All Features articles – Page 531
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Get it right: Factory-produced systems
The Egan report highlighted the need for off-site manufacture to increase the quality of the end product and to reduce programme times.
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Into the fast stream: The further education market
With building expenditure in further education about to increase 60%, we highlight the challenges and opportunities in the sector
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Get it right - doors and windows
It seems problems with windows in new homes are all too common. Zurich Building Guarantees’ annual Customer First Survey of new homebuyers showed that 43.6% of respondents had problems with the windows in their new homes in 2002. Water penetration through the building envelope comes high on the list of ...
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FeaturesThe very model of a modern district general
The celebrated ACAD diagnostic and treatment centre in north-west London is to have an equally revolutionary and even more ambitious big brother. It will be a complete acute hospital that promises streamlined healthcare, uplifting architecture and close community links
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Ground control
Ten years ago, development was all about churning out yuppie flats; today the ground has shifted to affordable homes. Josephine Smit meets Andrew Wiseman, chief executive of Telford Homes and a master of both territories.
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New-build completions
NHBC-registered new-build private and housing association completion figures for January 2003 show the bulk of activity is in the South-east. But overall private completions are already down on the same month last year.
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New-build completions
NHBC-registered new-build private and housing association completion figures for February 2003 show activity is up across the board on last month, and overall private completions have redressed the balance after January’s year-on-year fall. All figures are supplied by NHBC.
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FeaturesDo houses that are built in a factory have to end up looking like this…?
The trouble with factory-built houses is that they look as if they were built in a factory. But off-site manufacture is not incompatible with sophisticated design, as the coming generation of prefab homes will demonstrate.
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All in the Finish
In a month's time the Council of Mortgage Lenders is bringing in a new rule that means homeowners only get their mortgage when the home is complete. Josephine Smit reports on the impact it will have on housebuilders' deadlines
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Bovis to axe 40 staff after review of market prospects
Contractor reveals redundancy plans in the same week that QS EC Harris decides to close Glasgow office.
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Contractors to get training in Egan principles
Construction body Be launches one-day course package on collaborative working.
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Labour agency set to import workers from Romania
The Home Office has agreed in principle to a proposal to import east Europeans to help solve the skills shortage.
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New bosses for Kier and Alfred McAlpine
Contractors' chief executives both scale back roles by becoming chairmen of the companies.
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We need vocal locals
Council planners generally put the interests of the community first, but if things don't work out that way, there's not a lot the community can do about it
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Local lowdown
This month, Robert Smith of Hays Montrose looks at the job market in Northern Ireland, where a glut of civils projects means that engineers are hot property