All Features articles – Page 612
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The 30-second guide to condensing boilers
Condensing boilers are considerably more efficient than conventional boilers.
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Five things you need to know about parents' rights
Gordon Brown announced a slew of new benefits for working parents in this month's budget. Here are the key facts:Paternity leave From April 2003, fathers will be eligible for a fortnight's paternity leave at £100 a week (the same as women). Previously, any time off was given at the employer's ...
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Appointments
ContractorsPamella Thompson has been appointed resident liaison offer at Higgins Construction for its London-based housing refurbishment schemes.Skanska Technology, the design arm of Skanska Construction Group, has made three appointments.Peter Eckert has been promoted to operations director; Ian Davies and John Redpath join as senior project engineers.Galliford Try has appointed Keith ...
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Breaking up is hard
Tony Blackler - Common law may come into play when parties to a contract fall out – although its application in construction disputes is far from clear-cut.
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International costs
Building’s annual global costs round-up tackles inflation rates and forecasts, building costs, labour rates and material prices around the world by Gardiner & Theobald
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Rogers' polite entry into the West End
Lord Rogers' latest London building is a far cry from his previous landmarks. Buried in the heart of Soho, this compact office block combines high-tech with street manners.
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A waste of energy
Chris Twinn - How we think about energy at the moment is fundamentally misleading. Here's why
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Future perfect
Stakeholder pensions aren't exactly the new rock 'n' roll, but builders might find they like them. John Jory, manager with B&CE, explains his company's product.
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Jolly green giant
Bill Dunster's "Flower Tower" is not only a radical answer to the need for high-density housing, it is so green that it actually has a beneficial effect on the earth's climate
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Meet our man in London, Paris, New York ...
Multinational clients are clamouring for global solutions to their building needs. Here's how firms such as HOK, Amec, Arup, Bovis Lend Lease and Mott MacDonald are responding to their demands.
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Mike Welton
Balfour Beatty has been lambasted for Hatfield, undervalued by the City and dubbed the "the worst scum of capitalism". Here's how its chief executive is answering the critics.
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MIPIM uncovered
As stock markets nosedived last Thursday, the 17,000 alcohol-assisted attendees of the MIPIM property fair networked like there was no tomorrow. Marcus Fairs and Gordon Jon Thompson spent 24 hours at the champagne apocalypse
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The profession rules, OK
Tony Bingham - The RIBA's private rules are coming under scrutiny from the Office of Fair Trading – do they exist to maintain standards or to keep out the competition?
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When size is the prize
Frank Devoy - says bulk-buying clients and the outsourcing revolution may force builders to consolidate
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What is the use of QSs?
Ian Yule - The general public has little or no idea of what QSs do. As far as the law is concerned, they fulfil three valuable roles that are helping to shape the future of quantity surveying
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Bovis Lend Lease steals a £100m march in February
Four contracts worth a total of £196.4m help Bovis Lend Lease to add to its lead in annual contractors' table.
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Five alternatives to MIPIM
Didn't make it to this week's MIPIM property fair in Cannes? Never mind, here are five more glamorous networking opportunitiesBarcelona Europe's number-two property fair after MIPIM, Meeting Point Barcelona, claims to get 15,000 visitors – almost as many as its Cannes rival. Last year's highlight was a cocktail reception at ...
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Appointments
ContractorsBrian Cullum has joined Higgins Construction as business manager.Try Interiors, the interior fit-out division of Try Construction, has appointed Barry Couzens sales and marketing manager.Andrew Crispin and Andrew Postlethwaite have been promoted to directors at fit-out contractor Walter Lilly, part of YJL.HousebuildersLovell has appointed Marcus Keys, formerly of the Housing ...
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Taming the Celtic tiger
Ireland's construction boom is bringing pressures that threaten to undermine it: skills shortages, lack of regulation and overstretched planning departments. What's more, where are all these buildings supposed to go?