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CommentWarning signs over construction cost inflation
Firms underpricing work now will be hit by rising costs later in the year
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CommentLooking forward: Three numbers that might have significance for 2011
Data on mortgage rates, employment and online sales suggest 2011 could be a tricky year for construction
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Comment2011 New Year Honours: Keith Clarke CBE
The WS Atkins chief executive successfullly steered his company through a deep recession
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Comment2011 New Year Honours: Bill Bolsover CBE
Current chair of the construction products association has rigorously opposed spending cuts
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Comment2011 New Year Honours: Edward Jones
The 71-year old partner at Royal Opera House architect Dixon Jones receives a CBE
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Comment2011 New Year Honours: Robert Napier
A CBE follows a long varied career that鈥檚 crossed from mining to the HCA via Redland and the WWF
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CommentFull list of construction 2011 New Year Honours
The following have been recognised by the Queen for services to the built environment
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星空传媒TV: Paul Morrell's five-low carbon challenges for construction
After publishing his Innovation and Growth Team report Paul Morrell spells out the changes needed to create a low-carbon economy
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CommentForecasters expect a fall in house prices in 2011
Most predictions see a drop next year, but they did last year and house prices rose 1% in 2010
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CommentFuture鈥檚 traders see long slump in house prices
City speculators see no recover in house prices until at least 2015
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CommentLittle cheer in public accounts or growth figures as construction prepare for the big squeeze of 2011
There's not much left in the xmas box for capital spending
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CommentOnce upon a year ...
For many of you, 2010 has been a year of little comfort and even less joy
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Hansom:聽Crackers, anyone?
Christmas is always a real challenge for this column - how to reconcile the season of goodwill with our irrepressible satirical tendencies? Move over Santa 鈥�
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CommentRulers were made for鈥�
You can鈥檛 measure the value of design with any kind of measuring stick - and anyone who suggests you can deserves a rap on the knuckles
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CommentQuentin Shears: Secret Santa
Quentin Shears is a senior partner at quantity surveyor Newt UK, the Hertfordshire outpost of US multinational GatorCorp. As the year grinds to an end, Quentin usually finds himself undergoing intensive anger management therapy merely to make it through the Christmas party season. This year, however, has found him in ...
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CommentA bonus worthy of Scrooge
The government wants the new homes bonus to spark a resurgence in housebuilding. But it is too complex, bureaucratic and riddled with anomalies to work
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CommentWonders & blunders with Pedro Roos
Pedro Roos thinks the Pompidou Centre鈥檚 masterly manipulation of the space around it puts One Hyde Park in the shade. Who鈥檇 have thought they were by the same architect?
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CommentYou couldn鈥檛 make it up
Throughout 2010 readers shared their favourite health and safety horrors from around the world
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CommentPublic Procurement: Exel Europe vs University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
Here we look in detail at Regulation 47 of the Public Contracts Regulation, concerning the award of a public contract; a reworking of American Cyanamid Co vs Ethican