All Features articles – Page 613
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Pipe dreams
Ralph Carpenter has a habit he wants others to share: building sustainable homes out of hemp. But will he be able to convince those who think the idea is, ahem, a bit potty?
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Image is everything
If your flagship project goes horribly wrong and the press are baying for blood, don't just stop answering the phone. You need a PR who can spin your company from disaster to triumph.
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Five travel websites
www.travelonline.comThis content-led site is great for help on planning trips and for its range of facilities. It offers free access to guidebooks published by Rough Guides and Lonely Planet as well as online editions of Traveller magazine, the "Traveller's Handbook". www.go-fly.co.ukA direct booking site from the pioneers of cheap, no-frills ...
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Get a whole-life
Richard Allard - If you think cheap means cost-effective, you need whole-life performance
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Gilded youth
Youth wins the day in this year's Hays Montrose/Building Consultants' Salary Guide, with the industry throwing money at graduates in an attempt to attract the best people.
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The show must go on
During the Royal Albert Hall's £66m refurbishment, performances must continue as usual – even if that means Sir Cliff Richard being wheeled in on a trolley wearing a dust mask.
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Idea hunter
David Adjaye is architecture's latest rising star. His controversial Elektra House scandalised fellow architects but it hasn't deterred the celebrity clients. So what is he doing right?
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Just the job
James O'Donnell tells Eloise Seddon why he swapped quantity surveying for construction management and what frustrates him about his new career
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Merger victims
Everyone said consolidation would be good for housebuilding. But what about the 1500 people who will lose their jobs as a result?
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When all the cows have gone
The rural economy faces collapse in the wake of foot and mouth. Meanwhile, our booming cities are ever more choked for space. It's time to reopen the debate about building on the green belt, argues Marcus Fairs
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Appointments
ContractorsBaggaley Construction has appointed Mike Shires, president of the Nottingham City Business Club, training and development manager.John MacLean has been made project finance director at Morrison Developments.Project and construction management group Spring and Company has appointed Tim Dawson project management associate. Jane Urquhart joins as cost manager for construction ...
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Assembling the Assembly
Creating a giant, lopsided egg about to topple over is very easy if you're using a Biro, but how on earth do you do it with structural steel? Andy Pearson went onsite at the GLA headquarters to find out.
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Better, naturally
Sally Sullivan - Why bother saving a few pennies on decorating materials when they could be making you ill?
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University challenge
Cambridge estates head David Adamson is determined to make the industry work together. So any firm that wants a slice of the university's record £528m build programme had better start listening …
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It's time to change
Peter Mason - In the wake of the safety summit, how can construction clean up its act on health and safety? It could start by learning from the oil and gas industry
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March is Laing's swansong as independent contractor
Two contracts worth a total of £46m take firm to top of league table as O'Rourke deal is finalised.
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The exodus
Housebuilders have found that being quoted on the stock exchange is more about slavery to the City than building homes. So they've said goodbye to analysts and investors and regained their freedom.
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Tender price forecast
The ups and downs at a glance Current trends A fall in tender prices of 0.5% last quarter ends the run of five successive rises Demand for labour has stabilised and supply is easing in most areas Construction output rose 1.5% last year and is 10% higher than ...
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Information point
Safety training guidesThe CITB has released three CD-ROMs aimed at those responsible for safety training. A Guide to Scaffold Inspection: Check Your Ties and Braces gives advice on the safe planning and installation of scaffolding, including alloy towers. Health and Safety in Excavations: Check Before You Dig looks at the ...
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Just the job
William Wiles talks to Nilesh Patel about how he manages to combine his day job as a project architect with his passion for film-making