All articles by Tom Lowe – Page 96
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NewsThousands still on furlough ‘making labour shortages worse'
More jobs are available but employers can find fewer workers to do them
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NewsJeff Bezos-backed firm to build £300m nuclear fusion plant in Oxfordshire
Construction of set to start next year
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NewsPlanning reforms and HS2 blamed for shock Tory by-election defeat
Backbench pressure certain to grow after Liberal Democrats sweep to victory in Chesham and Amersham with huge 25% swing
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NewsChancellor officially opens UK infrastructure bank
Billions of funding for UK businesses available from today
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NewsGive poorer households free heat pumps, experts tell government
Open letter signed by 20 bodies calls for better incentives to drive uptake of energy-saving devices
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NewsHS2 launches £500m delivery partner deal for railway’s next leg
Firms have just over five weeks to express interest in route linking Birmingham and Crewe
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NewsOverhaul building regulations to stop buildings overheating, say climate advisers
Climate Change Committee calls for major retrofitting programme to tackle hotter summers
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NewsConstruction seeing highest rise in earnings out of any sector
Weekly pay up by more than 14% since start of the pandemic, official data shows
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NewsGreen light for Squire and Partners hotel opposite US embassy
Nine Elms scheme will feature 600 rooms
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NewsGovernment ‘coming round’ to extending transition period for new post-Brexit certification system
Officials ‘not aware of the complexity’ of switching over to new UKCA marking system
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NewsMorris & Co chalks up win in contest to rejig City of London School
Practice pipped Alison Brooks and Maccreanor Lavington to win prestigious job
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NewsLess than half the number of qualified heat pump installers than government claims, report finds
UK would need eight times more heat pump installers than currently exist to hit government targets
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NewsMace names Shard manager as new international tech chief
Jon McElroy to lead expansion of firm’s data centres division
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NewsRecommendations to keep HS2 on track taken on board, NAO says
Spending watchdog issued 14 recommendations to keep costs and schedules under control
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NewsMcAslan to transform Glasgow’s George Square eight years after project was scrapped
Practice to redesign historic square and surrounding streets as part of wider city-centre overhaul
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NewsBuild back better funding announced for 30 towns
More than £700m to be given to 30 towns across England
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NewsHS2 moves to reassure on water supplies after concerns raised over Chilterns tunnelling
Railway has spent £100m on adding filters and pumps to local pumping stations
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FeaturesOn site: HS2’s groundbreaking project under way beneath the Chilterns
Building took a trip to the railway’s single biggest site where work has begun on 16km of tunnels carried out by two 170m long tunnel boring machines and 1,000 workers
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NewsCouncil rejects 28-storey Manchester student resi tower over ‘poor quality cladding’
Council said the £40m proposals would have a ‘detrimental impact on visual amenity’