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CommentTIF of the iceberg
Battersea鈥檚 Nine Elms development has got the green light to use tax-increment financing. Does this mean the industry has overcome the funding impasse?
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CommentKier-May Gurney: A good deal?
黑洞社区鈥檚 assistant editor Joey Gardiner on the Kier鈥檚 proposed takeover of May Gurney
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CommentHow difficult can it be?
Fixing our housing problems will be a hard slog - but some progress is being made, says Andrew Stunell
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CommentMaking waves
Richard McCarthy: The Green Deal may have got off to an unsteady start but, by working with government, the industry can still turn it into a success
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CommentBlacklisting discoveries 'appalling'
Blacklisting practices revealed in inquiry beggar belief, says Ian Davidson, chair of the Scottish Affairs Committee
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CommentOverheating: It's getting hot in here 鈥�
Neil Jefferson, director of the NHBC and chief executive of the Zero Carbon Hub
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CommentThe drive of your life
We鈥檙e so besotted with process that we鈥檝e lost sight of the end product. We should learn from Formula One
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CommentThe making of us
Many have bemoaned the coalition鈥檚 reliance on private funding for infrastructure, but this new reality could benefit construction firms if they are able to adapt fast enough
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CommentGoing green? Give it time
David Weight believes opportunities to reduce embodied carbon are often thwarted by a tight build programme. With careful planning and more time, emissions could be slashed
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CommentPF2 - Where are we now?
Are we about to see a successful come-back for PFI? There are five questions to answer first, says Jon Hart
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CommentReality check
Rick Wheal, consultant at Arup, on why our approach to sustainable building has to change
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CommentMy beef with the Budget
Richard Steer laments a speech that offers no real nourishment to the industry and, what is worse, shows the chancellor to be deaf to the demands of construction
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CommentBIM: Method in modelling
The new BIM protocol and standard should finally put an end to the industry鈥檚 ad-hoc approach to managing information, says Simon Rawlinson
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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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CommentTackling the energy performance challenge
Neil Jefferson, director of the NHBC and chief executive of the Zero Carbon Hub
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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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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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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
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CommentThe tide is turning
The nuclear new build programme is in trouble and the UK is in desperate need of clean and secure energy. So, says Julia Barfield, it鈥檚 time we pushed ahead with the Severn Barrage
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CommentThe value of pipelines
The Cabinet Officer minister on why making information available on procurement plans for future projects is important to the government