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    Appointments

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Movers and shakers this week

  • Miralles' magnificent mess
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    Miralles’ magnificent mess

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    We review the Scottish parliament building.

  • How's this for an executive box?
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    How’s this for an executive box?

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    In a backlash against Brookside-style housing, Stock Woolstencroft has designed a model high-density apartment scheme with a splash of colour that also regenerates a historic area of north London suburbia.

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    Slow but sure

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    In this month’s Tracker, Experian Business Strategies reports that growth in the industry is expected to continue over the next three months, albeit at a slower rate than before

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    Specifier Products

    2004-09-15T11:45:00Z

    The latest window and door solutions, including new doors for a venerable institution in Cambridge, fire station entrances that fly open in seconds and some eye-catching coloured glazing

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    The rules

    2004-09-15T11:09:00Z

    A quick guide to the changes to access regulations in Part M and how they will affect door specification, and Davis Langdon takes a look at the costs of doors and windows

  • Software HQ gets green glazing
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    How to specify a doorset

    2004-09-15T10:59:00Z

    Ensuring all the components of a doorset combine to give the required performance on site is a major challenge for any specifier. Here we outline how current ¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ Regulations apply to an internal door

  • cats
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    Hounded out

    2004-09-14T15:05:00Z

    Cats and dogs can Britain’s favourite pets, but if you live in council accommodation you’d probably have to make do with a bird or fish.

  • Concrete firm Gunite
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    Gunite wins Little Britain

    2004-09-13T11:31:00Z

    The Little Britain Challenge Cup attracts 2,500 sailors and sees concrete firm Gunite win the main event.

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    Spinning yarns

    2004-09-10T14:57:00Z

    Rain may have stopped play at a David Wilson Homes’ sponsored cricket match but it didn’t dampen the spirits of the has-been cricketers booked for the event.

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    Waste not, want not

    2004-09-10T14:08:00Z

    Council nimbyism and short-sighted government policy is in danger of turning Britain into a fly-tippers paradise. If the UK is to deal with its growing mountain of rubbish thousands of waste treatment facilities will have to be built by 2020, says Nigel Mattravers.

  • The Bin Laden story
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    The Bin Laden story

    2004-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Summer 1971 in the small Swedish town of Falun. Twenty-two members of Saudi Arabia’s richest construction dynasty pose for a holiday snap. Second from the right is a 14-year-old called Osama, later to become the world’s most wanted terrorist. We report on how his relatives have tried to rescue the ...

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    I quit!

    2004-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Leaving a job can be as hard as getting one in the first place, says Richard Woods of recruitment specialist MC2

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    Appointments

    2004-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Movers and shakers this week

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    Cost update: September 2004

    2004-09-10T00:00:00Z

    This quarter’s round-up of the latest in construction, materials and labour costs shows that contractors will keep feeling the pressure as prices continue to outstrip consumer price inflation – plus overleaf, why building operatives and electricians are enjoying pay days more than most …

  • After the fall
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    After the fall

    2004-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Three years ago tomorrow, 2800 people were murdered live on global television and the financial hub of America was turned into a smoking charnel house. Many construction experts become caught up in what happened on that day, and its aftermath. We talk to three about the disaster, the clear-up and ...

  • Three years of terror
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    Three years of fear

    2004-09-10T00:00:00Z

    9/11 was the day the world changed – if only in how scared people became. To quell these fears, the way we put up buildings has since undergone some pretty radical changes itself. We report on how Osama Bin Laden’s terror attacks transformed our industry

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    Checklist

    2004-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Technical advances in window design are being made all the time, and specifiers need to keep abreast of the changes. Barbour Index and Scott Brownrigg outline five things to consider to get the best results

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    Little Britain sails into view

    2004-09-03T12:21:00Z

    Following the heroic exploits of the British sailors in Athens it's now up to the construction industry to prove it can rule the waves.

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    Galliford and Headcrown storm July league tables

    2004-09-03T00:00:00Z

    Old hand and newcomer take top two spots in monthly chart – but Bovis Lend Lease hangs on to annual title