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  • Comment

    My favourites …

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    This week - Andrew Scoones

  • 99% campaign
    Features

    The 99% campaign - Incentives for action

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Your suggestions on improving the energy performance of existing building stock including carbon trading, stamp duty and tax relief.

  • London Zoo’s Komodo Dragon House boasts a 300 m2 green roof, erected in 2004 by Miller Roofing using Sarnafil products, and based on biodiversity principles developed in Switzerland
    Features

    Sustainability: Green roofs

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Living roofs are often specified for their symbolic value, as a statement of the owner or developer's environmental credentials. But, as Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon explains, there are also tangible cost and performance benefits to going green up top

  • Features

    Skanska enjoys £1bn month as Barts gets go-ahead

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Swedish firm tops monthly league thanks to £1.2bn PFI hospital scheme

  • News

    Balfour bids £32m for Birse

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Contractor Balfour Beatty has made a £32m recommended offer for civil engineering firm Birse Group as part of a strategy of regional expansion

  • News

    Barratt chief Pretty to retire

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Housebuilder Barratt Group surprised the industry on Tuesday when it announced that chief executive David Pretty would retire at the end of this year, aged 62.

  • Steve McGuckin
    Features

    ‘Be careful what you say. If you claim to have done something, I'll check it'

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Land Securities, aka the builder's developer, is spending £700m a year. But you won't win any of it if you're what development director Steve McGuckin delicately terms a bullshitter. Katie Puckett found out about his plans to take even tighter control.

  • Tony Birkbeck
    Features

    Prater learns from rival's fall

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    SME focus - Two months after buying most of Coverite, the roofer is still cautious over expansion

  • Tarek Merlin
    Comment

    All mod cons

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Tarek Merlin traces the erosion of his infatuation with modernism, which he believes has left a terrible legacy

  • Comment

    Building buys a pint …

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    for Nick Cross Associates

  • Hansom
    Comment

    Plaque removal

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    An awards ceremony without any prizes - or our man from the BNP; Caruso and the artistic temperament; school's out in Liverpool and Davis Langdon throws its weight around in Dublin

  • Green light: Report backs proposals for an extra 3000 houses in west Stevenage
    News

    Fresh blow for M11 corridor plans

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    The government's growth area strategy has suffered a fresh blow after the publication of a planning study criticising the London-to-Peterborough development corridor.

  • News

    Housing stats: New-build sales and completions in May 2006

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    The latest data shows that UK sales and completions are well up on last month - especially in Scotland

  • The roof undulates over the visitor centre
    Features

    Bespoke Savill style

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    An elegant visitor centre with a timber gridshell roof cuts a swath through Windsor Great Park

  • Tony Bingham
    Comment

    Stop right there

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    The Wembley judgment contains all the rough and tumble we expect from a good old construction dust-up, and some pertinent lessons for the 2012 Olympics organisers

  • l-r: Ann Minogue, Julian Holloway, Rachel Barnes, Rudi Klein, Andrew Hemsley
    Comment

    A disaster waiting to happen

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Legal aid - This month our panel of experts tackles a dangerous situation at a college where a newly constructed extension is a potential fire hazard. Who is responsible under the design-and-build contract? And who will foot the bill for the remedial work?

  • John Hughes-D’Aeth
    Comment

    Rules of engagement

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Last year the British Property Federation's controversial consultants' agreement sparked much ill-feeling. Will a new contract by the Construction Industry Council heal the rift?

  • Tracy Wood
    Comment

    Let's take this inside

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Inside job - In the first of a series, Tracey Wood offers insights from her role as in-house lawyer at Costain. To kick off, she explains how a savvy legal department can take risks and save money

  • Birmingham’s triumph: Brummies can take pride in Selfridges
    Comment

    Here's to the ‘have-a-go' city

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Your broadside against Birmingham (26 May, pages 44-48) has caused ructions at Council House and in the property community.

  • Comment

    One for the team

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Congratulations on the new-look Building.