All Features articles – Page 569
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The Top 200 Consultants 2002
This year’s consultants league table ranks the biggest 200 consultants in the UK, followed by the top 100 architects, engineers, surveyors, QSs and building surveyors. But does size really matter? We discuss its relevance with the assistance of a canine analogy …Tables compiled by Martin Hewes
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Taking the plunge
This time last year, the City couldn't lift contractors high enough. Today, shares are plummeting the same day that firms announce splendid profit growth. What on earth is the City up to?
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FeaturesLean machine
Richard O'Connor is out to slimline the construction industry's waste. Applying the lessons of the automotive industry, he says he can save builders time and money. Victoria Madine finds out just what a professional streamliner has to offer.
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FeaturesOne giant leap
An twisted ski jump by Zaha Hadid – half high-tech elegance, half jackal-headed god of the dead – has given the people of Austria something remarkable to fling themselves off at high speed …
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Focus on the regions
How are activity levels and order books changing around the UK? The figures give the balance of firms reporting an increase compared with those reporting a decrease
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Featureskeeping up a facade
It's all very well designing buildings with extraordinary shapes, but do the architects ever stop to consider how the windows are going to be cleaned? Well, yes, actually, they do. Thomas Lane met the specialist who worked with Norman Foster on the Swiss Re tower
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Up the evolution
The times they are a-changing, and contractors will have to be imaginative to adapt to them
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Five ways to raise your company's profile
Where's your website? If you have a website then let everyone know about it. Include the address on your letterheads, any promotional material and on your business cards – wherever you can.And how about your address? For those with websites, make sure your address and telephone number are prominently displayed. ...
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A summer chill
In this month's Tracker, Construction Forecasting and Research reports that activity across the construction industry declined in July, with large firms and civil engineers suffering the most
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FeaturesDead on arrival?
With the government investing billions in healthcare facilities, the NHS is finally getting its chance to join the 21st century. But experts are already warning that essential design is being squeezed out of this vision. With technology and medical procedures advancing at the pace they are, our shiny new hospitals, ...
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Bovis hits winning streak with £145m Arndale deal
A £125m deal to refurbish and extend Manchester shopping centre takes contractor into lead position.
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FeaturesAppointments
ContractorsHampshire-based building contractor and developer Drew Construction Group has appointed Bill Rabbetts chairman. Amanda Allen, has become business development manager of fit-out and refurbishment company Vivid Interiors. HousebuildersKaren Ostler has joined housebuilder Lovell as business development manager for the Midlands region. She will be responsible for redevelopment and ...
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Going mentor
Teenager Rachel Babic is taking part in housebuilder Lovell's company mentoring scheme. Joanne Lambert asked her what she thought of the programme
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FeaturesPleased and Prowed
Cardiff may be bustling, and its bay may be the largest regeneration project in Europe, but critics have derided its architecture – partly because every building seems to think it's a boat. Local boy Peter Rees, head planner at the Corporation of London, returned to give his verdict.
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FeaturesMerchants of Venice
The world's best designers have descended on the Venice Biennale to show their wares again – so where's world architecture going next?
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FeaturesThe new man at the top
The guessing is finally over. Peter Rogers has replaced Sir John Egan as head of the ultimate industry body, the strategic forum. Here he takes Marcus Fairs through his agenda – and explains where Egan went wrong.
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FeaturesModule behaviour
Despite the tricky site, Raines Dairy in north London – Peabody Trust's follow-up to the acclaimed Murray Grove – is set to be the UK's largest ever prefabricated affordable housing scheme. Andy Pearson reports on the fully kitted-out modules and partnering contract that are all slotting together perfectly
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Cost update: September 2002
In Hot Rates this quarter, Davis Langdon & Everest examines the current prices of typical groundworks items in various regions – plus there's the latest in labour costs and building materials price changes
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Foreign agents
Jonald Vos, recruitment consultant at Hays Montrose International Executive, gives advice on how to take those first steps in the overseas recruitment market