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NewsHousebuilders looking to modern methods to plug housing gap, says survey
Skills shortage and Brexit still pose major barriers to increasing housing stock
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NewsGalliford Try forms JV for £44m Nottingham housing scheme
Firm will work with affordable housing provider Metorpolitan to build 171 homes
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NewsBarratt to build nearly 2,300 homes in Scotland this year
Firm says economic fundamentals are still favourable towards house building
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CommentHousing: Will it ever get a settled housing strategy?
The housing sector once again finds itself frustrated at the loss of continuity and uncertainty over the future direction of housing policy
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NewsCaddick to complete £154m Carillion job in Manchester
Firm is developing 35-storey build to rent scheme
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CommentCarillion’s collapse - a painful anomaly rather than a portent of doom
For Carillion’s 20,000 UK staff and its supply chain, the pain is only just beginning. But there is nothing to suggest that its failure will be an omen
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NewsPwC quashes reports all Carillion employees are facing the chop
Around 1,000 Carillion staff to transfer to government-owned facilities management company
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NewsRamboll boosts team with five new hires
Appointments include three new additions to the firm’s environment and health division
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NewsNetwork Rail to pay 300 Carillion subbies for Christmas work
But larger firms still waiting to find out if they’ll get paid
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NewsHousing experts call for reform or end to Help to Buy
Big housebuilders slammed for executives seeming to profit personally from government scheme
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FeaturesAnalysis: Housing benefits
Help to Buy is the government’s big leg-up to help housebuilders increase output. So news of ‘obscene’ executive pay along with scandals over leaseholds and defects are not going down well
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CommentLeader: Carillion's hubris
An interview with former Carillion boss John McDonough in in 2003 highlighed how Carillion’s set up was set to change from contractor to service provider. The irony, in hindsight, is striking, writes Tom Broughton
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NewsInvestment fund hit by Carillion implosion
HICL joins growing list of firms caught up in contractor’s collapse
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NewsKensington & Chelsea weighs in on Earls Court development row
Council’s deputy leader pledges support to Hammersmith Fulham council as it looks to “pull back” from the 2012 planning decision
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NewsTransformation of former US embassy begins with job award to Careys
Firm beat rival McGee to pick up demolition and enabling works
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NewsBerkeley's modular homes factory gets green light
Housebuilder is hoping to produce 1,000 new homes per year from the new facility
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CommentHansom: Taking stock
As the fallout from Carillion’s collapse continues to dominate the news, one of our contributors makes his voice heard (rather often in fact)
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CommentLess bureaucracy, more safety: overhauling the system that led to Grenfell
The Hackitt interim report makes no urgent recommendations on improving the standards of materials used on high-rise buildings - much, much more change needs to be in place
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NewsWSP boosts public sector business with senior hire
Andy Wallace joins froms Liverpool city council
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CommentWhat the ‘Internet of Things’ means for corporate construction
With productivity, or lack thereof, costing businesses millions of pounds, now’s the time to take full advantage of all the benefits the IoT has to offer