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FeaturesCost model: High-rise housing refurbishment
The government is reappraising the UK’s social housing in order to meet its decent homes target by 2010. Here, Davis Langdon & Everest examines the costs, key issues and associated problems of refurbishing a tower block
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FeaturesFollow me or die
The head on the screen, severed but still talking, has a warning to give you. Unless you leave your futile attachment to things of paper (with the exception of magazines, obviously), you face a future of non-existence … Thomas Lane made a record of the seance
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FeaturesHeart warming
After being abandoned by the public for a flashy young out-of-town mall, Sheffield's city centre is enticing them back with a number of arresting projects, the latest of which is this Pringle Richards Sharratt winter garden
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FeaturesNeil Holloway
Microsoft UK's dynamic managing director is about to offer a cornucopia of supersmart IT devices to the construction industry, and he's eager to tell Marcus Fairs all about them …
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Just the job
Christopher Groome, business manager of the International Alliance for Interoperability, tells Victoria Madine how he is helping to make construction IT literate
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FeaturesModels of solid light
Once upon a time, it would have taken a craftsman weeks to build an architect's model from drawings. Now you just press a "go" icon and, hey presto, a laser crafts a miniature edifice in resin. Matthew Richards explores the world of rapid prototyping
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FeaturesPaperless tiger
Singapore is going to be the first country in the world to do all its building control with intelligent object technology. Soon, checking a design against regulations will be the work of a few seconds. Victoria Madine wonders when the UK will do the same
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Job cuts are on the cards, warn major contractors
The commercial downturn and uncertainty in the rail sector lead Carillion and Mace to count heads.
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Lend Lease boss to head up English Partnerships
Regeneration quango English Partnerships has appointed Lend Lease boss David Higgins as its chief executive.The Australian is stepping down as Lend Lease managing director and group chief executive next year. Higgins’ departure comes after nearly 18 years with the group. He does, however, want to remain in the UK, where ...
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Interserve promotes 35-year-old to chief executive
Support services group Interserve has appointed 35-year-old Adrian Ringrose chief executive. Ringrose’s appointment will take effect on 1 July next year after six months as deputy chief executive. The decision to promote Ringrose follows the announcement in May that the roles of chairman and chief executive were to be split.Mike ...
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Galliford Try to cut jobs at weakest links
ContractoR Galliford Try intends to reduce the size of its Leeds contracting office and Kent maintenance division. Market insiders claim that these offices have been identified as weak links in the £649m group. The decision to restructure comes after the sudden departure of deputy chief executive George Marsh, who left ...
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Five things about the Employment Act 2002
Sweeping changes Legislation contained in the new act will come into effect from 2003 and will make big changes to existing employment law that could affect your small business.Dispute resolution The legislation will require employers to implement statutory dismissal, disciplinary and grievance procedures, which, for the first time, will have ...
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Cost update: December 2002
In this quarter's Hot Rates, Davis Langdon & Everest throws the spotlight on concrete prices, and overleaf there's an update on the latest labour costs and materials price changes
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FeaturesAct of union
Creating an underground link between two of Edinburgh's most revered art galleries would be a challenge under any circumstances. But with one-third of the site tied up in political red tape and a big Monet exhibition looming, the £28m Playfair project has become the stuff of nightmares …
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The great kitchen and bathroom giveaway
Britain's public housing is getting a makeover to meet the government's decent homes standard – kitchens and bathrooms are being fitted at a rate of knots. Trouble is, once they're done the tenants go right ahead and flog them, playing havoc with housing association balance sheets and depleting the already ...
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A tsar is born
In the race to upgrade schools and hospitals, money is no object. What is in doubt is whether Whitehall has the muscle to make it happen. So, enter departmental tsars with the power of life and death over Labour's chances of a third term.
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FeaturesThe Deptford Rainbow
What Herzog & de Meuron did for Southwark with the Tate Modern it is about to repeat at another deprived south London borough, this time with a dance centre in glorious technicolour plastic. Martin Spring pays a visit to a unique building.
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FeaturesEverything and the kitchen sink …
A housing association in Coventry has lured tenants out of council hands by offering improved homes with a new kitchen and bathroom. Josephine Smit met two of the residents who made the leap.