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  • Richard Rogers
    News

    Architects' sheep drive threatened by activists

    2006-06-16T14:09:00Z

    Animal rights groups threaten to sabotage Lord Rogers and Renzo Piano's sheep herding across the Millennium Bridge.

  • Simms
    News

    Schools for Future warned for ignoring sustainability

    2006-06-16T08:32:00Z

    Report by Sir Neville Simms criticises school building programme, as government pledges to go carbon neutral

  • Darryl Strong
    Features

    Appointments

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Who's moving up the career ladder this week?

  • Comment

    Under warranty

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    This was an appeal from a decision of judge Coulson. The Judge held that Decoma UK Ltd could claim damages, subject to a cap, but could not claim under the contract.Decoma was an operator of paint-spraying facilities and Haden Drysys International Ltd specialised in the design and construction of processed ...

  • Savoy
    News

    Savoy hotel plans full-scale £85m refurbishment

    2006-06-16T08:40:00Z

    John Rowan & Partners tipped to win project management role in revamp of 117-year-old London landmark

  • The planetarium resembles an alien space ship half buried in Greenwich park after a crash landing
    Features

    Curved space – the Peter Harrison Planetarium

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Greenwich park is about to get a strange and beautiful adornment: a weird bronze cone through which the heavens will be made manifest. Thomas Lane found out how it's being made

  • News

    More firms join flight from Procure 21

    2006-06-16T08:44:00Z

    Taylor Woodrow and Amec are the latest contractors to resign from hospital framework programme.

  • The house performs 40% better than the Part L carbon emission target
    Features

    Housing

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Contractor Osborne wanted to push the boundaries of sustainability, so it built a demonstration house packed with green features, from solar panels on the roof to heat pumps under the floor. Sonia Soltani paid a visit

  • Geothermal energy
    Features

    Products

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    A range of items to bring out the interior designer in everyone, including belle époque bathrooms and pool lighting. Plus, the more pressing matters of efficient boilers and greywater recycling

  • Features

    Checklist

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    One of the reasons small is beautiful is that it's usually a lot less hassle. Which brings us to the specification of an apartment block … Scott Brownrigg and Barbour Index explain

  • Angus Robertson
    Features

    Just the job

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Angus Robertson tells Sonia Soltani how he followed his heart to the city that never sleeps

  • Ives: Foresees expansion in India
    News

    Cyril Sweett allies with Indian property firm

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Cyril Sweett has formed a strategic alliance with the Indian arm of US property company Trammell Crow.

  • News

    Receiver sells Dew piling arm to Irish specialist

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    The specialist piling division of Dew Construction, which went into receivership last month, has been sold to Belfast-based Lagan Holdings.

  • News

    ‘World Cup effect' revealed

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    The number of houses sold could rise as much as 10% once the World Cup tournament is over in July, research has revealed.

  • News

    John Doyle rings the changes at London subsidiary Bell

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Concrete contractor John Doyle Group has appointed a managing director to run its London-based subsidiary Bell.

  • Colin Harding
    Comment

    Pigs and cream

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    The construction industry is split into the firms that do the actual work and those that skim off their profit under the guise of supervision and regulation

  • Hansom
    Comment

    Hansom

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Accidents, disappointments and injuries abound this week as news breaks that Mr Justice Jackson won't be fit until the second round at the earliest

  • Farnborough airport’s new terminal and operations building evokes modern aircraft by its long, sleek, streamlined form, faced in shiny aluminium
    Features

    The technology and beauty of aircraft

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    A sleek building in the shape of a boomerang, or more appropriately a pair of aircraft wings, has been opened at Farnborough airport in Hampshire.

  • Features

    Where in the world?

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    From the salmon runs of British Columbia to the golf courses of Hong Kong, the white rum of Antigua to the jade green pastis of southern France … there's a whole world waiting for you. Hays Construction & Property and Building's international salary guide helps you take off the blindfold ...

  • Rudi Klein
    Comment

    Post-match analysis

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Now that the teams have left the pitch, let's look at what really happened at Wembley. And as we so often see, it all came down to the management of design risks