All Features articles – Page 609
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Star of track and field
Rugby-loving Paul Westbury is Buro Happold's youngest ever partner. Here's how the 31-year-old is tackling one of engineering's toughest conundrums: how to make stadiums flexible and attractive.
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Oh, what a delivery
Steve Elliott - Overbury's Perfect Delivery initiative promises no snagging and no defects. Here's how it works
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Five grants for small businesses
Small Firms Loan Guarantee scheme offers 70% guaranteed loans from £5000 to £100,000 for 2-10 years (85% and up to £250,000 if the company has been trading for more than two years) for firms that have a viable business proposition but have failed to get a conventional loan because of ...
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Appointments
ContractorsJoan Hillcock has been made business development director of Crispin & Borst Group. At C&B subsidiary Colin Hatch, Nigel Marsden has been promoted to construction director and Tony Clark to commercial director.Paul Reader has been appointed social housing director of M&E contractor and maintenance specialist Environmental Property Services.Dominic Snape has ...
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Cost study: 6 Brindleyplace, Birmingham
Text At-a-glance guide 6 Brindleyplace, Birmingham ProjectSpeculative headquarters office block with ground-floor retail space ClientArgent Procurement featuresPartnering between developer, design-and-build contractor and consultants was refined over four successive projects to produce a cost-effective, snag-free building Design features Efficient floor plans with 82% net:gross ratio Simple, robust ...
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Why I want women
Paul Hodgkinson wants 50% of Simons Group employees to be female by 2011. Here's why
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A light touch
Paul Traynor - Lighting designers often have their concepts ruined by engineers. How can this be avoided?
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Just the job
Jaz Vilkhu, of building materials manufacturer Marshalls, tells Melanie Delargy how his company's innovative sales approach saves its clients a great deal of money
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Five London party venues
The Science MuseumExhibition Road, SW7The museum provides eight galleries as well as the Wellcome Wing for parties. The Wellcome Wing has a simulated space ride, eight floors of interactive exhibits, a 420-seat Imax cinema, and dining areas for up to 700 people. It costs £6500-10,000 to hire and is available ...
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Top floor for site huts, hard hats and dirty floors
Sloane Square emporium Peter Jones has definitely seen better days. But up on the roof, a Bovis-led team is running a four-year revamp that will transform the store into a 21st-century shoppers' paradise.
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Cost model: Procuring social housing
The Housing Corporation is pushing housing associations into adopting the partnering and prefabrication ethos of the Egan agenda. Davis Langdon & Everest looks at how they are responding to the challenges of smart procurement, with case studies from two pathfinding schemes
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Changing the record
One year ago, the government ordered councils to abandon "lowest price wins" procurement and start buying buildings on best value. Now bolder councils have taken on the challenge
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Beyond bars
HLM Architects' PFI prison may be a regression to Victorian design values, but its pastel shades and female warders make the Salford complex humane as well as stark.
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English Heritage goes back to the past
Under Sir Jocelyn Stevens, the quango backed a series of exciting designs, from the Swiss Re tower to the V&A spiral. Now it seems to have clamped the brakes on. Has English Heritage reverted to type?
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Appointments
ContractorsDavid McLean Contractors has appointed Gareth Davies information systems director.Janice McCann (right) has joined Balfour Beatty subsidiary Balfour Kilpatrick as safety and environmental manager.Alan Fox has been promoted to managing director of ceilings and decorative finishes contractor Clark & Fenn, part of Skanska.Commercial landscape contractor Severn Vale Contracts has appointed ...
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After the fire
Alistair McAlpine - That we have turned the countryside into a charnel house is horrific. It is also a unique opportunity to create a less polluting, more humane farming system
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What's it worth?
Kath Knight, human resources director at multidisciplinary practice WSP, explains how to get the pay rise you know you deserve
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Web watch
www.cotswold-windows.co.ukCotswold Architectural Products' site shows its range of window-hardware and locks. The site also offer sales and technical support, and the company newsletter Perspectives can be viewed online.www.fastrackcad.comCAD drawings of Shires Bathrooms' products can be downloaded from its site and inserted into project plans. Drawings include bathroom suites, taps and ...
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Is the party over?
Record output, rising prices and full employment are threatening to overheat construction, but plunging stock markets may herald a big chill. Is it time to panic?