All Features articles – Page 565
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Local lowdown
In the latest of his series on regional job markets, Robert Smith of recruitment consultant Hays Montrose finds London Docklands and the City booming
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Walk-on parts
Flooring finishes may not have a starring role in a client's brief but getting it right is critical to occupiers' enjoyment of a completed building. Peter Claridge, associate at Davis Langdon Schumann Smith, offers advice on how to specify the perfect underfoot performer
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Key Taywood job goes to industry outsider
Housebuilder Taylor Woodrow hires money man Peter Johnson as finance director.
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Job-share chief to leave Redrow
Housebuilder's southern region joint chairman Greg Locke to quit at Christmas.
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Five ways to tackle Seasonal Affective Disorder
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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Don't ask, don't get
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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Plaudits for audits
Post-Enron, is the annual audit worth it? Yes, if it's used as a business-wide health check
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FeaturesPenalty clauses
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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FeaturesConcrete recast
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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FeaturesCubic feat
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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FeaturesMidnight express
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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FeaturesSoho fabulous
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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FeaturesThe Fight for survival
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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FeaturesA Man and his tools
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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Industry to urge DTI to crack down on labour agencies
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
Deputy chief executive Marsh leaves as firm issues profit warning.
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Crackdown: Construction takes on the labour agencies
For years, dodgy labour agencies have been bringing illegal immigrants on site, avoiding tax and even terrorising the contractors they are supposed to be helping. Tom Broughton reports on an industry that has had enough – and is gearing up to fight back