All Features articles – Page 472

  • All the night’s winners line up for our photocall
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    Building’s gold winners

    2005-05-06T00:00:00Z

    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 …

  • Kirk Smith, Alan Jones and Bruce Haswell (left to right) took on Greenwich Millennium Village Ltd in a battle to sort out noise problems in their homes
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    ‘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’

    2005-05-06T00:00:00Z

    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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    Appointments

    2005-05-06T00:00:00Z

    Movers and shakers this week

  • UK construction clients
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    The £6.5bn men

    2005-05-06T00:00:00Z

    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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    Back issues

    2005-05-05T15:58:00Z

    Revitalising town centres, curving glass and questioning the skills crisis …

  • Jennifer Ellison
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    Design laid bare

    2005-05-03T13:02:00Z

    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

    2005-04-29T00:00:00Z

    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

    2005-04-29T00:00:00Z

    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

    2005-04-29T00:00:00Z

    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

  • A game of two halves
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    A game of two halves

    2005-04-29T00:00:00Z

    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

    2005-04-29T00:00:00Z

    Four flagship initiatives, launched amid much fanfare. But what happened to them when they were implemented?

  • Megan Walters
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    Pay days

    2005-04-29T00:00:00Z

    Megan Walters’ crusade over maternity pay was highly commended at this week’s Building Awards. Here’s why

  • When design is a crime
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    When design is a crime

    2005-04-29T00:00:00Z

    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

    2005-04-29T00:00:00Z

    Graham Watts, chief executive of the Construction Industry Council, joins the calls for a dedicated minister of state

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    Appointments

    2005-04-29T00:00:00Z

    Movers and shakers

  • Charles Banks
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    The quiet american

    2005-04-29T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • The gently curved face of the Beetham Tower at Birmingham’s Holloway Circus is subtly differentiated to differentiate the hotel on the bottom 19 floors with the apartments above
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    Building at altitude

    2005-04-29T00:00:00Z

    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 ...

  • OK lead
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    KO scoop for Kenmore Homes

    2005-04-28T14:39:00Z

    Housebuilder’s guests lap up the paparazzi attention at big night out.

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    The verdict.

    2005-04-22T00:00:00Z

    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.

    2005-04-22T00:00:00Z

    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