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Chris Harrop, group marketing director of building materials manufacturer Marshalls has been named Green Guru Manufacturer by Building magazine.

The ladder exchange scheme, led by the Health and Safety Executive which allows trade users to exchange their old, broken ladders for new, safe ones, ends at the end of the year.

Housing Minister John Healey yesterday announced a full scale assessment of the government's drive to improve England's social housing stock.

A boiler scrappage scheme - as called for by builders and plumbers merchants and heating manufacturers - was announced today by the chancellor, Alistair Darling.

This week's pre-Budget report is likely to include the announcement of a £300 boiler scrappage scheme thanks to vigorous campaigning by plumbers merchant Mick Williams and the Reheat Britain team.

Output in the construction sector grew 2% in the third quarter, according to the Office for national Statistics. However, newbuild work fell 4% while the total output is 11% down on last year.

Homeowners in Birmingham, Sunderland, Sutton and Stroud will be testing out new ways to finance whole house energy makeovers under the Government's £4m Pay As You Save scheme.

The site of Lafarge Cement's former works and quarry, near Larne, Northern Ireland is to be developed as an eco-town, following the approval of Environment Minister Edwin Poots.

Kingspan Group plc has won the 2009 Britain's Most Admired Company award in the 'Building Materials & Merchants' category, for the second year running.

The latest figures from the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply show that contraction in the construction industry is still very much in evidence.