Opinion 鈥� Page 221
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CommentWhat can you do when a radical and ambitious housing strategy isn鈥檛 enough?
The government鈥檚 plan to boost housing means greater risk and the potential for higher house prices
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CommentCPA/Barbour ABI Index: The severe weather hasn鈥檛 helped, but still 鈥�
Construction output improved in February but was still 8% lower than a year ago
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CommentPublic Housebuilding Index: Austerity means less capital investment and a fall in activity
Private housebuilding may be on the rise but public housing contracts are 13% lower than last year
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Comment好色先生TV buys a pint for ... Pitman Tozer Architects
Cycling, celeb spotting and steam engines are discussed over a few pints with Pitman Tozer Architects
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CommentBudget 2013: Slowly, but not surely
No one really expected the chancellor to suddenly abandon austerity but many hoped he would
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CommentBudget showed no real drive for growth
This was George Osborne鈥檚 last chance to give Plan B a go
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CommentVariations of a guarantee: Aviva Insurance UK Limited vs Hackney Empire Limited
Did HEL鈥檚 agreement to make payments to STC 鈥渙n account鈥� vary the building contract and prejudice Aviva鈥檚 position such that it was discharged from the bond?
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CommentIs the construction industry 13% bigger than we think it is and does it matter?
If the figures are saying one thing and the real world is behaving in another then the assumptions driving policy will be suspect
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CommentOn a shoestring
The chancellor would be wise to look at the last remaining options for growth that will produce something for nothing
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CommentMy digital life 鈥� Charlie Laing
The managing director of Charlie Laing Project Management on tea and biscuits, the wisdom of Ben Goldacre and buying swords online for his son
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CommentTackling the energy performance challenge
Neil Jefferson, director of the NHBC and chief executive of the Zero Carbon Hub
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CommentHansom: Each to their own
Ken Shuttleworth鈥檚 imagination runs wild, Ecobuild punters condemn Eric Pickles to an Orwellian nightmare, Ian Tyler bows out in style and Otto the dachshund is deselected
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CommentCentres of excellence to work with industry
How we can develop the future of sustainable construction through university education
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CommentKier results: Bellwether sounds the alarm
Kier鈥檚 results for the last six months of 2012 were more robust than many of its competitors鈥�, but in fact they show what dire trouble the industry is in
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CommentMipim: A brighter view from Cannes
Mipim delegates talk of activity picking up this year. Our man in the French Riviera reports
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CommentWonders & blunders 鈥� with Richard Morton
Richard Morton thrills to the excitement of multi-level rail activity at Antwerp Station but the King鈥檚 Cross extension has drained the station of bustle and romance
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CommentMunish Datta, M&S: Taking sustainability internationally
M S鈥檚 Munish Datta speaking at Ecobuild on overseas supply chains, sustainability in India and the Global Clients Group
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CommentNo sense of direction
In this month鈥檚 Budget the chancellor needs to address the disastrously low levels of housebuilding with, says Nick Raynsford, a radical reallocation of current funding