All Supplements articles – Page 54
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NewsArchitectural practice of the year
This coveted award, sponsored by Reynaers, celebrates the imaginative flair and entrepreneurial success of the industry's designers. And who better to take it home than a Stirling Prize-nominated practice?
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NewsConstructionSkills achiever of the year
These finalists might be young, but they are nevertheless astute businesspeople who are changing the way construction works for the better. Hold on to your jobs … Sponsored by CITB-ConstructionSkills
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NewsHousebuilder of the year (fewer than 2000 homes)
This award for smaller housebuilders, supported by Wavin, went to a company that has scored a hat-trick of Building Awards for its brownfield innovations - with an eco-friendly Kent firm coming in a close second
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NewsContractor of the year (less than £200m turnover)
Kingspan sponsored this hotly contested category, in which small and medium-sized contractors went head to head. Eventually, the firm that walked away with the award had the edge with its remarkable rescue story
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Archive TitlesPlanning misses the scrutiny of neutral observers
As a local newspaper reporter, I spent more hours in Camden council planning committee meetings than was good for me.
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Archive TitlesLatest thinking on... measuring quality of life
If we are developing and regenerating to create high-quality, sustainable communities, then people who live in them should have a higher quality of life, but how would we know that?
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Archive TitlesGordon's kitchen nightmare
In last week's Budget, chancellor Gordon Brown announced plans for a public debate on next year's comprehensive spending review. Everyone acknowledges that Brown faces a tough challenge in making the CSR 07 cake big enough for everyone to have a decent share. Behind the scenes in the Treasury kitchen the ...
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Archive TitlesGo figure
So which is cheaper for housebuilding - modern methods of construction or traditional build? Anyone hoping that old chestnut would be finally cracked by the National Audit Office report into the matter is in for a let-down. As Josephine Smit found out, it depends on whose calculator you're using
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Archive TitlesWelcome to fabulous Las Vegas UK
Tony Blair says super casinos will help regenerate the areas they're in - giving them ‘the chance to put themselves on a proper modern footing'. Damian Aspinall agrees with him, whereas Steven Bate dismisses the idea as ludicrous. Here, Jon Ladd doubts the pilot scheme will prove much either way
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Archive TitlesWhat's up dock?
Well, shops, a school, a GP surgery, a community centre and 1300 low-rise homes, that's what. And they've been there ever since the 1980s when developer Bellway ignored all sensible advice and built the now thriving Hull community on a derelict docklands site. Photographs David Levene
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Futuregazing … on development viability
New government policies coming into place are adding costs to housebuilding and could slash residual values by 40%, experts are predicting.
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Archive TitlesDesign codes: the verdict
Design codes are all about delivering faster planning permission - that, at least, is the theory. But how do they work in practice? Two architects give their answer
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Housing markets in the core cities
Central to the Core Cities' role as drivers of regional economic growth is housing and over the next four pages we offer a snapshot of how the housing market is faring in these areas, comparing each against the other and against national figures
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Archive TitlesCutting the cake
A penny on a pint of beer. Higher road tax on those gas-guzzling 4x4s.
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Structures
This foray into the world of building structures begins with this startling, earthquake-proof house suspended over a New Zealand cliff-face. Plus overleaf we report on the vexed subject of new European standards, look at the costs of concrete repair and offer guides to products and suppliers