All Features articles – Page 572
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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Five things you need to know about office romance
Know any architects? A whopping 48% of designers are single. So if your office isn't packed with available talent – you know where to go.Who needs dating agencies? One in four long-term relationships starts at work. Long working hours and a shared interest mean you're as likely to meet someone ...
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FeaturesAfter the fall
A year after the day that everybody said would change everything forever, we have apparently returned to business as usual. But, as Matthew Richards reports, the commercial and psychological trauma of 11 September is still very much with us
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FeaturesCost model: Tall buildings
Despite the fate of the World Trade Centre, developer interest in tall buildings hasn’t diminished – and will increase if the mayor’s plan for London is put into effect. Here Davis Langdon & Everest, Arup and Mott Green and Wall summarise the key issues and examine the costs of building ...
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Take a chance on PPP?
This postcard from Sweden looks at the struggle over the use of private finance in public projects. After next week's election, a decision must be made
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FeaturesFilth, dirt and poison
Removing toxins from soil has become one of the most vital and dynamic areas of modern construction. Here's a guide to the latest techniques on the market and an insight into how microbes are eliminating the poisons at a former colliery site in Yorkshire – by eating them.
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FeaturesPure genius
Having made his millions with his own construction firm, Irishman John Fleming now wants to become the UK's biggest supplier of prefab housing. But he's prepared to make us wait until his system is perfect …