All Features articles – Page 600
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Putting our houses in order
Recent government commitments to social housebuilding look impressive. But how much can really be delivered over the next three years?
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Inspired images
Another glossy architectural tome with the usual gleaming pictures, but as the essays from Lord Rogers and Tony Blair make clear, this is more than just coffee table fodder.
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Just the job
Graeme Demianyk speaks to Pete Coombes about his move from yacht design to heading Assael Architecture's new visualisation department
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The revolutionary
Deryk Eke is charged with ensuring the government gets the most for its money. Building talks to him about his radical plans
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Client profile: Manchester Airport
More on Manchester, as Building meets Andy Campbell, head of development at Manchester Airport, to find out about its billion-pound construction plans – and whether it really is one of Britain's toughest clients.
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Appointments
ContractorsRichard Butler has joined Northampton-based Winvic Construction as project manager.Birse Building has appointed Wendy Jones, previously with Payne Building Contractors, as marketing manager for the southern region.Buxton has appointed two site managers, Sean Keenan and Mike Cotton, for contracts in the Midlands.HousebuildersRoger Brenan has been made managing director of Swan ...
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The axeman
You may think Andrew Wyllie doesn't look the kind of guy who'd happily tell 800 people they were out of a job – and you'd be right. The Taywood boss couldn't sleep at night while he did it. He tells Building why it was still the right thing to do.
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Chemical reaction
Having revealed the appalling state of his chemistry department to a TV crew, Cambridge professor David King secured part of a government refurbishment grant to give it a new lease of life.
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Cost update
The rise in construction activity has led to a sharp increase in hourly rates in the M&E sector, particularly in London. Davis Langdon & Everest looked at what this has meant for wage deals and the prices of key components
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Still counting
Six months after the government warned construction to improve site safety or face the consequences, the death toll continues to mount. Is the industry now living on borrowed time?
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Dear Robert
This month, tips on how to return to the employment market after redundancy and strategies for recruiting the best bright young things
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Digging the new
Laser-scanning photogrammetry from helicopters? Video glasses connecting site workers together through the internet? You ain't seen nothing yet …
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Heart failure
The Commonwealth Games studium may be a triumph, but the £2bn regeneration scheme that was to go with it has run into the buffers.
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Up and running
In 2002, Manchester will host the Commonwealth Games, and the east of the city will undergo radical changes to prepare for it. From the ambitious expansion of its airport to the troubled regeneration of the area around the new Sportcity, Building takes a look at the city's most exciting and ...
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Appointments
ContractorsBallast has appointed Nigel Brook and Phillip Cooper main board directors. Trevor Curtis, previously with Amec, has been appointed project director. The Wincanton office of Cowlin Construction has appointed Bill Badham (right) managing director. Pauline Speight has joined Morgan Sindall as director of people development for the firm's national construction ...
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Other industries: Stage constructors
How do other industries rise to the challenge of meeting their clients' needs? In the first of a new series, Building meets staging company ESS, which has to design, plan and construct a vast stage for superstar Tom Jones in just two months
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Eddie McElhinney
The quiet Irishman who has become one of the UK's biggest manufacturers never even considered giving an interview before. So, why is he talking now? And what does he have to say about the industry he supplies?
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Going places
Building takes a summer holiday next week, but before packing our bags we asked the industry's top people about the holiday homes they own and love. Summer on a Scottich railwayGeoff Mann’s awfully big holiday adventure isn’t just a cottage renovation in the southern uplands of Scotland – it’s a ...
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Sails network
Building talks to Ian Parfitt, senior partner at quantity surveyor RPA, about why he and his Cardiff colleagues take to the waves every summer
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Ralph's rainbow
Black, gold, crimson, orange, blue, green: the first view of Erskine's Greenwich Millennium Village is of a riot in a paint factory.