All Features articles – Page 503

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    Deconstructing sarah

    2004-02-27T00:00:00Z

    Sarah Wigglesworth, rebel intellectual, fat architect and straw enthusiast, has just accepted an MBE, and is about to become something of a television star … we discuss postmodern irony with her

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    Laing O'Rourke tops January chart with £517m contracts

    2004-02-27T00:00:00Z

    New year success also puts Laing into a strong second place in annual tables, threatening Bovis' supremacy

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    Next up

    2004-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Commercial developers are limbering up, getting ready to take on the residential market – and if housebuilders don't watch out, they could soon find themselves on the ropes wondering what hit them.

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    Expert eye

    2004-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Show homes will be your shop window, says Andrew Smith, Berkeley Homes' first head of landscape design. A chartered landscape architect with a masters in landscape ecology, design and management, Smith was previously a director at landscape consultancy Woodhams.

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    Factfile: February 2004

    2004-02-26T00:00:00Z

    The Christmas season didn't do much to dent Scottish planners' workload, with a total of 1244 units approved in December. In the housing associations table, Garston Urban Village scored a major approval, and Persimmon and George Wimpey made headway in the private sector.Approvals into the new year dwindled virtually across ...

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    Winter warmer

    2004-02-20T00:00:00Z

    In this month's Tracker, Experian Business Strategies reports on an unseasonably active December and predicts that growth in UK construction will stabilise over the next three months

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    Top Ten tips

    2004-02-20T00:00:00Z

    How to wangle planning permission – by Mary Power, director of property agent FPDSavills

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    What the planners think

    2004-02-20T00:00:00Z

    RTPI president Mike Hayes describes the view from his side of the fence

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    Local lowdown

    2004-02-20T00:00:00Z

    Private and social housing projects in the Midlands are boosting demand for experienced construction professionals, says Robert Smith of Hays Montrose

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    New Part L

    2004-02-20T00:00:00Z

    The second part of our super E-Z-Read® guide to next year’s likely changes to Part L looks at killer details such as refurbishing existing buildings, clashes with other regulations and why the product manufacturers are hopping mad.

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    The Insider

    2004-02-20T00:00:00Z

    A young London planner who would remain anonymous blows the whistle

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    Here's the pitch

    2004-02-20T00:00:00Z

    Hi there, DSSR, Building magazine here.

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    Sexy education

    2004-02-20T00:00:00Z

    Last year, 11 signature architects were given some homework: each had to design an ideal school to show education planners what they're supposed to look like. Here's what they handed in

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    Further and better particulars of … Robin Southwell, Chief executive of AirTanker

    2004-02-20T00:00:00Z

    Our series on key construction figures looks at the former-Atkins-boss-turned-major-client, in his new role as boss of aerospace consortium AirTanker. We analyse the comeback of Robin Southwell

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    Spot the difference? Three years, 60 jobs and a whole lot of cash

    2004-02-20T00:00:00Z

    Here we see the damage Kate Barker's review of the planning system has caused a London scheme and the threat it has posed to one company's future

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    Appointments

    2004-02-19T11:26:00Z

    Movers and shakers

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    The rules

    2004-02-13T00:00:00Z

    Cladding and sports facility specifiers beware: Part L is to be revised next year – with some tough consequences. Alex Smith highlights the main issues

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    A roman triumph

    2004-02-13T00:00:00Z

    The opening scene is a vast rundown Edwardian variety hall unsympathetically converted into a drab cinema. Enter lions, angels, QSs, engineers, architects, chariots, emperors and slaves bearing alabaster friezes, golden statues and a vast rotating ball. Cue music …

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    Mr & Mrs

    2004-02-13T00:00:00Z

    Ever wondered what construction couples really think of each other? Do partners who live and work together have a better insight into each other's personalities? We put seven relationships to the test in Building's version of the 1970s supertacky TV quiz show Mr & Mrs …

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    Just the job

    2004-02-13T00:00:00Z

    How Adam Johnson of Learning and Skills Council is on a mission to train 20,000 construction workers