All Features articles – Page 558
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What's it worth, guv?
With so many takeovers going on, you should know how much you could get for your business
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FeaturesWheels and deals
When construction's biggest companies buy each other, they turn to Richard Smee to make it happen. Matthew Richards finds out what drives one of Europe's key consultants – and is rather surprised to find out what he drives …
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FeaturesGreen is the new black
Environment-friendly design means sandal-wearing beardies designing draughty offices for a handful of right-on clients with no money, right? Wrong. Sustainable architecture is going overground as blue-chip clients spruce up their images.
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FeaturesAppointments
ContractorsStuart Norman has been appointed sales and marketing director of specialist fit-out company Withey Contracts.SuppliersKarl Simpkins has joined Boise Cascade Europe as technical support representative, providing advice for the southern part of England. ConsultantsATIS Real Weatheralls has promoted Robert Parr-Head and John Witts to directors. The following become associate directors: ...
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Five tips on how to improve your advertising
Avoid jargon Technical language or long, complicated sentences won't catch readers' attention. Give your advertisement to a non-industry friend or relation and ask if he or she understands what it is driving at.Repetition works Run a series of advertisements week after week or month after month. A series of advertisements ...
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FeaturesAdvertisement for myself
Geoffrey Reid Associates has turned its own offices into a shop window for the practice's marriage of sustainability and splendour
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Not up to standard
If we ripped up standard forms of contract, our clients would be much happier people
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Self-abuse
When self-certification was set up, it was welcomed as a way to cut red tape and rid the industry of rogue traders. So why, just two months on, are furious builders and regulators clamouring to get rid of it?
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FeaturesTake me to the river
After leaving Whitby Bird, founding partner turned developer Bryn Bird has created his first project – a glamorous waterfront live–work complex built on top of Brunel's Rotherhithe Tunnel and nestled beside the Thames
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The matrix
It's easy enough to say that the most powerful asset a company has is the knowledge of its staff. But the trick, says Victoria Madine, is in harnessing this power for the benefit of your business
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FeaturesMan the maker
John Hall over there, sitting on the roof he’s making, is a craftsman in an industry that is being told over and over again that technology holds the only key to the future. So Building spoke to the descendants of the people who built the cathedrals and asked them to ...
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Just the job
Pat Johnston, trainee carpenter with affordable housing developer Lovell, talks about how she got into the business and what it's like being a woman in a man's world
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How green is your property?
A new EU directive to promote energy efficiency could mean that buildings may soon be regulated like kitchen appliances. The good news is that substandard buildings could be brought up to scratch. The bad news is those that fail to make the grade may be demolished.
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Five tips on group brainstorming
There's no such thing as a bad idea It's a brainstorming session, not a serious debate. Remember, this is supposed to be fun, so don't criticise other people's ideas.It's a collaborative effort One good idea can grow another and an idea suggested by one person can trigger a better one ...
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Overseas firms dominate the UK market in April
Ironically, Jarvis had a good month, but the other top spots are taken by French, Swedish and Australian firms.
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FeaturesAppointments
HousebuildersCharles Church has appointed Mike Tilley, previously with Alfred McAlpine, sales and marketing director of its South Midlands region. Independent housebuilder Britannia Developments has appointed Kate Norton field sales manager.ConsultantsMultidisciplinary practice FaberMaunsell has taken on Peter Hirst, previously with Aspen Burrow Crocker, as associate director of its Birmingham building engineering ...
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Cost update: May 2002
This quarter, Davis Langdon & Everest examines preliminaries percentages of four case studies, plus the latest price change information for labour and materials, including the first effects of the new aggregates levy
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Local lowdown
In the first of a regular regional series, Robert Smith of Hays Montrose takes a look at the state of the job market in the M3/M4 corridor
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FeaturesRushed to hospital
It's the biggest PFI hospital so far – 872 beds in 4500 rooms, costing a grand total of £180m. And it had to be built fast, or the contractor would be hit by massive penalties. No wonder the project director's watching his figures.