All Features articles – Page 336
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FeaturesComing soon: Predictions for 2010
There’s so much to look forward to in 2010. Unfortunately, quite a lot of it is going to be scary, disturbing or unsettling. Building puts its cushion down long enough to flinch at the key scenes
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FeaturesFinally, they’ve noticed... : Assessing Pay As You Save
Having for so long ignored the energy efficiency of existing homes, politicians have suddenly come up with a raft of schemes. The first of a three-part series looks at Pay As You Save
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FeaturesLeaning Las Vegas: a city centre by starchitects
A veritable ratpack of architects are turning up the style in Sin City, writes Thomas Lane – and they’re not all playing it straight …
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FeaturesCountry focus: Ireland
Ireland’s reliance on the property boom has seen it in a bad way since the economic crisis began, says Richard Fitzpatrick of EC Harris in Dublin. But can government action prompt a return to stability?
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FeaturesThe importance of local knowledge
An understanding of country-specific systems is vital to operating in the Middle East
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FeaturesReview of the decade: 2000-2009
The past 10 years will be remembered for the long, long boom that turned into a deep, deep recession, but a lot of other things happened along the way … So here’s our guide to the people, the projects, the deals, the disasters, the feuds and the fights that made ...
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FeaturesThe 10 people who defined the decade
1 Ray O’RourkeNobody has defined contracting over the past decade like Ray O’Rourke. The Irishman exploded onto the scene in 2001 when his concrete firm, O’Rourke & Son, bought Laing Construction from John Laing for £1. The gamble paid off. Ten years later, the company has a turnover of more ...
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The world after 9/11
September 11th, 2001 changed the face of the world forever, as the terrorist attacks that caused the collapse of the World Trade Centre’s twin towers in New York brought with them a climate of fear and international tension that was to last throughout the decade
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FeaturesTime to di(n)e: the Christmas construction cook-off
Dinner parties are a serious business. So when Building invited three of its regular contributors to take part in a festive Come Dine With Me, the question was: would it be a chance for like-minded professionals to chew the fat, or would things turn bloody? Armed only with a fork, ...
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FeaturesThe olympic dream and its cost
The announcement, on 6 July 2005, that London had won the battle to host the 2012 Olympics was met with unbridled joy not just for the millions of bid supporters, but also from a construction industry rubbing its hands together at the prospect of billions pounds worth of work
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Timeline of the decade
Here what was happening in the outside world when Building was doing its stuff (spiced up with our favourite quotes of the decade)
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What we know now that we didn’t know then
SustainabilityBack in 2000, most of us didn’t know our PVs from our elbows, and sustainable design was the preserve of strange men with beards.TwitterWhat did we do before the ability to share our shopping list with the world in 140 characters or less? Or our thoughts on construction topics, of ...
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FeaturesThe disappeared ones
All the world’s a stage, and the people and companies merely players. Here are some of those who made their exit in the noughties
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Five feuds
1 Norman Foster vs Ken ShuttleworthNorman Foster took a leaf out of Stalin’s book when he doctored a photograph in a belated attempt to distance himself from former colleague Ken Shuttleworth. The two had fallen out after Ken gave an interview to Building in which he claimed much of the ...
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FeaturesWhat’s the frequency, Kenneth?
Ken Livingstone became London’s first elected mayor in 2000 after being expelled from the Labour party.
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Three gaffes
Operation HIPS The introduction of home information packs was Labour’s main policy idea to improve the housebuying process and make homes more green