All Features articles – Page 467
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FeaturesDoing good by stealth
The new chief executive of the Prince’s Foundation is a quiet American. But Hank Dittmar’s lack of showiness is well suited to a charity that is aiming to slowly and subtly transform urban England.
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FeaturesEmission impossible
The government’s decision on whether to introduce mandatory pressure testing of homes is going to upset some people – but will it be those who oppose the measure, or those who back it?
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FeaturesThe client strikes back
It could spark a civil war of intergalactic proportions: the British Property Federation has drawn up a contract for consultants’ appointments, and it’s turning into a struggle of light versus dark. But which side is captained by Darth Vader and which by Luke Skywalker?
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Appointments
ContractorGeoffrey Osborne has appointed Rod Peck operations manager for its South Midlands homes division.HousebuildersAffordable housing provider Lovell has recruited Siân Byrne as business development manager for Wales.Warren O’Callaghan has been appointed part exchange manager at Fairclough Homes’ northern home counties division based at St Albans, Hertfordshire.Gary Belcher has joined Northampton-based ...
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Cost update: June 2005
In this quarter’s analysis of construction materials and labour prices, Davis Langdon reports on the inflationary effect of steel costs (which may have peaked) and wage increases (which continue unabated)
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Specifier Products
Nifty ways to transform roofs with lights and hand-crafted tiles plus an award-winning recycling sytem that cleanses grey water from household sinks using the roots of plants
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Costs: Single-ply membranes for flat roofs
Choosing the right single-ply membrane is not simple, especially as the options are often difficult to compare. Peter Mayer of Building LifePlans looks at some of the more common choices
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Smart thinking
Faced with a target of building 89,000 new homes by 2021, Cambridgeshire has set up the SmartLIFE project to learn how innovative construction methods can make up the shortfall
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Showpieces
Full scale exhibits of MMC building systems will be showcased at OFFSITE2005 including three demonstration homes in BRE’s new Innovation Park
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FeaturesPods and monsters
A medical research centre where scientists are banished to the basement and life-or-death matters are discussed beneath giant deep-sea creatures, orange bubble clusters and alien spacecraft … we visits Will Alsop’s most flamboyant, and contradictory, offering yet.
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Hot or not?
Public sector projects are keeping contractors busy across the UK. Now, as the Kelly Review of construction capacity reveals, demand is boiling over in the North-west and London.
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FeaturesThe hard sell
Get your prospective employer to make you an offer you can't refuse, say Rob Norris and Ben Byram
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FeaturesStars and gripes
When Emcor lambasted its failing UK subsidiary Drake & Scull, US-based boss Frank T MacInnis asked Tony Whale to turn the firm around. Whale has, but he isn’t out of the woods yet. We met the two to discuss their future.
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FeaturesEuropean whole-life costs
Quantity surveyor Franklin + Andrews makes its annual appraisal of the costs of building and maintaining a standard factory in 14 European countries and finds the familiar north-south divide
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FeaturesComing in to land …
This is the UK’s first international airport for half a century. But just 14 months ago it was a disused RAF nuclear bomber base that people feared might contain unexploded bombs and radioactivity. We checked in at Robin Hood Airport to find out how it was transformed