All Features articles – Page 494
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New-build completions
Private sector completions are up again this month, but only just. Once again, the South-east is in the vanguard of build activity. Merseyside continues to lag behind in spite of Steve Morgan’s interest in Liverpool FC.
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Let them eat cake
After some years surviving off crumbs of Housing Corporation grant, 71 housing associations are to sit down to a two-year feast as preferred partners with backing for a string of projects. Josephine Smit looks at the impact on development. Data collated and analysed by Irum Malik of Economic Strategies
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Buyer demand
SmartNewHomes reports that the number of buyers looking for apartments has decreased, whereas detached and semi-detached houses are growing in popularity. So much for the urban loft lifestyleMethodologyThe New Homes Demand Index is based on enquiries recorded on the SmartNewHomes.com website and records the price people are willing to pay ...
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Planning approvals
In the high-pressure South-east, approvals are holding steady, whereas London makes a big leap from 165 in March. Maybe the government's wish to increase housebuilding in the South can come true after all
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Workers' welfare
We report on how baa is making sure all its construction staff live to see the end of the job
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Words from the front
Mitch Parsons, a construction manager from Laing O'Rourke north, describes life at the sharp end of T5B
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Mike Davies
T5's project architect tells us about his 20 years spent designing the same building
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Community relations
"I've worked on projects at Heathrow and Stansted, but this is one of the most challenging jobs I've done – Terminal 5 is very large and very visual. It has a potentially huge impact on local residents in terms of nuisances like construction noise; my role is to ensure that ...
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Introduction: Why T5 is the future of UK construction
The construction of a passenger terminal at Heathrow was essential if the airport was to cope with a rise in the market for air travel of up to 7% a year, and if it was to maintain its claim to be Europe's premier airport. Necessity was the mother of Terminal ...
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Rise of the machines
It is the year 2004, and a 400-year-old firm in Sussex, England, has become mankind's last hope of resistance to the machine-made roof tile – but for how much longer?
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Just the job
Solicitor Anthony Fine was among the first to specialise in PFI contracts. Here he tells us about the challenges it poses and his predictions for this evolving market