All Features articles – Page 492
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FeaturesGreen and gold
Transforming a dilapidated sliver of suburbia into award-winning, sedum-roofed housing was easy enough on paper. The hard part was pruning the specification to preserve the eco-friendly design – within budget.
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FeaturesCost model: Football stadiums
Developers are in the grip of football fever, building iconic stadiums that will revive out-of-town areas. We look at the challenges in design, security and crowd control and highlights the retail and hospitality potential
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FeaturesBuilding in two dimensions
This year's Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy was themed – by David Hockney, no less – on drawing, a discipline in which architects excel. We discovered the delights of Gallery VII
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FeaturesThe bigger picture: how eastern european workers
European enlargement has made a huge pool of highly skilled and low paid workers available to British firms, and it has opened the British market to highly skilled and low cost contractors, too. We report on the likely impact of this momentous development
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Bovis' lead over Laing in annual chart tops 700m
Contractor wins £186m work in May to return to top of monthly league, as 2003/04 orders rise above £2bn
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FeaturesWhat do you want from me?
A recent survey of leading US companies asked them what skills they required in their high-level employees. Here's the list they came up with of what exactly makes a successful executive
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FeaturesThe secret of my success
Wondering how construction's big cheeses got their jobs – and how you can follow in their footsteps? Ian Robertson, chief executive of Wilson Bowden, tells us his recipe to making it as a major player in the housebuilding industry
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FeaturesUrban visionaries reunited
Remember this line-up? The Urban Task Force gave the red card to low-density suburban sprawl and switched play to brownfield sites. Five years on, we reassembled the team for an anniversary kick-about.
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FeaturesStata play
The playful exuberance of its topsy-turvy structure encourages the creative mingling of minds at the Stata Centre – Frank Gehry's computer science complex for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. We assess it from all the angles
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FeaturesThe men who would be mayor
London's election fever infected the Architecture Foundation last week, when the four would-be mayors squared up over the city's skyscrapers, planning, housing and the future of Richard Rogers.
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Just the job
Arup's Tara Durnin explains how she went from wannabe French teacher to technology consultant
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Come out to play
From a desert ski resort and consumer paradise to a financial hub with perfect feng shui, Dubai's developers are throwing their vast wealth at some of the world's most hedonistic projects. We find British firms joining in the fun
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FeaturesExecutive class
Today's construction leaders need a breadth of experience and a bulging contacts book. We spoke to Chris Cheetham of recruitment consultant Hays Montrose to find out more …
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FeaturesSomething to chew on
CABE's review on urban housing says that there is 'no simple recipe' for high-density design. So can housebuilders and their architects be persuaded to use all the right ingredients? Our chief taster Martin Spring reviews the review
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FeaturesBest Building Contractor's Safety Initiative
Taylor Woodrow won this Health & Safety People-backed award for its clever cash-based scheme
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FeaturesBest Maintenance Contractor's Safety Initiative
Crispin & Borst's famous five approaches to safety meant it came out top in this category
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FeaturesBest Housebuilders' Safety Initiative
Lovell won this category against tough competition with its two-pronged approach to safety