All Features articles – Page 496
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FeaturesWalker’s big score
The thing is, there must be 50 ways to screw up a £1bn project, and if you can think of 25 of them, you’re a genius. We talk to a man who’s trying to do even better than that …
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FeaturesBernard Kasriel: Realpolitic
Bernard Kasriel, chief executive of Lafarge, talks about environment-friendly technology, negotiating with suspicious governments and the delicate business of digging enormous great holes
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Specifier Products
The latest window and door solutions, including new doors for a venerable institution in Cambridge, fire station entrances that fly open in seconds and some eye-catching coloured glazing
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FeaturesHow to specify a doorset
Ensuring all the components of a doorset combine to give the required performance on site is a major challenge for any specifier. Here we outline how current Building Regulations apply to an internal door
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FeaturesHounded out
Cats and dogs can Britain’s favourite pets, but if you live in council accommodation you’d probably have to make do with a bird or fish.
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FeaturesGunite wins Little Britain
The Little Britain Challenge Cup attracts 2,500 sailors and sees concrete firm Gunite win the main event.
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Spinning yarns
Rain may have stopped play at a David Wilson Homes’ sponsored cricket match but it didn’t dampen the spirits of the has-been cricketers booked for the event.
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FeaturesWaste not, want not
Council nimbyism and short-sighted government policy is in danger of turning Britain into a fly-tippers paradise. If the UK is to deal with its growing mountain of rubbish thousands of waste treatment facilities will have to be built by 2020, says Nigel Mattravers.
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FeaturesThree years of fear
9/11 was the day the world changed – if only in how scared people became. To quell these fears, the way we put up buildings has since undergone some pretty radical changes itself. We report on how Osama Bin Laden’s terror attacks transformed our industry
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FeaturesThe Bin Laden story
Summer 1971 in the small Swedish town of Falun. Twenty-two members of Saudi Arabia’s richest construction dynasty pose for a holiday snap. Second from the right is a 14-year-old called Osama, later to become the world’s most wanted terrorist. We report on how his relatives have tried to rescue the ...
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FeaturesAfter the fall
Three years ago tomorrow, 2800 people were murdered live on global television and the financial hub of America was turned into a smoking charnel house. Many construction experts become caught up in what happened on that day, and its aftermath. We talk to three about the disaster, the clear-up and ...
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Cost update: September 2004
This quarter’s round-up of the latest in construction, materials and labour costs shows that contractors will keep feeling the pressure as prices continue to outstrip consumer price inflation – plus overleaf, why building operatives and electricians are enjoying pay days more than most …
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FeaturesLittle Britain sails into view
Following the heroic exploits of the British sailors in Athens it's now up to the construction industry to prove it can rule the waves.
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FeaturesIn the woods, today
Celebrated Swedish architect Gert Wingårdh has designed his own holiday home in a southern Swedish glade – and it’s more or less perfect.