All Features articles – Page 406
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FeaturesWho’s getting their hooks into you?
As order books grow to unfeasible lengths, firms are increasingly desperate to recruit. Unfortunately, they’re all fishing in each other’s pond, with increasingly evil results.
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Piled raft foundations
Ground engineering company Abbey Pynford has developed two piled raft foundation systems that it says provide a safer alternative to traditional piled foundations.
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FeaturesReasons to be fearful
So, developers are racing to pour money into City offices and regeneration megaprojects, tender notices are flying out for vast school and social housing renewal programmes, work is threatening to start on the Olympic venues, the mighty Thames Gateway is looming … and everyone is getting worried.
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FeaturesExperimenting with friends
Although launched nearly three years ago, Facebook has in recent weeks overtaken Friends Reunited and MySpace as the UK’s biggest social website. Mark Leftly spent a day investigating this latest alternative to work vital tool for networking …
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Country focus: Czech Republic
A thriving economy and the biggest residential boom since the Velvet Revolution are driving the Czech market, report Miroslav Vasko and Pavel Cermák of the Prague office of EC Harris
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FeaturesTile-effect cladding
Plastic building products manufacturer Stormking has launched a tile-effect cladding panel suitable for off-site housing applications.
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FeaturesWestfield at White City: Westway to the world
Need any more evidence of Westfield’s massive ambitions? How about these 14 cranes looming over west London, and the huge mall rising around them. Or the fact that it ditched its contractor to take on this monster of a project by itself.
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FeaturesTemporary catering facilities: Fast food in tricky situations
Peter Caplehorn of Scott Brownrigg explores the options for specifiers organising temporary catering facilites.
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FeaturesThe burning question
With coal and oil reserves running low, and the pressure on to reduce carbon emissions, you’d have thought the government would be eager to promote combined heat and power. So, why isn’t it? Alistair King reports, in the second article of a series on green energy
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FeaturesBoxing clever
Yorkon general manager David Johnson explains why the company’s building systems can be used for anything from airports to animal houses.
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FeaturesThe mighty bouche
Janet Street-Porter is renowned for having an opinion on absolutely everything and it seems the construction industry is no exception.
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Belfast is booming
All sectors of the construction industry performed strongly in April, but what really catches the eye is the surge in activity in Northern Ireland, according to Experian Business Strategies’ survey
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FeaturesTime for some answers
Building’s inaugural webinar on the CDM regulations raised all manner of questions, not all of which were dealt with at the time. Here, Peter Caplehorn of Scott Brownrigg tackles some more
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FeaturesShould Hips come into force on August 1?
Yvette Cooper today confirmed the Hips start date despite a shortage in energy assessors but should she have put the date back further?
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FeaturesThe shadow of suspicion
The Office of Fair Trading has reached the critical point of its probe into bid rigging in construction. Dan Stewart and Sarah Richardson look at what it has found, the effect on the industry – and how contractors are fighting back
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FeaturesThe law machine
Britain’s biggest court complex since the Royal Courts of Justice is opening in Manchester …
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The right tool for the job
How many recycled products have you specified on that project? how could you use more? wrap’s recycled content toolkit can tell you. Here, three users explain how it works
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FeaturesDoes the industry still need women in property?
The all-female networking club is celebrating its 20th birthday. But does it still need to exist in 2007? We get two opposing views