All Features articles – Page 501
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FeaturesRichard Simmons
The new chief executive of CABE tells Mark Leftly why his last three projects ran into criticism, why Sir Stuart Lipton was right to resign – and why Jon Rouse is such an easy act to follow.
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The sector today
Our Future Homes conference, ahead of the Building Homes Quality Awards, tackled the issues affecting the industry now and examined the findings of the Private Housebuilding Annual 2004. Here are some key extracts from that report by Fred Wellings
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FeaturesTerror and wonder
… was the creed of Nicholas Hawksmoor. With the restoration of Christ Church these emotions can be experienced first hand.
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Sketch meets developers' approval
Macfarlane’s clients experience pod toilets and the snogging room at London’s coolest bar.
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FeaturesShh, it's The Darkness
Pomp rockers The Darkness have revealed their considerate side by installing mineral wool sound insulation in their Norfolk studio.
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FeaturesThe lone ranger rides again!
Tired of the long hours and unpaid overtime, professionals are heading for the open plains of self-employment – in increasing numbers. We talked to construction’s guns-for-hire
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FeaturesThe big picture
Andy Pearson presents six case studies of OSM in action, starting at BAA’s vast Heathrow Terminal 5 project, where off-site solutions have been found for diverting rivers, building a roof the size of five football pitches, and providing the services for the main building
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A touch of class
This City Academy is the first of 200 the government wants to build in deprived inner city areas. However, it’s unlikely that the others will be designed by Richard Rogers and boast a really pukka kitchen garden
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FeaturesDon’t supersize me
The Peabody Trust’s latest exercise in modular housing at Barons Place, west London, houses key workers in compact-and-bijou microflats. We mind our head and step inside a new fun-sized way of living.
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The hired gun's guide
Working for an agency can boost your freelance earnings - as long as it also works for you. We look at how to get the best service
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FeaturesHappy hour
Times are good for quantity surveyors, with charge-out rates up by as much as 50% since 2002 and most sectors looking decidedly flush. We drink in Mirza & Nacey’s latest survey on how much a cost consultant costs
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FeaturesMore haste, more speed
Ministers may have promised a bill for London’s superfast transport link Crossrail next spring, but boss Norman Haste is not leaving his £9bn project until then. We saw him in action at the Labour Party Conference
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FeaturesAn inside job
Breaking into the former NatWest HQ was the easy part. Ripping the heart out of it to create state-of-the-art offices while preserving the listed facade, banking hall and directors’ suites, and shifting 1000 lorry-loads of rubble without disturbing the heavyweight neighbour – well, that needed something like a plan … ...
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Blocking out the pain
Construction manager Tony Bennett is planning to run 250 miles while holding a brick, a feat that will earn him a place in the Guiness Book of Records.
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Off site and off piste: Bob the Builder takes to the slopes
Bob the Builder premiers latest movie at the ICA and unveils a glamourous new leading lady.
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FeaturesL of a challenge
Industry has less than a month to respond to the ODPM’s radical proposals for Part L of the building regs. John Tebbit, industry affairs director at the CPA, picks out the highlights.
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FeaturesTop 200 Consultants 2004: Monsters, Inc
This year’s consultants league table ranks the 200 biggest, scariest practices in the UK – and then breaks them down into bite-sized top 100 architects, engineers and surveyors charts. So who are the Godzillas and the Godzukis of the industry this year? We report from under his desk, Tables compiled ...
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Ask Edward
The right to employee status and the right to a pay rise are this week's points of legal confusion