All Features articles – Page 609
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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'.
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Life on Mars
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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Faults on the line
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
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
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
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
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
Swedish contractor won most work in January, but Bovis Lend Lease still tops annual league.
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Miralles' last laugh
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
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
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
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
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.
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The pinnacle, limehouse basin, london
Products - A smoke-detection system for saunas, plus The spec on the pinnacle of the Limehouse Basin development in London Docklands.
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Appointments
ContractorsRodger Tellis has been appointed construction director of Berkshire-based Greatworth Properties.Carillion has appointed Andrew Trewick (right) general manager of Nelso, its national partitioning business based in Walsall. HousebuildersGriff Marshalsay, previously with Berkeley Homes, has been appointed managing director for Charles Church's South-east division. Scott Bonnell has joined the southern Home ...
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If you think it's bad here…
In the second of Building's safety series in the run-up to John Prescott's summit, we look across the Channel to see how Britain's site death record compares with the rest of Europe.
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Just the job
Planning engineer Barry Lingham tells Marissa Charles how he helps British firms in Europe avoid contractual pitfalls.