All Features articles – Page 610
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Our lives in your hands
Construction is on alert as the site death toll rises and John Prescott's safety summit on 27 February approaches. In the first of a four-part series on the safety crisis, Building asks workers about their experiences on site.
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How the urban renaissance got lost in Yorkshire
Allerton Bywater was supposed to prove the Millennium Village format could work anywhere. Three years on, nothing's happened. Building asks what went wrong.
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Tender price forecast
How the indices are calculated Mechanical cost indexThe MCI is based on labour rates agreed by the mechanical industry’s wage body, the JCCHVDEI, and materials prices from the Office for National Statistics. Electrical cost indexThe ECI is compiled from materials data from the Office for National Statistics and labour ...
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Countryside Environmental centre, Redditch, Worcestershire
Wolverhampton practice On Line Architects designed Redditch's countryside centre for water sport clubs and to educate children about the local environment.
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Mine's bigger than yours
Leeds' Bridgewater Place could become the tallest residential building in the north. That is until Manchester comes up with something even higher.
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Madel behaviour
Stanhope is determined to build quicker and cheaper. At its £46m mixed-use scheme in Holborn, it is trialling simulation and materials-handling software that should allow it to do just that.
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Kapoor and McAslan's art pavilion trumpets Sally Army
This collaboration between artist and architect will provide London with a new Thames-side landmark.
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The Engineer's Contribution to Contemporary Architecture
The Engineer’s Contribution to Contemporary ArchitectureAngus MacdonaldThomas Telford£25.00168 pagesHeinz Isler by John ChiltonEladio Dieste by Remo PedreschiPeter Rice by André BrownGiven that structural engineering is central to modern architecture, there is a great deal of mileage in exploring the relationships of the two disciplines at their most synergetic. The ...
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Walls Have Feelings: Architecture, Film and the City
Walls Have Feelings: Architecture, Film and the CityKatherine ShonfieldRoutledge£19.00204 pagesWhy does my flat leak? Why is brutalist architecture so impersonal? What on earth does this have to do with Mary Poppins? And having read Katherine Shonfield's intriguing study of these critical questions, am I any the wiser? Shonfield sets out ...
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Appointments
ContractorsNorthern-based Totty Construction has appointed Philip Mason quality manager.Colin Ford has been appointed construction director at Midlands-based regional contractor Pettifer Construction. He joins the company from Shepherd Construction.Graham Howe, previously with Willmott Dixon Construction, has joined Norwich-based JS Hay as operations manager.Taylor Woodrow has appointed Tony McGarahan director of ...
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Real millennium answers
December's Real millennium quiz led to a flood of well-researched entries – and one contestant who thought Cherie Blair spent £1m on baby Leo's nursery. And although no one got all 50 teasers right, the five winners answered between 41 and 45 questions correctly. They each win a state-of-the-art DVD ...
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Ian Andrews
As the first major prime package is announced, and opposition to it continues, Defence Estates' chief executive explains how he intends to stage the revolution in MOD procurement.
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Practice makes perfect
The development of software program Vircon could help busy sites avert time-wasting construction problems before work even starts.
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Wish you were here
Newcastle's reinvigorated quayside isn't the North-east's only attraction. These massive regeneration schemes aim to lure industry and jobs back into the region.
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Dolce & Gabbana's new look is set in stone
Beverly Hills is the latest Dolce & Gabbana store to get a David Chipperfield makeover.
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Eight new deals push HBG into top spot
Contracts worth £36.7m make HBG number one, but Bovis Lend Lease continues to lead annual table.
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The Cole treatment
John Cole has achieved what many thought impossible: well designed PFI hospitals. Now the procurement methods he pioneered in Northern Ireland look set to catch on over here.
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Eight stages to a landmark bridge
1 Design competitionIn 1997, civil engineer Gifford and Partners and architect Wilkinson Eyre Architects won a design competition for a new pedestrian bridge sponsored by Gateshead council."A contemporary design which complements the existing Tyne bridges in a way that is both refreshing and new," commented the judging panel. Although they ...
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At boiling point
The skills shortage is biting hard. Tender prices have shot up, expansion plans are on hold and on sites across London, firms are fighting over a dwindling pool of skilled workers. Building reports from the sharp end.