All Features articles – Page 487
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Future in hand
Building the next generation takes more than offering courses. What skills are needed? Who wants to learn them? And who’s going to pay? Constructing Excellence adopts the holistic view
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FeaturesNo pain, No gain
Dennis Lenard, chief executive of Constructing Excellence, reveals his big idea for helping the UK finally realize its massive development potential... Fork out for it
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Raising the game
The challenge is to avoid complacency by continually redefining excellence
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Gimme shelter
To meet its targets, the government needs an industry that, in truth, doesn’t exist yet. Meet the organisation helping housebuilders navigate their way into the brave new world
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Good for the little guy
Sharing intelligence means that business improvement is no longer the exclusive preserve of big companies
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FeaturesHot topic: Private residential
Davis Langdon focuses on the private residential sector, and finds that although the market is slowing, demand is still strong – particularly for apartments in big cities
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FeaturesJust the job
Caridad Marin Mollinedo explains why swapping architecture for surveying wasn’t such a big deal
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FeaturesNine into one
Is it a home? Is it an office? A shop, a theatre or maybe a bus station? Well, all of the above – and more besides. In fact, Ruddle Wilkinson Architects’ latest development in north London combines nine uses in one building. Martin Spring finds out how.
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Ready for take off
As a client, it’s easy to see how far the industry has come, but there is still a long way to go
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FeaturesSecond thoughts
Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson’s very funny, very charming and highly critical account of Britain in the 1990s, made Britons look at themselves slightly differently. But what would he write if he took the same journey today?
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Specifier Products
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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Costs: Metal roofing claddings
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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FeaturesMIPIM in miniature
Capita Symonds has squeezed everything you need to survive MIPIM into a 1x4in box.
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The sustainable communities summit 2005
Prescott and three other Cabinet colleagues are to convene with 2000 housebuilders, architects and public sector experts in Manchester next week to take stock of how the £22bn sustainable communities plan is faring.
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The race to build the £60k houses
The government has come up with a startling solution to the barriers to home ownership: to use public land and industrial production to build 60,000 £60,000 houses. Housebuilders are currently competing to design the prototype. We find out how it’s supposed to work.