All Features articles – Page 609

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    A degree of skill

    2001-02-23T00:00:00Z

    How a pilot course in construction and property aims to tackle skills shortages in the industry.

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    Cost Update

    2001-02-23T00:00:00Z

    This quarterly analysis looks at prices for mechanical heating and labour rates for electrical contracting.

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    Appointments

    2001-02-23T00:00:00Z

    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?

    2001-02-23T00:00:00Z

    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

    2001-02-23T00:00:00Z

    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

    2001-02-16T00:00:00Z

    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

    2001-02-16T00:00:00Z

    Tara Meagher, of law firm Beale and Company, clarifies a worker's new 'right to be accompanied'.

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    Life on Mars

    2001-02-16T00:00:00Z

    It may sound like science fiction, but the prototype of Foreign Office Architects' house for Mars is about to be unveiled as part of Nasa's Future Homes display in Sweden.

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    Lab test

    2001-02-16T00:00:00Z

    UCL's civil engineering students don't rely on textbooks alone to teach them about monocoques – they have a demonstration project floating above the main laboratory.

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    Faults on the line

    2001-02-16T00:00:00Z

    London and Quadrant Housing Trust's repairs hotline was already overstretched when its maintenance budget was frozen. So it's developed an internet service to make everyone's life easier.

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    Designers in the safety spotlight

    2001-02-16T00:00:00Z

    In the third of our series in the run-up to John Prescott's safety summit, Building asks if safety is a matter of design, and if designers are doing enough to combat site deaths.

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    Reinforced concrete learning package

    2001-02-16T00:00:00Z

    Products - On-site insulation for wall panels, lintels for a police station and a CD-ROM guide to reinforced concrete feature in this structures special.

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    Chaos theory

    2001-02-16T00:00:00Z

    You can tell at a glance there's madness in the method used to design this canopy over Melbourne's Federation Square. Its structure is based on the mathematical model that describes the pattern of patchwork quilts …

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    Appointments

    2001-02-16T00:00:00Z

    ContractorsNottinghamshire-based civil engineering and building company North Midland Construction has appointed Mike Payne and Martin Queally general managers for their cabling and ducting division.Stephen Kelly has been appointed development manager for Morrison Developments. He will be based in Glasgow.Roger Mabey has been appointed to the board of Bovis Lend Lease ...

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    Skanska hits top with £149m in a month

    2001-02-16T00:00:00Z

    Swedish contractor won most work in January, but Bovis Lend Lease still tops annual league.

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    Miralles' last laugh

    2001-02-09T00:00:00Z

    Part imaginative conservation project, part crazy new build, Utrecht town hall is a fitting tribute to its late architect.

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    John White

    2001-02-09T00:00:00Z

    On the rugby pitch and in the City, Persimmon's chief executive has a tough reputation. And as he tackles Beazer to create the UK's largest housebuilder, he'll need it.

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    Getting the Tube to work

    2001-02-09T00:00:00Z

    Capitalist scum, Red Ken, the Hatfield crash, interminable waits, dirt and misery. The saga over the part-privatisation of the Tube has it all. But at last there could be light at the end of the tunnel …

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    Dear Robert

    2001-02-09T00:00:00Z

    In the first of a new monthly series, Robert Smith of recruitment consultant Hays Montrose answers your career queries.

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    We'd like to build the world a house

    2001-02-09T00:00:00Z

    Özdemir and Sheena Keskin have spent 15 years developing the Termo House. They say the fast, easy-to-build and eco-friendly system will provide low-cost housing for millions around the world.