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The building of energy efficient homes will be vital in delivering the government's climate change initiatives and the Construction Products Association want to see more investment to make it happen.

The Builders Merchants Federation has welcomed a report by Cranfield School of Management which finds that investment in training is more effective than shopping around for talent and saves employers money.

The worsening economic position of construction manufacturers and contractors is expected to persist throughout 2009 and into 2010, according to the Construction Products Association.

The Government has today given councils access to over £100m to help maintain building family and first-time buyer homes, housing minister Margaret Beckett has announced.

Building material sales through builders merchants are 9.6% lower for the third quarter of 2008 than the same period in 2007.

The European Commission is to investigate cement companies after suspicions arose that they may have operated an illegal cartel.

Cemco, the independent merchant buying group, has added two more builders merchants to the group.

Failed internet building supplies company Building Supplies R Us is unlikely to have sufficient funds to repay the builders merchants, manufacturers and other unsecured creditors to whom it owes money.

TAPS, the North East's independent plumbers' merchants, have opened a new branch on Tyneside.

Boiler makers Biasi UK are now providing bespoke, free of charge training services for merchants, installers and specifiers from their state-of-the-art training facility near Birmingham.