All Features articles – Page 456
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At first It was like the battle of the Somme
Today Building launches Projects Reunited. Here you can catch up with former colleagues from legendary schemes you worked on together and find out how everybody is doing now. To get the ball rolling, we assembled 18 old chums who braved the muddy wastes of the Millennium Dome site …
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Best Commercial Project sponsored by Bland Bankart
John Clark Associates: Centrale Development
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Best Access/Disability Regulations Innovation
Gateshead Council Design Services: The Sage Gateshead
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WRAP teams up with BRE on aggregates
Database will be created to give information on using recycled and secondary aggregates.
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Inside an off-site toolkit
Darren Richards introduces a toolkit that maximises off-site technology’s potential
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Steps to successful process improvement
To get the best out of off-site construction, you need to get your build process right, says David Thomas. Here’s how…
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The how what why
Martin Goss answers the key questions about certification, regulation and standardisation
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‘We went from greenfield to selling hamburgers in 48 hours’
In the 1980s Richard Ogden played a key role in trailblazing the use of off-site construction for a certain fast-food chain. Now he’s the first chairman of Buildoffsite, connecting burgeoning demand for new construction techniques with supply.
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Bring it on
Okay, we can all stop worrying about whether off-site techniques will ever be taken seriously as a construction method, or whether anybody outside housebuilding has even heard of it... The real question now is whether the industry is ready to take advantage of all those off-site opportunities – the Olympics, ...
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Costs: Structural steel
If structural steel is your frame of choice, you need to think about fire protection. Peter Mayer of Building LifePlans runs through the various options and what each one will cost
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Structures
Our structural special kicks off by examining the new thinking on tall buildings in the post-9/11 world, before offering tips on fine-tuning dealings with structural engineers and how to gauge costs of fire-protecting steel frames
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The blame game
As soon as Mowlem’s accounting difficulties hit the news last month the race was on to find the person responsible. Building reports on the unseemly row between the past three chief executives over their financial problems and the impact they have had on the company …
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Alun Michael
Once upon a time, the government saw construction as a vital lever for regulating the economy, and gave it an entire minister. These says it gets an average of seven minutes of Alun Michael’s day. So what can he accomplish in that time?
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Top 200 Consultants 2005: Class acts
It’s Friday night and that means it’s time for … erm, Building’s eagerly awaited annual consultants’ league. Before we count down the top 200, Katie Puckett and Richard Heap pick out the highest climbers, hottest new entries, bestselling acts – and a rather familiar group in the number one spot ...
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I’ll be seeing you …
Stephen Williams has just been appointed head of construction at the Health and Safety Executive. As Building discovered, he is a man with an intense interest in the industry – and plans personally to visit as many sites as possible.