All Features articles – Page 557
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LIfetime costs: durable floors
You've got a floor to cover, but which material is going to serve your client best – and for the longest – for the least amount of money? Peter Mayer of the Building Performance Group shines the spotlight on the whole-life costs of PVC, linoleum and carpeting
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FeaturesCob satisfaction
The Eden Centre has just got another extraordinary structure, a combination of Taunton and Timbuktu vernacular, it's sustainable and biodegradable, it's got breasts and you can even catch buses from it
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FeaturesTread carefully …
Most people don't know it, but floor coverings can be one of the most environmentally damaging parts of a building. Alex Smith investigates some methods and materials that should help stop us stomping on the environment
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Breaking the sound barrier
The government has identified noisy neighbours as a serious problem for its urban policy, and it's told housebuilders to keep them quiet – or else. The only problem is that the industry will have to move at Mach two to comply.
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Old age tension
This year's Building/Hays Montrose careers survey reveals readers' increasing awareness of the importance – and vulnerability – of their pensions. Victoria Madine rounds up the results
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FeaturesLondon will never look the same again
Thanks to the Swiss Re project team who worked out how to build this hugely clever, hugely complex building, kept to within a few days of the schedule and put the top 3 mm away from where they wanted it. Andy Pearson explains how they did it
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FeaturesThe 2003 Building Awards: your last chance to enter
If you want to be a winner at the industry's most prestigious awards, you've only got one week to get your entry in. Here's a list of the 18 categories, as well as the judges and sponsors who make it possible
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Key Taywood job goes to industry outsider
Housebuilder Taylor Woodrow hires money man Peter Johnson as finance director.
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Job-share chief to leave Redrow
Housebuilder's southern region joint chairman Greg Locke to quit at Christmas.
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FeaturesA Man and his tools
BuildOnline's Mark Oliver chose an odd moment to join a dotcom. Yet he is confident that his firm's collaboration programs will trigger a computer revolution – if only firms can find a way to upgrade those soft pink things that operate them.
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FeaturesThe Fight for survival
Who needs competitors when your friends in the insurance industry can put you out of business with a single phone call? Matthew Richards reports on construction's increasingly untenable position – and how it can find a way out
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FeaturesSoho fabulous
Lifschutz Davidson's swanky revamp of 20 Soho Square should appeal to the area's media types – and, like the Ab Fab girls, it has squeezed a lot into a small space …
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FeaturesMidnight express
Heathrow Airport is so busy that it could only spare a two-hour window in which to move a 330-tonne link-bridge two miles across runways and into its intended slot. Andy Pearson joined a night-time convoy with one question on its mind: will it fit?
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FeaturesCubic feat
Architect SpacelabUK has designed a stark, geometrically pure house that sits on the Cambridgeshire countryside like a square drawn on a very flat line …
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FeaturesConcrete recast
With prefabrication coming back into style, a radically revised production system could finally free precast concrete housing of its negative associations.
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FeaturesPenalty clauses
Signing up with a football club client? Watch out for prima donna chairmen and financial trick shots. Phil Clark reports from the sidelines on the pitfalls of building a stadium.
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Plaudits for audits
Post-Enron, is the annual audit worth it? Yes, if it's used as a business-wide health check
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Don't ask, don't get
It's that crucial moment in an interview when you get your chance to ask something … Victoria Madine suggests 10 questions that are bound to impress
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Five ways to tackle Seasonal Affective Disorder
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) affects one in 10 people during the winter months. Good lighting at work can help counter the symptoms of SAD – which include headaches and depression – and can increase employee productivity all round.Discuss the problem Ask staff, or consult an expert, to identify workspaces that ...