All Features articles – Page 356
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FeaturesMarket forecast: Two years to go …
Building prices plummeted 7.5% in the last quarter of 2008, and aren’t set to bottom out until 2011. Peter Fordham and Maren Baldauf-Cunnington of Davis Langdon deliver the latest grim predictions
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FeaturesHard’s Time: a specialist going strong
One man definitely not looking to reinvent himself is Kevin Hard – his four-man specialist contracting outfit is still managing to double turnover every six months
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FeaturesA real life saver: Unicef's Malawi hospital
Unicef doesn’t usually spend money on buildings, but when the Alliance Ball raised £400k for its cause, an exception was made for this children’s hospital in Malawi. Thomas Lane found out what happened next
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FeaturesMeet Your New Neighbour: Leviton opens in Dubai
US electrical products supplier Leviton opened a new office in the UAE on Sunday. Ramzi Nassif is the branch managing director
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FeaturesMargaret Beckett: is 240,000 homes a year possible?
Housing minister Margaret Beckett answers this and eight other questions about the state of the sector
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FeaturesEurope's top 100 contractors and materials firms
It may be a global downturn but some countries are doing better than others. Our annual table of Europe’s top 300 contractors and materials firms begins with a look at the winners and losers.
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Building intelligence Q3 2008: Orders down 18%
New orders for the third quarter of last year fell 18% – just a flavour of the gloom to come, you might think. But actually, it’s not all bad news. Experian’s Business Strategies division sees mixed prospects
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FeaturesPlane geometry: Sheppard Robson's aeronautical university design
If you take a pre-war aircraft hangar, insert a large ziggurat and extend it with a glass tetrahedron, what does that create? The answer is Sheppard Robson’s spectacular academic building for Cranfield university.
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FeaturesMission: impermanent - Atkins' Olympics
Good afternoon Mr Atkins. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to design, procure and build 98 competition venues, operation centres, drug testing clinics, flag storage areas and training grounds complete with power, water and security … Airport and station extensions must be added as and when required. ...
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FeaturesSmall town China - QSs wanted
Its growth may have slowed from breakneck to merely spectacular, and some projects in the big cities look wobbly, but there’s still plenty of work in the people’s republic (especially for QSs). It’s just that you have to go to one-horse towns to find it – like Wuhan here, which ...
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The tracker: A very slight improvement
The good news is that the industry’s activity index grew by two points in November. The bad news is that this only took it to 35. Experian Business Strategies reports on continued industrial decline
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FeaturesObama's infrastructure pledge falls flat
The US construction industry is already disappointed by the new president after his promised $825bn infrastructure programme is watered down
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FeaturesExpat survival guide to Mexico
To gain a share in the mass of infrastructure work, perfect your business lunching – but remember to have a snack first
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FeaturesJust landed: Barry Lowe moves to Abu Dhabi
After nine years at HOK Sport, helping win the London Olympic and Wembley stadiums, Barry Lowe joined the Middle East branch of US developer John Buck International. He landed in Abu Dhabi in early November
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Features2009: the sustainable year ahead
Michael Willoughby flicks through his diary to the key events that make 2009 such a critical 12 months for sustainability
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FeaturesPrice war: How the retail crash is affecting construction
Misery loves company, and many of Britain’s largest retailers are sharing theirs with their supply chains. Olivia Boyd finds out which are and which aren’t
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FeaturesPRESS RELEASE: Tarmac to build 'blueprint' for affordable, volume zero-carbon housing
Tarmac Limited is set to build two concept homes at the University of Nottingham in order to provide housebuilders and Registered Social Landlords (RSLs) with a blueprint for low cost, scaleable zero-carbon housing which has the potential to be replicated across the UK
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FeaturesBig ambitions: Defra's Alnwick HQ
When designers began working on Defra’s offices in Alnwick, they thought a BREEAM ‘excellent’ rating an exciting enough challenge. But then BRE went and introduced ‘outstanding’…
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Aluminium roofing
Ash & Lacy Building Systems has provided 4,000m2 of Ashzip for a retirement home in Ireland