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Norwich councillors feared Connaught underbid
Norwich councillors feared Connaught had bid too low on a £17.5m housing maintenance contract and have warned that a replacement will be “far more expensive”
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QS board chair steps down amid row over RICS' future
Secret ballot, unelected boards and ’commercialisation’ cause disquiet among some QS members
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United House profit up 78% as London proves resilient
Turnover jumps 13% at social housing specialist helped by contractor-developer-investor model
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Housebuilding salaries: First, the good news
Housebuilding salaries have edged up over the past year, according to the PSD Group/Ӱ survey. But the optimism that led to this modest rise has petered out, and fears for the future are growing among employees and clients
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Fit-out optimism eases ISG’s pain over public sector cutbacks
ISG is recruiting in every division except construction, says its chief executive David Lawther, who predicts a 10% drop in regional work over the next six months
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Ealing's new production: Rydon housing estate
Developer Rydon has won outline planning permission for the £136m redevelopment of the Green Man Lane housing estate in Ealing, west London
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Connaught felled by banks' refusal of £50m rescue deal
Administrator summons interested parties to fire sale talks after social housing firm collapses
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Nobel cause: £200m laboratory
Universities minister David Willetts is due to perform the topping out ceremony at Bam’s £200m molecular biology laboratory in Cambridge today
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600 Arup employees face axe
Up to 600 staff at Arup could lose their jobs as public sector projects are cancelled
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Turnover and profit up nearly 50% at architect Grimshaw
Grimshaw has increased both turnover and pre-tax profit by almost 50%, results for 2009-10 show
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Barratt: housing dip ‘not double dip’
Mark Clare, chief executive of housebuilder Barratt, has said a drop in reservations since the end of June is in line with seasonal trends and not the start of a double-dip housing recession
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Kerslake becomes communities mandarin
Sir Bob Kerslake, chief executive of the Homes and Communities Agency, has been appointed permanent secretary at the communities department. He takes up the position on 1 November
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£5m crash pads
Demolition work has begun at the site of Lewis & Hickey Architects’ £5m, 100-unit student accommodation scheme in Liverpool for Westville Developments
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Aggregates firms comply with OFT probe
Aggregate producers have said they will co-operate with the Office of Fair Trading, which announced this week that it was to investigate the industry. It will examine its barriers to entry and assess whether it offers value for money.
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No public cash for tidal barrage
The government looks likely to rule out using public funds to construct the £20bn Severn Estuary tidal barrage
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Vinci's Crossrail success
Vinci has been shortlisted for two big tunnelling contracts on the £15.9bn Crossrail scheme
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House prices drop 0.9%
The latest housing data from the Nationwide building society showed that prices fell 0.9% in August, after a 0.5% drop in July
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Private sector 'won't save industry from double dip'
Executives issue warning as Construction Products Association forecasts 0.8% contraction in 2011
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Data: Residential projects at planning stage and housing approvals August 2010
Some megaprojects have received approval, showing there’s life in housebuilding yet