All Features articles – Page 626
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Glowing panes
The brief: design a glass wall for the Science Museum's Wellcome Wing to cast a blue glow from outside, in any conditions, with no moving parts. Was it even possible?
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Ken's half way house
Ken Livingstone has threatened to veto housing schemes unless half of the units are affordable. And he means it. But with the best will in the world, can housebuilders rise to the challenge?
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Indecent proposals
Ann Minogue's column on the new standard form of subcontract for use on government work the GC/Works Subcontract challenged the Constructors Liaison Group to a tempered debate. It begins here.
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Renaissance man
Meet Jon Rouse, the new chief executive of CABE: bureaucrat, scuba diver and Kylie Minogue fan.
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It's all about respect
Enthusiasm, professionalism, and a love of punk rock just the qualities you'd expect from Ian Eggers, CIOB Building Manager of the Year.
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Balancing act
Allowing workers a home life is the new trend, says the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development s Angela Baron.
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Appointments
Contractor EBC has promoted Robert Wood to area director based in Plymouth. He will be responsible for construction, building and maintenance operations. Housebuilders Grenville Homes Group has appointed Fiona Gordeno sales and marketing manager. David Hill has been promoted to group surveyor at Acorn Homes. He will ...
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'Busier than we've ever been'
That's the view of one North-west consultant, but is the picture the same across the country? Building toured the UK to find out
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The biter bit
The RIBA really must pay attention to developers' complaints about the SFA/99 standard appointment form architects will only suffer from the preferential treatment it gives them.
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Who was to blame?
The tragic death of three children in a house fire led to a council design team being sued for negligence. The case went to the Court of Appeal, and laid down some important rules on designer liability.
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Conservation piece
A wood-frame roof may not sound unusual, but Buro Happold's take on it the UK's first timber gridshell at a Sussex history museum is enough to make a structural engineer whimper with fear.
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Tender price forecast
Continued steady growth is the order of the day, with tender prices, materials costs and new orders all continuing to rise. Many contractors are becoming increasingly selective, but the output picture is less clear.
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Satisfaction guarantees
A new, improved brand of performance bond is now available for project financing and promises to be a cheaper way of covering more risk particularly on private finance initiative projects.
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Wasted opportunities
Architects and developers are forming an orderly queue to put the boot into English Partnerships for its timidity, lack of leadership and inexperience which, they say, are jeopardising the urban renaissance.
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Perfect pitch
How can a roof make you sound better? The one that tops Shrewsbury School's concert venue is elliptically shaped to help the students make beautiful music.
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The sense of proportion
Jarndyce & Jarndyce still drags its dreary length before the Court, perennially hopeless, wrote Charles Dickens, satirising the legal system of his day. It's better now, though, as the rules on proportionality demonstrate.
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Top 250 consultants
Welcome to this year's consultants survey, which finds the top 250 firms in the best of health. Expanding workloads are reflected in swelling staff numbers, with most firms employing more UK chartered staff this year than last. More than 90% say they expect to take on staff in the next ...
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Don’t listen to chickens
So, the Discain case has knocked the wheels off the entire adjudicatory system, has it? Don’t you believe it – the judge was just making a perfectly fair point about being perfectly fair.
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Appointments
ContractorBalfour Beatty Construction has appointed Colin Smith safety, quality and environmental director.HousebuildersEdward Milner has joined Gleeson Homes (North-west) as commercial manager, based in the Blackburn office. Pegasus Retirement Homes has appointed Adrian Stokes, formerly with Virgin Western, commercial manager.Retirement homes specialist McCarthy & Stone has appointed Howard Phillips operations director ...
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The stuff of beams
FBEAM is a new software tool for designing long-span fabricated beams in commercial buildings. Is this the program structural engineers have been waiting for?