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VT Group considers cash payout to shareholders
Analysts says VT could return £230m to shareholders in attempt to beat off Babcock's takeover offer
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Business community identifies crucial transport projects
British Chamber of Commerce says 13 infrastructure projects across the country must be protected from spending cuts
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Waterman's profit slumps to £0.5m
Chief executive says fall in pre-tax profit compared to this time last year is due to 'downturn in the economy'
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Housing completions are way off target
From 2016 we are supposed to be building 240,000 homes a year, last year we managed a measly 118,000
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Confusion over public spending cuts
Figures for a cut in net investment are causing alarm, but its the gross investment construction needs to worry about
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Babcock maintains interest in VT
Support services group says merger with reluctant target would benefit both companies and improve capability across infrastructure, equipment support and training sectors
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RICS hits out at estate agents study
Surveyors body says there ‘is more to protecting consumers than prices’ in response to Office of Fair Trading research
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Crumbling Yorkshire churches to get £2m makeover
Repairs will focus on leaking roofs and eroded masonry in 23 churches
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Castle Cement fined £250k for cancer risk
Flintshire factory admits four health and safety charges related to dust, smoke and noise
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Brown attempts Corus steelworks rescue
More than a thousand jobs could be saved if prime minister secures new owner for plant
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Arup and Davis Langdon team up on Ghanaian school prototype
Design uses modular parts easy for local builders to recreate from local materials
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Cheap and fearful
Thanks to Richard Butler from Network Rail, who spotted these carefree chaps undertaking a spot of roofing work with the help of improvised scaffolding …
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Join the Charter 284 campaign and help promote construction investment
Sign up to ¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ’s Charter 284 manifesto that calls on political parties to protect investment in construction work
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Silvertown Quays collapse set to trigger £60m lawsuit
Developer of axed £1.5bn east London project prepares to sue, as LDA plans Olympic role for site
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DL counts cost of housing regs
Local authorities will be told how to improve the viability of housing schemes following a review of government regulations. The study, undertaken by QS Davis Langdon, will assess its cost to the housebuilding industry
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Six contractors vie for £90m Reading station revamp
Contract will be biggest station upgrade undertaken by Network Rail in current spending period
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CSkills to slash a quarter of staff by 2011
CITB ConstructionSkills has begun the process of slashing a quarter of its staff by 2011, as it struggles to plug a £10m deficit
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Home completions fall to new low in January snow
NHBC reveals that fewer homes were completed last month than at any point since 1981
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Housing stats: New build sales and completions in January 2010
Unsurprisingly, completions in northern Britain were particularly badly hit by the weather
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‘Here’s £50m: now go forth and multiply’
SME profile Kinetics is the result of an unlikely marriage between social housing and turbo capitalism