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    Inside: Expert eye

    2004-05-28T00:00:00Z

    As one of the housebuilding sector's best-known flooring brands, Amtico has to keep abreast of the twists and turns of consumer tastes. Kate Bliss, general manager of UK residential business at the company, spots a few trends and offers some useful tips

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    Outside: Now/Next

    2004-05-28T00:00:00Z

    The big issue now and for the foreseeable future is getting more affordable housing built in the South. Off-site manufacture is the government's preferred solution, but the industry fears it is a high-cost route that is incompatible with low-cost housing. Who's got it right? To settle the argument, Homes asked ...

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    Products

    2004-05-28T00:00:00Z

    Blowing hot and coldXpelair has launched Digitemp, a combined cooling and heating air-conditioning unit for the domestic market. The product range cools, dehumidifies and heats air using an air-to-air reverse heat pump, and is available in a 2.1 kW and 2.4 kW cooling capacity. A single unit can serve a ...

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    Wembley prepares to make its mark

    2004-05-28T00:00:00Z

    Multiplex will hope that a successful lifting of the Wembley arch will draw a line under a troubled start to 2004.

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    Appointments

    2004-05-27T10:53:00Z

    Movers and shakers this week

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    The general idea

    2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

    Andy Wolstenholme talks to us through the battle for T5

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    Mike Davies

    2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

    T5's project architect tells us about his 20 years spent designing the same building

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    Introduction: Why T5 is the future of UK construction

    2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

    The construction of a passenger terminal at Heathrow was essential if the airport was to cope with a rise in the market for air travel of up to 7% a year, and if it was to maintain its claim to be Europe's premier airport. Necessity was the mother of Terminal ...

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    IT

    2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

    We explain how the design process was optimised

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    Community relations

    2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

    "I've worked on projects at Heathrow and Stansted, but this is one of the most challenging jobs I've done – Terminal 5 is very large and very visual. It has a potentially huge impact on local residents in terms of nuisances like construction noise; my role is to ensure that ...

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    Words from the front

    2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

    Mitch Parsons, a construction manager from Laing O'Rourke north, describes life at the sharp end of T5B

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    On site

    2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

    It's finally up. After years of design work, months of testing and weeks of careful assembly, the first section of the main terminal's giant waveform roof is in place.

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    Prefab

    2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

    Here's where talk of templates becomes literal. We tell it like it is

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    Procurement

    2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

    We explain how the celebrated T5 agreement works

  • Comment

    Peter rogers

    2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

    While the construction industry is building T5, T5 is rebuilding the construction industry. Let me explain …

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    What there is still to do

    2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

    – and will the terminal's interior rise to the occasion?

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    The captain, speaking

    2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

    We listen carefully to Tony Douglas, T5's managing director

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    Workers' welfare

    2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

    We report on how baa is making sure all its construction staff live to see the end of the job

  • News

    T5 Supplement

    2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

    A template for the future How heathrow terminal 5 has rebuilt the building industry

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    Taylor Woodrow boss hints at boardroom shake-up

    2004-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Chief executive Iain Napier's ambitious plans for housebuilder include keeping directors on their toes