More Focus – Page 346
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FeaturesClass struggle
The government has £5bn to spend on its city academies programme over the next four years, but it’s finding it strangely difficult to get the construction industry to take its money … Eleanor Cochrane looks at what’s going wrong while Martin Spring considers the architecture
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FeaturesSustainability: On-site renewables
In the first of our spotlights on sustainability, Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon examines the increasingly prevalent issue of on-site renewable energy, including the options available and costs
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Just the job: Hayley Bufton at Willmott Dixon
Hayley Bufton has had quite a busy year, bagging Willmott Dixon's trainee of the year award and finding time to front a national advertising campaign …
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FeaturesSir Steve Redgrave
Britain’s leading Olympian has retired from the soul-bending agony of international athletics and has begun a number of jobs in construction, the industry he left 20-odd years ago. Tom Broughton found out what they are, and why he’s returned.
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FeaturesExtra time and penalties
Football fans, government officials and construction experts alike are obsessed with the struggle to get Wembley finished in time for the FA Cup Final in May.
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FeaturesUp, up but not away
The world’s first permanent inflatable roof has just landed at Heathrow airport. Before it got there, a project team including a hot-air balloon specialist had to design it, build it and get it past the regulators. Thomas Lane finds out how they made sure it didn’t fly away
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FeaturesYour passage to India
One of the fastest-growing economies on the planet, India will be the second biggest economy in the world by the middle of this century.
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FeaturesMusic, maestro
Santiago Calatrava’s £82m opera house in Valencia is a symphony in concrete and glass: the largest auditorium in Europe and the centrepiece of an arts and sciences complex designed by the local virtuoso
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FeaturesYou know what your trouble is?
Now that we’re in the penitential month of January, it’s time to take a long, cold, sober look at what’s wrong with everybody else. So here’s how the professions think their industry colleagues could improve …
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FeaturesWorld service
The attractions of foreign labour extend beyond the waking giant of India. More and more UK companies are finding more and more ways of using the global labour force to boost performance. Thomas Lane reports on who’s doing what, and how much money they’re saving
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Projects update: Regulations
Not only is the controversial Code for Sustainable Homes a watered-down version of BRE’s EcoHomes scheme, but it will have to be revised in about three years …
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Costs: Anti-bacterial surfaces
The NHS pays £1bn a year to treat hospital-acquired infections. This may be cut by specifying anti-bacterial surfaces. Peter Mayer of Building LifePlans considers some options …
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FeaturesHealthcare
This week’s Specifier checks up on the world of health, including the best and most cost-effective methods of tackling superbugs, plus products fit for a 21st-century hospital. But first, the story behind Europe’s first ever modular radiotherapy centre for cancer patients, which opens this month in London
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FeaturesThe £6 House
If you think John Prescott’s £60,000 house was a tall order, how would you cope with a budget of £6? Not too badly, if the efforts of the three teams who attended Building’s housebuilding competition in London are anything to go by.