All Features articles – Page 526
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FeaturesBeyond the automobile
Ford has helped turn its mammoth Dagenham car plant into a pioneering technical education centre – and its first customers will be the former factory's workers. Oh, and it looks fantastic, too. Who said history was bunk?
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FeaturesCost update: December 2003
Welcome to our quarterly analysis of changes to key material prices, labour costs and work item rates. The data also acts as an update to the Spon's series of Price Books, edited by Davis Langdon & Everest
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FeaturesUSA Today
Earlier this month, CABE chief executive we visited three US cities to see what Britain could learn from American planning and urban development. His trip diary reveals why both countries cast an envious eye on the other, and unearths the secrets of New Urbanism, Bush-whacking and the planning authority run ...
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FeaturesSpeaking volumes
First he was big, then he went small. Now he wants to go bigger again. Josephine Smit talked to Geoff Potton, the expansive head of Antler Homes
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Pulp that paper trail
Flood damage is tough enough to repair without getting bogged down in faxes and reports. We explain how wireless technology has saved one company from drowning in paperwork
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FeaturesNew York, New Look
Manhattan: Where modern office blocks come big and dumb. But now, suddenly, design is sexy again, clients are making a brand new start of it and European architects are being given a chance. We start spreading the news …
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FeaturesJust one little problem …
New homeowners haven't exactly been gushing with praise for housebuilders – one recent inspection found 400 defects in a single new home. But with customers now more savvy about what to look out for, the pressure's on for housebuilders to smarten up their act.
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Good on paper
The quality of your CV could make or break your job chances. Hays Montrose offers some suggestions on how to make yours an asset not a liability
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Get it right: roofing
A poorly constructed roof can have devastating consequences on the home. The effects of repairing or replacing a roof structure can be disruptive to the homeowner and costly to the builder and warranty provider. Here Nick Cuffe, technical manager at Zurich Insurance Building Guarantee, examines three ways to head off ...
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FeaturesThe great escape
This year's Building/Hays Montrose careers survey finds a workforce eager to escape the shackles of nine-to-five employment to find a more flexible lifestyle.
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A change of pace
In this month's market round-up, we report that growth is likely to slow down over the next three months – but don't worry, it should pick up in a couple of years or so …
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FeaturesIt's a mini adventure
English Partnerships is now in the driving seat for key worker housing development in the capital. But with tiny returns for developers, who will go along for the ride?
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Bovis stretches lead to more than £600m in October
Contractor tops monthly and yearly leagues for second time in three months with £150m Southwark scheme.
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Spotlight on shopfitting
Market overview Shopfitting embraces virtually every trade of the construction industry at a micro level; it represents a specialist component due to the individual nature of fixtures and fittings manufactured to bespoke standards.The market is changing and becoming more orientated towards customer service, with partnering arrangements common on major roll-out ...
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FeaturesTaking the Michael
The government has set up urban development corporations to tackle deprivation in Britain’s cities. If that sounds familiar, it’s because Labour has stolen the idea from its old archenemy – Tory grandee Michael Heseltine. And as we discover he’s far from pleased about it …
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Lead times
Feedback from suppliers reveals a general fall-off in demand, but according to Mace, confidence is expected to return next year.
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Just the job
Kenyan Sohail Alam of M&E firm CommTech only came to England five years ago – but he's already set to go global with his mechanical engineering skills