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  • Features

    Costs: Doorsets and site assembled doors

    2005-04-01T15:22:00Z

    What are the cost benefits of factory-finished doorsets compared with doors assembled on site? Peter Mayer of the Building Performance Group looks at the whole-life values

  • Features

    Checklist

    2005-04-01T15:18:00Z

    Advances in technology mean that doors and windows reach higher standards than ever before. Barbour Index and Scott Brownrigg show how you can make the most of them

  • Paragon Joinery
    Features

    Specifier Products

    2005-04-01T15:08:00Z

    Keep sun rays, draughts and burglars where they belong with these door and window products, which also include high-speed industrial doors and one-way mirror film. Plus, all the latest industry happenings

  • This building has an external blind called a markisolette, which combines the features of a roller blind with an extendible mini awning
    Features

    Doors and windows

    2005-04-01T14:52:00Z

    In this week’s issue, keeping up with new technology in doors and windows, the whole-life costs of factory-finished doorsets and all the latest portal-related products. But first, the many ways in which you can reduce solar gain

  • News

    Doors and Windows

    2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Building Specifier 1 April 2005

  • Munkenbeck & Marshall in Michigan
    Features

    We’re the Brits in America …

    2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Historically, architects over here have made little impression on architecture over there. Now Hopkins, Hadid, Chipperfield, Adjaye, Foster and another dozen top designers have taken America by storm. We find out why they’ve become so popular so suddenly

  • Features

    Companies close up

    2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

    We report on recruitment specialist Bromak and its older candidates

  • Features

    Appointments

    2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Movers and shakers this week

  • News

    Country & Metropolitan sold to Gladedale for £72m

    2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Stephen Wicks, who founded C&M in 1990, pockets £10m as he sells firm to private housebuilder

  • News

    Barratt on a roll as it posts profit of £171m

    2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Quoted housebuilder Barratt this week revealed an impressive set of results for the first half of the year, as expected.

  • Comment

    Pay for what you get

    2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Good lawyers are said to be reassuringly expensive, so why don’t clients pay top dollar for quality work by M&E firms? Could it be the sector doesn’t value itself highly enough?

  • Hansom
    Comment

    Hansom

    2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

    A QS enjoys the profit-boosting side effects of promotions, while April’s fools suffer at the hands of two Canadian artists and a blackberry

  • Hill: Boost to Environment Agency
    News

    Minister’s threat to flood plain development

    2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

    A proposed increase in the power of the Environment Agency to block developments in flood plain areas could bring many regeneration projects to a halt, industry experts have warned

  • News

    Pete Wilson

    2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

    On why grotty estates need more innovation than glamorous growth areas …

  • Thomas Vale
    Features

    Tony’s plans for Thomas

    2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Thomas Vale has acquired the reputation of being Britain’s best small contractor. This is of course wrong. It’s really pretty big – and getting bigger. We met the man behind it; Mikael Gothage took his photo

  • Features

    Lead times

    2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

    The big changes anticipated at the end of last year have failed to materialise as lead times remain steady, says Rob Darrow of Mace.

  • Features

    Spotlight on curtain walling

    2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Gavin Murgatroyd of Gardiner & Theobald takes a closer look at curtain walling

  • Comment

    Directions to Dartmoor

    2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Two solicitors have published a document listing 47 common practices in the industry, all of which are also criminal offences. It’s a real eye opener …

  • Anthony Thornton
    Comment

    The case of Rich vs Poor

    2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

    It is often assumed that disputes are waged between the legal champions of well-heeled clients. But this is not so, as the McLibel case illustrates

  • Tim Willis
    Comment

    The arrangement

    2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

    The Appeal Court has ruled that lawyers and judges are safe from the Proceeds of Crime Act, but that is no help to adjudicators, arbitrators, valuers or clients