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    Foster's City Hall falling apart, say the Conservatives

    2006-06-19T16:51:00Z

    Tory members of the London Assembly have complained that Sir Norman Foster's City Hall building is "falling apart"

  • 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 ...