All Features articles – Page 549
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FeaturesWhy we support The Prince’s Trust
This year, for the second time running, the Building Awards will be supporting The Prince’s Trust, the UK’s leading charity for young people.
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FeaturesQuantity/Building Surveyor of the Year
Davis Langdon & Everest is back again, bringing its exemplary best practice approach and its eye for efficiency into play to win this category, sponsored by Hays Montrose
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Thames Gateway chief poached by Cornish regeneration agency
Tim Williams leaves east London scheme after six years to tackle renewal project in West Country conurbation.
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CITB plans 10,000-worker training blitz
The Construction Industry Training Board has launched a trial scheme with the Learning and Skills Council to give extra training to 10,000 construction workers.The trial project, which will cost £9m, is funded by the learning council. It is being run in 10 areas and will end in July next year.If ...
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Just the job
Ian Strathdee talks to James Hughes about setting up Mackenzie Partnership's contract consultancy
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What goes around …
… comes around, as discovered by those graduates who've had their pockets stuffed with cash by paranoid employers, some of whom have given themselves pay cuts … Matthew Richards reports on the 2003 Building/Hays Montrose consultants' salary guide.
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FeaturesBricks or mortars
With the government committing billions to a prolonged war in Iraq, the construction industry is becoming alarmed about the financial health of its biggest client. Roya Nikkhah reports on how the conflict is affecting the home front
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FeaturesCapping the tip of the gherkin
Cladding specialist Schmidlin is responsible for the facade of insurance company Swiss Re's tower in the City of London – but only up to level 38. For the top two floors, it hands over to Austrian steelwork specialist Waagner Biro; this firm has the job of building the frame for ...
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FeaturesA little less conversation …
Government bodies. Initiatives. Events. Programmes. The industry is crammed with ways of discussing sustainable construction – but a recent report is claiming that hardly anybody is actually doing it. A little more action, please, says Thomas Lane.
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FeaturesA designer rampage
London's trendiest new celeb eaterie was dreamed up by 80 (yes, 80) mostly French designers as a heady mix of retro-baroque and ultra-kitsch
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What Gordon's going to do
Helen Demuth outlines how Wednesday's Budget is likely affect VAT, National Insurance, stamp duty and corporation tax
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FeaturesDo you know this man?
The enigmatic John McDonough has given his first interview since taking over at Carillion two years ago, and in it he tells Tom Broughton how he's turned the contractor into a lean, PFI-powered speedboat.
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FeaturesSafesurfers
Too many professionals don't have CSCS cards because they lack safety nous. Gary Redman of NOW Recruitment explains why you shouldn't be one of them
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DTI: Construction wage inflation set to soar
Annual report on industry says that skills shortage will lead to huge wage hikes, leading to increased project costs and prices.
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Conservation officer's lot not a happy one
A campaign to help beleaguered conservation officers in local authorities was launched last week by English Heritage with government backing.The campaign follows the first survey of England’s 700 local authority conservation officers. It found that they were overstretched, under-resourced and undervalued. The survey was commissioned by EH and the ...
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All in the Finish
In a month's time the Council of Mortgage Lenders is bringing in a new rule that means homeowners only get their mortgage when the home is complete. Josephine Smit reports on the impact it will have on housebuilders' deadlines
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