<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Construction News Portal</title><link>http://www.constructionnewsportal.com/</link><description>Latest construction News</description><language>en</language><generator>Construction News Portal</generator><copyright>Construction News Portal</copyright><item><title>Barbour ABI's latest quarterly review highlights key building projects and the best performing sectors</title><link>http://www.constructionnewsportal.com/construction_article7263.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:59:50 GMT</pubDate><description>Barbour ABI have recently released their quarterly review analysis, which highlights key building projects and the best performing sectors. Barbour ABI reports on every new building project in the UK, enhancing planning application and public tender information at each stage of the construction lifecycle. For over 70 years, the Barbour ABI portfolio has provided industry leading services to the co </description></item><item><title>Online registration now open for Interbuild Onsite</title><link>http://www.constructionnewsportal.com/construction_article7257.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:01:08 GMT</pubDate><description>Interbuild Onsite will provide a clear focus for exhibitors and visitors this year, thanks to the creation of six specific new zones dedicated to important product and business areas for the building trades. 

In addition to Commercial Vehicles and Tools, the principal featured zones at Interbuild Onsite now include Kitchens &amp; Bathrooms, Painting, Decorating &amp; Finishing, Installer (plumbing, hea </description></item><item><title>Construction workloads turn positive for the first time in two years</title><link>http://www.constructionnewsportal.com/construction_article7152.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 10:59:26 GMT</pubDate><description>According to the latest RICS survey of the industry, construction workloads turned positive for the first time in two years.

Five percent more chartered surveyors reported rising rather than falling workloads for the first quarter of 2010. This compares with a net balance of 12 percent reporting falls in Q4 2009. This positive turnaround reverses a decline which has stretched for seven consecut </description></item><item><title>Polish construction companies more optimistic in their assessment of the market situation</title><link>http://www.constructionnewsportal.com/construction_article7085.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:01:19 GMT</pubDate><description>The results of a survey of high-level professionals from the management and operating divisions of 200 largest Polish construction companies, which was conducted by research and consulting company PMR for the purposes of report entitled &quot;Construction Sector in Poland H1 2010   Development Forecasts for 2010-2012&quot;, are evidence that sentiment in the Polish construction industry has taken a slight t </description></item><item><title>UK housebuilding market expected to returns to growth in 2010</title><link>http://www.constructionnewsportal.com/construction_article7081.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:45:37 GMT</pubDate><description>According to a new report from MTW Research, the UK housebuilding market will rise by 154,000 homes in 2010, though housebuilder expenditure remains under tight control as social housing investment slows and business confidence returns slowly.

Based on industry sales, the new report identifies a growing optimism amongst housebuilders in April 2010, with house prices stabilising in the first qua </description></item></channel></rss>