All Features articles – Page 538
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FeaturesPhysically challenged
Regulatory changes aimed at giving disabled people full access to public buildings are creating big business for contractors. But with few guidelines to help, how do firms know what to do? Cue the rise of the latest construction professional – the access consultant.
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Stress busters
We speak to stress councillor Patricia Justice about feeling under pressure at work, and what you can do about it …
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Tender price forecast: Haze across the horizon
With a war looming, shares prices plummeting and the office market in London freezing, it’s all but impossible to know what will happen next. But building tender prices and workload are still likely to continue their steady rise
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Industry must link up with schools, says education secretary Clarke
Charles Clarke calls for links to be forged between firms and secondary schools to solve skills crisis.
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Gleeson names its next managing director
Andrew Muncey is promoted to take over from retiring boss David Eyre in May.
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Pidgley Jr takes on dad's former manager
Cadenza boss hires ex-Thirlstone Homes managing director Sean Burroughs as new right-hand man.
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Lipton Jr forms affordable housing firm
Elliot Lipton, son of Stanhope founder Sir Stuart Lipton, has formed a company to provide affordable housing in London.Lipton claimed that the company, First Base, will be the first housebuilder to focus solely on low-cost housing. The average flat in Greater London sells for £210,000, according to the Land Registry. ...
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FeaturesVariations on a lead tortoise
Those enigmatic lead-clad reptilian forms over there are Renzo Piano's designs for 21st-century Roman concert halls. We look at how the architect came by his extraordinary concept, and how it works in practice.
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The secret diary of a redevelopment
Or, how the crack project team put together by developer CIT is setting about the top-to-bottom redevelopment of an entire block of London's West End – and is bringing it in for 83% of the benchmark cost.
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Dealing in design
You're an architect, you're pitching for a job and the client asks: how much? Not to panic – former architect Robert White can help you with the bottom line.
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Crisis control
We report on how one consultant is overcoming the dearth of professional graduates
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FeaturesPiercy Conner
It was splashed all over the headlines and even displayed in a Selfridges window, so why did the Microflat never take off? Its designers Stuart Piercy and Richard Conner have a theory – and haven't given up hope.
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Clive Porter
The Audit Commission report is likely to fuel the flames of the PFI debate. Before things get too heated, let's put the report in context
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FeaturesThe battle of the BBC
When the bidders lined up to manage the £250m redevelopment of Broadcasting House, some of them were already muttering about Bovis' hidden advantages. We report on the row that has forced the BBC to defend its reputation for impartiality
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FeaturesCost model update, February 2003
Building cost models are celebrating their 10th birthday. To mark this happy event, we outlines the factors that will be affecting costs in 2003 for 17 of the most common building types
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Rail labour agency hits the buffers
Collapse of Fastrack means 150 workers face loss of thousands of pounds in pay.
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Industry to fight top-up fees on construction courses
Construction Sector Skills Council to call for exemptions for students on civil and ground engineering courses.