All Features articles – Page 572
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Mansell to close troubled maintenance arm
Contractor Mansell is closing its loss-making maintenance arm as part of a plan to float on the stock exchange.This decision will mean the closure of four offices in Glasgow, Warrington, Cheshire, Reading, Berkshire and Leeds. The £492m group has yet to finalise details of redundancies at the division, which employs ...
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Shennan in talks over key post at Bluestone
Former Kier National boss Graham Shennan could soon join Morgan Sindall's loss-making regional contracting business Bluestone.Building understands that Shennan, who left Kier in May, has been offered a specially created role on the board of directors at Bluestone in an attempt to turn the division around.John Morgan, executive chairman of ...
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FeaturesWhen Wimpey met Wayne
Last year, fashion guru Wayne Hemingway launched a very public attack on volume housing. So housebuilder Wimpey offered him a job. Marcus Fairs found out what happened next …
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FeaturesWho dares, wins
Interim managers are a bit like the SAS of the construction industry – they come in, clear up the mess and get out again – and construction firms are increasingly turning to them for help in difficult times. But why, asks Victoria Madine, doesn't anyone want to talk about it?
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FeaturesCost model: Energy savings
Following April’s budget, landlords can claim tax relief if they invest in energy-efficient technologies. But will these savings cover the extra initial outlay? Patrick Murdock, head of capital allowances consulting at Cyril Sweett, and Simon Harris, associate in the firm’s engineering services cost management team, use the case study of ...
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Children of the revolution
IT was supposed to transform the construction industry. Over the past few years there have been incredible technological advances – but for every firm that's using online collaboration and intelligent objects, there are dozens that are sticking to tried-and-tested methods. So how did construction get stuck in the slow ...
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Temporary blip
Katy Butland and Elizabeth Kinloch, consultants at the Building Recruitment Company, compare the pros and cons of temporary and permanent positions
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FeaturesAppointments
ContractorsContrad Construction has appointed Colin Sims construction manager. He will be responsible for projects in the west London area.Construction group Morgan Sindall's fit-out division has appointed John Scott health and safety manager.HousebuildersSharron Taylor and Pamela Brown (left) have joined Furlong Homes' sales team in its office in Islington, north London. ...
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£13m university job helps HBG stay on top in June
Dutch firm is closely followed by Australian contractor Multiplex, which nabs second place from troubled Ballast.
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FeaturesThe wasteland
With 4000 ha of brownfield land, the Thames Gateway could be the answer to London's housing crisis. But in the absence of a strategic masterplan, the area's potential is being squandered.
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FeaturesLighting the way
A Tokyo art gallery perched atop a skyscraper needed a ground-level entrance building to lure visitors in. The architect's response – a giant glass, elliptical Japanese lantern – demanded some inspirational structural engineering.
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Wish you worked here?
Earn your true potential! Engineer required to work in jungle. Must be prepared for civil unrest and tough conditions. £60,000+ tax free. Tempted? Well that's where the money is– the 2002 Hays Montrose/Building international salary survey shows that elsewhere in the world, salaries are largely unchanged
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Down but not out
In this month's tracker, Construction Forecasting and Research reveals a downturn in activity levels in May – although the industry remains bouyed by a positive long-term outlook
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FeaturesShadow boxer
Tory construction spokesman Robert Key is something of a country gent – but don't expect him to pull any punches Gordon Brown's latest spending spree or the industry's skills crisis.
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Features'Michael told us he was going to go on holiday for a few weeks. We expected him to come back'
After the death of the great architect Sir James Stirling 10 years ago, his partner Michael Wilford (pictured) stepped up to steer the practice forward. Then Wilford suddenly walked out, his partners claim.
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Appointments
Contractors Liverpool-based David McLean Contractors has appointed David McCormick supply chain manager.Housebuilders Paul Bennett has been appointed sales and marketing director of Laing Homes North Homes Counties.Brian Duckworth, chairman of Severn Trent Water, has been made non-executive director of Redrow Homes.Consultants Engineering and environmental consultant White Young Green has appointed ...
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Tell us about yourself
The sixth Hays Montrose/Building careers survey offers a chance to share your views on your job and career plans.
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Sound system
Demanding new acoustic regulations for dwellings – Part E – are going to be making some serious noise over the next year, as specifiers have to come up with sound insulation solutions to avoid rigorous tests. We take a look at the implications of the proposals, and how specifiers north ...
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Regulations: Spelling it out
Across-the-board revisions to the Building Regulations are going to have a dramatic effect on every specifier this summer. Buro Happold's Tanya Ross talks us through the new approved documents – including those in Scotland and Northern Ireland – from A to V