All Features articles – Page 478
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Features20:20 vision
A lack of standards has been holding back take-up of modern construction methods. The Loss Prevention Standard for Innovative Dwellings – LPS2020 – should change all that
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FeaturesComing in to land …
This is the UK’s first international airport for half a century. But just 14 months ago it was a disused RAF nuclear bomber base that people feared might contain unexploded bombs and radioactivity. We checked in at Robin Hood Airport to find out how it was transformed
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FeaturesEuropean whole-life costs
Quantity surveyor Franklin + Andrews makes its annual appraisal of the costs of building and maintaining a standard factory in 14 European countries and finds the familiar north-south divide
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FeaturesStars and gripes
When Emcor lambasted its failing UK subsidiary Drake & Scull, US-based boss Frank T MacInnis asked Tony Whale to turn the firm around. Whale has, but he isn’t out of the woods yet. We met the two to discuss their future.
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FeaturesThe hard sell
Get your prospective employer to make you an offer you can't refuse, say Rob Norris and Ben Byram
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Hot or not?
Public sector projects are keeping contractors busy across the UK. Now, as the Kelly Review of construction capacity reveals, demand is boiling over in the North-west and London.
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FeaturesPods and monsters
A medical research centre where scientists are banished to the basement and life-or-death matters are discussed beneath giant deep-sea creatures, orange bubble clusters and alien spacecraft … we visits Will Alsop’s most flamboyant, and contradictory, offering yet.
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Showpieces
Full scale exhibits of MMC building systems will be showcased at OFFSITE2005 including three demonstration homes in BRE’s new Innovation Park
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Smart thinking
Faced with a target of building 89,000 new homes by 2021, Cambridgeshire has set up the SmartLIFE project to learn how innovative construction methods can make up the shortfall
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FeaturesWorking well together small firm award
this CITB-backed award proves these firms’ ideas are anything but small
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FeaturesIntegrated project safety award
DWP estates retains its title in this award, sponsored by citb-constructionskills
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FeaturesBest building contractor’s safety initiative
Skanska triumphed in this category, sponsored by the health & Safety people
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FeaturesBest housebuilder’s safety initiative
In this hard-fought category, Berkeley homes just pipped its rivals to the post
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FeaturesBest safety innovation from a construction consultant
Building Resources Company stole the show in this Corus-sponsored category
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FeaturesBest safety product
Innovation was the name of the game in this category, Sponsored by TPS consult