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Specifier Products
The latest window and door solutions, including new doors for a venerable institution in Cambridge, fire station entrances that fly open in seconds and some eye-catching coloured glazing
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FeaturesHow to specify a doorset
Ensuring all the components of a doorset combine to give the required performance on site is a major challenge for any specifier. Here we outline how current Building Regulations apply to an internal door
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FeaturesHounded out
Cats and dogs can Britain’s favourite pets, but if you live in council accommodation you’d probably have to make do with a bird or fish.
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Hill urges councils to speed up planning process
Planning minister Keith Hill warns that local authorities could fall short of planning applications targets.
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NewsSpeakers announced for Prescott summit
An Italian MEP and Seattle banker are among those invited by John Prescott to speak at next year's Sustainable Communities summit.
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NewsRedrow predicts rosy future
Redrow achieves 17% rise in pre-tax profit and claims that housing market will remain robust despite interest rate rises.
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NewsFarrell appointed masterplanner at Paddington hospital
Terry Farrell and Partners submitted initial hospital plan to Westminster City Council last week.
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News£7m grant completes Aylesbury funding jigsaw
Work on phase one of the renewal work on the Aylesbury Estate in London will start in mid-2005.
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RMC appoints Rontgen
Alexander Rontgen becomes RMC’s international director and heads up firm’s new international cement division.
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FeaturesGunite wins Little Britain
The Little Britain Challenge Cup attracts 2,500 sailors and sees concrete firm Gunite win the main event.
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Parkwood in the swim
Leisure PFIs help Parkwood Holdings to increase interim turnover by 29% to £31.2m.
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NewsSix share £4.5bn water deal
Welsh Water selects six contractors including Costain and Amec as preferred partners in a 15-year deal.
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Councils give 2012 Olympics green light
Four councils in East London have given planning permission for the proposed Olympic complex in East London
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Spinning yarns
Rain may have stopped play at a David Wilson Homes’ sponsored cricket match but it didn’t dampen the spirits of the has-been cricketers booked for the event.
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FeaturesWaste not, want not
Council nimbyism and short-sighted government policy is in danger of turning Britain into a fly-tippers paradise. If the UK is to deal with its growing mountain of rubbish thousands of waste treatment facilities will have to be built by 2020, says Nigel Mattravers.
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NewsORourke launches surprise attack on labour market
6000 temporary workers will have working week slashed for same money – if they become permanent staff
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FeaturesThe Bin Laden story
Summer 1971 in the small Swedish town of Falun. Twenty-two members of Saudi Arabia’s richest construction dynasty pose for a holiday snap. Second from the right is a 14-year-old called Osama, later to become the world’s most wanted terrorist. We report on how his relatives have tried to rescue the ...
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At source
The claimants, Thames Water Utilities Ltd (TW) brought a claim against the defendants, London Underground Ltd (LUL) arising from a burst water main. They contended that the burst water main was caused by works carried out by LUL on the construction of the Jubilee Line extension (pursuant to powers conferred ...
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NewsThree major deals revive London commercial market
Contractors vie for £35m British Land scheme and two Foster-designed tower blocks worth a total of £90m