All Features articles – Page 412
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Work in progress rules for accounts
How rules have changed regarding how work in progress is shown in company accounts
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Expiring CIS cards
What to do under new CIS rules if a subcontractor is employed with a CIS card which is due to expire in 2007
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FeaturesOff to a trying start …
The stadium is the subject of a row before its design is even begun and the client’s chairman has departed in mysterious circumstances … Vikki Miller reports on the difficult early days of the London Olympics
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FeaturesTools for schools
A mobile workshop is bringing an ‘Aladdin’s cave’ of tools to the chosen few at five Surrey schools, giving them a real taste of the building site
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FeaturesStepping out of the shadows
Mark Prisk’s pledge to overhaul the regs has shed some light on the Tory agenda
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FeaturesMoving message
Andrew Pears’ Cafe Van tours sites spreading the sustainable construction word with toasted sandwiches and tea
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FeaturesA man of principle
Broadcaster Jon Snow may be better known for his loud ties than his knowledge of architecture and sustainability, but that is what he will be speaking about at the RIBA conference in Venice this weekend. Vikki Miller met the man who had a say in the commissioning of the Tate ...
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FeaturesThis is madness
On the average job, contractors happily chuck away enough recyclable material to triple their profit. But not for much longer, if the DTI, environmental responsibility and economic sanity have any bearing on the matter.
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FeaturesHome from home
Squashed and sweating in protective clothing for 10 hours at the scene of an emergency was the final straw for Bob Jones. He demanded a refuge – a van he could call his own
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Market forecast: Gearing up for 2012
Last year’s slight downturn in workload has reversed in 2006. But, says Peter Fordham of Davis Langdon, construction inflation can only keep growing as we gear up for the Olympics
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FeaturesRegs revisited
Building’s Reform the Regs campaign kicked off a year ago with the aim of defeating baffling, contradictory and constrictive red tape. Thomas Lane casts his eye over the progress made and finds that things are getting simpler, which can only mean better
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FeaturesWhat to remember: Toilets
One of the more flagrant areas of discrimination between the sexes is the provision of toilets in offices. But not for much longer … Peter Caplehorn of Scott Brownrigg explains
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FeaturesSpecifier - Regulations
SBEM, the official Part L software, was meant to make it easy to calculate the energy efficiency of any building, even ones like this. In fact, it struggles with anything more complicated than this. So what are the alternatives?
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FeaturesWhat to specify: regulations
Whether it’s for noise or fire or disability discrimination, the products here will keep your projects on the right side of the law
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FeaturesUnmasking Mr Morello
Remember that odd letter you got from an unknown Italian? This is who sent it
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FeaturesA league of their own
Feeling excluded from all those testosterone-fuelled corporate football matches? Lorraine Cushnie pulled on a netball bib and met some women who have taken matters into their own hands
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FeaturesHow Hodge will help us
After five years of feeling sidelined by ministers, the construction industry seems to have found a genuine champion in Margaret Hodge. Mark Leftly went to meet one of life’s enthusiasts
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FeaturesThe firm that repackaged Ikea
M&E consultant GDM is transforming the furniture giant’s sustainability record