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Appointments
ContractorsSouth-eastern roofing contractor Maguire Brothers has appointed Andre Gailani, previously with Aspect Roofing, to its surveying and estimating team.HousebuildersPaul Phipps (right) has been appointed head of Wates Group's new division Wates Residential Developments.ConsultantsMultidisciplinary consultant Barton Willmore has made the following promotions: Les West and Alan Soldat have been made directors; ...
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Royal treatment
Prince Charles is expected to outline his agenda as the design champion of the NHS today. Stuart Black looks at the thinking behind his appointment, and what else is being done to make private finance compatible with a first-class health service
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Performance piece
An arched glass roof encasing Philadelphia's new performing arts centre, designed by American architect Rafael Viñoly and British engineer Dewhurst Macfarlane and Partners, is guaranteed to get rave reviews
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The hard part
Meet the actress who became a temp, set up a management consultant and took a degree in France. Now she wants to try something challenging: turning around ailing quantity surveyor MDA.
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Bovis Lend Lease shoots to the top in October
Contractor is £64m clear of second-place Skanska, thanks to £100m Norwich factory job.
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Supreme winner and best public housing development
Newington GreenWith its six storeys of curved brick cladding, housing association Peabody Trust's Newington Green scheme in Stoke Newington, north London, is a landmark in its urban crossroads setting. The tower is the centrepiece of the £4m mixed-use scheme, which comprises 42 shared ownership and for-sale homes, a medical centre ...
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Best private housing development
This is a good example of brick used in combination with other materials. It does its job very well and fits into the strong, confident design with easeShortlistApartments, Wordsley, West MidlandsThe canal-side apartments reflect the area’s industrial heritage in their form and detailingArchitect: Construction Design ServicesMain contractor: Morris Homes West ...
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Best structural use of brick
Gillingham Northern Relief RoadThe best structural use of brick in the UK is on the Gillingham northern relief road in Kent. One million bricks have been used on the project, which covers four miles of dual carriageway, four bridges and a subway. Medway council chose brick because it wanted to ...
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Best landscape
This development, sited along both banks of a river, is held together by the continuity of surface provided by the paving, which is convincing both in design and executionShortlistPeurto de Zierbena, Bizraia, SpainThe port-side landscaping is given unity by the pavers which are used for paths and terraces that sweep ...
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Best commercial building
This is a well disciplined, carefully detailed and finely executed example of a city-centre buildingShortlistOffices, Wigmore Street, LondonA set of well designed elevations emphasising the horizontalArchitect: Kalyvides PartnershipMain contractor: Charter ConstrucionStructural Engineer: Pell FrischmannBrick: Baggeridge Classic Buff Sovereign Stock Alder Castle, Noble Street, LondonHand-set and Pre-cast cladding ...
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Best public building
lakeside is an identifiable place on campus, tightly controlled by the way in which the materials are usedShortlistTurnpike Lane Bus StationA prime example of how brick can be used to help designers capture the mood of an earlier era. In this case, william holden’s art deco tube stationArchitect: The Rogers ...
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Best refurbishment
UCL CruciformKey to the successful restoration of UCL's Victorian buildings was the development of a new brick, which matched the colour and texture of the originals. Ibstock manufactured the original non-imperial sized bricks, but as the clay pits have long since been worked out it had to spend five months ...
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Best Single House
There was no overall winner for this category, but two houses made the shortlist: a new house in Moira, Co. Down and Quaker's House, North Crawley, Buckinghamshire. The two buildings are very different. One is a new house on a virgin site, the other a traditionally detailed extension to an ...
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Best Craftsmanship Award
Nicholas Evans' Sussex projectsCraftsman bricklayer Nicholas Evans has spent the last four years creating intricately-detailed brick structures in a private garden in Sussex.An orangery, cloistered garden court and fruit garden are among the pieces of traditional brickwork that impressed the judges. They praised the overall consistency of build and appreciated ...
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Best Export Award
This building sits well in the street, has a character of its own, and is an excellent demonstration of a traditional product used in an original and creative wayShortlistHorome Triton Square, TokyoBrick is used both internally and externally to provide a recurrent theme across a number of buildingsArchitect: Yamashita SekkeiMain ...
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Appointments
ContractorsProperty, development and construction firm Pettifer Group has promoted Carole Flavell to supply chain manager. HousebuildersRedrow Homes Southern has appointed Chris Sparks land director. He will be responsible for acquiring land.ConsultantsMichael Duck, formerly of MJ Sumner, has joined Edward Symmons & Partners as senior surveyor. He will work alongside ...
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A woman's work …
Eleanor Cochrane talks to Jim Briggs, commercial director of Durkan, a member of the Building Work for Women steering committee
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Top 200 Consultants
Welcome to this year's league tables of architects, surveyors and engineers. Once again, numbers have swelled: the 200 companies on our list have 120,000 staff between them – that's 11% more than last year. A 13% rise in engineering employees across the board reflects growth spurts in the engineering-based consultancies ...
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Treading water
It's a little tougher at the top, according to the 2001 Hays Montrose/Building executive salary guide. But with salaries static, many companies are sweetening the pill with increased perks. Victoria Madine and Alex Smith peer into the wage envelope.