All Features articles – Page 576
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FeaturesHow to Account for taste
Can you give a building marks for design quality? The Construction Industry Council says yes, and has devised a system to do it. Martin Spring explains this 'design quality indicator' and assesses how well it sums up Hodder Associates' Walsall swimming pool.
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FeaturesAppointments
ContractorsRichard Baldwin has joined the board at Geoffrey Osbourne as a non-executive director.David Johnson, previously of Shepherd Building Group, has been appointed managing director at Foremans.HousebuildersMarcus Keys (left) has been appointed business improvement manager at affordable housing provider Lovell.ConsultantsInterior architect MCM has appointed John Carroll, previously a director a Pricewaterhouse ...
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Delivery boy
Project delivery manager Rob Phillips talks about his role with fit-out contractor Vivid Interior and why it could be the start of a new industry career path
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FeaturesSink or swim: DQI on test at Darlaston Pool
As The DQI building appraisal system uses similar criteria to those used in Building's "Building revisited" series, Building decided to return the complement. Here the DQI is itself appraised in one of its pilot projects, a post-occupancy appraisal providing feedback from a recently completed building. This is the award-winning Darlaston ...
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FeaturesA taste of its own medicine
HM Treasury has given the PFI the ultimate endorsement – by using it to transform its own Whitehall property. And by awarding the job to a premier league project team, it has proved that a public–private partnership doesn't have to mean cheapskate design
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Lead Times
The lead times for this quarter are continuing to decline, reports Mace, thanks to better relations with the supply chain and decreasing pressure on design offices. And overleaf Gardiner & Theobald reveals a positive outlook for curtain walling companies – despite the tougher standards of the new Part L
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FeaturesMetal Michelangelo
Bill Tustin is a huge Sid James-soundalike with the mind of an angel and the beard of a gnome who can build and price structures as complex as the London Eye in his head while making clothing out of the bowels of journalists. Marcus Fairs spends a happy afternoon being ...
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FeaturesWhere there's a mill …
Gateshead's Baltic centre gallery is the offspring of an impoverished but visionary council and an unemployed architect who designed it in his bedroom. So what else is special about it?
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FeaturesAppointments
ContractorsHochtief has announced the appointment of Stephen Ives as managing director of Hochtief (UK) Construction. He takes over from Leslie Forrest.Gleeson's rail subsidiary, Gleeson MCL, has promoted Danny Duggan to deputy managing director. He joined the company in 1984 as a site agent.HousebuildersEdward Ware Homes has created an in-house architecture ...
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FeaturesHow to attract women
The all too frequent perception of women in construction is either as secretaries or pin-ups on site-office walls. But now a small college teaching building studies is deconstructing the industry's macho image. Victoria Madine talks to five of its students – and on page 42, a BAA project manager gives ...
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FeaturesHanging out with the boys
Erica Lay, project manager at BAA, draws on her on-site experiences to offer some advice to girls in the industry
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Chester police escort HBG to top spot in May
Dutch contractor signs deals worth £126m while Sir Robert McAlpine and Bovis dominate yearly table.
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Just the job
Turner & Townsend quantity surveyor Tanya Jeffrey on how the latest leg of a globe-trotting career has taken her to a silicon chip plant in tropical Borneo
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FeaturesResurrection symphony
Bringing a derelict, roofless church back to life and converting it into a state-of-the-art recording studio for one of London's great orchestras was always going to take more than one weekend. The dead cows and eleven hundred corpses didn't help, either.
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FeaturesAppointments
ConsultantsInternational property adviser GVA Grimley has appointed Lance Taylor partner in its project management team.Stephen Buckley has joined Hoare Lee Fire Engineering, a specialist division of Hoare Lea Consulting Engineers, as fire safety engineer. He will be based in the firm's Manchester office.Nick Lloyd has joined multidisciplinary consultant Douglas Wallace ...
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FeaturesMaking life a brise
Cladding an entire office block with motorised louvres to make it comply with the tough new Building Regulation posed a fiendish puzzle to the specifiers – especially as it had never been done before. Alex Smith discovered how the riddle was answered.
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Curtain walling and cladding
There are seven key points that need to be taken into careful consideration when specifying a curtain walling/cladding system, says Peter Claridge of Davis Langdon Schumann Smith. Here's what to watch out for …
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Lifetimes costs: wall claddings
The range of wall claddings available is huge, and in deciding which to specify you must take into account their varying durability and whole-life costs. Peter Mayer of the Building Performance Group examines softwood, plastics and high-pressure laminates
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FeaturesDavid Fison
Just when you thought you'd never hear another good word about the PFI, along comes the new chief of Skanska UK, and he's barely able to contain his enthusiasm for it. Marcus Fairs went to meet him
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FeaturesModels of efficiency
The scions of The Peabody Trust might have been doing some head-scratching after approving the designs for its most recent modular housing scheme at Raines Dairy in Stoke Newington.