All Features articles – Page 437
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Building intelligence Q3 2005: Is the party over?
Experian Business Strategies reports on the first fall in construction industry output in 2005 since 1994, bringing to an end the longest continuous period of growth since the 1960s
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Flight path to Perth
Mathew Jaycock wanted more than a backpacking experience to Australia so asked Davis Langdon for a transfer to Perth
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How it used to be
We reveal the stories behind seven images of Manchseter unearthed in the Building photo library.
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Costs: Floor coverings
The cost of floor coverings can be a significant factor in a fit-out and the subsequent cleaning and maintenance regimes. Anthony Waterman of BRE looks at the whole-life costs
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Into the volcano
In the Spanish resort of Tenerife, local architect Fernando Menis has created an arts centre that brilliantly evokes the island's mountains, cliffs, beaches and ocean
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It's feeding time
Mergermania hit construction in 2005. Now the predators are circling again in contracting, consulting, housebuilding and building materials. Angela Monaghan and Mark Leftly ask who'll get snapped up next - and who'll do the snapping
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Specialist costs: Structural steelwork
The Chinese construction market and the Eurocrats in Brussels are having an effect on the steelwork sector, reports David Cane
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Specialist cost update: Structures
In the first of our specialist updates, the expert team at Gardiner & Theobald take a look at current trends and costs in the piling, concrete frame and structural steelwork markets
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Specialist costs: Concrete frames
Ian Purton reports on the impact of the new Eurocodes, the increase in post-tensioned flooring and recent cost changes in the sector
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Just the job: Malcolm Clulow on Ski Dubai
Malcolm Clulow tells Emily Wright how he found himself filling a building with 7000 tonnes of snow
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Balance of power
Building’s annual rundown of Europe’s top 300 contractors confirms the continued dominance of the French - Vinci and Bouygues remain in the top two positions. Mark Leftly and Emily Wright reveal the secrets of the superpowers’ success and split the continent into six regions to analyse how fast the PPP ...
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Life after alsop
A year ago Christophe Egret caused a huge stir when he quit Alsop to start his own practice with fellow escapee David West. Vikki Miller found out what's happened to him since then, where he's planning to go next - and what's in his little black books.
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Sir Steve Redgrave
Britain’s leading Olympian has retired from the soul-bending agony of international athletics and has begun a number of jobs in construction, the industry he left 20-odd years ago. Tom Broughton found out what they are, and why he’s returned.
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Sustainability: On-site renewables
In the first of our spotlights on sustainability, Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon examines the increasingly prevalent issue of on-site renewable energy, including the options available and costs
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Extra time and penalties
Football fans, government officials and construction experts alike are obsessed with the struggle to get Wembley finished in time for the FA Cup Final in May.
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Class struggle
The government has £5bn to spend on its city academies programme over the next four years, but it’s finding it strangely difficult to get the construction industry to take its money … Eleanor Cochrane looks at what’s going wrong while Martin Spring considers the architecture