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FeaturesSpecialist cost update: Services
The services sector accounts for more than a quarter of construction by value. In our latest specialist update, the expert team at Gardiner & Theobald take a look at the latest trends and costs in the mechanical, electrical and plumbing, lifts and escalators and ICT markets
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FeaturesEvery penny is counted
Tesco became Britain’s biggest retailer by cutting costs to the bone, and that applies as much to store refits as pineapples. Katie Puckett met the development director who makes sure none of its £1.8bn construction budget gets wasted
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FeaturesCan a female reporter survive a day as a labourer?
Ray O’Rourke’s comment about sites being no place for women sparked widespread outrage, but could he have had a point? Emily Wright put on her steel-capped boots and spent a day ripping up floorboards to find out
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FeaturesWhy engineering doesnt suck
Vacuum cleaner man James Dyson talks about his school for young engineers
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FeaturesYou don’t have to be MAD to work here …
… but it seems to be helping May Gurney, which has cut site accidents almost two-thirds since launching its Making A Difference initiative.
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FeaturesWe've got your workers
Are construction’s ever more powerful labour agencies holding the industry to ransom?
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Lead times April-June 2006
In the latest quarterly look at works packages, Paul Dalton of Mace reports that there has been minimal movement in the sector – with one or two notable exceptions … Further on, David Jourdan of Gardiner & Theobald throws the spotlight on the metal of the moment – copper
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Lets be more Belgian
A study of the construction industries of 13 European countries places the UK near the bottom of the efficiency league. Bernard Williams explains why and offers some solutions
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FeaturesNew boss at John Rowan
SME focus - Consultant raises profit 22% but managing partner is cautious about future growth
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FeaturesA view from the endless bridge
Jean Nouvel’s Minneapolis theatre makes a home for drama in a bleak Midwestern landscape
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FeaturesA typical guzzling, leaking, seeping, spewing british home
To highlight the energy inefficiency at the heart of the UK’s existing housing stock, Thomas Lane took energy consultant Cathy Hough to inspect a typical south London terraced house, built 100 years before the latest revision to Part L. It wasn’t pretty …
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FeaturesWhat to specify: cladding and curtain walling
From banks to cinemas, and from theatres to homes, the latest cladding and curtain walling products can work wonders anywhere
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FeaturesThe gasman cometh …
Mark Clare, formerly of British Gas, is set to put Barratt on the acquisition trail
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FeaturesCosts: Curtain wallings
Curtain walling looks simple, but it’s a complex network of systems and components. Peter Mayer of Building LifePlans examines the whole-life costs and performance of all of them
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FeaturesWhat to remember: facades
Facades have got so intelligent these days, they can control your building’s airflow, heat transfer, lighting and acoustics. Barbour and Scott Brownrigg explore the options for specifiers
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FeaturesGetting well sooner
West London’s BECAD hospital takes traditional healthcare and repackages it into one seamless facility that offers more patients better services for a fraction of the usual effort, space and cost … Martin Spring explains how it was done
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FeaturesHow we work together
Or how an architect found its ideal supplier … This week Sonia Soltani tells the tale of Pascall + Watson and Belgian concrete firm Decomo
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FeaturesLife can be a picnic …
… if you set up your own architectural practice. But it’s not all brainstorming in the back garden, flexible hours and creative control. Emily Wright asked five young architects how to go it alone.
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FeaturesWhere are we now?
It’s been a year since London got the job of hosting the 2012 Olympics, and to the untrained eye, nothing much seems to have happened. Mark Leftly commentates on what’s been going on, and what’s planned for the next six years and three weeks