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  • Features

    Lifetime costs: roofing

    2004-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Metal prices have gone through the roof – which means the cost of your copper covering is sky-high. So which material is best value? Alex Smith reports, Davis Langdon & Everest crunches the numbers

  • Features

    Planes, brains and panels of steel

    2004-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Those clever architects at Feilden Clegg Bradley didn't take the easy route to their RAF museum pavilion in Hendon. Alex Smith divebombs on the challenges of cladding a semi-circular roof in stainless steel and lining it with tensile fabric

  • Features

    The rules

    2004-03-12T00:00:00Z

    An attack of the vapours? Here's how to deal with permeable roofing membranes … Plus, a bill is in the offing that could beef up building regs.

  • News

    Products: roofing

    2004-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Topping off our roofing special this week, we have insulation to keep Hatfield eggheads toasty, a curvy roof making waves in Manchester and some seriously sexy shakes in Bath – plus an expert shares his specification penchants and bugbears

  • News

    Roofing

    2004-03-12T00:00:00Z

  • Features

    Appointments

    2004-03-09T15:10:00Z

    Movers and shakers this week

  • Features

    Housing Futures 2024

    2004-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Building Futures, a joint initiative between CABE and the RIBA, has just produced Housing Futures 2024, a set of reports that speculate on developments in British housing to 2024.

  • News

    Persimmon sets tough targets in growth drive

    2004-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Housebuilder wants seven businesses to each build at least 600 units, as it posts record pre-tax profit of £325m

  • Comment

    Anyone fancy a fight?

    2004-03-05T00:00:00Z

    The New Engineering Contract's non-confrontational aims are making it increasingly popular – but a dispute over whether it allows late claims would be handy

  • News

    McAlpine vs McAlpine

    2004-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Battle for the McAlpine brand name turns nasty as Alfred is accused of having a 'poor payment record'

  • Comment

    Brief encounter: What did Wilcox mean?

    2004-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Judge Wilcox's decision in London vs Waterman seemed to float the idea that adjudication should be restricted to simple cases. Is that really what he suggested?

  • News

    The McAlpines in court: An exercise in self-preservation

    2004-03-05T00:00:00Z

    The McAlpines jealously guard their privacy. When Building sought to profile the clan in 1999, we were only able to communicate through an exchange of hand-written letters.

  • News

    Safety campaigners plan march on Wembley stadium

    2004-03-05T00:00:00Z

    March will draw attention to PC Harrington employee who fell to his death when a crane collapsed

  • News

    Rok walks away from Galliford Try

    2004-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Contractor Rok has finally lost interest in buying Galliford Try, several months after its £113m offer was rejected.

  • News

    Holyrood: 15,000 design changes since 1999

    2004-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Bovis Lend Lease, construction manager on the £430m Scottish parliament, has had to handle 15,000 design changes since 1999

  • News

    WYG strikes 43% off Ballast losses

    2004-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Multidisciplinary consultant White Young Green has managed to claw back £150,000 of the money it was owed by failed contractor Ballast.

  • News

    Government considers LIFT for Olympic site

    2004-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Planners discuss using healthcare model to fund regeneration of east London Olympic venue

  • News

    GMW prepares to transform the centre of Nairobi

    2004-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Architect is to work with the state on masterplan to regenerate centre of the Kenyan capital

  • News

    Davies to fight for top GMB job

    2004-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Phil Davies, the national construction secretary of the GMB, is to challenge for the number two job in the union

  • News

    Chickens come home to roost on Jubilee Line

    2004-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Signalling problems that emerged on the Jubilee Line last year have their roots in the extension to the route in the late 1990s, according to PPP consortium Tube Lines.