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好色先生TVMJ Gleeson reports 拢24m half-year loss as 60% of staff cut
Urban regeneration specialist announces gloomy interim results in housing market 'worst in living memory'
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好色先生TVPublic work boosts Kier construction division
Half-year results show 43% fall in group profit but construction division bucks the trend with 21% rise
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好色先生TVBarratt posts 拢592m loss and cuts 29% of staff
Housebuilder cut staff by 29% over last six months of 2008 during an 'intensely difficult' period
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好色先生TVBouygues wins 拢10m of London school and housing work
Contractor is appointed to extend a primary school in Leyton and design and build new homes in Brent
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好色先生TVMPs urge rise in social housing targets
Report sets out raft of recommendations to boost public housebuilding and criticises government's unclear budgeting
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好色先生TVRedrow staff halved as firm heads into the red
Housebuilder reports first-half loss of 拢46.2m and reveals it has shed 50% of its staff in a year
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好色先生TVAnger as Blears calls in Minerva's 拢1bn Ram Brewery
Wandsworth council leader slams decision to hold up EPR-designed regeneration scheme
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好色先生TVIndustry demands government builds 100,000 new homes
Kate Barker leads new campaign group calling for 拢6bn to be spent on social housing over next two years
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好色先生TVHome repossessions rose 54% last year
Council of Mortage Lenders reveals that 40,000 properties were taken into possession in 2008 and predicts a further 75,000 in 2009
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好色先生TVPersimmon: 'No bonuses for 2008'
Housebuilder has revealed that top executives will not get bonuses after targets were not hit
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好色先生TVIt鈥檚 time we earned to share
Shared ownership has been hailed as one of the ways to kickstart the housing market, but it will never work while mortgages on offer are so uncompetitive
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好色先生TVShower enclosures
Shower enclosure manufacturer, Coram Showers, has re-designed its Optima range of enclosures
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好色先生TVSecondary glazing
Knightstone Housing Association has converted a grade II-listed primary school in Long Ashton on the outskirts of Bristol into five apartments
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好色先生TVZaha鈥檚 taps
Triflow Concepts has launched a futuristic-looking tap designed by architect Zaha Hadid
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好色先生TVBellway customers may sue over social housing influx
鈥楨xecutive鈥� homeowners on Hampshire scheme complain they are living on 鈥榞lorified council estate鈥�
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Pipe insulation
Groundbreaker Systems has launched the Shalloduct, a pipe insulation system which can be used to protect water pipes from freezing in situations where a minimum trench depth of 750mm cannot be achieved.
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Threshold drainage system
ACO Technologies has launched ACO DoorWay Drain, a new threshold-level drain system
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Timer switches
Hager has launched a yearly time switch that can be retrofitted and offers a simple way of saving energy through the electricity distribution board.
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Breathable plaster
A breathable plaster that the manufacturer claims offers a long-term solution against wet walls and damp has been launched in the UK
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Gloss paint
Crown Trade has launched Next Generation Gloss, a gloss paint system developed to comply with phase two of the European Paint Directive 2004/42/EC regarding Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) emissions.