All Features articles – Page 435
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FeaturesTrench to bow out after WYG deal
One of Britain’s best known project managers prepares to retire after 30 years
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FeaturesAggressive treatment
Zaha Hadid’s Maggie centre is a steel-and-glass composition set in grassy parkland. Martin Spring admires the dynamism, but wonders if it’s quite what the brief called for …
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FeaturesAnthony Minghella
The director’s latest film stars Jude Law as a designer whose life twists out of control after he opens an office in King’s Cross. Sonia Soltani finds out what happens when Hollywood tackles love, crime and regeneration
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FeaturesThe bicycle diaries
London mayor Ken Livingstone is trying to persuade people to undertake more cycle journeys, but how viable is it to rely on your bike in the capital? We challenged four readers to find out
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Features‘Start your day by making the call you don't want to make’
HOW THEY MADE IT - This month’s words of wisdom come from David Bucknall, one of the best known QSs in the industry and a man with nearly half a century’s experience
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FeaturesWhat to specify: cladding
From PVCu panels to frameless glass and stone rainscreen, we have all your cladding options here, plus the aluminium that won the race for the Qatar sports academy
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FeaturesLakesmere: We've got it covered
Lakesmere is your one-stop shop for wall cladding, roofs and glazed building envelopes. Here, director Chris Horsfall tells Sonia Soltani how it designs, installs and maintains its systems, and explains the trouble with architects …
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FeaturesExplosive growth
Demolition contractor Coleman & Co has grown rapidly to offer a variety of services
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Features‘It’s a marvellous thing to do, but it’s a stupid way of doing it‘
So says the assistant headteacher of this school in Bradford, which was meant to show what the government’s flagship school building programme will do for Britain’s children. Instead, it’s more evidence of how it’s failing them.
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FeaturesA living legacy
Frank Gehry’s Maggie’s centre has been open for three years. Martin Spring paid a visit to find out how well it has served the cancer patients that use it. And on page 60, he reviews the latest centre, which also happens to be Zaha Hadid’s first completed project in the ...
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FeaturesLet the sun shine in
WHO MAKES IT - Self-cleaning glass is the big seller for Pilkington, purveyor of cladding products since 1826. And it has teams of researchers busy making its ranges more energy efficient and better at transmitting light.
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FeaturesThis season’s must-have
Sonia Soltani on the glamorous cladding transforming shopping centre car parks
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FeaturesCost model: Hotels
A hotel lives and dies on the quality of its service, but that relies on constructing the right kind of environment in the first place. Neal Kalita of Davis Langdon breaks down the costs
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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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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