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CommentSpending review: Providing the detail
While Osborne鈥檚 拢100bn commitment to infrastructure is good news, all eyes will be on the detail of the Spending Review for greater clarity
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CommentHansom: Let鈥檚 get creative
The industry finds many ways to express itself, from a musical property ad, to starring in a TV show, turning a car park into studios, and a straight-up art competition. Even white van men are reinventing themselves
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CommentThe colour of money
How much is really at stake for the sector in next week鈥檚 spending announcement?
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CommentMixed messages
Industry sentiment surveys suggests a growing industry while official statistics show declines in activity
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CommentOverheating in homes: The hot topic
What is overheating in homes it and how can the industry deal with it?
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CommentOnline poll: Specialist contractors
Would it benefit the industry if specialist contractors worked more directly with clients? Vote here
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CommentI must be dreaming 鈥�
Great is the joy over the government鈥檚 announcement of a National Infrastructure Commission. But the task it now faces is equally large
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CommentHousing association reclassification - what it means
The ONS鈥檚 decision to put 拢60bn of housing association debt on the public sector books is no cause for panic
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CommentHansom: Shape up
Time to get health conscious as Arcadis enrols on the Bear Grylls Survival Academy, and construction workers鈥� daily diet is examined. Elsewhere, the Daily Mail runs a mile as Jeremy Corbyn moves in down the road
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CommentThe tipping point
With the release of a bullish set of forecasts predicting the industry鈥檚 global market will double over the next 15 years, Christmas could come early for construction
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CommentOnline poll: UK construction economy
Do you think the UK will have Europe鈥檚 biggest construction economy by 2025? Vote below
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CommentStanding room only
Agile working isn鈥檛 a phase; it鈥檚 here to stay. As desk-to-worker ratios become tighter, it鈥檚 essential that building designers respond to the shift in office requirements
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CommentFooting the bill
The new housing bill would cut permanently the regulation on converting office or light-industrial sites into housing, circumnavigating both local authorities and affordable housing obligations. So who would be the winners and losers?
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CommentHansom: Going viral
Ah, the internet. Where else would we find an Essex bricklayer capable of laying 90 bricks in a minute, the Institute of Civil Engineering鈥檚 self-penned song, or China鈥檚 psychedelic promotion of its five-year plan?
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CommentInterim payment applications: Leeds City Council vs Waco UK Ltd
Before Mr Justice Edwards-Stuart. Judgment dated 22 May 2015
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CommentCouncils can find a way to make Right to Buy work for them
Housing associations can help councils ease the pain of 鈥榝orced鈥� housing sales
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CommentOsborne and Crossrail: The end of the affair?
Whatever went wrong? I suspect political ambition and calculation have intervened
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CommentBIM for QSs: Adapt or die
BIM won鈥檛 kill the QS profession but firms that don鈥檛 embrace the changes will lose relevance