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Features‘Be careful what you say. If you claim to have done something, I'll check it'
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.
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FeaturesPrater learns from rival's fall
SME focus - Two months after buying most of Coverite, the roofer is still cautious over expansion
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CommentAll mod cons
Tarek Merlin traces the erosion of his infatuation with modernism, which he believes has left a terrible legacy
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CommentPlaque removal
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
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NewsFresh blow for M11 corridor plans
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.
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Housing stats: New-build sales and completions in May 2006
The latest data shows that UK sales and completions are well up on last month - especially in Scotland
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FeaturesBespoke Savill style
An elegant visitor centre with a timber gridshell roof cuts a swath through Windsor Great Park
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CommentStop right there
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
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CommentA disaster waiting to happen
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?
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CommentRules of engagement
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?
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CommentLet's take this inside
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
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CommentHere's to the ‘have-a-go' city
Your broadside against Birmingham (26 May, pages 44-48) has caused ructions at Council House and in the property community.
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In praise of Ray
I have been interested in tracking the responses to Ray O'Rourke's comments that a building site was not a "place where women fit" (19 May, page 14).
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Water torture
Every week brings news of another drought order and complaints that water companies are profiteering while failing to tackle leaks.
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Capita Symonds
On 12 May 2006, an article appeared in Building titled "Capita Symonds: two years old, but growing fast".
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CommentThe perfect window seat
It takes a certain kind of bravery to straddle a plank of wood that is resting on a ladder that is resting between a narrow window sill and a strip of railings.