All Features articles – Page 567
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FeaturesUp with skool
… because going back there as a grown-up is a lucrative career move, according this year's Mirza & Nacey survey of QSs' fees
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FeaturesWish you were here?
Professionals from the construction industry have a lot to offer when it comes to disaster relief. But helping traumatised locals to rebuild their lives is a sensitive business. As Marcus Fairs and Matthew Richards discover, Rambos need not apply
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FeaturesGreat expectation
After years of abortive planning, a realistic scheme is finally emerging for the redevelopment of King's Cross, and it's billed as the most exciting regeneration project in central London for a century and a half. In the first of three articles in the run-up to Prescott's urban summit, Martin Spring ...
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FeaturesSpotless enterprise
Is there life on Mars? Britain is sending a robotic spacecraft to find out. But the space experts' first challenge was to create a room so spotless, the craft could be built bacteria-free. Otherwise it might confuse Martian germs with the Milton Keynes variety … Andy Pearson boldly went to ...
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FeaturesAfter Wembley
Two years of working flat out trying to get the new national stadium built would be enough to persuade most of us to hang up our boots, but Paul Gandy, managing director of the UK arm of Multiplex, has set himself a new goal – building, rather than demolishing, famous ...
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Sitting pretty
Creating the right impression can help your career and your work environment.
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FeaturesSense and sensuality
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma synthesises Japanese traditionalism and European modernism in the form of a bamboo house in the forests of China. Sounds about right for this year's winner of Finland's Spirit of Nature Wood Architecture Award …
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Your neck of the woods
As in most Building regional surveys, how you’re doing depends on where you’re doing it.
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Lead times
Lead times continued to decline in the past quarter, with only three packages taking longer to arrive on site, according to Mace. Gardiner & Theobald reveal how technology is raising the performance of the lifts
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FeaturesPrivate sector housebuilder of the year
The supreme award in this category, sponsored by Eternit building materials, goes to south-east player Laing Homes
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Game theory
Keeping everybody with an interest in your project happy can involve complicated strategies – that is why it's worth learning the rules …
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Domestic roofing
Roofing material on residences is not limited to tiles and slates – many less traditional options are available, from asphalt to zinc. So how do you choose? Anthony Brett of Davis Langdon Schumann Smith outlines what you need to consider when specifying a domestic roof
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FeaturesLearning curves
The town had never seen one, the architect had never built one, the budget was as tight as a tourniquet, there was almost no time to plan it, and everything depended on the specification. We tell the story of how a primary school in Kent got itself a curved ...
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FeaturesMost creative marketing strategy
Swansea Housing Association triumphed in this category, sponsored by Wood for Good, for taking on the challenges of selling urban regeneration and changing the image of affordable housing – and succeeding in both.
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FeaturesLifetime costs: flat roofs
Asphalt, single-ply polymers and built-up roofing systems are the main options for covering a flat roof – but which offers the best value over its lifetime? Peter Mayer of the Building Performance Group breaks the costs down, and explains how to make your roof last longer
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FeaturesIf winter comes …
The Swiss Re tower is going to be a fine skyscraper, but as demand for offices in London cools, 250,000 ft2 of it is still unlet. The forecast? Developers are going into hibernation and any contractors caught out in the open are in danger of severe exposure.
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FeaturesBest company-wide sustainability strategy
The Peabody Trust has done the double in Building's awards this year. It picked up the sustainability prize in the Building Awards 2002, and now picks up this award, which is sponsored by Thermalite.
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FeaturesBest land and planning strategy
Buying brown and involving the community put Linden homes ahead of the rest in this category, sponsored by English Partnerships.