All Features articles – Page 481

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    Over the first hurdle

    2005-02-04T00:00:00Z

    As this survey shows, local authorities are making real headway toward being good clients, but insiders are warning that the hardest part is yet to come

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    Finding a just price

    2005-02-04T00:00:00Z

    We use common sense when we lease a car. Why not when we procure a building? We can, argues Andrew Green

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    Constructing Excellence Focus

    2005-02-04T00:00:00Z

    What is CE?

  • The Cherry family (top to bottom): Alan, Graham and RIchard
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    Cherrys on top

    2005-02-04T00:00:00Z

    After five turbulent months, the Cherry family’s attempts to buy Countryside Properties finally seem to be coming to fruition.

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    Laying the groundwork for a brighter future

    2005-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Decent homes, better schools, adequate healthcare, transport that works. All the big political ambitions of the 21st Century depend on a revved-up construction industry, which Constructing Excellence is here to deliver

  • Sitting Pretty: And proud of Barratt’s social housing record
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    Bullish Barratt takes social housing by the horns

    2005-02-04T00:00:00Z

    A packed order book and record profits put the company in a strong position, says boss David Pretty

  • Stuart Cameron
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    Appointments

    2005-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Movers and shakers

  • All change
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    All change

    2005-02-04T00:00:00Z

    These are nervous times for the rail sector’s contractors and consultants, with Network Rail being ordered to slash costs as major project budgets spiral.

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    Specifier Products

    2005-02-03T12:03:00Z

    Just about everything you need to build the kind of copper-clad, circular, streamlined, siphonically drained, airtight roof that will make you envied by your competitors and adored by your clients

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    Checklist

    2005-02-03T11:59:00Z

    Roofs have to withstand tough environmental conditions, and now climate change is posing even more challenges. Here, Barbour Index and Scott Brownrigg weigh up the options

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    Costs: Metal roofing claddings

    2005-02-03T11:46:00Z

    Metal self-supporting roofing is becoming ever more popular, and not just in the commercial and industrial sectors. Peter Mayer of Building Performance Group considers the options and costs

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    Roofing

    2005-02-03T11:40:00Z

    Overhead glazing failures are a specifier’s worst nightmare. At worst, large pieces of glass could fall on to people below causing death or serious injury. At best, such failures generate litigation and bad publicity for projects.

  • MIPIM small
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    MIPIM in miniature

    2005-02-01T15:49:00Z

    Capita Symonds has squeezed everything you need to survive MIPIM into a 1x4in box.

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    Rights stuff

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    A recent survey has uncovered disturbing ignorance of discrimination law.

  • The secret's out
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    The secret’s out

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    Once forgotten, dilapidated and unloved, the Walled Garden at Scampston Hall has been given a remarkable makeover and thrown open its doors to the public – and to critical acclaim

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    Regeneration in practice: Manchester

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    One of the city’s most crime-ridden housing estates is being given a John Prescott makeover, complete with signature architect and PFI funding. We report on how Plymouth Grove is going from war zone to des res

  • Philip Ashton PhD
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    The naked project manager

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    Philip Ashton PhD may be a reluctant televison star, but he’s happy to embrace the publicity Channel 4’s Bricking It has given young people in construction. We meet project management’s answer to Jamie Oliver.

  • Left to right: Martin Winch, Gordon Carey, Phil Clark of Building, Peter Cleary, Michael Whitwell and John Forsyth convene in White Young Green's Soho office
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    The experts’ view: Think tank

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    What is the most frustrating thing about trying to do regeneration? What is holding us back? What are the mistakes that are being made right now? How can the whole process be made to work better? To answer these questions, Building assembled an architect, a developer, a planning expert, a ...

  • Multicoloured brickwork clads the multimedia
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    Toxteth’s technicolour dreamboat

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    Forget the Beatles and the Fourth Grace – Liverpool has a new icon in the shape of the colourful media centre Toxteth TV

  • A learning curve
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    A learning curve

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    Hopkins’ horseshoe-shaped knowledge and media centre – otherwise known as the Forum in Norwich – is a resounding success that overcame an irregular-shaped site and an imposing neighbour …