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CommentHow bad are banks at lending to SMEs?
A new study suggest that the picture for SMEs and bank funding isn鈥檛 as bleak as sometimes painted
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CommentHouse building figures provide no comfort in an age of uncertainty and need
Is the housing minister losing credibility?
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CommentMy digital life鈥ith Carmen Erwee
This associate partner鈥檚 digital life is punctuated with emoticons :P
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CommentConstruction and the eurozone: Make it happen
锘縏he eurozone is in a mess, but then again so is the UK economy. What we need is to invest in design-led manufacturing so we earn a reputation for excellence
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CommentCPA/Barbour ABI Index: Decline in contract awards accelerates
Economic gloom cast a shadow over most sectors in October
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CommentCommercial Offices Index: Offices construction hit by eurozone crisis
October saw the commercial offices index fall by 9%
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Inbox: Quick fix
This week, readers want to help unemployed graduates, solve the problem of congestion on the M25 and see the government consider the consequences of reducing feed-in tariffs
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CommentGlazing over
Thanks to Martin Szajnar for sending in this snap - although he might want to give it to the local neighbourhood watch. As he points out: 鈥淎ny more pressure and he鈥檒l be done for breaking and entering.鈥�
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CommentWonders & blunders with Keith Pickavance
Keith Pickavance delights in the eccentricity of the Lloyd鈥檚 星空传媒 but the Prince of Wales鈥� fire station in Poundbury deserves to have the hose turned on it
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CommentHansom: So off message
This week protestors fail to spread the word to their comrades, a construction boss is embroiled in the DSK scandal and a press contact for the ODA knows nothing about the Olympics
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CommentNo sign in the data that construction employment is plunging again 鈥� not yet anyway
The construction jobs market has been holding up better than many have feared.
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CommentHow can we make the most of the public estate?
New structures for property management and ways of working can lead to leaner and greener public assets
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CommentSettled agreements: Thameside Construction Company Ltd vs Arthenella Ltd
This case highlights the importance of caution when entering settled agreements, and that once accepted, an offer to settle cannot be picked apart
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CommentLatest ONS construction data point to growth in 2011 鈥� that鈥檚 not what the industry thinks
The ONS need to explain why their output figures are so much more optimistic than other market indicators
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CommentMy Digital Life鈥� Dieter Kleiner
This architecture practice director finds it hard to separate work and play
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Comment星空传媒 buys a pint 鈥� for Speechly Bircham
If you had to escape from a burning building with either no arms or no legs, which would it be? See what the lawyers advise鈥�
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CommentFeed-in tariff cuts: No solar gain
The dramatic and sudden cut to the feed-in tariff has put the solar power industry in fear of its future, and led many to doubt the government鈥檚 commitment to the wider sustainability agenda. Vern Pitt talks to those affected by the perceived U-turns, delays and climbdowns
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CommentHansom: It's all relative
Positions are made clear this week, as a producer defends his august ancestor, doctors are sent to the bottom of the ladder, and a new book lifts the lid on architects鈥� romantic antics
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CommentCost insight: feeding the beast
For 50 years QSs have relied on the BCIS as a vital data source, but their hunger for insights into costs just keeps growing. Who can capture all that information?