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Insolvencies soar as fixed-price contracts leave builders unable to pass on cost inflation to customers
Developers cut back on buying land in effort to ride out weaker market
Decline in home building is a bad omen for the bloc’s overall economy
Firm and one of its partners ordered to pay more than £1mn for failures in 2015 and 2016 audits
Concerns over economic outlook and cancelled sales curtail building projects, survey finds
We need to invest in the tools that enable people to stay well in work and prevent our workers from reaching crisis point
Rising interest rates, economic headwinds and political uncertainty hit construction industry
Higher costs, tighter credit and labour shortages are hitting the sector, reports find
Fears volatility in housing market and high inflation may slow development activity in UK capital
Building and civil engineering sectors calls on Liz Truss to step up support
Shares in the likes of DR Horton and Lennar have pulled back but housing market is nowhere near collapse
October will be the crunch point as fixed pricing deals end, businesses warn
Rampant development turns seaside jewel into mess of unfinished casinos and condos
Heavily indebted sector to receive new loans to complete unfinished apartments owed to angry homebuyers
Housing association awarded damages for remedial work on tower blocks in wake of Grenfell fire
Construction activity surges but companies face high wage demands as rollout of EU recovery funds begins
History shows how buildings can be designed for both flexibility and longevity
Price of key materials and labour shortage make business untenable for many family-run groups
Among those most at risk are commercial landlords who lost out when shops closed during pandemic
Leo Quinn says transport, defence and energy projects are set to benefit from potential government-funded boom
Designers from Norway, construction workers from Germany and UK crews balance discretion with flamboyance in the finished product
Publicly listed developers agree to fund necessary repairs of risky blocks they have built
Provisions are manageable but are compounded by rising mortgage rates, the cost of living and war in Ukraine
Increases will add to pressures on construction projects including HS2 rail line
Threat of rising inflation reinforces case for Bank of England to raise rates next week
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