All Features articles – Page 529

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    Checklist

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    To add to the learning experience in lecture theatres, specifiers need to be aware of students' sensory needs

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    Can Pay keep on climbing?

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    For the second year in a row, executive's pay packets have climbed, according to the 2003 Hays Montrose/Building executive salary guide. But, as we find out, there are signs that this trend may have peaked.

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    Crisp and complex

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    A cuboid visitors centre in an Austrian vineyard bottles 900 years of tradition for slurping, sloshing wine bibbers.

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    Mr Conservative

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    Linford Group chairman David Linford is taking drastic action to help plug the heritage skills gap, such as building a new training centre, swapping workers with firms abroad – and even recruiting in primary schools.

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    Go get 'em, tiger

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    Kim Gregory of TSO Consulting explains why more and more high flyers are getting professional coaches to help them stretch their wings

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    'There were times when I was really scared …'

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    You'd think the construction industry would be desperate to find bright young students. In fact, it seems to go out of its way to put them off. We went back to college for some hard lessons.

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    Appointments

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    Contractor Ashford Construction has promoted David Wilson to estimating director, responsible for procurement in the Midlands construction business. Wilson previously worked at Laing and Miller Construction.Amec has appointed four senior managers to its nationwide building and facilities services business. Alex Sweeney joins as operations manager in facilities services; Alan Littlewood ...

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    Winner takes all

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    Giving up your job to become a freelancer will always involve some risk, especially if you are under 30. But as Amanda Hales, a 29-year-old QS, testifies the gamble can definitely pay off

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    Volume housebuilding award

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    David McLean Homes

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    Sustainability award

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    Denville Hall Phase Two, Northwood, Middlesex

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    Prefabrication award

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    The Grove, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire.

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    Best craftsmanship award

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    20-32 Baker Street, London W1

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    Best export award

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    St Catherine's Foyer and Community Sports Centre

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    Special award for decorative brickwork

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    Greenwich Millennium Village, London

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    Cecil Balmond

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    He doesn't recognise fixed systems of order, closed symmetries or assumptions of hierarchy, and sees structure as connective patterns. Man's clearly a bounder. We try to talk some sense into him.

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    Supreme winner and best public building

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    Sloane Robinson Building, Keble College, Oxford

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    Best single house

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    Tan-y-Coed House, Chirk, near Wrexham

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    Best private housing development

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    Fulham Island, Fulham, London

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    Best public housing development

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    Stilitoe Court, Raleigh Park, Nottingham

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    Best commercial building

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    Manser Antiques, Shrewsbury