All Features articles – Page 526
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Best Training/People Development Award
This award, sponsored by NHBC, goes to Countryside Properties, a company that really is investing in people and helping them to realise their potential ...
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FeaturesThe ideal architect
His years in the wilderness preaching weird hippie stuff like "sustainability" turned Richard Feilden into a bit of a prophet. All very well, but how does that fit with running an ever more successful commercial practice? We found out.
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Best Approach to Partnering
This award, sponsored by Construction industry solutions, appropriately goes to partners Willmott Dixon and Circle 33 Housing GroupWinner: Willmot Dixon/ circle 33 housing groupStrategic partnering has been taken to a new level in the arrangement between contractor Willmott Dixon and housing association Circle 33 Housing Group. In addition to working ...
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Best Health and Safety Approach
With a comprehensive safety strategy, and the results to prove its effectiveness, Twigden homes took the top prize in this category, sponsored by Dunbar BankWinner: Twigden HomesTwigden boasts an accident incident rate of less than half the construction industry norm, testament to the effective safety procedures in place at ...
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Best of all worlds
Don't fancy being stuck in rainy old Britain but can't afford to travel? Jealous of your mates going to exciting places while you're facing a life of hard work? Never fear – a career in construction is your ticket outta here … and this lot can prove it, says George ...
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A chill in the air
In this month's market review, Experian Business Strategies reports that the industry's recent growth spurt is about to come to a halt, with construction activity sagging towards November
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Best New Homes Agent
Three big names battled it out for this award, sponsored by Property week, and DTZ Residential emerged as the winner by a narrow margin ...
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Affordable Housing Provider of the Year
One name has been highlighted again and again throughout the finalists’ roll call, so it comes as no surprise that Willmott Dixon has claimed this supreme award, sponsored by ODPM ...
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Channel 4 4homes Award
Homes and Channel 4 4Homes asked the country's top housebuilders to show us the best home they have built over the past year, and let us put it to the test of the general public. over the summer, browsers of Channel 4's 4Homes website have been invited to vote for ...
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FeaturesTop 250 Consultants 2003: Big hitters
This year’s consultants league table ranks the top 250 practices in the UK, then breaks it down into the top 100 architects, engineers and surveyors. But which have the class and the grace to punch above their weight? We report from the ringsideTables compiled by Martin Hewes
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FeaturesBuilding Homes Quality Awards 2003
The third annual gathering of British housebuilders took place last week in Park Lane, London, to recognise the achievements of the best companies in the industry. Here's a taste of the evening's celebrations …
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FeaturesCould this be you?
Dear Diary … Welcome to a day in the life of Joe Riches, a 20-year-old on the year in industry scheme. Joe is working as a building assistant before his firm pays him to study construction management at Northumbria University. sounds cushy? you betcha!
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Work the room
Are you a wallflower at corporate bashes? Frances Kay, founder of business introductions agency Acumentoo, explains how to network effectively
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FeaturesThreat and response
Gangs of robbers, terrorists, politically motivated saboteurs … Contractors could be forgiven for thinking that their sites are under siege. But how can they fend off the enemy without blowing all their profit on security?
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FeaturesDreaming of England
A project in Japan made a Spaniard and an Iranian the UK's hottest young architects. But for all their international pedigree, what husband-and-wife team Foreign Office really want is to design the London Olympic Games.
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Come and get me, copper
Any British architect with an ounce of street cred wouldn't dream of cladding their building in anything else – not without getting their collar felt by the style police …
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Bovis does the double to top August leagues
Five wins worth £158m take company to top of monthly table and extend its lead over the year.
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FeaturesMr Blobby strikes again.
Will Alsop is back – and this time he's fitted his trademark giant pods on legs into the classical Victoria House in London. The planners bought it but will the tenants?