All Features articles – Page 492
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FeaturesBest company-wide sustainability award
Housebuilders are broadening their definition of sustainability. For its all-round commitment, Countryside Properties was a clear winner in this category, sponsored by Energy Saving Trust
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FeaturesBest training/people development award
The panel had a long line-up of contenders again for this category, sponsored by Technical Resourcing – and judges were particularly pleased to see these finalists making the link between training and profitability. In the end, London & Quadrant emerged victorious
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FeaturesThe innovation award for building technology
The judges wanted to see innovative products and they were excited by the market potential of the winning entry from Powergen in this category, sponsored by the Housing Forum
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FeaturesCompany-wide design innovation award
When it comes to company-wide design innovation, many housebuilders are expert at the rhetoric, but our judges felt that few deliver high-quality schemes time after time. Countryside Properties is among that elite and carried off the prize in this Finnforest UK-sponsored category
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FeaturesMost creative marketing award
Miller took the private housebuilders’ prize and Family HA the affordable housing award in this category, sponsored by Barbour Index
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FeaturesWhere next for Britain’s biggest architect?
Peter Drummond, the new chief of Building Design Partnership, is looking for another £35m of business …
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FeaturesBest approach to partnering and supply chain management
A large field of finalists lined up for this award, sponsored by Construction Industry Solutions. Haslam and Keegans were both frontrunners but Fusion 21, Merseyside’s best known partnership since Dalgleish and Rush, took the award
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FeaturesBest new homes agent
Three firms battled it out for this award, sponsored by Property Week, but FPDSavills won the contest for its heavyweight research capability
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FeaturesAffordable Housing Provider of the Year
The judges thought this was an exceptionally strong set of finalists, setting high standards for the entire industry in areas such as customer care. Circle 33 won the award in this category, sponsored by Bank of Scotland
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FeaturesChannel 4 4homes award
This special award, sponsored by Wolseley Centres, is voted for by browsers of the Channel 4 4Homes website. Over the summer, they were invited to vote for their favourite new home from this shortlist of 10. The winning housebuilder is announced in the current issue of Building
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Sketch meets developers' approval
Macfarlane’s clients experience pod toilets and the snogging room at London’s coolest bar.
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FeaturesShh, it's The Darkness
Pomp rockers The Darkness have revealed their considerate side by installing mineral wool sound insulation in their Norfolk studio.
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FeaturesAn inside job
Breaking into the former NatWest HQ was the easy part. Ripping the heart out of it to create state-of-the-art offices while preserving the listed facade, banking hall and directors’ suites, and shifting 1000 lorry-loads of rubble without disturbing the heavyweight neighbour – well, that needed something like a plan … ...
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FeaturesMore haste, more speed
Ministers may have promised a bill for London’s superfast transport link Crossrail next spring, but boss Norman Haste is not leaving his £9bn project until then. We saw him in action at the Labour Party Conference
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FeaturesHappy hour
Times are good for quantity surveyors, with charge-out rates up by as much as 50% since 2002 and most sectors looking decidedly flush. We drink in Mirza & Nacey’s latest survey on how much a cost consultant costs
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The hired gun's guide
Working for an agency can boost your freelance earnings - as long as it also works for you. We look at how to get the best service
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FeaturesDon’t supersize me
The Peabody Trust’s latest exercise in modular housing at Barons Place, west London, houses key workers in compact-and-bijou microflats. We mind our head and step inside a new fun-sized way of living.
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A touch of class
This City Academy is the first of 200 the government wants to build in deprived inner city areas. However, it’s unlikely that the others will be designed by Richard Rogers and boast a really pukka kitchen garden