All Features articles – Page 622
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Wembley: cash, contracts and confrontation
The team building England's new National Stadium has been bamboozled by political U-turns, impeded by contract wrangles and shaken by bad publicity. Can Wembley stage a comeback?
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The heavyweight champions
A new superbreed of finance directors is taking over at the largest contractors. They are fighting to turn the industry into a City darling.
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Dial M for mixed-use at Hitchcock studio
The Shoreditch set of classic film The Lady Vanishes is to reappear as a multipurpose live–work development.
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Inside information
How can e-construction be made to work? Charles Botsford, former Treasury adviser and a director of the Building Information Warehouse portal, may well have the answer.
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Making the rules
Laying down a disciplinary policy, and implementing it properly, ensures that everyone is treated fairly.
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Cost study: National Agriculture Centre
In common with many farmers, the Royal Agricultural Society sees diversification as the key to increased competitiveness. The society hopes that the new exhibition hall at its National Agriculture Centre in Warwickshire will allow it to attract general trade shows and give the nearby Birmingham National Exhibition Centre a run ...
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Appointments
ContractorsGraham Carr, former managing director of Willmott Dixon's sister company E Turner & Sons, has been appointed managing director of the firm's Birmingham-based construction operation.Birmingham construction company Buxton has appointed Stuart Handley and Mick Bates site managers.Construction and development company The Rydon Group has made the following promotions. Bob Bond ...
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Walsall's bathing beauty
Hodder Associates' Darlaston swimming pool looks more like a luxury health club than municipal baths.
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Becoming unattached
BT claims its new cordless workstations will halve companies' space requirements and slash their overheads – Laing says they have cut one of its firms' rental costs 40%. Here's how they work.
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E-commerce crashes to earth
Last year, the industry was poised to make a giant leap onto the internet, and all the big players set projects in motion. But now it seems construction took a wrong turn in cyberspace …
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Defective vision
Manchester's Homes for Change was billed as a model for the urban renaissance. Four years later its image has been tarnished by defects.
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Signed, sealed and delivered
Architects and specifiers rejoice! A new international standard for sealant specification means goodbye to hours spent searching for the right product.
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Fighting fit
Exercise can alleviate stress and improve work performance. Impress your boss by making it this new year's resolution.
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The lifeguard
With next month's government safety summit looming, all eyes are trained on the construction industry. So how does Suzannah Thursfield, director of health and safety at the Construction Confederation, intend to respond?
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We need a new plan
The new Human Rights Act has thrown a spanner into the planning system. Where on earth do we go from here?
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Your £250,000 green tax bill
Do the government's green initiatives sound like so much hot air to you? In fact, the climate change levy, due in April, looks set to make a big difference to the whole of the construction market.
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Sustainable Architecture – European Directives and Building Design
Sustainable Architecture – European Directives and Building DesignBrian EdwardsArchitectural Press£35277 pagesThis is the book that explains to the building industry why construction really needs rethinking. It is ideal for all those efficiency-oriented Eganites who want to work out what the next agenda is, and where the carrots and sticks are ...
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Energy and Environment in Architecture – A Technical Design Guide
Energy and Environment in Architecture – A Technical Design GuideNick Baker and Koen SteemersE&FN Spon£37.50224 pagesThe low-energy strategies explained in the first half of this book illustrate how simple design decisions can save energy. The second half shows how each design tool can be quantified from first principles using a ...