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CommentHousebuilders' salaries are healthy - but is the market as rosy as it looks?
Despite soaring salaries in the housebuilding sector, there鈥檚 an air of nervousness that the government will burst the bubble by scrapping its Help to Buy scheme
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CommentThe human toll of poor payment practices
Business failures often seem abstract and remote.聽How does it actually feel to go through the process of winding up your own business?
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CommentThe Tories put housing in the spotlight
The PM surprised conference with a welcome boost to council house building, but elsewhere private housebuilders got a bit of a kicking
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CommentSurvival of the fittest: consultants in rude health - for now
Our Top 150 league shows consultants have enjoyed a strong year 鈥� but how long will the good times last?
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CommentLeader: Tomorrow鈥檚 world
Young people now entering the industry hold the keys to its future 鈥� let鈥檚 listen to them
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CommentWe apologise for the late-running Crossrail service 鈥�
Crossrail鈥檚 was supposed to be a good news story for construction - so what went wrong?
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CommentLeader: Education, education, education?
As new academic year starts, for the schools construction sector there is worry about the amount of work coming onto their books
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CommentLeader: Let鈥檚 get radical
Modular construction is being touted as the as way forward for housing build, but the market is still waiting for the breakthrough product
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CommentConstruction needs a deal
As things stand 鈥� more than two years after the Leave vote 鈥� we still have no idea what it actually means for any sector of the economy, least of all construction.聽
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CommentLeader: Taking a step back to go forwards
While it鈥檚 a grim picture for contracting, individual firms are starting to fight back. But the uncertainty of Brexit still looms large over the industry
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CommentLeader: Playing fair
It鈥檚 not just main contractors who have been at fault over late payments. Practices along the entire chain, right from the client, should be more transparent
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CommentLeader: Living on the margins
The big story in this year鈥檚聽Top 150聽league tables is contractors鈥櫬爌itifully low聽margins compared with聽housebuilders鈥� surging profits
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CommentWhy the UK鈥檚 off-site fabrication sector could stall due to poor supply chain planning and management processes
Vivalda Group鈥檚 Ben Jayes thinks the UK construction industry鈥檚 lack of supply chain and management skills could be the Achilles鈥� Heel of the fast-growing off-site fabrication market.
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CommentTackling the skills shortage
Given the UK will require 400,000 new construction workers every year until 2021, there is an urgent need to take a fresh look at the skills challenge
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CommentBy the people, for the people
dRMM鈥檚 Hastings Pier winning the Stirling prize is the satisfying result of seven years of close collaboration, crowdfunding and community聽
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CommentHeathrow hubs highlight how a sector deal could make a difference
There is a powerful appetite for innovation in construction 鈥撀爂overnment needs to help transform the industry with a sector deal聽
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CommentWork in construction: Rewards and awards
Uncertain times mean that staff are looking for job security, while the very best recently got their day in the sun at the 好色先生TV Awards
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CommentModern slavery - the time to act is now
Despite over 80,000 organisations worldwide employing Modern Slavery Act Statements, not everyone seems ready
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CommentThe streets of London
鈥淎 marathon and not a sprint鈥�: that was how London mayor Sadiq Khan described fixing London鈥檚 housing crisis as he launched his draft housing strategy last week. But even 鈥渕arathon鈥� seems an understatement when you take a quick jog through the numbers. Total housing completions in London are expected ...
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Comment好色先生TV halls of London
Competition from build to rent and other land uses, as well as planning policy, are factors making purpose-built student accommodation hard to build in London. So how do you make it affordable too?聽