All Features articles – Page 388
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Online guidance
The RICS has teamed up with content management system provider, Jadu, to relaunch isurv.
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FeaturesThe incredible hull
Ralph Erskine’s Ark is one of London’s most striking landmarks, but it has lain dormant for most of its short existence. Now developer Landid and an architect called DN-A have enacted an extraordinary genetic mutation. Martin Spring saw the result
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FeaturesRugged laptops
Panasonic has launched a range of lightweight, portable laptops specifically designed for the construction industry.
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FeaturesWhere next?
Britain’s regional builders have suddenly become irresistibly attractive purchases for major contractors across Europe. Tom Bill finds out why.
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FeaturesRapid site surveys
Infoterra has launched the GeoStore service to enable property developers and designers to carry out initial and rapid site surveys from their desks.
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FeaturesSound with vision: Spiritel
Spiritel was founded in 1989 as a specialist supplier and installer of voice and data systems with particular focus on the retail, leisure and hospitality sectors.
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APC Trainer: Killer moves: (A015: Conflict avoidance, dispute resolution)
Every week Building.co.uk features a handy guide to answering APC interview questions for trainee surveyors. For more, visit the website, but in the meantime here’s one of our experts, Alastair Bloore, with some high-flying ideas about dispute resolution. Steady on there, tiger …
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Lead times November 2007-February 2008
For the first time since the construction boom began, lead times seem to be returning to normal, says Brian Moone of Mace.
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FeaturesThe A-G of energy certificates
The government’s dithering over energy labelling has made understanding how it works seem like an arduous ascent. With just seven weeks until its introduction for non-housing, Thomas Lane helps you begin the climb
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The tracker: Against all odds
You would think contractors would be feeling seasick given the current financial turmoil – but you would think wrong: things are still surprisingly upbeat, says Experian Business Strategies
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FeaturesSports quiz results - Barnsley!
Did anyone except Sport Billy see the upset at Anfield coming on Saturday? Didn’t think so…
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FeaturesPredict the FA Cup winners and win a football shirt
This Barnsley fan will be travelling to Liverpool at the weekend hoping for a FA Cup upset. If he entered our prediction quiz he could win back his football shirt
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FeaturesSpotlight on enabling works
Those contractors involved in getting a site ready face an extremely complex market …
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FeaturesThe evolving QS
With flotation looking distinctly iffy – as Turner & Townsend realised last week – cost consultants are looking for other ways to expand and survive.
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FeaturesThe house with four gardens
Each window of David Mikhail’s latest house overlooks a landscape with its own unique character
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FeaturesThe squeeze
They are culling their supply chains and demanding cash from those that are left, but are main contractors really as bad as the big bad wolf? Roxane McMeeken listens to both sides of the argument
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FeaturesI regard it as a badge of honour when people say I’m over the top about nuclear power
INTERVIEW: Margaret Thatcher’s former press secretary, Sir Bernard Ingham, has spent much of the past 10 years lambasting the ‘mad mullahs’ of the anti-nuclear lobby and subjecting their arguments to an unrelenting barrage of ridicule. And don’t think the government’s decision to build a lot of nuclear stations is going ...
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FeaturesAir-tight container
Protan UK was established in June 1996 as a subsidiary of Protan AS, Norway.
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FeaturesAluminium roof
More than 10,000m2 of aluminium composite panels from Reynobond Architecture were used to clad and roof the Cité de la Voile Eric Tabarly in l’Orient, France.