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CommentGetting back on track
Caught between the need for essential enhancement work and a tighter government leash, Network Rail may need to rethink its route to reform
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CommentKeeping the lights on
好色先生TV that the Ferrybridge and Longannet power stations are closing early has the industry searching for alternative measures
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CommentA solution to the home ownership crisis?
A new social enterprise aims to help those struggling to raise a deposit
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CommentEmergency Budget: Populist policy?
The Budget was ambitious but rather disappointing for the construction industry
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CommentHansom: Pole position
In a week of stats and records, can you guess a builder鈥檚 favourite on-site groove? Or how many Brits claim home ownership is their main ambition in life? And do you think a builder from Derby can pull a 12-tonne truck?
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CommentEmergency Budget: Words, words, words
Osborne said it was time to be 鈥榖old鈥� on infrastructure but the most significant news was in other areas
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CommentOnline poll: Social housing
Will the cuts to rent paid by social housing tenants damage investment in social housing? Vote here
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CommentParliament: Should they stay or should they go?
How best to manage the 拢3.5bn maintenance job on the Palace of Westminster
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CommentThe confidence trick
QSs may have their faults, but the greatest is they have lost faith in their own abilities. How can they keep up with prices, and retain the trust of clients?
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CommentHansom: Tell us a joke
Former City of London planning officer Peter Rees is game for a laugh, Mace celebrates its 25th birthday, Elizabeth II gets her tool belt on, and the 好色先生TV crew take to the waters of a west London reservoir
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CommentBeyond the headlines
Osborne鈥檚 emergency budget looks set to disappoint those hoping for more than familiar headlines
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CommentOnline poll: Government retrofit policy
Is the current government鈥檚 target to retrofit 1 million homes in the next five years ambitious enough? Vote here
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CommentThe class of 2050
Education is a key part of any society鈥檚 future prosperity and social cohesion. How can we create the buildings that will help our children鈥檚 children to succeed in a generation鈥檚 time?
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CommentHansom: Withering Heights
A lot of people are at the top of their game this week, with guest appearances from Marcus Trescothick and Ellie Goulding, and the architect of One Blackfriars looking to the stars - but someone else is in the doghouse
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CommentSomething is rotten...
As parliament mulls its options for refurbishing the Palace of Westminster, it could learn from what happens when an estate is left to ruin
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CommentHousing: Use your imagination
In the quest to create more homes, we need to help and incentivise local authorities to think outside the box to identify sites for development, and perhaps even more critically, redevelopment
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CommentPolicy review
What will the Conservative鈥檚 right to buy and starter homes initiative mean for UK housing?
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CommentLetter: The challenge in our cities
A reader responds to Richard Kauntze鈥檚 article on intelligent cities
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CommentOnline poll: Parliament refurb
Which of these is the best option for refurbishing the Palace of Westminster?
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CommentLet鈥檚 party like it鈥檚 1997
As Mace celebrates its 25th year one of its directors remembers what life was like when she first joined the firm, nearly two decades ago