All Features articles – Page 517
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FeaturesA roman triumph
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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Just the job
How Adam Johnson of Learning and Skills Council is on a mission to train 20,000 construction workers
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FeaturesSimon Hughes
The Lib Dem mayoral candidate has plenty to say about key worker housing, the Olympics, his yellow cab and Steven Norris – as long as you can keep up with him. We jogged alongside
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FeaturesNow even tougher
The new Part L is to come into force three years before we thought it was! Oh my God!! What are we going to do??? Well, why not pour yourself a drink, sit back in a large leather armchair and peruse the first part of Building's E-Z-Read® guide to what's ...
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FeaturesAn unconventional day
At Building’s first ever Construction Client Convention last Tuesday, Nigel Griffiths pledged his support, major clients learned the importance of their role, industry firms networked for new contracts and our editor did what he does best …
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FeaturesBenchmark costs
How much you spend on a school sports hall naturally depends on the project and its specification. Paul Moore of multidisciplinary consultant EC Harris breaks down the benchmark costs of 10 recent schemes to give you a guide
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FeaturesIt's wood all the way
Finding a way to protect Boston's athletes from the bitter Lincolnshire winds created a hurdle for the team building a sports arena. But local supplier Finnforest had a natural solution, as Alex Smith discovered
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FeaturesCost model: Affordable housing
Planning guidance on affordable housing quotas in private schemes has got developers and contractors scratching their heads and crunching their numbers. Here, Davis Langdon & Everest eases their pain …
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FeaturesYou do the honours
In the wake of construction's dismal showing in the honours, we invited readers to name their own winners
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FeaturesHere’s the pitch
Sport England’s standardised design is starting a Mexican wave of achievable, accessible halls that don’t look like tin boxes. We report from the touchline at Dagenham.
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FeaturesOur homes in Havana
A UK architect is bringing prefab housing to Cuba in the hope that it will eliminate poor quality homes, delays and light-fingered builders. With government backing, residents of old Havana could soon be moving to new homes, leaving their grand colonial buildings for the tourists.
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Regeneration game
Paul France and Steve Glands from recruitment consultants Hays Montrose discuss the regeneration jobs boom …
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FeaturesJarvis digs deep
When your clients and your suppliers join with the media, the HSE and City analysts to attack you, you need to come up with a pretty good survival plan. We report on Jarvis' struggle to regroup
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FeaturesThe buyers
Welcome to Building’s first ever table of construction’s 100 most powerful clients. Over the next eight pages we measure their worth by sector, region, project and reputation. Andy Pearson mingles with the people who push the buttons, Camargue and Glenigan provide the ammunition