All Features articles – Page 593
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Reining in the Trojan horses
Developers stand accused of employing superstar architects to hoodwink planners – and then dumping them for lesser designers. How can we stop the dumbing-down of architecture?
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Support the home team
Philip Cleaver - explains how Mansell spots native talent and then grooms it for senior management
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Here's one we made earlier
Cardboard isn't just for Blue Peter. Buro Happold thinks it's the green building material of the future, and is testing its theory on an Essex school. Thomas Lane finds out how to build with giant toilet rolls – and asks what happens if it rains
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Dublin in height
It's twice as tall as its neighbours and clad in tropical hardwood, so it's no surprise that some were nervous about de Blacam and Meagher's Temple Bar tower.
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G'day I'm here to save your company
Antipodean graduates venturing to the UK used to be stuck with pulling pints. Now, relaxed visa rules designed to alleviate skills shortages mean they are being welcomed with open arms by the construction professions.
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Taming the Celtic tiger
Ireland's construction boom is bringing pressures that threaten to undermine it: skills shortages, lack of regulation and overstretched planning departments. What's more, where are all these buildings supposed to go?
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Appointments
ContractorsBrian Cullum has joined Higgins Construction as business manager.Try Interiors, the interior fit-out division of Try Construction, has appointed Barry Couzens sales and marketing manager.Andrew Crispin and Andrew Postlethwaite have been promoted to directors at fit-out contractor Walter Lilly, part of YJL.HousebuildersLovell has appointed Marcus Keys, formerly of the Housing ...
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Five alternatives to MIPIM
Didn't make it to this week's MIPIM property fair in Cannes? Never mind, here are five more glamorous networking opportunitiesBarcelona Europe's number-two property fair after MIPIM, Meeting Point Barcelona, claims to get 15,000 visitors – almost as many as its Cannes rival. Last year's highlight was a cocktail reception at ...
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Bovis Lend Lease steals a £100m march in February
Four contracts worth a total of £196.4m help Bovis Lend Lease to add to its lead in annual contractors' table.
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The right stone
Nick Schumann - How to prevent a disaster when specifying natural materials
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Twin peaks
Despite the disasters, delays and last year's crane tragedy that left three men dead, the race to complete Britain's second tallest buildings is nearing completion. The twin monoliths that will be HSBC and Citigroup's HQs, now jostle for space in the London skyline
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Panic over
Manufacturers are confident that the new Part L will not spell the end for brick-and-block construction. Here's how they and their timber-frame producing rivals are gearing up for the change
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A school of one's own
Richard Saxon - explains how Building Design Partnership became a PFI consortium
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Noises off
The DETR's revisions to the acoustic regulations are set to cost the industry £75m a year. Here's how they would work, and overleaf, how materials firms and housebuilders are reacting to the proposals
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FeaturesWhy Regulations matter
Paul Everall, the DETR's head of Building Regulations, explains why and how the government reviews its rules
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Lead times
Mace tracks the lead times of 38 works packages and, Gardiner & Theobald analyses in detail movements in the market for mechanical and electrical contractors.
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How to survive MIPIM
Heading off to Cannes next week for the MIPIM property fair? If you want to keep your cred and be seen at all the coolest hang-outs, you'd better read this first
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Foster's station at the heart of Europe
Dresden wanted to establish itself as the centre of Central Europe, so it called in Foster and Partners to do something dramatic with its 19th-century station. This is what it got …
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Turn that down!
Housebuilders and manufacturers are less than delighted with the beefed-up Part E. But will the proposals really hurt their businesses?