All Features articles – Page 536
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FeaturesTV Reviews
Building's critic-in-residence reviews a typical week's assortment of built environment programming
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FeaturesPoor old you
More and more firms are reacting to deficits in their pension funds by, in effect, slashing their staff's retirement income. They say they are staving off financial disaster; others claim it is a grotesque rip-off. We investigate a deepening crisis.
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FeaturesWhy are we so fascinating?
Prime time slots are crowded with foppish designers, avuncular engineers, opinionated architects and diabolical builders. We find out what the attraction is, what the programmes are like, how they've changed the perception of building – and how you, too, can get your phizog on the box.
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FeaturesRichard and judy's favourite engineer
John Roberts is operating board director of engineer Babtie Group and a media tart.
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FeaturesDavid Pretty
Barratt is Britain's best known housebuilder – but not always for the right reasons. Here its new chief executive tells us how he intends to preserve the firm's legacy, and silence some of its critics.
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Building market muscles
Effective marketing is a critical way of growing any business, and the building industry is no exception
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FeaturesIf I were in your boots
Continuing our occasional series, Andrew Gay, former boss of M&E contractor Drake & Scull, is impressed by Kier's risk-free strategies, dependable reputation and great results. Sound like an 'if-it-ain't-broke-don't-fix-it' business model? No way – here's how to make it even better and a whole lot more dynamic …
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Blow that whistle
But make sure you know your rights, says Tara Cosgrove, partner at Beale and Company
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FeaturesMay the best house win
For decades, timber frame has been reigning British champion of modular housing systems. Now a contender has emerged, and an enterprising housebuilder decided to arrange a contest between the two. We report from the ringside in Sompting, Sussex.
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At the top of the slope
This month, Experian Business Strategies reports that May was a bumper period for construction activity. However, labour shortages are proving irksome, and growth is set to wind down over the next quarter …
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FeaturesScourge of the skyline
Pirate broadcasters are thugs with links to drug gangs who hijack the airwaves with illegal antennas on high-rise roofs. We report on the violent struggle between them and the contractors hired to take them off the air
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FeaturesKeith Hill
Only a month into the job and the housing minister has absorbed the government's line about having a 'vision' for urban regeneration. But when it comes to expounding the finer policy points, he seems less sure of himself.
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FeaturesT5 - satisfying hell hounds, wrestling with serpents
At least, that's how the Heathrow team describe their battle to make a 15-year-old design work for a rapidly evolving industry.
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FeaturesThe saga of T5's roof design
Because the roof was such a prominent feature, designing it so that it could be built in a cost-effective way was fundamental to the project's success.