All Features articles – Page 537
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Construction firms face loss of 1000 key staff as call-ups start for Iraq
Industry braced for disruption as reservists begin to leave their construction posts and join their regiments.
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Unions call for 64% rise in pay over three years …
… but employers offer 10% as the latest round of the national minimum wage agreement gets under way.
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FeaturesRafael Viñoly
The Uruguayan's idea of resurrecting New York's twin towers as refined replicas of their former selves was an attempt to imagine how the city would look in 25 years.We asked him where the inspiration came from
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FeaturesTake the spring out of your step
Lightweight floor slabs deliver maximum ceiling heights and cost savings, but have a tendency to develop Millennium Bridge syndrome. Now a shock-absorbing solution – developed by Arup, of course – is set to put workers' feet back on firm ground.
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Local lowdown
In the latest of his series on regional job markets, Robert Smith of recruitment consultant Hays Montrose looks at the South Coast, where QSs are in BIG demand
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Going steady
This month, although the outlook for the industry remains positive, the rate of growth looks set to fall from the dizzy heights of 2002
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FeaturesBattle of Trafalgar
The pigeons have left Trafalgar Square, but a new menace has arrived – contractors causing chaos. And yet the British public has such low expectations of builders, it hasn't logged a single complaint. With this going on, what hope do we have of attracting talent to our industry?
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FeaturesCalifornia SW6
The latest addition to the grey streets of west London is CZWG's crazily (and controversially) coloured Fulham Island. Even on a snowy winter morning, this mixed-use development-cum-fairground attraction conjures up sunshine and California beaches.
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FeaturesPrescott's paradox
In his sustainable communities plan, the deputy PM showered south-east England with public money and gave permission for 200,000 more houses – and left many in the housing industry complaining bitterly of Stalinist tactics. How did he manage that?
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Joined-up thinking
Student Javier Parsons tells us how he is giving Cyril Sweett a helping hand
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FeaturesMike Jeffries
How did a man with the reputation of being one the industry's shrewdest (and largest) operators let Atkins get into such a mess? And how will he clear it up?
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FeaturesGoodbye to grey
Rebranding is all very well, but for a sexy image to be convincing there's nothing like relocating to a funky new office building. We discovered a company that gave dullness the sack and employed neon colours, supergraphics and thousands of red tubes …
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FeaturesGym’ll fix it
Faced with 3 m of snow each year, the patients of Japan’s Odate hospital had nowhere to exercise in winter. But then along came Shigeru Ban with a characteristically unconventional solution – a subterranean gymnasium under a dome of pure plywood.
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FeaturesDream palaces
Visionary architect Marks Barfield has created the Skyhouse, which is designed to solve the housing shortage while saving the environment. But will it ever get off the ground?
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Lifetime costs: sanitaryware
The choice of sanitaryware in hospitals and healthcare schemes is a crucial one – but how to decide what to go for? Peter Mayer of Building Performance Group examines the whole-life costs of components
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FeaturesChurchill Hospital hospice: A design for life
Creating an environment in which terminally ill patients can enjoy the rest of their lives requires the utmost sensitivity and imagination in the architect’s choice of materials. We look at how Nightingale Associates went about the task at an Oxford hospice