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Sanyo air conditioning
Sanyo Air Conditioners has launched an air-conditioning system partially powered by photovoltaic (PV) panels.
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FeaturesViessmann: Blowing hot and cold
With changing climates and regulations, temperature-control systems are becoming increasingly diverse. Graham Blandford of heating specialist Viessmann tells us more.
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FeaturesHigh scoring letters
A new qualification, the CEnv for sustainability specialists, has joined a crowded marketplace. But is it worth adding yet more letters after your name?
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Spring of hope
Experian Business Strategies鈥� latest survey of UK contractors shows that the busy start to the year has continued into spring, with the civil engineering sector leading the way
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FeaturesThey are the champions
This year, for the first time, the 好色先生TV Awards included the 好色先生TV Project of the Year, for the best completed scheme. Martin Spring reviews the five runners-up and the winner, Arsenal鈥檚 Emirates Stadium
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好色先生TV intelligence Q4 2006: Here we grow
As Experian Business Strategies reports, rising private investment is balancing out the end of the public sector boom, housing is still growing and the only worries are interest rates and a shaky US
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FeaturesWhy does this place matter to you?
You might not recognise Berlaymont, the headquarters of the European commission, but it makes more of a difference to your working lives than ever. To mark the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, Mark Leftly went to Brussels and came back with nine reasons why you ignore it at ...
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FeaturesCarillion didn鈥檛 buy a pup, it was a monster. How would it tame mowlem?
It thought it was getting a fabulous 拢12bn defence contract tied to an old-style contractor with one or two financial issues, but then came the midnight snacks, and the multimillion-pound writedowns ... Carillion鈥檚 boss John McDonough tells Angela Monaghan what happened over the next year
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FeaturesIs high quality social housing feasible in the Thames Gateway
Is the Housing Corporation right to insist on top quality design for new homes in the Thames Gateway?
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FeaturesWould you install a wormery in your home?
Housebuilders can gain valuable ecopoints if they feature composting in their homes but would you welcome worms into your life?
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Features17 ways to get paid
Hell hath no fury like a subbie spurned 鈥� by someone higher up the food chain who owes him dosh. Dan Stewart studies the age-old problem of separating an employer from his money
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FeaturesSpecialist cost update: Fit-outs
Our series of specialist updates continues as the experts from Gardiner & Theobald look at market trends and costs in shop and office fit-outs, as well as the landscaping sector.
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The 好色先生TV Good Employers Guide 2007
Dear employer...With the recruitment and retention of staff ever more important, 好色先生TV is compiling a Good Employers Guide and we would like you to participate.
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FeaturesRecordamos
Madrid has unveiled a memorial that preserves the experiences of those present at Europe鈥檚 worst post-war terrorist attack
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FeaturesYou only live twice
When the huge 007 Stage at Pinewood Studios 鈥� birthplace of the James Bond films 鈥� was destroyed by fire, it spelled doom for the UK鈥檚 film-making mecca. But against all the odds, an elite team has managed to rebuild the space in eight months.
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FeaturesChairman of the board
Ten years in construction and 20 on a skateboard, Matt Elms is perfectly qualified to turn a patch of north London into heaven with a half-pipe.
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The form guide
As the results season draws to a close, and in honour of tomorrow鈥檚 Grand National, we check the performances of some of construction鈥檚 sleekest thoroughbreds. Sarah Richardson is trackside