All Features articles – Page 512

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    The bigger picture: how eastern european workers

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    European enlargement has made a huge pool of highly skilled and low paid workers available to British firms, and it has opened the British market to highly skilled and low cost contractors, too. We report on the likely impact of this momentous development

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    Building in two dimensions

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    This year's Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy was themed – by David Hockney, no less – on drawing, a discipline in which architects excel. We discovered the delights of Gallery VII

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    Checklist

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Photovoltaic panels can give a building instant green credentials, improve its insulation levels and add design flair. Specialist supplier Solar Century offers a nine-point plan to make the most of British sunshine

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    Cost model: Football stadiums

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Developers are in the grip of football fever, building iconic stadiums that will revive out-of-town areas. We look at the challenges in design, security and crowd control and highlights the retail and hospitality potential

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    Costs

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Eco-friendliness can be your budget's worst enemy. But help is at hand with Davis Langdon's cost indicator table, BRE's online tool to calculate cost–energy trade-offs, and XCO2 Consibee's sums on zero-heating homes

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    Green and gold

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Transforming a dilapidated sliver of suburbia into award-winning, sedum-roofed housing was easy enough on paper. The hard part was pruning the specification to preserve the eco-friendly design – within budget.

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    Life on the line

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Rats. Diseases. Pitch dark. 130° heat. Airless, confined spaces. No water. Entombed under 30 m of concrete. Endless tunnels. All night, every night. This is not a recurring nightmare, it's a job. We took a journey to the end of the night with the track replacement boys.

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    Local lowdown: London

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Celebrities are searching for quick-thinking, tight-lipped site managers, but they aren't the only clients hiring in London. Robert Smith of Hays Montrose reports

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    Practice made perfect

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    It's easy to mistake David Morley Architects' clear-glazed NHS walk-in centre for a shop front. And that's the intention. We walked in to check it out, and he didn't even need an appointment …

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    The rules

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    A sustainablitiy task group recommends a new building code and demands specifiers use more recycled materials. Plus, why housebuilders must shell out to comply with noise pollution standards.

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    Appointments

    2004-06-10T11:43:00Z

    Movers and shakers this week

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    Cost update: June 2004

    2004-06-04T00:00:00Z

    This quarter, Davis Langdon tots up what it costs to improve access to your building. And over the page, why the price of fuel has exploded, plus find out what the going rate is for a plumber or labourer …

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    Outstanding Achievement in Health and Safety Award

    2004-06-04T00:00:00Z

    In this final, Bovis-sponsored award, UCATT's George Brumwell was justly applauded

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    Best Site Facilities Award

    2004-06-04T00:00:00Z

    Bovis beat off six sites, including one of its own, to win this GF Partnership-sponsored award

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    Integrated Project Safety Award

    2004-06-04T00:00:00Z

    LABC Services sponsors this category, which was won by the DWP Jobcentre Plus team

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    Best Building Contractor's Safety Initiative

    2004-06-04T00:00:00Z

    Taylor Woodrow won this Health & Safety People-backed award for its clever cash-based scheme

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    Best Maintenance Contractor's Safety Initiative

    2004-06-04T00:00:00Z

    Crispin & Borst's famous five approaches to safety meant it came out top in this category

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    Best Housebuilders' Safety Initiative

    2004-06-04T00:00:00Z

    Lovell won this category against tough competition with its two-pronged approach to safety

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    Best Safety Innovation from a Designer

    2004-06-04T00:00:00Z

    Wates sponsored this award, which was won by consultant TPS for its simple safety scheme

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    Client with Best Commitment to Health and Safety

    2004-06-04T00:00:00Z

    BAA recognised that as a client, safety is its concern too – and won this Skanska-backed award