All Features articles – Page 559

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    Appointments

    2002-11-21T11:52:00Z

    This week's movers and shakers

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    Key Taywood job goes to industry outsider

    2002-11-20T16:39:00Z

    Housebuilder Taylor Woodrow hires money man Peter Johnson as finance director.

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    Job-share chief to leave Redrow

    2002-11-20T16:33:00Z

    Housebuilder's southern region joint chairman Greg Locke to quit at Christmas.

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    A Man and his tools

    2002-11-15T00:00:00Z

    BuildOnline's Mark Oliver chose an odd moment to join a dotcom. Yet he is confident that his firm's collaboration programs will trigger a computer revolution – if only firms can find a way to upgrade those soft pink things that operate them.

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    The Fight for survival

    2002-11-15T00:00:00Z

    Who needs competitors when your friends in the insurance industry can put you out of business with a single phone call? Matthew Richards reports on construction's increasingly untenable position – and how it can find a way out

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    Soho fabulous

    2002-11-15T00:00:00Z

    Lifschutz Davidson's swanky revamp of 20 Soho Square should appeal to the area's media types – and, like the Ab Fab girls, it has squeezed a lot into a small space …

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    Midnight express

    2002-11-15T00:00:00Z

    Heathrow Airport is so busy that it could only spare a two-hour window in which to move a 330-tonne link-bridge two miles across runways and into its intended slot. Andy Pearson joined a night-time convoy with one question on its mind: will it fit?

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    Cubic feat

    2002-11-15T00:00:00Z

    Architect SpacelabUK has designed a stark, geometrically pure house that sits on the Cambridgeshire countryside like a square drawn on a very flat line …

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    Concrete recast

    2002-11-15T00:00:00Z

    With prefabrication coming back into style, a radically revised production system could finally free precast concrete housing of its negative associations.

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    Penalty clauses

    2002-11-15T00:00:00Z

    Signing up with a football club client? Watch out for prima donna chairmen and financial trick shots. Phil Clark reports from the sidelines on the pitfalls of building a stadium.

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    Plaudits for audits

    2002-11-15T00:00:00Z

    Post-Enron, is the annual audit worth it? Yes, if it's used as a business-wide health check

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    Don't ask, don't get

    2002-11-15T00:00:00Z

    It's that crucial moment in an interview when you get your chance to ask something … Victoria Madine suggests 10 questions that are bound to impress

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    Five ways to tackle Seasonal Affective Disorder

    2002-11-15T00:00:00Z

    Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) affects one in 10 people during the winter months. Good lighting at work can help counter the symptoms of SAD – which include headaches and depression – and can increase employee productivity all round.Discuss the problem Ask staff, or consult an expert, to identify workspaces that ...

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    Appointments

    2002-11-14T11:25:00Z

    This week's movers and shakers

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    Industry to urge DTI to crack down on labour agencies

    2002-11-11T14:00:00Z

    Frustrated construction leaders will demand an end to unscrupulous working practices at high-profile summit.

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    Galliford Try's construction chief quits

    2002-11-11T13:58:00Z

    Deputy chief executive Marsh leaves as firm issues profit warning.

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    Appointments

    2002-11-08T10:29:00Z

    This week's movers and shakers

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    Just the job

    2002-11-08T00:00:00Z

    Louise Frostick, senior designer at Inspace Complete, tells Victoria Madine about the highs and lows of working for a fledgling interior design company

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    House of horrors

    2002-11-08T00:00:00Z

    Converting an 18th-century mansion into a luxury hotel is almost bound to be a hairy encounter with the past. But when centuries' worth of slapdash extensions and interventions have taken their toll on the building's structure, then even a crack in the wall can spook you …

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    Peter Gershon

    2002-11-08T00:00:00Z

    Hired to overhaul government procurement, Peter Gershon is a huge fan of the PFI. But, as Marcus Fairs found, the chief executive of the Office of Government Commerce is uncomfortable singing its praises.