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FeaturesCountry focus: Serbia
Serbia鈥檚 construction industry may not be racking up 20% growth any more, but it鈥檚 still hitting 9.5% and shows little sign of slipping into recession. Sasa Trajkovic of EC Harris marks your card
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FeaturesNew Saudi property rules could tempt UK firms
Regulations follow Dubai鈥檚 recent changes, which is good news for those entering the market
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FeaturesSupersize me: HKS' Dallas Cowboys stadium
The sheer scale of HKS鈥� stadium for the Dallas Cowboys kicks Wembley鈥檚 arch and Wimbledon鈥檚 retractable roof into touch
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FeaturesStone Alone: Crest Nicholson's boss on surviving a crisis
Crest Nicholson was knocked sideways by the disintegration of the housing market and the failure of the global banking system, and for 10 months chief executive Stephen Stone shouldered the weight of a collapsing company. Tom Bill found out what it took to keep smiling
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FeaturesThe peasant's revolt this ain't: Chelsea vs the barracks
This gang of Chelsea residents is on the cusp of pulling off a very English coup. Emily Wright met their ringleaders
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FeaturesOperation Hip: Igloo's Bermondsey Square
Bermondsey Square, the centrepiece of a 拢60m regeneration project in south-east London, is intended to seduce the young and trendy with its take on inner-city living
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FeaturesCameron's cards: top Tories and their construction plans
How many members of the shadow Cabinet can you name? Thought so. But now that Labour is running out of time, options and MPs, you really ought to get to know them better. Sarah Richardson looks at the characters who will set the tone in a Tory government 鈥� and ...
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Cost update: May 2009
With construction material prices still in decline and wages variously increased or frozen, the market shows a mixed picture. Peter Fordham of Davis Langdon takes a closer look
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FeaturesPhotovoltaic roof tiles
Sandtoft has launched a roofing system that enables Solarcentury鈥檚 C21e photovoltaic (PV) roof tiles to be integrated with Sandtoft鈥檚 Cassius and Rivius clay roof tiles
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FeaturesRoof verge systems
Glidevale has introduced the Universal Dry Verge System which, it claims accommodates all interlocking metric sized tiles and can be used on both left and right sides of the roof
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FeaturesThe UK's 拢34bn rail programme: people, get ready...
鈥here鈥檚 a train a-coming. Well, not a train so much as a 拢34bn programme to upgrade the UK鈥檚 rail network. Emily Wright looks at what the money will be spent on, and how you can get on board
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FeaturesAnother expenses row: public reactions to Part L plans
The government is pondering a plan to force people to spend money on insulating their homes. So what do the public make of that?
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FeaturesAuschwitz: telling the SS I was a builder saved my life
Sixty-five years after he entered Auschwitz, Albert Veissid tells Ben King the extraordinary tale of how his fictitious construction skills helped him survive
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FeaturesSleeping beauty awakes: the St Pancras Midland Grand hotel
The fairy-tale castle that is the Midland Grand hotel has been asleep for a very long time. Now the arrival of the Eurostar has roused it, and it is once again to become the most stylish address in London
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FeaturesSpecialist cost update
In the first of a new series, the Sense Cost Consultancy team examines the toll the recession is taking on prices in three sectors: substructure, superstructure and cladding
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FeaturesTubular belge: Buro Happold's steel shopping centre
Buro Happold鈥檚 roof for Li猫ge鈥檚 new shopping centre takes the form of a 400m-long steel snake, which undulates to dramatically different heights. Stephen Kennett finds out how it was done
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FeaturesRooflights
Roofglaze has installed more than 3,280m2 of glass monopitch skylights at Wolverton Park, a redevelopment of the former railway works at Milton Keynes
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Plastic gutters
Hunter Plastics has launched Ovation, a guttering system that offers a top-hung alternative to traditional bracket systems
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Insulated roof panels
Kingspan鈥檚 KS1000 RW trapezoidal insulated roof and wall panel is now available in a width of 2m
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Green roofs
Grass Concrete has launched a system that can be laid over new or existing flat roof membranes to create a green roof