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Features
Lifetime costs: sanitaryware
The choice of sanitaryware in hospitals and healthcare schemes is a crucial one – but how to decide what to go for? Peter Mayer of Building Performance Group examines the whole-life costs of components
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FeaturesChurchill Hospital hospice: A design for life
Creating an environment in which terminally ill patients can enjoy the rest of their lives requires the utmost sensitivity and imagination in the architect’s choice of materials. We look at how Nightingale Associates went about the task at an Oxford hospice
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FeaturesGym’ll fix it
Faced with 3 m of snow each year, the patients of Japan’s Odate hospital had nowhere to exercise in winter. But then along came Shigeru Ban with a characteristically unconventional solution – a subterranean gymnasium under a dome of pure plywood.
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Joined-up thinking
Student Javier Parsons tells us how he is giving Cyril Sweett a helping hand
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NewsMiller plans southern invasion
The housebuilding arm of Edinburgh-based contractor the Miller Group will respond to the government's £22bn communities plan by setting up a division in the south of England, writes Mark Leftly.
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Business failures rise by one-fifth
Insolvencies in the construction sector increased by 20% in the fourth quarter of 2002 compared with the same period in 2001, according to government figures.
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QS Currie & Brown hints at profit fall
Top 10 quantity surveyor Currie & Brown has hinted at a fall in profit in its next annual results.
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Comment
O'Rourke's drift
So Ray O'Rourke's fusiliers are going to make £55,000 a year while they put up Terminal 5, are they? Maybe, but they'll have to win some battles first …
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Features
Stress busters
We speak to stress councillor Patricia Justice about feeling under pressure at work, and what you can do about it …
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FeaturesDream palaces
Visionary architect Marks Barfield has created the Skyhouse, which is designed to solve the housing shortage while saving the environment. But will it ever get off the ground?
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Comment
Reversing ahead
Are reverse auctioning and best value legally compatible for public authorities? EU procurement rules would suggest not. But what if the rules change?
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Comment
Publicity is weighed, not read
I was dismayed to see the amount of publicity you gave to the racist British National Party (31 January, page 26). This serves absolutely no good purpose to either your magazine or the industry in general. Your sole reason, presumably, for interviewing him was because he is supposedly a ...
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Comment
Rebranding without the spin
In his letter, Andrew Charlett (31 January, page 33) calls for a campaign by the Construction Industry Training Board or the Construction Industry Council to address the industry's poor image among graduates.
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Comment
Loose definitions
I was intrigued to note in this week's issue (31 January, page 38) that you have recently introduced a Building Award that "recognises the contribution of young people in construction".
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Comment
Teachers are no slouches
I agree with Graham Holden's comments in last week's letters (7 February, page 35) that in general teachers are well remunerated for their work. My wife, a head teacher of a small country school, certainly earns far more than I do as a local government building surveyor.
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Comment
Unlikely inspiration
Your legal columnist Tony Bingham tells us that he has recently been giving a helping hand to the Malta Arbitration Centre, acting as a minor judge in an effort to reduce the huge backlog of civil litigation cases.