All Features articles – Page 498
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FeaturesPeabody's socialite housing attracts Posh and Becks
Golden couple eye up the original Peabody home.
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FeaturesWest London contractor enjoys Mini adventure
Forumla 1 boss Eddie Jordan hands over the keys of a Mini Cooper to the best worker on a building site in Kensington.
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FeaturesFire fighting
The government is introducing new fire safety legislation that will fundamentally change the way buildings are fire protected. Turner & Townsend's Jon Cowan explains the new regime.
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FeaturesVolume Housebuilder of the Year Award
Countryside displayed a consistency of detailing and craftsmanship
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FeaturesSustainability Award
A robust ecological agenda that has tried to use durable, local materials
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FeaturesPrefabrication Award
A fine example of how precast brickwork can simplify on-site construction
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FeaturesBest Craftsmanship Award
There was obviously an excellent gang of bricklayers to hand with all work done in situ
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FeaturesBest Export Award
The building sits beautifully on the waterside and represents a bold, confident use of brick
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Market forecast: Back on track
In this new series,We report that tender prices are on the up – including London, where work is getting back on track
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FeaturesTalking balls with the minister
Phil Hope is charge of chivvying the industry into becoming energy efficient, sustainable and security conscious, while simultaneously championing IT and keeping the ODPM green. So a metaphor rather suggests itself, as we point out.
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FeaturesMarks Barfield cafe: One small, skinny mollusc please
Marks Barfield’s latest scheme is an invertebrate cafe that has attached itself to Birmingham’s Bullring centre – where it is providing weary shoppers with a shell-like retreat
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Best of the best
There are a number of things in common between the Specialist Contractors Awards and the Oscars in Los Angeles: both use an extremely large number of judges to determine, as objectively as possible, the opinions of their respective industries.
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FeaturesSupreme Winner and Best Public Building
If Joseph had been an architect, he would have designed this building
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FeaturesBest Single House
The judges admired the crisp detailing and the contrast with the oversailing upper floor
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FeaturesBest Private Housing Development
The building uses brickwork to exude a sense of strength, solidity and reassurance