All Features articles – Page 572
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Appointments
ContractorsTaylor Woodrow has appointed Jonathan Murrin investor relations manager.ConsultantsArchitect Stride Treglown Group has appointed Gareth Davies, previously with Holder Mathias Alcock, regional director for Wales. Dominic Eaton, Martin Pease and Richard Philipson have been appointed divisional directors in the firm's Bristol office and Katherine Foster, Tony Davies and Darren Wilkins ...
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Working abroad
Mandy Clarke, personnel director at engineer Buro Happold, tells Victoria Madine how the company selects and prepares employees for secondments abroad
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New model army
In a frantic bid for seasonal frivolity, we accosted an assortment of industry types, plied them with wine, and locked them in a room with a vast pile of household junk and a brief to recreate 2001's iconic buildings in true Blue Peter style. But would the architects, engineers or ...
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2001: A sobering year
It began with a champagne-propelled property fair on the Côte d'Azur, and ended with firms cancelling their Christmas parties to save money. In between, 2001 was dominated by the attacks on America and Afghanistan but it also included Labour's election landslide, the foot-and-mouth epidemic, the Wembley fiasco, a saucy recruitment ...
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Taking the wrap
From weighty architectural volumes to pocket-sized guides, Martin Spring looks at the best of the year's building books that you might like to give away this Christmas – or keep for yourself
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Five tips on spicing up your office party
Be innovative with your invitations to help set the mood of the party before it even begins. "We've produced snowdomes, Ali G-style medallions and bamboo scrolls," says Danielle Nay, managing director at event organiser Dr Party.Go for something unexpected on the entertainment front. "We've booked drunken waiters," says Wendy Clark ...
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Star of Dresden
Wandel Hoefer Lorch & Hirsch's synagogue and community centre bring architectural inspiration to an urban wasteland
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Comput-a-recruit
Forget filling in a quiz to find your ideal partner – now, high-profile companies are using psycho-profiling to discover which candidates fit a specific type to complement the rest of the team. But, Victoria Madine asks, does it work?
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Brian Wilson
In an exclusive first interview, industry minister Brian Wilson talks to Building about the procurement lessons of Picketts Lock, making construction feel at home in the DTI – and his Beach Boy namesake.
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Sounding the fire alarm
Use a blowtorch next to a stack of polystyrene insulation blocks, polythene-wrapped to a wooden pallet, and sooner than you can cite the health and safety code, you've got a roomful of poison gas. Something like this happens 11 times a day on UK sites. Tom Lane asks what's going ...
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Lead times
The lead times for this quarter show that the sky hasn't fallen in yet for manufacturers, but suspended ceilings have been a bit shaky, as Gardiner & Theobald finds. For starters, Mace tracks the lead times for 38 works packages
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Dear Robert
This month, Robert Smith, boss of Hays Montrose, advises on making the most of your personal assistant and the the opportunities for a newly qualified QS in Edinburgh
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PFI: off the critical list
For a while, it looked as if the PFI – and with it the business plans of dozens of contractors – was sinking under a welter of abuse. Now, parliament's bookkeeper has found that it does offer value for money.
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From executive box to chocolate box
When the government told housebuilders to drop executive estates, the reaction was frigid. But some firms have shown that high quality, high-density homes can mean high profits – even if the results can sometimes be a little soft-centred.
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Colour me beautiful
Sexy and tough, polycarbonate has a great future and Tate Modern architect Herzog & de Meuron has just covered the Laban Centre in south-east London in it. Thomas Lane meets the new kid on the cladding block
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Appointments
Housebuilders Cala Homes has appointed Catherine Padgett (right), previously with Wilson Connolly, sales adviser.Brownfield housebuilder Linden Homes Western has appointed Toby Ballard managing director. He was the land director for its South-east division.ClientsNevin Holden has been appointed land and planning director of strategic land company Barwood Land.Roger Duncombe (right), previously ...