All Features articles – Page 428
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Testing, testing
Despite the industry's best efforts, insurers and mortgage lenders are still wary of homes built using modern methods of construction. Will a robust new standard from BRE, designed specifically to test durability and ease to repair, assuage their fears?
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Revved up Wright
UN Studio's Mercedes-Benz museum in Stuttgart takes the spiral form of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim and adds about 1000 horsepower
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Update: Regulations
The Construction Products Association's John Tebbit finds that there's a worrying degree of rule-bending when it comes to complying with Building Regulations
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Market forecast: Looking up
This quarter, Davis Langdon reports on an optimistic construction market, with prices accordingly on the rise … Plus a look at the effects of the Finance Bill, and the latest materials price trends
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Why not work in … East London
Robert Smith of Hays Construction & Property takes a look at the long list of job opportunities in the east of the capital
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Dangerous liaisons
Bucknall Austin is about to join the list of consultants that have set sail on global ventures with foreign partners. But some of these have sunk amid accusations of rule breaking, client nabbing or just plain boredom. Josh Brooks asks whether the game is worth the candle.
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The temptation of Coverite
This is the story of how a well-respected, well-established roofing contractor succumbed to the glamour of rapid expansion in a rapidly evolving industry. Mark Leftly reports on how that ambition - or greed - drove it into receivership
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Costs: Entrance flooring systems
Entrance flooring systems tend to be short-life components with high whole-life costs. Peter Mayer of Building LifePlans assesses options and costs for entrance matting
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The Building Hall of Fame
Inspirational leaders, creative geniuses, dynamic entrepreneurs and tireless campaigners - over the past 40 years, our industry has been blessed with them all. But which person do you think is, or was in their time, the best in the business? We're looking for your nominations for the new Building Hall ...
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Forget the fox in a box - Here's worsley Mesnes
In February, Building published a feature about Dr Stephen Fox, a Wigan GP who'd been operating out of a rundown prefab for 11 years. The article claimed Dr Fox had been failed by the LIFT programme. Wigan's NHS trust then replied with an angry letter claiming we'd given a one-sided ...
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Let's speculate
Real estate investment trusts are set to spell big changes in the world of property investment. But while developers coo over their potential tax savings, contractors are wondering what type of beast the clients, and the projects, of the future will be. Josh Brooks gets out his crystal ball …
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Just the job
Design consultant Maurice Rosario tells Sonia Soltani all about working (and eating) in Cairo and Istanbul
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Cost model: Infrastructure
Neal Kalita of Davis Langdon looks at the design considerations, procurement issues, financial risks and sustainable technologies associated with the delivery of infrastructure for a brownfield, mixed-use development
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Radical chic
Bloomsbury's unloved 1960s Brunswick Centre has never lived up to Levitt Bernstein's ground-breaking vision - until now. Thomas Lane went to see what's been happening, and discovered a transformation that is causing a stir among retailers and residents alike
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