All Features articles – Page 527
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FeaturesTales of Temple Bar
Sir Christopher Wren's Temple Bar marked the gateway to the City of London for 200 years. Then it retired to the country. And now, thanks to a £4m stone-by-stone removal job, the arch should see a few more centuries of capital life at Paternoster Square.
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FeaturesTo the bastion
Francisco Mangado's concert hall in Pamplona has received rapturous applause from the locals … well, all except the odd terrorist. We take a peek into a peculiar tale
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FeaturesCherry on top
Alan Cherry is the ambassador of housebuilding – the multimillionaire chairman of Countryside Properties has the ear of a number of policymaking bodies. And as we find out, he’s not afraid to speak his mind.
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FeaturesCost model: PFI hospitals
Capital investment is pouring into the NHS and the prognosis for improved performance is good. In this month’s cost model examine the aims of the hospital programme, probe design issues, and break down the price of adding a trauma unit to an existing hospital
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Features… and heave
Wembley Stadium's new arch will soon focus the pride of a football obsessed nation. But the construction team's pride depends on lifting 1650 tonnes without going to extra time and penalties, as we find out
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FeaturesMission: impossible
Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Take apart an entire British Army town in Kosovo and put it up again in war-torn Basra, Iraq, in time for new year. Sounds tough? We report on who was up to the task without self-destructing …
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Minority report
We examine the implications of new laws introduced to tackle religious and sexual discrimination in the workplace
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Appointments
Housebuilders Weybridge-based Persimmon Homes South East has appointed Mike Ackling health and safety adviser for the South-east.Eamonn McInerney has joined Charles Church South Midlands as regional sales director.Wates Developments has promoted Jonny Wates to group strategic marketing director. Neil Simpson joins as sales and marketing director and Peter Gurr, ...
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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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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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FeaturesGoing Ballastic
Thousands of furious workers and suppliers are banging on the door of Ballast, demanding their money and claiming they were misled about the firm's financial position. Will a creditors' meeting later this month do anything to pacify them?
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FeaturesGoing down a storm
The Met Office has just moved all its staff and forecasting equipment to a purpose built facility in balmy Devon – without a second's break in its service. We found out how the project team made a tricky transition into a summer breeze
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FeaturesThe x factor
Squeezing a million extra visitors into New York would be an Olympian feat, but the team bidding against London to host the 2012 games has developed a race advantage. They call it the Olympic X
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FeaturesLaurence Llewelyn-Bowen
Don't be fooled by the foppish style: Britain's favourite interior designer is set to have a say in the way we build entire towns. Which may be of interest to Prince Charles … we find out more.
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Local lowdown
The south-west of England has never been livelier, with construction jobs and salaries surfing a wave of development, says Robert Smith of Hays Montrose
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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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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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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 …