All Features articles – Page 585
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Vanishing acts
How are the empty seats around industry's boardroom tables being filled? By raiding parties snatching the brightest and best from rivals and other sectors. And it looks like the vacuum will suck in even more companies before it is filled.
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£350m Thameslink deal puts Jarvis in top spot
Mace jumps into second with £201m of work, but Bovis and Sir Robert McAlpine still dominate annual tables.
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Cost update: March 2002
The increase in construction inflation rates hides a much more modest rise in retail inflation, according to Davis Langdon & Everest. And turn to page 60 for an analysis of the likely effect of the imminent aggregates tax on the industry
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Our new police state
The government has taken control of housing, and the result is more mergers and takeovers – and a disastrous slump in the number of homes being built
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FeaturesThe talented Mr Ripply
An open air museum in Sussex has charted timber-frame from Tudors and traditional cottages to arrive at a new architectural idiom for the countryside
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Mind your language
As construction sites become increasingly dependent on foreign workers, Matthew Richards asks whether the industry is doing enough to break down a potentially fatal language barrier
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FeaturesMy kind of town
Why waste time designing a mere building when you can create your own city? When you're done, you can stroll through the boulevards, or even shoot 300 m into the air for a bird's eye view. Andy Pearson ponders on the practicalities of playing God
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FeaturesEden better
Aggregates group RMC has the finest, most magical head office of any company in the construction industry. In fact, hanging gardens make it look more like uninterrupted parkland than a headquarters. So why did its owner want to change it? Martin Spring found out.
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Let's make it better
Training consultant Uly Ma talks to Victoria Madine about Project BUILD, a scheme for helping managers improve the working environment
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FeaturesAppointments
ConsultantsAlan Wedlock has joined quantity surveyor Cyril Sweett's consulting team as senior consultant. Simon Rowland, formerly partner at Watson Burton, has joined law firm Dickinson Dees as associate. V&A Project Management has appointed Jimmy Floyd, formerly with Scottish & Newcastle, project manager in its Newcastle office. HousebuildersHomes developer ...
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2200 housing associations have 5 years to comply with 37 performance indicators. Can they handle it?
In our new regular section on housing, Victoria Madine reveals how housing associations have been given five years to comply with the Egan agenda, and overleaf, Roger Humber bemoans the forced nationalisation of housebuilding
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Was it worth it?
Three years late and more than £20m over budget, Stephen Hodder's Clissold Leisure Centre became notorious as the pool that sank Hackney. Marcus Fairs asked residents whether they felt it was money well spent
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Worth the risk?
Professional indemnity premiums are soaring for consultants, hitting the biggest on their bottom line and threatening the viability of smaller firms. But as Victoria Madine discovers, it's still possible to find a better deal.
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Just the job
Architect Jane Briginshaw tells Matthew Richards how on earth she manages to run her own practice, lecture at a university and be an active local councillor
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FeaturesThe go-getter
Amanda Clack, the youngest-ever fellow of the RICS, is leading a shake-up of her profession. Here she tells Victoria Madine why project managers do not deserve the bad press they sometimes get from the rest of the project team.
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The human factor
When the market wobbles, you need key staff more than ever you did when it was booming
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FeaturesDo it the easy way
A three-house terrace in the east end of London, built entirely from aircrete blocks, is the testing ground for a fast, efficient, hassle-free construction system that could revolutionise housebuilding. Andy Pearson finds out whether it lives up to expectations
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Cost study: West Lothian College
A brand new campus developed on a greenfield site in Livingston, procured through PFI by trading in the former college site, was the best way to offer West Lothian College real value for money. HBG Construction and architect RMJM Scotland explain how they accommodated both traditional and high-tech styles – ...