All Features articles – Page 361
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FeaturesThe hot seat: APC supervisor reviews
For first-year APC students, it’s almost time for the first formal sitdown with your supervisor. Jon Lever explains how it works
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FeaturesBSF schools: Why is it so difficult?
Alistair Darling might be accelerating spending on Building Schools for the Future, but that won’t necessarily mean more schools get built, as this exemplary story of a scheme in Greenwich demonstrates
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FeaturesIdentity crisis: Construction's corporate rebrander Steve Edge
He’s worked with George Lucas, Cartier and Dior, but is a corporate rebrand from Steve Edge really what construction companies need to survive the recession? Well, Wates, Kier and Skanska seem to think so
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FeaturesCountry focus: Poland
Poland has been enjoying a construction boom over the past three years, and although it’s not immune to the financial pandemic, it’s still going to record 6% growth. Marcin Klammer of EC Harris reports
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FeaturesFirst Impressions: Projects by Will Alsop and Coney Island concept
Another ’First Impression’ panellist, this time Adam Smith postgraduate architecture student from the Royal College of Art comments on six schemes
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FeaturesMiddle East Q&A: David Yaw
Halcrow's Middle East managing director reveals the firm's strategies for Saudi and Syria
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FeaturesHow to move to Australia
Mike Cheeseman, 47, is a British surveyor who moved to Australia two-and-a-half years ago
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FeaturesBuilding's Review of the Year 2008
We know, we know, the year we’ve just had was about as enjoyable as the tooth-drilling scene from Marathon Man. But it was certainly dramatic, and if you look hard enough, you might even find one or two Frank Capra moments to celebrate. Building presses the rewind button
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FeaturesNothing could be better
Empty sites and redundant buildings can be colonised for all kinds of creative purposes, says Amanda Levete. It just needs a little imagination on the part of government to get them going
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The tracker: Bleak midwinter
No tidings of comfort or joy here, especially for the shrinking residential sector, as employment prospects plummet and order books languish, says Experian’s Business Strategies division
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FeaturesStrictly Building: construction's finest dance contest
Passion, tragedy, triumph and dead fancy footwork – if you thought only Saturday night telly could bring you all these things, think again. Building’s answer to Strictly Come Dancing reveals the amazing grace of construction folk
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FeaturesWhat is going on at structural steel specialist Panceltica?
The Qatar firm poised to take over the Middle East with its snap-together housing has just pulled its shares from AIM
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FeaturesExpat survival guide to Shanghai
A hoard of global and local developers have set up shop in Shanghai – so to be a hit in business, wear a sober suit and flash a gold-printed card
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FeaturesA decade in design
Not so long ago, the term ‘office fit-out’ meant deciding where to put the rubber plant. But over the past 10 years, design trends have moved dramatically to meet the demands of today’s design-savvy workers.
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FeaturesFast movers
Developments in software technology are helping to make fit-out projects ever more efficient – a real boon in such a time-critical sector
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FeaturesPublic good
With the commercial world in turmoil, the public sector is drawing more and more attention – just as well then, that these days it can match private facilities for design flare and value.
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FeaturesLet’s talk
We asked industry experts from across a number of disciplines to make sense of the new energy performance certificates. Here’s what they said…
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FeaturesOn your marks
Both Chris Booth and Anthony Brown from Overbury have one aim in mind: to deliver in a fast and complex market. Here, they tell Pamela Buxton how they intend to do it