All Features articles – Page 596
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The Building/ Hays Montrose careers survey
Architects may be starting to feel the seeping chill of recession, but this year's Building/Hays Montrose Careers survey depicts an industry that's still confident – and desperate for skilled employees.
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Bronzed god
The team building the world's largest statue found designing the cladding a particular challenge. Still, nothing that creating a virtual computer model, building a bespoke foundry and predicting the weather in a thousand years' time couldn't overcome.
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The brick revolution
A brick system that triples the speed of wall construction and does away with the need for a skilled bricklayer, saving both time and money? It could shake the industry to its foundations.
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Meet the new boss
… and the one thing you can say about the supermarket magnates and aerospace high flyers coming in to shake up construction is that they're not the same as the old boss. But are they any better?
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Sir Robert McAlpine leaps to the top in August
Deals worth £113.5m propel contractor up the league table, £50m ahead of nearest rival.
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Appointments
ContractorsMansell has appointed Patrick Scannell, formerly of Bryant, group finance director. HousebuildersChristine Tiernan (right) has been promoted to sales and marketing director of Laing Homes Thames Valley.Westbury Homes has appointed Steve Baker land manager. Antony Rowan has been promoted to assistant land manager.Bristol-based Edward Ware Homes has appointed Peter Webb, ...
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A suitable standard
Designers are swamped with a host of quality assurance standards, which causes confusion
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Teachers' pet
Jarvis has established itself as the firm to beat in the education market. Building finds out how
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Ring master
Barton Willmore's riverside HQ Thames Water is an oasis of civic design in the architecture desert of Reading's city centre.
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Rebuilding lives
Gordon Wordsworth, general manager of Sheffield Rebuild, tells Graeme Demianyk why he decided to prioritise social duty over profit-making
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Lead Times
Mace tracks the lead times of 38 works packages and, Gardiner & Theobald puts brickwork in the spotlight
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'Hospitals should be like supermarkets'
NHS Estates' acting chief Peter Wearmouth has to please doctors, patients and contractors. How?
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healthcare investment outside england
ScotlandScotland is currently investing nearly half a billion pounds in the biggest hospital building programme in the history of the Scottish NHS. Four new hospitals are complete, with two due to be finished by the end of this year, and another two by the end of 2003. Half of these ...
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The water engine
A chance observation in a Moroccan bus gave Charlie Paton an idea that could transform the agriculture of poor and infertile countries around the world. Building finds out how it works
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Do you dig it or don't you?
The CITB wants to attract more young people into building. So, is its latest poster campaign a real, right on, happening event – or just a bit embarrassing? Building asked the yoof of south London
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Difficult sums
Right you lot, pay attention. If 100 firms bid for government investment of £8.5bn over three years, how many will make as much money as they expect to? Is it (a) all of them, (b) only the ones who know the PFI market, or (c) it depends on the government's ...
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The demonising of PFI
A torrent of negative publicity has painted contractors as greedy and callous. Building weighs up the evidence
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A Beginner's guide to health procurement
Department of HealthThe department runs the PFI programme and sets the rules for all other healthcare bodies to follow. In Sold on Health, last year's key report, the NHS was told to overhaul its capital procurement methods to improve design quality, reduce delays and achieve better value. In particular, it ...
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Appointments
ContractorsAshe Construction has promoted Chris Horsfield to contracts director in its London office. In Southampton, Mervyn Butler has been appointed managing director and Clive Harris has been made regional manager.Morgan Lovell has appointed Richard Sanderson (right) head of furniture. Paul Jagger has been appointed estimating and marketing director of JJ ...
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A cure for all ills?
Health and education are the focus of the second in our three-part series on Tony Blair's public spending plans. We examine Labour's £8.5bn schools investment. But of all the government's pledges, its plans to transform the NHS are the most expensive, ambitious and controversial. With PFI and PPP under attack, ...