All Features articles – Page 468
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Features‘once they find you, you don’t argue’
Protection rackets run by rogue security firms are holding construction sites in the North-west to ransom with threats of violence. Now the government is fighting back – but might its measures do more harm than good?
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FeaturesSport and leisure
This week, we find out how to specify gyms and nightclubs without breaking into a sweat, showcase all the latest products for your facilities and provide our always-essential suppliers list. But first, the British architect designing a breezy field of dreams in sweltering Abu Dhabi …
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FeaturesHoodies vs house hunters
Hoodies take over from hooligans as the biggest deterrent for would be housebuyers.
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FeaturesOpen-air surgery
Hopkins Architects’ design for a London hospital is a vivid demonstration of how design and healthcare can be combined to make a healing environment.
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Losing momentum
Construction output and prices will continue to rise in the coming months, but the forward momentum is set to slow, according to the latest research from Experian Business Strategies
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Local lowdown: Midlands
Hays Construction & Property's Robert Smith reports on the Midlands job boom
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FeaturesConstruction: no place for women!
You’d think the industry would have moved into the 21st century by now, but when it comes to recruiting women it seems more like a 1950s Harry Enfield spoof. So does the industry not want women or is it they who aren’t interested?
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FeaturesComing soon in 3D
In the world of 3D computing, architects and engineers have benefited from having their own software, whereas contractors have gone without – until now. We take a look at Virtual Construction and asks how likely the people it’s aimed at are to use it
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FeaturesJust the job
John Montague exchanged life at a billion-pound turnover contractor for a career in charitably funded ‘social enterprise’.
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FeaturesDoing good by stealth
The new chief executive of the Prince’s Foundation is a quiet American. But Hank Dittmar’s lack of showiness is well suited to a charity that is aiming to slowly and subtly transform urban England.
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FeaturesEmission impossible
The government’s decision on whether to introduce mandatory pressure testing of homes is going to upset some people – but will it be those who oppose the measure, or those who back it?
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FeaturesThe client strikes back
It could spark a civil war of intergalactic proportions: the British Property Federation has drawn up a contract for consultants’ appointments, and it’s turning into a struggle of light versus dark. But which side is captained by Darth Vader and which by Luke Skywalker?
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