All Features articles – Page 510
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Just the job
Jean Grobler from South Africa joined Atkins as architectural assistant last June. So what's it like, Jean?
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FeaturesTime machine
Completion dates in contracts are more wishful thinking than statement of fact. But what if you could predict the actual time it takes to construct buildings? We look at an aid that's supposed to transport clients and consultants into a more certain future.
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FeaturesWhere there's a will …
The plot so far: Mild-mannered architect Will Alsop hears cry of distress from northern city in fear of economic life – ducks into alley and emerges as The Regenerator. Armed only with carefully selected fruit and veg, he leaps into action …
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FeaturesSomething about pete
How does a 34-year-old accountant with no real previous get the top of one of the country's largest housebuilders? Well, as we found out, a brain the size of a planet helps …
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FeaturesBeat bullies
Workplace bullying is ruining a growing number of people's lives. We look at how it can be stopped
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In our defence
As head of media relations for the Scottish parliament, Annette McCann (Letters, 11 June, page 33) should be concentrating on explaining the near 950% increase in cost to the taxpayer, rather than criticising your article for stating the cost inaccurately by a mere 5%.
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Factfile
Planning approvals Scottish planning approvals are soaring compared with April's 617, whereas numbers in the South-east have unexpectedly plummeted from 796 last month. Wales is gradually coming back with an eight-fold increase This data is provided by Glenigan, the development monitoring service. More than 10,000 new UK housing projects are ...
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FeaturesSprint finish
Well, what were they worried about? Fifty days to go and it's all over bar smoothing the sand in the long jump pit. But how did the Greeks, and Santiago Calatrava, turn a near disaster into a national triumph? We went to Athens to find out
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FeaturesHow’s this for reality?
Find one badly rundown mining town; set up a team of regeneration agencies, architects and council; ask the straight-talking locals what they want to happen. Then stick a TV camera in front of the lot … and watch.
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FeaturesInside: Now/Next
Is it a wall or is it a window? Some designs may get you guessing, but only about the back of the house – house fronts remain traditional.
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Lead times
Lead times are staying level in most sectors, but there is still a lot of worry over steel demand, according to Mace's Rob Darrow. Over the page, Gavin Murgatroyd of Gardiner & Theobald shines the spotlight on roofing
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FeaturesThe short straw
Changes to the way in which the government funds research and development means that construction now has to compete with the rest of UK industry for the DTI's money. The prospects are not good …
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FeaturesSkilled solution
ConstructionSkills is launching a drive to tackle the skills crisis. The initiative – Action for Skills – aims to kick-start a debate among employers on training. In the first of five monthly articles, Building, in association with ConstructionSkills, looks at what's gone wrong and how it can be fixed.
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FeaturesThe taste temptation
Once dismissed by housebuilders as a diversion, optional extras are now seen as a way of luring the customer into shelling out for the show home look. We look at ways you can cook up business
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April's no fool
The April survey from Experian's Business Strategies division reports an increase in the industry's activity levels, with employment prospects and tender prices set to follow in the same direction
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FeaturesBeauty is but skin deep
… especially on these iconic buildings, made infamous by latent defects. The question is, why do problem projects keep getting built – and how can the industry learn from its mistakes?