would transfer some of the public sector's management responsibility to private firms.
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NewsSquare deal
Northern Irish developer McAleer & Rushe has lodged a planning application with Westminster council for this hotel-led mixed-use scheme, to be built on the site of the Swiss Centre in Leicester Square, central London.
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UK firms may bid for nuclear power stations
UK contractors could soon be lining up to form consortiums with foreign nuclear specialists to bid for a new generation of nuclear power stations.
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ODPM ‘afraid to take on building sector', say MPs
A committee of MPs has criticised proposals for a sustainable homes code, accusing it of setting low standards and being afraid to take on the building sector.
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NewsThe ends justify the means
The Balornick Bowling Club in north Glasgow is one of 29 prize winners in this year's Civic Trust awards.
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Director quits as LDA gains new powers
Tony Winterbottom is to leave the London Development Agency after a restructuring designed to accommodate mayor Ken Livingstone's new planning powers.