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FeaturesOn the ocean wave
This year’s Little Britain regatta in the Isle of Wight was another roaring success – especially for joint race winners Amey and Languard Investments. And with a Moulin Rouge-themed evening and gala dinner with charity auction, the event certainly wasn’t all about the sailing … Your correspondent was there enjoying ...
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FeaturesWhere’s our people power?
Ask anyone in construction what the biggest problem they face is and there is just one answer: the skills shortage. As Britain prepares to host the Olympics in 2012, the industry is facing its toughest test yet, with 150,000 jobs being created, many of which will be in construction.
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Cost update: September 2005
In our latest analysis of construction materials prices and labour costs, Building reports on rocketing input prices and a recent drop in the cost of materials – plus why building operatives are whistling a happy tune …
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FeaturesWas ken right?
Three years ago, Livingstone described the imminent part-privatisation of the Tube as ‘folly’. Three years later, London Underground released a report that appeared to agree with him. Building analyses the evidence – and cross examines the Tube consortiums …
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FeaturesMr precedent
Barrington Billings, the first black person to hold the presidency of the Chartered Institute of Housing, spent years championing the cause of black and ethnic minorities. Now he’s giving firms run by them the chance to win public sector work.
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projectsupdate: sustainability
When even Buckingham Palace is getting a ground-source heating system, you know sustainability is serious. And microgeneration is the latest issue to make the government’s green agenda
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FeaturesVentilated spleen
City Hall is the latest green office to miss its energy targets. But when it comes to low-energy buildings, the fault may lie with facilities managers, not designers.
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FeaturesWhat are you worth?
Want to buy the finer things in life - or a one-bedroom flat in Catford? A job in contracting can take you to both … Building reports on salary hikes across the country and Hays Montrose works out the pay for 12 types of jobs.
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Costs: Rainwater harvesting
Rainwater harvesting offers a sustainable solution to water shortages in these hosepipe-banning times. Peter Mayer of Building LifePlans looks at the options and analyses the whole-life costs
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FeaturesShe’s back
Jennie Price, the famously combative former boss of the Construction Confederation, has been absent from the industry for some years. Now she’s returned, accompanied by … a row
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FeaturesBlood and Money
Small firms have traditionally been subjected to commercial bullying and, despite all the legal and cultural reforms of the past 15 years, they still are.
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FeaturesTaking care of business
A spot of pampering is all it takes to win a client’s heart and ensure it never wants to let you go. Building reports on how one contractor plans to cash in by supplying that little bit extra
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FeaturesDriving us crazy
Half-empty lorries clogging up the nation’s roads, site workers unable to locate vital materials, £3bn a year of waste … a report released today highlights just how poor logistical planning in the construction industry is. So, what can be done about it?
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Hull v's Epsom
Hull is the home of caravan manufacturing and fish auctions; Surrey’s Epsom & Ewell hosts the Derby and was the first spa town in England. Hull is the home of caravan manufacturing and fish auctions; Surrey’s Epsom & Ewell hosts the Derby and was the first spa town in England. ...
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FeaturesFrozen warnings
Peter Clegg went with sculptor Antony Gormley to the Arctic Circle to create bleakly beautiful representations of the human body, a planet and a dead friend