All articles by Marcus Fairs – Page 2
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We won’t drive Egan agenda, top clients tell industry
Survey shows that employers are frustrated by the rate of change – but don’t want to set the pace themselves.
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Client body seeks urgent remedy for financial crisis
Chief executive of the Confederation of Construction Clients draws up radical plans for restructuring.
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FeaturesOne giant leap
An twisted ski jump by Zaha Hadid – half high-tech elegance, half jackal-headed god of the dead – has given the people of Austria something remarkable to fling themselves off at high speed …
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FeaturesPleased and Prowed
Cardiff may be bustling, and its bay may be the largest regeneration project in Europe, but critics have derided its architecture – partly because every building seems to think it's a boat. Local boy Peter Rees, head planner at the Corporation of London, returned to give his verdict.
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FeaturesMerchants of Venice
The world's best designers have descended on the Venice Biennale to show their wares again – so where's world architecture going next?
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FeaturesThe new man at the top
The guessing is finally over. Peter Rogers has replaced Sir John Egan as head of the ultimate industry body, the strategic forum. Here he takes Marcus Fairs through his agenda – and explains where Egan went wrong.
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Rogers changes the Egan agenda
Stanhope director Peter Rogers, who replaces Sir John Egan as chairman of the strategic forum, has disagreed with two of his predecessor's key proposals.
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NewsCanary Wharf to stump up £60m to get CrossRail link
Developer to pay half of cost of £125m Alsop-designed station if trans-London line goes through Docklands.
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FeaturesPure genius
Having made his millions with his own construction firm, Irishman John Fleming now wants to become the UK's biggest supplier of prefab housing. But he's prepared to make us wait until his system is perfect …
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FeaturesWhen Wimpey met Wayne
Last year, fashion guru Wayne Hemingway launched a very public attack on volume housing. So housebuilder Wimpey offered him a job. Marcus Fairs found out what happened next …
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Children of the revolution
IT was supposed to transform the construction industry. Over the past few years there have been incredible technological advances – but for every firm that's using online collaboration and intelligent objects, there are dozens that are sticking to tried-and-tested methods. So how did construction get stuck in the slow ...
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FeaturesThe wasteland
With 4000 ha of brownfield land, the Thames Gateway could be the answer to London's housing crisis. But in the absence of a strategic masterplan, the area's potential is being squandered.
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Gateway to salvation
The government has finally acted to ease the South-east's crippling housing shortage.
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FeaturesOne cube or two?
Continuing its annual design showcase, Hyde Park’s Serpentine Gallery has commissioned this stunning tea house, which knocks a mathematical algorithm into shape
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FeaturesMetal Michelangelo
Bill Tustin is a huge Sid James-soundalike with the mind of an angel and the beard of a gnome who can build and price structures as complex as the London Eye in his head while making clothing out of the bowels of journalists. Marcus Fairs spends a happy afternoon being ...
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M4I to help Labour keep its public service promises
Movement for Innovation plans ‘task groups’ to help government build schools and hospitals before election.
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FeaturesWhere there's a mill …
Gateshead's Baltic centre gallery is the offspring of an impoverished but visionary council and an unemployed architect who designed it in his bedroom. So what else is special about it?
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FeaturesDavid Fison
Just when you thought you'd never hear another good word about the PFI, along comes the new chief of Skanska UK, and he's barely able to contain his enthusiasm for it. Marcus Fairs went to meet him
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Logistics giants UPS and Exel to target construction
Global delivery companies set to outmanoeuvre project managers, cut costs and increase productivity.