All Features articles – Page 415
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FeaturesSnow protection
Aluminium roofing maker MR Site Services has launched a device to prevent snow falling from commercial roofs. Called Snowguard, it is an extruded aluminium section that fits on standing seam roofs. It is fixed to standing seams with a clip system to ensure that the roof remains watertight.
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Pootling along
Activity in March may have been less buoyant than a month earlier but it’s still running along quite nicely. Civil engineering continued to dominate, putting the residential and non-residential sectors in the shade. And, according to Experian Business Strategies, order books were healthy
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Welsh wins keep Bovis on top of contractors table
Business barometer — Cardiff malls keep Australian firm clear of second-placed Laing O’Rourke
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FeaturesComing to a universe near you
The Peter Harrison Planetarium is about to bring the mysteries of the cosmos to Greenwich park
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FeaturesCountry focus: France
With President Sarkozy newly instated, Patrick Leniston, country manager for EC Harris in France, reports on the construction issues that may affect the country’s future leader
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FeaturesSaving St George
Purcell Miller Tritton’s lavish £22m restoration has returned Liverpool’s grade I-listed St George’s Hall to its glorious past – just with fewer prisoners and hopefully more tourists.
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FeaturesThe testing of Kenneth Shuttleworth
How they made it It wasn’t easy, but a combination of 21-hour days and a decent helping of luck combined to make the man we know today.
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FeaturesShould RICS withdraw its threat of legal action against the government over HIPs?
Ruth Kelly’s embarrassing climbdown over HIPs hasn’t stopped RICS from threatening to take the government to court.
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FeaturesThe class of 1997
Tony isn’t the only one who had an eventful decade. These industry professionals all graduated in 1997 and have been climbing the career ladder ever since. Katie Puckett asks them if things really did get better, for them and for construction
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30dB acoustic seal
Intumescent technology specialist Mann McGowan has unveiled the DD1 acoustic threshold seal, which has a rating of 30dB.
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FeaturesAylesbury and after
When Blair made his first speech as prime minister on south London’s Aylesbury estate, it was an illustration of the immense task Labour faced in regenerating Britain’s inner cities, and a symbol of its determination to tackle it. Overleaf, we look at what it did. But first, Mark Leftly returned ...
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FeaturesWhere did it all go?
One of the things Blair’s tenure is certain to be remembered for is the surge of public spending that began in his third year in office. Here, Angela Monaghan, Mark Leftly and Sarah Richardson explain what it was spent on
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Aluminium high-capacity gutter
Serpentine 175 is the latest addition to Guttermaster’s range of aluminium gutters.
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FeaturesShop lighting: A LED balloon?
They’re easy to maintain, last ages and don’t cook the food. So will LEDs knock fluorescent tubes off their pedestal in shop design? ‘That’s a laugh,’ detractors tell Alistair King
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FeaturesFour big ideas
David Blackman looks back on the multibillion-pound initiatives that defined the era
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The Blair years
It’s always been said that construction does well under Labour, but when Tony Blair came to power in 1997 nobody would have dreamed just how well.
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FeaturesBlair on Blair
Margaret Ford, our guest editor and a woman who was close to the business end of New Labour’s policies, quizzed the prime minister on his record on the built environment
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Blaironomics
We’ve seen where the money went. Now Peter Rumble of the Building Costs Information Service explores how Labour’s stewardship of the economy affected construction tender prices and output