All Features articles – Page 512

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    Remote control

    2004-05-28T00:00:00Z

    Here's the tale of a struggling M&E firm that couldn't keep track of its nationwide force of mobile engineers and as a result found itself drowning in a sea of paper, none of which was legal tender. We found out how it solved its problems.

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    New-build completions

    2004-05-28T00:00:00Z

    Private sector completions are up again this month, but only just. Once again, the South-east is in the vanguard of build activity. Merseyside continues to lag behind in spite of Steve Morgan’s interest in Liverpool FC.

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    Let them eat cake

    2004-05-28T00:00:00Z

    After some years surviving off crumbs of Housing Corporation grant, 71 housing associations are to sit down to a two-year feast as preferred partners with backing for a string of projects. Josephine Smit looks at the impact on development. Data collated and analysed by Irum Malik of Economic Strategies

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    Buyer demand

    2004-05-28T00:00:00Z

    SmartNewHomes reports that the number of buyers looking for apartments has decreased, whereas detached and semi-detached houses are growing in popularity. So much for the urban loft lifestyleMethodologyThe New Homes Demand Index is based on enquiries recorded on the SmartNewHomes.com website and records the price people are willing to pay ...

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    Planning approvals

    2004-05-28T00:00:00Z

    In the high-pressure South-east, approvals are holding steady, whereas London makes a big leap from 165 in March. Maybe the government's wish to increase housebuilding in the South can come true after all

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    Euro 2004

    2004-05-28T00:00:00Z

    In Lisbon on 4 July, 26 television cameras will relay pictures of this goalmouth to 35 million screens, to be watched by some of the 7 billion viewers who have followed the finals of the 2004 European championship.

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    Appointments

    2004-05-27T10:53:00Z

    Movers and shakers this week

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    Workers' welfare

    2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

    We report on how baa is making sure all its construction staff live to see the end of the job

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    What there is still to do

    2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

    – and will the terminal's interior rise to the occasion?

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    On site

    2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

    It's finally up. After years of design work, months of testing and weeks of careful assembly, the first section of the main terminal's giant waveform roof is in place.

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    Procurement

    2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

    We explain how the celebrated T5 agreement works

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    Prefab

    2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

    Here's where talk of templates becomes literal. We tell it like it is

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    The general idea

    2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

    Andy Wolstenholme talks to us through the battle for T5

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    Words from the front

    2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

    Mitch Parsons, a construction manager from Laing O'Rourke north, describes life at the sharp end of T5B

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    Mike Davies

    2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

    T5's project architect tells us about his 20 years spent designing the same building

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    Community relations

    2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

    "I've worked on projects at Heathrow and Stansted, but this is one of the most challenging jobs I've done – Terminal 5 is very large and very visual. It has a potentially huge impact on local residents in terms of nuisances like construction noise; my role is to ensure that ...

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    The captain, speaking

    2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

    We listen carefully to Tony Douglas, T5's managing director

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    Introduction: Why T5 is the future of UK construction

    2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

    The construction of a passenger terminal at Heathrow was essential if the airport was to cope with a rise in the market for air travel of up to 7% a year, and if it was to maintain its claim to be Europe's premier airport. Necessity was the mother of Terminal ...

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    IT

    2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

    We explain how the design process was optimised

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    Rise of the machines

    2004-05-21T00:00:00Z

    It is the year 2004, and a 400-year-old firm in Sussex, England, has become mankind's last hope of resistance to the machine-made roof tile – but for how much longer?