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FeaturesMike Davies
T5's project architect tells us about his 20 years spent designing the same building
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FeaturesIntroduction: Why T5 is the future of UK construction
The construction of a passenger terminal at Heathrow was essential if the airport was to cope with a rise in the market for air travel of up to 7% a year, and if it was to maintain its claim to be Europe's premier airport. Necessity was the mother of Terminal ...
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FeaturesCommunity relations
"I've worked on projects at Heathrow and Stansted, but this is one of the most challenging jobs I've done – Terminal 5 is very large and very visual. It has a potentially huge impact on local residents in terms of nuisances like construction noise; my role is to ensure that ...
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FeaturesWords from the front
Mitch Parsons, a construction manager from Laing O'Rourke north, describes life at the sharp end of T5B
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CommentPeter rogers
While the construction industry is building T5, T5 is rebuilding the construction industry. Let me explain …
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FeaturesWorkers' welfare
We report on how baa is making sure all its construction staff live to see the end of the job
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NewsTaylor Woodrow boss hints at boardroom shake-up
Chief executive Iain Napier's ambitious plans for housebuilder include keeping directors on their toes
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FeaturesA grave responsibility
Graham Farrant's task is to create a profitable group that will advise individual clients and lobby for their collective interests. This is about as popular a job as undertaking – which is apt, given what happened to the last body.
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CommentUp the workers
This is another everyday story of self-employment and rights and conditions at work. Redrow thought it had a contract and that was it. Wrong, wrong wrong!
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NewsUnions furious as Multiplex takes over Wembley safety
Stadium contractor accused of snub after it seizes control of inductions a week after memorial march
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FeaturesNot a matter of life and death …
As Bill Shankly said, football is much more important than that – at least it is to Redrow founder Steve Morgan. We tell the story of his struggle to win a place on the board of his beloved Liverpool FC, and gets expert analysis from the man himself
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FeaturesRise of the machines
It is the year 2004, and a 400-year-old firm in Sussex, England, has become mankind's last hope of resistance to the machine-made roof tile – but for how much longer?
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NewsCountryside hits back at critics
The chief executive of housebuilder Countryside has hit back at criticism of the management of the group after a poor set of interims