All Features articles – Page 612
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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?
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G'day I'm here to save your company
Antipodean graduates venturing to the UK used to be stuck with pulling pints. Now, relaxed visa rules designed to alleviate skills shortages mean they are being welcomed with open arms by the construction professions.
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Dublin in height
It's twice as tall as its neighbours and clad in tropical hardwood, so it's no surprise that some were nervous about de Blacam and Meagher's Temple Bar tower.
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Here's one we made earlier
Cardboard isn't just for Blue Peter. Buro Happold thinks it's the green building material of the future, and is testing its theory on an Essex school. Thomas Lane finds out how to build with giant toilet rolls – and asks what happens if it rains
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Support the home team
Philip Cleaver - explains how Mansell spots native talent and then grooms it for senior management
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Reining in the Trojan horses
Developers stand accused of employing superstar architects to hoodwink planners – and then dumping them for lesser designers. How can we stop the dumbing-down of architecture?
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Paul Hyett
He's no superstar, but the RIBA's practical, birdwatching new president intends to make his name through education and the recruitment of ethnic minorities.
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Let's stop talking
Glen Sabin - says the industry needs to stop discussing partnering and start including manufacturers
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Watch out for splinters
Natural unfinished timber is the cladding material of choice for fashionable architects these days, but not everyone knows how to use it. Choose the wrong type of wood or an inappropriate fixing method and the rot could set in …
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Time for work
Michael Ryley explains why the European court is moving to protect paid holidays for workers on short-term contracts
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The 30-second guide to combined heat and power plants
The government is so convinced of the benefits of combined heat and power technology that it is giving tax breaks to those who use it.
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No smoke …
The 1998 concrete flue liners scandal led to a delay of the Part J review. Now it's back, with measures designed to improve the safety of chimneys and heat-producing appliances