All Features articles – Page 524

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    Just the job

    2004-02-13T00:00:00Z

    How Adam Johnson of Learning and Skills Council is on a mission to train 20,000 construction workers

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    Mr & Mrs

    2004-02-13T00:00:00Z

    Ever wondered what construction couples really think of each other? Do partners who live and work together have a better insight into each other's personalities? We put seven relationships to the test in Building's version of the 1970s supertacky TV quiz show Mr & Mrs …

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    A roman triumph

    2004-02-13T00:00:00Z

    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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    The rules

    2004-02-13T00:00:00Z

    Cladding and sports facility specifiers beware: Part L is to be revised next year – with some tough consequences. Alex Smith highlights the main issues

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    Appointments

    2004-02-11T17:13:00Z

    Movers and shakers

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    The 90-day war

    2004-02-06T00:00:00Z

    Rudi Klein on the controversy over Jarvis payment terms

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    Beginning of a beautiful friendship?

    2004-02-06T00:00:00Z

    What's this? Surely it can't be true? The private and public sectors working harmoniously side by side on construction projects? We report on what John Prescott's regeneration cash is doing for workers on both sides of the fence

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    Tender price forecast: London lags behind

    2004-02-06T00:00:00Z

    London’s office developers are in hibernation and are likely to remain so for at least another year. This is dampening inflation in the capital – but in other areas, such as Wales and north-west England, the market is booming and costs are rising. Davis Langdon & Everest presents the big ...

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    The buyers

    2004-02-06T00:00:00Z

    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

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    D :Rem

    2004-02-06T00:00:00Z

    Rem Koolhaas, this year's winner of the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture, has made his name with surreal creations such as the colossal as £400m Beijing tv headquarters.

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    Jarvis digs deep

    2004-02-06T00:00:00Z

    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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    Face LIFT

    2004-02-06T00:00:00Z

    You'll be aware that the government has a programme to improve local healthcare buildings. But did you know that smart developers and councils are using it to catalyse the wholesale regeneration of rundown areas?

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    Regeneration game

    2004-02-06T00:00:00Z

    Paul France and Steve Glands from recruitment consultants Hays Montrose discuss the regeneration jobs boom …

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    Our homes in Havana

    2004-02-06T00:00:00Z

    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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    Here’s the pitch

    2004-02-06T00:00:00Z

    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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    You do the honours

    2004-02-06T00:00:00Z

    In the wake of construction's dismal showing in the honours, we invited readers to name their own winners

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    Bovis wins league in 2003 with £600m December deal

    2004-01-30T00:00:00Z

    Hard on Bovis' heels in monthly and annual leagues is HBG, and Gardiner & Theobald tops QS chart

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    Aisle be back

    2004-01-30T00:00:00Z

    Construction's often lucrative relationship with supermarkets has had its sticky-wheel moments. But now that competition between stores has hit an all-time high, the sector is racing back towards the building checkout.

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    Heads on the block

    2004-01-30T00:00:00Z

    Why clients want internet auctions – and how contractors should react

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    University of Hertfordshire campus

    2004-01-30T00:00:00Z

    The University of Hertfordshire is no stranger to innovation, as its de Havilland campus demonstrates.