All Features articles – Page 465
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FeaturesDo you trust this man?
Ian Livsey, head of the new TrustMark accreditation scheme, wants to banish cowboy builders from the market. But how will he get the industry on side?
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FeaturesJust the job: Rob Harrisoon's engineering doctorate
Rob Harrison gets paid a full salary to study and go to music gigs, thanks to his engineering doctorate
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FeaturesSpecialist costs: ICT installations
In the latest of our market overviews, Stuart Guy of Gardiner & Theobald runs through the eight current ICT systems to install in your building and how much they cost – plus a technological specialist gets a grilling
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FeaturesHow to do a public consultation – and survive
Angry protesters, weeping old ladies, paranoid tenants … there’s no end to the horrors you must prepare to face when carrying out a community consultation. But don’t worry, there are tricks you can use to make the process work.
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FeaturesMowlem’s bitter lessons
Hundreds of kids crammed into mobile classrooms, continual redesigns, finger-pointing rows with the council …
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FeaturesBig science
The Wellcome Trust has expanded its campus for human genome research to include an awesome supercomputer and a suite of state-of-the-art laboratories.
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Projects update: safety regulations
The government’s decision to change the colours of electrical wiring is going to cause confusion. To avoid risks, Shepherd Engineering Services has introduced safety guidelines
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FeaturesWhat we need is whole-life value
PFI projects are failing to achieve the low whole-life costs that were promised. Thomas Lane asked Andy Green of Faithful & Gould if there is another way of going about the problem
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FeaturesThe insider
David Metter, chairman of the PPP Forum, knows more than most about the PFI. So it’s surprising that he thinks there’s a problem with bid costs – and is not sure if the government can meet its education targets.
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FeaturesThis other Eden …
Nature’s mathematical patterns have inspired the design of a new educational centre at The Eden Project. But Grimshaw has not just come up with a pretty flower-shaped space. Outside and inside, this is an elegant and robustly engineered design
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FeaturesA critical procedure
University College London Hospital is the latest PFI project to open its doors to the public, promising – as they all do – to get the best value from the private sector. So Building sent in an expert to assess just how well the fabric of this £422m building will ...
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FeaturesWhole-life costs: Hospital design
In this third article in our series, and as part of our PFI special, David Weight of Currie & Brown looks at the differences in lifetime costs between deep-plan, shallow-plan or courtyard-based hospital designs
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FeaturesInfirmary blues
The PFI’s problems are not confined to the bid process. Even after a facility is up and running, there is a constant struggle between client and consortium over its running costs – as we’re finding out at Edinburgh.
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FeaturesStriking balance
Building on a college building in London that has shown work-life balance really works
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Costs: Acoustic flooring solutions
Complaints about noise transmission in the home are on the up. Peter Mayer of Building LifePlans looks at the choice of acoustic flooring solutions and analyses their whole-life costs