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  • 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

  • Tony Bingham
    Comment

    Volunteers? You and you

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    The English court system has got into the habit of frogmarching would-be litigants to mediation, and this is damaging the reputation of the judges and mediators

  • Comment

    No mercy

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    When does a late tax return get you kicked off the CIS scheme? The courts have been at odds over this question, but now senior judges have made a harsh ruling

  • Jane Ryland
    Comment

    Goliath won

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    The judge said neither Multiplex nor Cleveland Bridge could claim outright victory over Wembley, but on all the big money questions, the Aussies came out on top

  • Comment

    The truth about Birmingham

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Having read your article on Birmingham (26 May, page 44), it seems appropriate to ask whether your reporter actually visited the city when researching her piece? If she did, it is strange that she fails to mention many of the "high-profile" projects that, far from being stalled, are progressing and ...

  • Comment

    Let's stick together

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    How refreshing to read David Mosey's article on the use of peer pressure rather than big sticks to manage a project schedule (2 June, page 49). My experience of partnering and collaborative ventures in the industry over the years is that peer pressure is a powerful tool for one simple ...

  • Comment

    An accident waiting impatiently to happen

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    The shots were taken on a housing development site in Camberley, Surrey. There's nobody around … so that'll be alright then!

  • News

    Rogers and Piano lead the pack at London Biennale

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Architects prepare to herd 60 sheep across Millennium Bridge, as Architecture Week events are held across UK