More Focus – Page 307
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FeaturesWould you install a wormery in your home?
Housebuilders can gain valuable ecopoints if they feature composting in their homes but would you welcome worms into your life?
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Features17 ways to get paid
Hell hath no fury like a subbie spurned – by someone higher up the food chain who owes him dosh. Dan Stewart studies the age-old problem of separating an employer from his money
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FeaturesSpecialist cost update: Fit-outs
Our series of specialist updates continues as the experts from Gardiner & Theobald look at market trends and costs in shop and office fit-outs, as well as the landscaping sector.
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The Building Good Employers Guide 2007
Dear employer...With the recruitment and retention of staff ever more important, Building is compiling a Good Employers Guide and we would like you to participate.
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FeaturesRecordamos
Madrid has unveiled a memorial that preserves the experiences of those present at Europe’s worst post-war terrorist attack
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FeaturesYou only live twice
When the huge 007 Stage at Pinewood Studios – birthplace of the James Bond films – was destroyed by fire, it spelled doom for the UK’s film-making mecca. But against all the odds, an elite team has managed to rebuild the space in eight months.
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FeaturesChairman of the board
Ten years in construction and 20 on a skateboard, Matt Elms is perfectly qualified to turn a patch of north London into heaven with a half-pipe.
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The form guide
As the results season draws to a close, and in honour of tomorrow’s Grand National, we check the performances of some of construction’s sleekest thoroughbreds. Sarah Richardson is trackside
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FeaturesDo clients realise CDM regulations are their responsibilty now?
There are 4.3m businesses in Britain but how many are aware of the new health and safety regulations?
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FeaturesStackable weights for sash windows
Mighton Products has launched stackable weights for sash windows.
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FeaturesPatio doors and external oak doors
The double-glazed Rio patio doorset has been added to JELD-WEN’s collection of doors.
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FeaturesHinge pads for fire doorsets
Hinge specialist Royde & Tucker has developed a pre-cut intumescent hinge pad for fitting fire doorsets on site.
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FeaturesFlood management: The water’s lovely
The UK faces a future of devastating floods, like the one that hit Boscastle three years ago. But instead of fighting them, some people are suggesting we learn to live with them.
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FeaturesGetting even
As chair of the Equal Opportunities Commission, Jenny Watson will be in charge of enforcing the gender equality rules that are about to come into force. And given the industry’s dismal record on recruiting women, it had better look out.
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FeaturesRight second time
Regulations Forget the dreary paperwork of old. The new CDM regulations are bigger, better and far more practical.
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FeaturesQuestion time
Bucknall Austin’s graduate entry programme had a sting in the tail this year: a networking event where the challenge was to get as much information out of the guests as possible.
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FeaturesPhase One is complete
Building’s inaugural networking event proved a hit with the industry’s new professionals
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The start of a beautiful friendship
The proposed merger between Taylor Woodrow and Wimpey may be the biggest housebuilder deal so far, but it follows a year of frenetic takeover activity. Mark Leftly investigates what lessons this might hold for the new kid on the block