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			<title><![CDATA[Doubts over construction quality in Dubai]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Two alarming incidents in one week in Dubai have cast doubt over the quality of much of the Emirate’s infrastructure, as first a bridge collapsed, then sewage spilled out onto the streets.]]></description>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Mass redundancies as UK housebuilding plummets]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Announcements of 900 job cuts at Taylor Wimpey and closer to 1000 at Barratt conclude a rollercoaster week in the UK housebuilding industry as analysts forecast nothing but gloom on the horizon.]]></description>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Frustrated contractors poised for turbine push]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[The UK’s multi-billion pound wind power industry has welcomed Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s Renewable Energy Strategy, but claims there are still too many barriers impeding swift progress.]]></description>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Farmers get lion’s share of reconstruction spend]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[China taps into new-car tax and lottery revenue to prime a reconstruction budget that places a clear priority on Sichuan farmers.]]></description>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Groundhog Day at the ‘K-Town Mall’]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Millions over budget, riddled with defects and two years late and counting, a US Air Force community centre in Germany shows the ‘pervasive dysfunction’ in federal contracting, says procurement watchdog Henry Waxman.]]></description>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Shape-shifting tower to debut in Dubai]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Never mind the Burj – plans are now afoot in Dubai for the world’s first building that can’t stay still.]]></description>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Prison for negligent UK scaffolder]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[In a comparatively harsh application of UK safety law, a judge has sentenced a scaffolder to three months in prison after persisting in the use of untrained staff, one of whom was seriously injured in a fall.]]></description>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Big Dig contractor faces criminal charges]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[The US Attorney’s Office in Boston has brought criminal charges against the contractor Modern Continental for actions alleged to have contributed to the fatal accident in the I-90 connector tunnel in July 2006.]]></description>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[No-build 'buffer zone' could reduce future deaths]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[A group of Chinese experts in geology and environmental protection has appealed to the authorities in Beijing to suspend approval of major hydro-electric projects in geologically unstable areas of south west China.]]></description>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[India’s malls will fail, warns retail pioneer]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Construction costs for malls in India have risen by 40 per cent in the last two years, threatening the very viability of the retail industry, according to the country’s pioneer of big-chain retailing.]]></description>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Report warns of spiralling Olympic costs]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[A new report says building the London Olympic venues seriously risks going even further over budget, but mayor Boris Johnson insisted Londoners would not pay “a penny more” than already promised for the games.]]></description>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[US grapples with tower crane safety]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Investigations intensify into a crane company linked with two fatal New York collapses since March – New York crane safety inspectors face a broadening corruption probe – In Washington the axe falls on ‘hybrids’.]]></description>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Disaster spells good business for some]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Companies in China are braced for greater demand during the massive reconstruction programme following the earthquake in Sichuan province.]]></description>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia's brand new $34.7-billion city]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[A new city of two million people to be built by 2020 as part of a wave of major development projects in Saudi Arabia has already attracted billions of dollars of investment.]]></description>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Geologist blames controversial dam]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Fan Xiao, chief engineer of Sichuan’s geology investigation team, believes that the controversial Zipingpu dam may have caused the Richter scale 8 earthquake that has claimed more than 69,000 lives so far.]]></description>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New York crane inspector in bribery charges]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[A New York official has been charged with taking bribes for faking inspections and helping crane operators cheat on tests – but he is not being blamed for two recent crane collapses that killed nine people in total.]]></description>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[China construction giant goes public]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[The company that built the National Aquatics Centre for the Beijing Olympics (pictured) has been given permission to proceed with its plans to issue public shares, through which it hopes to raise more that US$5bn.]]></description>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[How bad should war-zone accounting be?]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[US probity watchdog Henry Waxman (pictured) agrees good accounting in Iraq reconstruction may be tough, but a phantom US$34m military base is going too far, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.]]></description>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Warning came weeks before disaster struck]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Some Chinese scientists said a massive earthquake in Sichuan was likely to happen weeks before disaster struck, claiming more than 69,000 lives so far, while other experts are blaming themselves.]]></description>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[2012 work starts but funding still unclear]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[They haven’t worked out quite how to pay for it yet, but construction on London’s Olympic Village started on time yesterday, says the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) and preferred development partner, Lend Lease.]]></description>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT]]></pubDate>
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