All Features articles – Page 393
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FeaturesWho’s going to build the olympics?
Just our luck. Right when we’re getting down to building the 2012 Games, all the big contractors get loads of other work and disappear into framework tie-ins. Angela Monaghan reports on the changing face of British building
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FeaturesGovernment backs crane campaign
Building’s campaign to make tower cranes safe has won the support of a key Whitehall figure: Lord McKenzie, the minister for health and safety, as Dan Stewart found out. Buoyed up by this ministerial backing, we’re taking our demands to the Strategic Forum …
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FeaturesDans army
These days the Territorial Army isn’t so much about playing at soldiers as training them for actual combat. Still, it finds time to run ‘executive stretch’ weekends, where future managers find out a little about leadership. Dan Stewart joined a group from the construction industry for two days of fake ...
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FeaturesSustainability glossary - any suggestions?
Don't know your PVs from your EPCs? If no send in your suggestions for Building's new sustainabilty glossary
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FeaturesGoodbye Mr prescott, hello…
On Sunday Labour will elect its new deputy leader. Of the six candidates, only two have garnered the support of the three major construction unions: Peter Hain and Jon Cruddas. Cruddas tells Mark Leftly why he is still the outsider and Hain talks tough to Dan Stewart. Portraits by ...
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FeaturesIn times of famine
In the second part of our shortages series Katie Puckett examines how the ever-increasing demand from Asia and Europe is pushing the price of raw materials sky high
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FeaturesThe ultimate networking event
More than 200 attend Building’s reception for decision-makers in government and industry
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Features… and cut!
The politicians may want to reduce domestic carbon emissions to zero, but it’s the physicists and engineers that will decide whether it can be done. Thomas Lane took a trip to Watford to look the latest technology in the latest prototypes
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FeaturesCost model: Visitor centres
Visitor centres give clients and their designers a great opportunity to make an architectural statement. At the same time, a lot of functions need to be squeezed into compact buildings. Neal Kalita of Davis Langdon examines how style and function can be reconciled
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FeaturesMight as well try and catch the wind
Micro-turbines may be the height of fashion, but are they any good? In the third part of our series on renewable energy sources, Alistair King finds out more
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FeaturesSafer Skyline is now backed by 20 of Britain’s top 30 contractors and housebuilders
This is in addition to the 65MPs who support us …
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FeaturesIs the business of recruitment corrupt?
Some construction companies are accusing the recruitment industry of holding them to ransom, but is it simply doing the best for employees?
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FeaturesShould English Partnerships clamp down on buy-to-let?
EP decided to curb buy-to-let sales on some of its sites recently. Should it be trying to buck the market?
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FeaturesTimber-frame system
Timber-frame maker Eleco Timber Frame’s system ElecoFrame has been specified by Hemlock Construction for use in The Gallery, an 82-flat development in Manchester.
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FeaturesThe Phoenix rises – pod by pod
Student accommodation provider Unite is using its off-site modular technology, which is capable of producing developments up to 11 storeys high, for the first time at its £15m development, Phoenix Court in Bristol.
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Modular rooflight
Polycarbonate sheet products maker Brett Martin has launched a modular rooflight called Mardome Glass.
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FeaturesWestfield's Peter Miller: Would you like to work for us?
That chap over on the right is Peter Miller, and he’s a big cheese at developer Westfield. Peter has a lot of work on his hands, and so he’s cunningly turned a regular interview into a recruitment advert aimed at you, dear reader. Katie Puckett listened to the pitch. And ...
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Lightweight steel roof tile
Roofing maker Decra Roof Systems has launched a lightweight steel roof tile for the modular building industry, called the Elegance tile.
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FeaturesLesson plan
When Shropshire council decided to merge two primary schools in Shrewsbury into one new building, its key criteria were sustainability and speed. Having won beacon status for its work on sustainable energy, the council insisted that the £2.8m, 1,500m2 Bicton primary school reflect its environmental values.