All Features articles – Page 595
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Whole-life cost model
Two years after the first Whole-life cost model, Citex has returned to the office sector, updating its occupancy costs for three model buildings and comparing it with this City of London office block
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Chance of a lifetime
Peter Mason - It's time to put into practice the lessons we learned in the last recession, and add value.
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Why grey and brown?
Sally Sullivan - Hospitals don't have to look so drab, but it will take manufacturers' help to brighten them up
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Five of the best places to network
Manchester:The Atlas bar (376 Deansgate) is a favourite watering hole for designers, as is Loaf (5-6 Deansgate Locks, Whitworth Street West). On a more professional note, check out the Centre for Understanding of the Built Environment, or CUBE, (113 Portland Street), which is becoming a key networking location.Bristol:The bars and ...
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Appointments
ContractorsJohn Sisk & Son has appointed Julian Armitage training manager. Hotel and leisure contractor Ramparts Interior Contracts has made Gary Crosbie sales and marketing director. HousebuildersDavid Cummings (right) has been appointed construction director in the Northern Home Counties division of Fairclough Homes.ConsultantsAndrew Henry has been appointed regional sales and ...
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Alan Howarth
The arts minister's passion for better design has won high marks, but does his culture department have enough clout to make it happen?
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Adjudication: What's the verdict?
Adjudication was introduced in 1998 as a drastic remedy to a drastic problem. Now memories of the bad old days are fading and industry surveys show that some are wondering if the cure is worse than the disease. What's more, the issue is in Nick Raynsford's in-tray.
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There's something strange in the attic …
From the street, it's a listed Victorian warehouse. But up on the roof, a weird £250,000 extension is being built to showcase the latest building technologies.
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The 2001 Entrepreneur of the year award
Are you the construction industry's James Dyson? Have you taken an embryonic or failing business and turned it into a multimillion-pound success story, just like John Morgan (see the Building Business supplement free with this issue)?
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Tim Walker
Prescott's site safety summit is only four days away, so it's no wonder the new boss of the Health and Safety Executive has his attention firmly fixed on construction.
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Revolution in retirement
McCarthy & Stone may be in the business of building retirement homes, but its attitude to IT is far from fuddy-duddy.
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Fire-Resistant Facade
Schüco has designed a fire-resistant facade, the BF F30/G30, to prevent fire spreading between buildings or to create escape corridors within them.
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Flagship enterprise
Green architecture, integrated community services, lifelong learning and lots of big drums are all showcased in Edward Cullinan Architects' Greenwich Millennium Village primary school.
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A degree of skill
How a pilot course in construction and property aims to tackle skills shortages in the industry.
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Cost Update
This quarterly analysis looks at prices for mechanical heating and labour rates for electrical contracting.
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Appointments
ContractorsRegional construction group EBC has appointed Mark Hoyland commercial director for its Eastleigh and Reading offices.Tim Westwood (right) has joined Kier Regional as regional business development manager.Linford Building Group has appointed Steve Chinn marketing director. Ian Tyrls has been made design-and-build manager.Terry Whittingham has joined SOL Construction as business ...
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Who's shortlisted for the 2001 Building Awards?
Fifty-nine of the industry's leading companies were shortlisted this week for the 2001 Building Awards. Now in their seventh year, the awards honour financial success, excellent management, professionalism, investment and innovation. There are two new awards – for sustainability and e-construction – recognising new challenges facing the industry in ...
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12 steps to a safer industry
Next week the construction industry will present its ideas for reducing site accidents to the safety summit demanded by John Prescott. In preparation, Building invited seven people with extensive site experience to our own mini-summit to find out what they are doing to improve safety – and what more could ...
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Sheriff of the skyline
When Carl Powell arrived as Westminster's planning director, developers expected a high-rise bonanza. But the Texan has spent the last two years cutting them down to size.
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Supporting rights
Tara Meagher, of law firm Beale and Company, clarifies a worker's new 'right to be accompanied'.