All Features articles – Page 472
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FeaturesBuilding’s gold winners
In an Olympic bid-themed awards ceremony at the Grosvenor House Hotel last Tuesday night, the construction industry celebrated its many triumphs with 19 trophies being presented to the best in the business …
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Features‘If our neighbours have people around for a dinner party we go out – I would rather sleep on a friend’s floor for the night’
A block of flats in the Greenwich Millennium Village is at the centre of a bitter dispute about noise transmission. Although the building originally passed an acoustic test, the residents claim the problem is so bad they cannot sleep.
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FeaturesThe £6.5bn men
Every year these 10 men greenlight more than 18,000 projects worth north of £6bn. Katie Puckett got them together to find out what impresses and depresses them about construction firms, and on pages 58-59 we list the top 100 clients in the UK
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FeaturesDesign laid bare
The opening of an adult emporium designed by Papa Architects was almost too much to bear for one upright Building reporter.
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One voice
When Labour introduced the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, hopes were high that construction would finally have a loud voice in government. Yet, eight years on, the DETR is no more and the industry has little or no representation at the highest levels of government. An industry ...
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Kier snatches top spot in March league table
Twenty-seven contracts worth £302m push contractor to pole position, ahead of Carillion and Laing O’Rourke
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Head for the hills
This month, Experian Business Strategies predicts that construction growth will continue its slowdown – and explains why it’s better to be working in Yorkshire or the North than London
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FeaturesA game of two halves
In a top-of-the-table clash, architect Austin-Smith:Lord takes on old warhorse Denys Lasdun. But how will the young pretender respond to Lasdun’s brutalist Liverpool University sports centre?
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Four exemplary policies
Four flagship initiatives, launched amid much fanfare. But what happened to them when they were implemented?
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FeaturesWhen design is a crime
It is estimated that half of all site accidents are caused by hazardous designs. The CDM regulations were intended to change this, but only 8% of architects are aware of their duties under them. The HSE has now lost patience with this situation, and is threatening to put negligent designers ...
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The comment
Graham Watts, chief executive of the Construction Industry Council, joins the calls for a dedicated minister of state
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FeaturesThe quiet american
The winner of this year’s Building Award for Chief Executive of the Year is Charles Banks, boss of materials firm Wolseley – a man whose calm manner belies his amazing track record and aggressive hunt for acquisitions.
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FeaturesBuilding at altitude
What a difference 30 years makes. High-rise apartment blocks have gone from upright slum terraces to homes for the upwardly mobile. But building tall towers on tiny city-centre sites is a tough challenge. We report on the new popularity of homes in the sky and the engineering and logistical solutions ...
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FeaturesKO scoop for Kenmore Homes
Housebuilder’s guests lap up the paparazzi attention at big night out.
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FeaturesThe verdict.
Tony Blair has often said that he wants his legacy to be public sector reform. Key to this is the building of new schools and hospitals. But is Labour succeeding?
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The survey.
The government has been committed to the use of the PFI to deliver its grand ambitions for health and education, but as this recent survey by the RICS shows, many surveyors believe the procurement route is actually more expensive and long-winded than the traditional method