All Features articles – Page 523
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FeaturesNew Part L
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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Local lowdown
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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FeaturesWhat the planners think
RTPI president Mike Hayes describes the view from his side of the fence
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FeaturesTop Ten tips
How to wangle planning permission – by Mary Power, director of property agent FPDSavills
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Winter warmer
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 …