All Features articles – Page 502
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FeaturesThe party's over
The champagne has all been drunk, the cab’s been called and the headache is starting to set in … That, according to the Hays Montrose executive salary guide, is how the industry’s top brass is feeling in these straitened days.
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FeaturesWGY goes commando
White Green Young staff brave a seven-mile commando course in the name of charity.
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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