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FeaturesThe taste temptation
Once dismissed by housebuilders as a diversion, optional extras are now seen as a way of luring the customer into shelling out for the show home look. We look at ways you can cook up business
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NewsProducts
Composite doorset Irish door maker New World Developments has put a great deal of R&D into its new Apeer GRP composite doorset. The door, which comes in eight styles, has been given an authentic timber-grain-style finish and is available with a triple-glazed panel. New World Developments www.nwd.uk.com www.building.co.uk/enquiries 900 ...
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NewsDoorstepping
David Wilson Homes is expanding with the launch of Midlands-based company Urban Revival. Group chief executive Mike Stansfield explains why …
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NewsRegency Apartment scheme praised
Barratt has demonstrated that apartment architecture can please both the purists and the buying public. Its Regency Apartments scheme in London's Westminster has won praise from RIBA president George Ferguson for its design quality and now its 204 apartments and three £795,000-plus houses are sold out. Designed by Assael Architecture, ...
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FeaturesBeat bullies
Workplace bullying is ruining a growing number of people's lives. We look at how it can be stopped
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FeaturesSkilled solution
ConstructionSkills is launching a drive to tackle the skills crisis. The initiative – Action for Skills – aims to kick-start a debate among employers on training. In the first of five monthly articles, Building, in association with ConstructionSkills, looks at what's gone wrong and how it can be fixed.
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NewsBroker’s notes: Where no metaphor has gone before
I’m thrilled this week, dear reader. I have a choice of two large pegs from which to hang my observations: Euro 2004 or Wimbledon.
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CommentIt's a gas, gas, gas
Welcome to the crazy mixed-up world of utilities, where you never know who's selling what or who's going to install it – and neither does anybody else!
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CommentMarketwatch: office special
It was billed as 'The Big Comeback' – London's office developers were going to wow us with a spending extravaganza. But as we report, in reality market recovery has been more of a slow burn
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CommentDiary of an architectural practice, aged 6 months
This month staff at Make get technical – from grappling with the photocopier to the weighty matter of voting for their favourite cake electronically
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FeaturesSomething about pete
How does a 34-year-old accountant with no real previous get the top of one of the country's largest housebuilders? Well, as we found out, a brain the size of a planet helps …
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Lead times
Lead times are staying level in most sectors, but there is still a lot of worry over steel demand, according to Mace's Rob Darrow. Over the page, Gavin Murgatroyd of Gardiner & Theobald shines the spotlight on roofing
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A servant may have but one master
The Construction Industry Council's new novation form rejects the idea that a consultant can work for a client and a contractor – and be liable to both
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You be the judge
In our third session, after we posed a tricky hypothetical case back in April, a reader dons a wig and passes judgment – and our question-setter offers his view. Plus another contentious issue to get your teeth into …