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Automatic doors for wheelchairs
Geze creates an automatic entrance for young people with a range of physical disabilities
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Wood ceiling panels
Armstrong Ceilings has launched a range of wood ceiling panels called Atelier
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Modular academy
Foremans Relocatable Building Systems hands over a sixth-form centre in Reading
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NewsExternal wall insulation
Saint-Gobain Weber’s external wall insulation specified for Hale Village regeneration project
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NewsAccess flooring
Kingspan installs access flooring in five new buildings as part of a £29m Wandsworth renewal scheme
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CommentMy digital life ... Noble Francis
The CPA economics director and Building columnist on why he prefers PCs to Mac, listening to Roxette, and trying to remember how he got by before iPads
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CommentOnce more unto the breach
When does a delay to a project become sufficiently serious to incur a repudiatory breach, allowing the contract to be terminated?
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CommentLitigation: Winning isn’t everything
The successful party in litigation used to nearly always get their costs paid by the loser. How things have changed…
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CommentHousing: Death of section 106?
The government’s housing and growth initiative may have hammered another nail in the coffin of the traditional means of paying for affordable housing
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FeaturesEducation: Bent into shape
BDP’s priority at Bents Green school in Sheffield was to create a safe and supportive environment for autistic pupils. But it has also managed to preserve the site’s 18th-century coach house. Ike Ijeh reports on a tricky balancing act
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FeaturesKevin Taylor and Phil Pringle: We like winning
Kevin Taylor and Phil Pringle, the two men who built McLaren, on how they created a £400m-turnover contractor in the teeth of an economic crisis – and why they’ve got no plans to sell up
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FeaturesSurvival of the fittest
The new Energy Act will make it unlawful for landlords to let inefficient buildings by 2018. Andrew Brister looks at how the property industry is responding and how the M&E sector can come to its aid
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FeaturesThe human factor
With the rise of more intelligent building control systems, offices are beginning to know their occupants’ needs almost before they do
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FeaturesPost-Olympics: London's rolling
The Olympics may be over but the capital still has plenty of exciting projects to fill the void. Here are the main development sectors and key projects
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NewsRedrow takeover deadline pushed back
Redrow extends by two weeks the deadline for chairman Steve Morgan to make an offer
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NewsMorgan: why I quit BAA
Capital director tells Building lack of major projects, including third runway, led to his departure
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NewsBrookfield sues the Pinnacle for £16m
Exclusive: Contractor launches High Court claim to recover unpaid fees for work on stalled £1bn Pinnacle tower
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NewsGleeds wins extended role on £120m Peabody scheme
Consultant will act as development manager and employer’s agent on 527-home south London scheme
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NewsDitching on-site renewables would save millions, says report
BCO research suggests that overall costs of on-site reneables far outweigh financial benefits