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Innovative Housing team will promote MMC
BRE has established an Innovative Housing team that will provide a range of services relating to modern methods of construction.
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FeaturesThe £60,000 challenge
It is possible to build well-designed homes for this amount, says English Partnerships, and it’s running a competition to prove it. EP’s corporate strategy director, Trevor Beattie, explains why
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Features20:20 vision
A lack of standards has been holding back take-up of modern construction methods. The Loss Prevention Standard for Innovative Dwellings – LPS2020 – should change all that
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Showpieces
Full scale exhibits of MMC building systems will be showcased at OFFSITE2005 including three demonstration homes in BRE’s new Innovation Park
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Smart thinking
Faced with a target of building 89,000 new homes by 2021, Cambridgeshire has set up the SmartLIFE project to learn how innovative construction methods can make up the shortfall
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FeaturesPods and monsters
A medical research centre where scientists are banished to the basement and life-or-death matters are discussed beneath giant deep-sea creatures, orange bubble clusters and alien spacecraft … we visits Will Alsop’s most flamboyant, and contradictory, offering yet.
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FeaturesEuropean whole-life costs
Quantity surveyor Franklin + Andrews makes its annual appraisal of the costs of building and maintaining a standard factory in 14 European countries and finds the familiar north-south divide
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NewsUS consultancy plans to buy British QS
American consultancy Hill International plans to expand in the UK by buying a QS or project management firm
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NewsSharewatch The cheer of spring
The construction and building materials sector had a skip in its step last week as companies across the board gained ground.
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FeaturesThe hard sell
Get your prospective employer to make you an offer you can't refuse, say Rob Norris and Ben Byram
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CommentThe little princes
Our columnist recalls two weeks in the 1990s when he was privileged to have the honour of working with a group of highly skilled young management trainees
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NewsDrive to win private cash for New Deals
Regeneration experts have formed a group with the aim of encouraging developers and housebuilders to invest in 39 key government projects
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Taywood’s 4500-home scheme gets go-ahead
Housebuilder Taylor Woodrow has been granted planning permission for a £1bn, 4500-home scheme in Swindon, Gloucestershire.
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Data New-build completions in April
Completions are on the increase in Scotland and the South-east but remain subdued in London and Merseyside
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FeaturesStars and gripes
When Emcor lambasted its failing UK subsidiary Drake & Scull, US-based boss Frank T MacInnis asked Tony Whale to turn the firm around. Whale has, but he isn’t out of the woods yet. We met the two to discuss their future.
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CommentYou know it makes sense
The British Property Federation has produced one short, simple and fair consultancy agreement for every profession. What do you think its reception will be?
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CommentToo much to ask for?
Be warned: there’s an extremely architect-friendly clause hidden in RIBA SFA/99. So friendly, and so hidden, that it has been ruled ‘unusual and onerous’