More Focus – Page 359
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Market forecast: Tender price turnaround?
Tender prices may be falling, but that could all change in the not-too-distant future … Plus the state of the market in the northern regions and an analysis of what everybody’s talking about
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FeaturesHot topic: 2012 Olympics
London’s 2012 Olympics win is set to bring not just a bonanza in venues and infrastructure, but an incalculable amount of additional work.
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FeaturesLive from the BBC...
Phase one of Broadcasting House’s biggest ever makeover is nearing completion – and it hasn’t interrupted a single live radio transmission.
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FeaturesAuntie’s new look
Just another repeat on the BBC? Not quite: MacCormac Jamieson Prichard’s extension is designed to echo Broadcasting House but it has enough dramatic twists to become an icon in its own right.
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FeaturesA pain in the neck?
As collars loosen across the City and the Civil Service, could this spell the end for the humble neck tie? We take a look at the politics of male attire and garners the opinions of some of the construction industry’s leading sartorial experts
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FeaturesTop 100 Contractors and Housebuilders 2005
Amec has kept the yellow jersey for another year, despite being rapidly chased down Balfour Beatty and the ever more dynamic Taylor Woodrow. But before you pore over the placings, you should consider what the numbers don’t tell you.
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FeaturesIn my life
Joe Dwyer talks to us about his 50 years in construction, the £2bn regeneration of his home town Liverpool, the axing of Alsop’s Fourth Grace, the night he almost died and why he is like José Mourinho – whereas Sir Neville Simms isn’t.
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FeaturesA chilling tale
Architects and engineers in temperate regions have thought of many ways of designing low-energy buildings. Trouble is, they don’t work in an equatorial climate, and nobody has come up with any alternatives – until Singapore asked Ken Yeang to design a library …
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FeaturesSupervillains
They have the power to delay one out of every three projects in Britain. They can take months to produce a simple quote. They can charge you £4000 before they begin to think about supplying a water mains. They are … utility companies.
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FeaturesSpecialist costs: Curtain walling
In the latest of our specialist market overviews, Duncan Smith of Gardiner & Theobald examines the vibrant sector of curtain walling. Plus we give an expert at a top company a grilling …
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FeaturesShow homes
This year’s Housing Design Awards, announced last night, have again shunned the executive box and instead celebrated some of the finest examples of high-density urban housebuilding.
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Keeping a level head (and posterior)
Garden seat designed for flat-bottomed girls - and boys - goes on display
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FeaturesNot the David Prichard show
Architectural firm Metropolitan Workshop is not about star architects, even though it has been set up by one of the starriest. We found out why from David Prichard and Neil Deely.
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FeaturesMoho rising
With this pioneering 102-flat development in Manchester, Urban Splash and ShedKM have finally succeeded in making prefabricated housing the height of fashion. We found out how it was done.
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FeaturesWill it fly?
Now that the Quality Mark is a dead duck, the DTI has just taken the wraps off its bold new anti-cowboy venture: the TrustMark. But what are the chances of success this time?
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FeaturesA long way to go
Now that London has beaten the odds and won the Olympic Games, the small matter of building £8bn worth of facilities is getting under way.
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A cool summer
Despite predictions of some growth in the short term, Experian Business Strategies says the outlook is fairly dull for the construction industry – and sunnier times are not expected until 2007