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    <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>FMB on upgrading our existing housing stock</title>
      <description>Social housing plan must not be at the expense of upgrading our existing housing stock, warns Federation of Master Builders.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Delivery plan needed to upgrade Britain's homes</title>
      <description>Federation of Master Builders responds to the Government's draft Heat and Energy Saving Strategy consultation.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Federation of Master Builders response to Budget</title>
      <description>a missed opportunity to address the housing crisis, says the Federation of Master Builders in its response to the Budget.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Recession continues to hit builders hard warns FMB</title>
      <description>73 percent of FMB builders report a decline in workloads in the industrial sector, and 66 percent reporting similarly for commercial sector during first three months of 2009.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>FMB demands a 'Budget For Homes'</title>
      <description>Comprehensive package to build more houses and retrofit existing homes needs to be the  top priority in the governments Budget proposals says Federation of Master Builders.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>FMB report on 'Energy Efficiency and Jobs'</title>
      <description>Federation of Master Builders calls on Treasury to act to make existing homes greener.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Zero carbon homes need to be realistic warns FMB</title>
      <description>Definition of' Zero Carbon' homes needs to be realistic and not idealistic if we are to having real chance of creating greener, more energy efficient homes, warns the Federation of Master Builder.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>FMB urges Government to act to save jobs</title>
      <description>Federation of Master Builders (FMB) is urging the Government to create a strategy for dealing with the UK's existing building stock.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>FMB on new energy efficient homes strategy</title>
      <description>Federation of Master Builders response to publication of the Government's heat and energy saving strategy to reduce carbon emissions to zero by the year 2050.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Government plans to build more council houses</title>
      <description>Federation of Master Builders welcomes Government plans to build more council houses but stress the importance of including small builders.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>FMB response to Government car industry bailout</title>
      <description>Federation of Master Builders ask what about house building industry?</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Master Builder of the Year collects Nissan Navara</title>
      <description>Builder named 'Master Builder of the Year' by the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) has won a GBP20K Nissan Navara as his prize.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Redundancies at over half of FMB building firms</title>
      <description>Over half of FMB construction companies have made people redundant in the last three months of 2008.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Guaranteeing loans to SMEs needs to go further</title>
      <description>FMB demand that the Government force banks to honour existing loans and overdraft facilities to small businesses.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>FMB condemns call for subcontractors to cut costs</title>
      <description>George Wimpey Bristol's call for sub-contractors to cut costs on current orders by 20% is no solution, warns the Federation of Master Builders.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>FMB welcome bonus for taking on apprentices</title>
      <description>Conservative GBP2,000 bonus for taking on apprentices, welcomed by the Federation of Master Builders.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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