All articles by Allister Hayman – Page 10
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Greater Manchester to 'earn back' up to £30m a year of tax
City region agrees deal with Whitehall that includes recouping proportion of national tax take to invest in growth
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Galliford Try bags £56m in London work
Contract wins include health and social care centre and three affordable housing schemes
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Extra £150m for oversubscribed housebuilding fund
Shortlist of 224 schemes announced - but despite extra £150m government admits no extra homes to be built
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Exclusive: Capita Symonds snaps up Northcroft
Capita Symonds buys construction consultant out of administration
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Olympic organisers in race to blast-proof Games glass
Olympic organisers seeking to make ten football pitches worth of glass secure in the event of an explosion
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Major energy firms lobby for delay to Green Deal
Industry fears ‘soft launch’ will undermine the energy efficiency scheme from the outset
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Balfour Beatty hints at fresh UK shake-up
Operations boss deems significant market upturn ‘highly unlikely’ for 2012
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BESNA decision: Why Balfour Beatty backed down
Chief operating officer Andrew McNaughton insists modernisation agreement with Unite was turning point
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Balfour Beatty chases double nuclear win
Contractor says securing Horizon jobs would not count it out of Hinkley Point race
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HSE delays introduction of charging scheme
Scheme which could see contractors hit with fees of up to £124,000 put back to at least October
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Gove under fire over plan to cut size of special schools
Fears grow that the Department for Education is failing to heed lessons from past school building programmes
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Pension funds set to deliver on infrastructure plan
Institutional investors eye January 2013 launch date for new infrastructure investment vehicle
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Exclusive: DfE to cut the size of special schools by 20%
Gove urged to reconsider move that disregards two-year-old regulations based on expert research
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Exclusive: Green Deal suffers fresh setback
Green Deal will not be fully operational until 2013 after energy firms delay implementation of payment mechanism
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Aberdeen backs £140m garden plan
City residents vote in favour of controversial plans to redevelop Union Terrace Gardens
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Eco standards in schools are slipping
Michael Gove’s free schools were meant to rip through red tape. But it’s not just the curriculum that has been relaxed - increasingly, sustainability and space requirements are being dropped too. Now fears are growing that this latest austerity measure could spread to all new schools, as Allister Hayman reports
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More delays hit flagship £2bn schools programme
Ministers push back contracts on Priority Schools ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Programme, delaying construction till 2013
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Laing O'Rourke bags £300m Crossrail contract
Crossrail awards construction contract for Liverpool Street Station to Laing O’Rourke
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Planning permissions fall to five-year low
Planning permissions for new homes half the number required to meet housing demand
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Gove approves reduction in school sizes
Fears that reduction in space standards for new schools of up to 15% could ‘squeeze’ classroom sizes