All Features articles – Page 539
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Curzon Holdings to axe 50 jobs
Parent company of fit-out firm Jarvis Newman will close Billingham plant in March.
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Sorting it out
The black art of logistics used to be organised by a whiteboard and a magic marker. Now software is being developed that can ensure the most complex jobs are run with optimal efficiency.
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Smart moves
BSc student Christian Ennels tells Fiona Cameron why sandwich years are the tastiest option
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FeaturesFlight and fight
SOM's competition-winning design for Nato's headquarters in Brussels not only encourages co-operation between the expanding alliance's member states, it also comes with wings …
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FeaturesCost study: Max Perutz lecture theatre
The Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge had nowhere for its Nobel Prize-winning scientists to present their research. So architect Feilden + Mawson and quantity surveyor Keegans created an auditorium extension on stilts – and here they reveal the details of how it was done
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Clickstart!
The latest survey of contractors' websites reveals that, with a few exceptions, the industry is failing to use the internet to its – and its clients' – advantage. We explore how, by following a few basic principles, construction firms can realise their online potential
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Counting the cash, counting the cost
The astonishing Laing O'Rourke pay deal at Heathrow's Terminal 5 has created an intoxicating mixture of glee, fear, envy and greed inside and outside the industry. We sort out winners from losers, and considers what it means for the future of construction.
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FeaturesThe future’s bright …
… with people like these in the industry. We profile the five early starters who’ve made the shortlist for Building’s first-ever young achievers award, sponsored by the Construction Industry Training Board.
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FeaturesAt home with the BNP
Just when the construction industry thought it was making headway in its fight against racism, along comes builder and British National Party councillor Robin Evans to grab the headlines. We spent a day talking politics with him, his girlfriend and his party minder.
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Construction degrees will be extinct in 10 years, says shock report
Last building student will enter university in 2012 if present rate of decline in applications continues.
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Terminal 5 deal sparks fears of national M&E crisis
Contractors are predicting a crisis in the M&E sector in the wake of last week’s £55,000 pay deal for craftsmen working for Laing O’Rourke at Heathrow Terminal 5.The agreement has led to predictions that electricians on the £2.6bn terminal would respond by asking for as much as £75,000. Amicus, the ...
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Consultants find their true worth
Construction professionals make a greater contribution to Britain's national wealth than all its publishers, pop groups, television stations and film companies put together, according to a report to be published by the Construction Industry Council.The CIC found that consultants are making a growing contribution to the UK's national wealth. Total ...
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FeaturesA woman's place …
This library in the City of London, winner of the best public building award, is Britain's main academic resource for those researching women's experiences. It is also a demonstration of the power and subtlety that brick can offer a sensitive architect
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We love you
A shocking reports into the state of Britain's building consultants (courtesy of the CIC and the DTI) finds that they are doing amazingly well, thank you. And contributing more to UK plc's economic well being than all those music, film, fashion and media jobs put together. We crunch the numbers.
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FeaturesJudge for yourself
You can get an idea of the standard of the winners of this year's Brick Awards by considering the quality of these six schemes that just missed out on a prize …
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Just the job
Marie Lelue speaks to Lucy Jolin about going from studying in Paris to managing projects in Newcastle
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FeaturesIntegration theory
Eton College has run out of space. How can it be given a mathematics faculty in a modernist style that blends with buildings apparently put up in the 15th century?