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CommentRonson, Pidgley and Kerslake anticipate 5 years of housing gloom
Predictions from panelists at Movers & Shakers breakfast are as cold as the weather following yesterday's CSR
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CommentAt least Crossrail is going ahead (slowly)
The London rail link will arrive three years late, and there鈥檚 a steep decline in health capital spending.
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CommentIs the CSR the first step to dismantling social housing?
We know funding for housing has been savaged, but how will the money that is available be allocated and what direct effect that will it have on the number of homes built?
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CommentRICS on the Spending Review
RICS director of external affairs comments on the controversial government announcement
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CommentRead our online Spending Review debate
Readers put their questions to the industry experts debating the implications of the governement鈥檚 Spending Review
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CommentSpending Review: Industry reaction
Find out what the construction industry thinks of George Osborne鈥檚 Spending Review
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Comment拢10 billion less public cash for capital spending in second half of this financial year
New figures on public sector finances suggest that capital spending is already being squeezed
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CommentLive blog: Spending Review 2010
George Osborne鈥檚 announcement on spending cuts has taken place. Read the highlights on our blog
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CommentHalving housing spend? We'll be lucky
Sources suggest tomorrow鈥檚 spending review will be accompanied by a radical review of how affordable housing is paid for, with central funding cut by anything up to 80%
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'It will be a sombre return to market': Dan Labbad on the spending review
Lend Lease regional CEO says the property industry won鈥檛 be able to rely on 鈥檚ilver bullet鈥� sectors for growth in the near future
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CommentFeeling the squeeze in Abu Dhabi
Mega-projects are still on track but consultants out here are seeing margins decline as competition becomes fierce
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CommentPodcast: Economists predict the spending cuts
Listen to our panel of experts discuss the chancellor鈥檚 planned cuts and the possible impact on construction
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Rudi was right ...
The penultimate paragraph of Stuart Pemble鈥檚 article 鈥淗ave I really been negligent?鈥� (8 October, page 73) leads me to the view that he is wrong and Rudi Klein is, as usual, right
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Was Rudi right?
Every now and then Rudi Klein makes a worthwhile and original point, but his article 鈥淵ou鈥檝e been warned鈥� (17 September 2010, page 57) is not such an occasion.
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CommentNot-so-smooth landing
Thanks to John Potter for this photo taken in Cheltenham. 鈥淎t least the spiked railings will stop them hitting the ground!鈥� he comments pointedly
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CommentThe value of PI: How can you lower your insurance premiums?
Quotes for professional indemnity insurance can vary by 300% between insurers, and cost up 25% of your fee. So you really need to understand how the market works 鈥�
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The project manager: A hero of our times
Don鈥檛 be fooled by the thick glasses and the side parting - that project manager in the corner might just be the person who saves your bacon 鈥�
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Disarming deathtraps
Jennifer Deeney鈥檚 tragic story makes sobering reading, as does Tony Bingham鈥檚 article on the wall collapse (1 October). They emphasise the fact that freestanding walls can be deathtraps.
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CommentHansom: Strange days indeed
Nothing is as it seems this week, what with resurrected chief executives turning up at race courses, bestiality taking place in the workplace and well-known architects running away to sea