All Features articles – Page 545
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Redundancy survival kit
Facing the prospect of losing your job? Michael Archer, partner at solicitor Beale & Company, tells you what to do if the worst happens
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FeaturesKeep on truckin' … please
Within two years, the road haulage industry is going to undergo a personnel crisis that will make construction's skills shortages look like a walk to the shops. So how are your materials going to find their way to the site?
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FeaturesHolliday homes
David Holliday, managing director of Kent-based Ward Homes, has found his place in the sun. With huge housing growth predicted in the Thames Gateway, he couldn't be in a better position. But he won't be resting on his laurels – as we found out, he's flat out keeping up with ...
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Get it right: Roofing
Recent years have brought increased rainfall and wind speeds, and images of floods and storms have become commonplace.
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Factfile
The South-east registered the highest number of approvals in March. Two approvals, totalling 548 units, gave Bellway the lead in the private housebuilder table. Southern Housing Group, the RSL behind the regeneration of east London's Nightingale Estate, tops the housing associations
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Dances with penguins
Or, how an English contractor went west to build a visitor attraction and found itself immersed in the dangerous and fascinating world of marine wildlife.
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Lifetime costs: Secured by Design
What is the most cost-effective way of reducing criminal damage to property? We consider the whole-life costs of Secured by Design standards for housing refurbishment
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Mike Coleman
Project managers have a unique opportunity to influence change in the industry, are they making the most of it?
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FeaturesA Disney classic
It would have been the first 'Bilbao' if not for years of delays. But now, finally, Frank Gehry has come home to La-La Land with his suitably fantastical Walt Disney Concert Hall
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FeaturesWelcome to our chateau
Laing Homes is turning a 19th-century hospital into 190 chateau-style homes – one-third of them affordable. How do affluent buyers feel about sharing their castle with social tenants? We talked to its first residents and to marketing manager Christine Tiernan.
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FeaturesBridging Tactics
As the designer of military bridges used in the Iraq war, Tom Foulkes took pride in last month's victory. But will the head of the Institution of Civil Engineers win an internal battle for change?
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FeaturesUp, up and away
Floating on the alternative investment market is the ideal way to raise your firm's growth, profit and profile. So why are so few joining it?
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Tender price forecast: All good, bar London
Tender prices and workload are to continue to grow in the country as a whole, despite the consequences of the invasion of Iraq. But, as we point out, the outlook is not so good in the capital, where an ailing office market has caused a slump in work output.
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Gains backs CITB against Prescott
Construction Confederation president John Gains has rejected government criticism of the Construction Industry Training Board.In a letter to deputy prime minister John Prescott, Gains said he was “disappointed” by his attack on the board. Prescott called it “a disgrace” for not tackling the skills shortage adequately (see Building, 11 April, ...
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600,000 building workers to get 23% pay rise
Construction unions and employer bodies last week agreed a 23% pay rise for more than 600,000 building workers over the next three years.The deal was thrashed out at a meeting of the Construction Industry Joint Council, a committee made up of the Construction Confederation and union representatives from UCATT, GMB ...
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FeaturesShowstopper
In the 1990s, Britain's theatre enjoyed a golden age, thanks to our national addiction to the National Lottery. Now that the public is kicking the habit, it seems theatres are out of luck
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FeaturesThe Status Seeker
RICS president Peter Fall wants the institution to have a global profile and he expects its members to fork out for it. The only problem is, some of them are beginning to wonder just what the point of RICS is …