All Features articles – Page 448
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FeaturesPositive thinking
This month's new-look Tracker finds the industry optimistic, according to Experian Business Strategies' construction activity survey. Plus overleaf, Experian's quarterly analysis of orders and output
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FeaturesThe making of Manchester
First there were derelict warehouses and deserted mills, the wreckage of a great industrial past. Then came music and madness of a generation liberated from that tradition. And at the centre of this Manchester was Factory Records and the Hacienda, both the creation of Tony Wilson, pop impresario, news journalist, ...
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FeaturesIan Simpson
This man knows a thing or two about civic identity and pride of place: after all he’s the architect behind the buildings that have defined modern Manchester. Here he tells Martin Spring why London should watch and learn …
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FeaturesGreater expectations
Nearly £5bn will be spent on capital projects across the 10 boroughs of Greater Manchester before 2014. Martin Spring maps the extent of the boom's butterfly effect.
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FeaturesJust the job: The drumming QS
David Shortt tells Emily Wright how he juggles being a trainee QS in Salford and an up-and-coming rock star
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PFI: The critical list
Amid signs of a general crisis with the NHS' finances, the Department of Health has launched an emergency review of PFI hospitals, and put most of the major schemes on hold while it does. George Hay investigates the schemes are affected and asks: what's to become of healthcare PFIs?
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Carillion beats Balfour Beatty in building league table
In Building's first rankings of contracts won excluding civils, Carillion beats top dog Balfour by £300m
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FeaturesAppointments
ContractorWatford-based maintenance and M&E contractor Procare Building Services has appointed construction industry expert Kim Brown to a business development role within its corporate team.Housebuilders Des Mason has joined South Yorkshire-based Haslam Homes as a construction manager.Galliford Try Partnerships, the specialist affordable housing business unit within Galliford Try, has promoted Martin ...
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Features24 hour construction city
Here are six construction sites that epitomise Manchester's changing cityscape, from a slum regeneration in a stricken suburb to this £1bn legal district being built in the heart of the commercial centre.
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Building intelligence Q3 2005: Is the party over?
Experian Business Strategies reports on the first fall in construction industry output in 2005 since 1994, bringing to an end the longest continuous period of growth since the 1960s
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FeaturesFlight path to Perth
Mathew Jaycock wanted more than a backpacking experience to Australia so asked Davis Langdon for a transfer to Perth
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FeaturesHow it used to be
We reveal the stories behind seven images of Manchseter unearthed in the Building photo library.
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Costs: Floor coverings
The cost of floor coverings can be a significant factor in a fit-out and the subsequent cleaning and maintenance regimes. Anthony Waterman of BRE looks at the whole-life costs
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FeaturesInto the volcano
In the Spanish resort of Tenerife, local architect Fernando Menis has created an arts centre that brilliantly evokes the island's mountains, cliffs, beaches and ocean
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FeaturesIt's feeding time
Mergermania hit construction in 2005. Now the predators are circling again in contracting, consulting, housebuilding and building materials. Angela Monaghan and Mark Leftly ask who'll get snapped up next - and who'll do the snapping
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FeaturesSpecialist costs: Structural steelwork
The Chinese construction market and the Eurocrats in Brussels are having an effect on the steelwork sector, reports David Cane
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FeaturesSpecialist cost update: Structures
In the first of our specialist updates, the expert team at Gardiner & Theobald take a look at current trends and costs in the piling, concrete frame and structural steelwork markets
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FeaturesSpecialist costs: Concrete frames
Ian Purton reports on the impact of the new Eurocodes, the increase in post-tensioned flooring and recent cost changes in the sector