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Report urges quicker release of brownfield
A new report calls on the government, developers and construction professionals to speed up the release of brownfield land for development.
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Contracts
Galliford wins housing workGalliford Hodgson, the social housing arm of Galliford Try, has secured two contracts worth £3.5m from Charlton Triangle Homes in south London. HBG to build £25m superstoreHBG has won a £25m contract to construct a superstore, health centre and further retail units at Haydon, north of Swindon.Haley ...
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Underneath the arches
Allan Murray Architects has prepared new proposals for the redevelopment of the Jeffrey Street arches in Edinburgh.
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Heery to manage £120m Portsmouth scheme
Balfour Beatty subsidiary Heery International is to be project manager for the redevelopment of Portsmouth city centre.
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£530m hospitals contract awarded to Interserve
A TEAM led by contractor Interserve (formerly Tilbury Douglas) has won a £530m PFI healthcare contract in the West Midlands.
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University clients to foot bill for training site workers
Five UK universities to insert training requirements in tenders as part of a CITB-backed pilot programme.
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And so to Bedzed …
Bill Dunster Architects and the Peabody Trust have teamed up to offer the UK's first speculative zero-energy housing estate. This is what the public will find when it's opened tomorrow
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Housebuilders reject gloomy think tank report
City commentators shrug off Cambridge Econometrics' prediction that South-east market is heading for a fall.
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Morgan Sindall price soars 25% on wave of buying
Morgan Sindall's share price has rocketed 25% since it embarked on a spending spree two weeks ago.
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Countryside predicts sales will continue to grow
Housebuilder Countryside Properties has predicted that it will sell significantly more houses in the second half of its financial year than the 355 it has sold in the first half.
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Willmott Dixon profit rises again
Contractor Willmott Dixon's operating profit rose 25% last year.
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18 building firms make fastest-growing list
Construction-related companies make up nearly a fifth of the UK's 100 fastest-growing private firms, according to a new national survey.
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Laing, McAlpine and Wilcon join FTSE250
Laing, Alfred McAlpine and Wilson Connolly are poised to enter the ranks of the London Stock Exchange's largest 250 companies.
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Can Labour tackle the skills shortage?
The New Deal for young unemployed people was one of New Labour's big ideas. Three years later, and with an argument still raging about its success, the party plans to revamp it to solve construction's recruitment crisis.
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The contenders
Meet Gus Robinson, Jane Briginshaw and Bernard Bateman, three construction professionals who have put their careers on hold to stand for election. Can they beat the heavyweight opposition?
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What son-of-CIB is for
Michael Latham - The new strategic forum for construction is a boost for the Egan agenda that, on topics from partnering to safety and recruitment, will drive reform further
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Art and Industry
French photographer Etienne Clément has spent the past three years documenting a Gateshead grain silo's transformation into an arts centre. Ten months before it opens, here are some of the results …