All Features articles – Page 560
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FeaturesMoney spinners
So far Britain's record on wind farming has been all bluster and no bite. But the government's green energy policy is about to trigger a surge in investment – with plenty of opportunities for construction companies.
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Multiplex storms to top of September’s league table
Wembley win shoots Australian firm to top of league and puts it in top five for the year to October.
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Save us from insurers
Insurers are grossly unfair, failing to distinguish between good roofers and the cowboys
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FeaturesFoster's cover up
First Norman Foster gave us his erotic gherkin, now he's come up with an apartment complex that has more curves than a Rubens nude. But far from baring all, he's draped an elegant roof down its flank. Thomas Lane measures the vital statistics
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FeaturesCost study: Phoenix Natural Gas HQ
Northern Ireland’s gas supplier didn’t want to have to pay astronomical energy bills, fall behind and end up suing itself for its own money. Cartwright Pickard Architects and QS Gardiner & Theobold explain how the team managed to avert this fate by delivering a building that not only achieved a ...
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Five museums of the built environment
Stoke Heath, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. Contains more than 25 historic buildings spanning seven centuries with detailed accounts of their design. The collection includes a 1940s prefab, a 15th-century merchant's house and a windmill. Call 01527-831363 for details.The Building of Bath MuseumThis covers the masterplanning that transformed a small provincial spa into ...
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Give yourself a break
Keep yourself up to date with tax concessions and you can save your firm loadsamoney
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FeaturesUp with skool
… because going back there as a grown-up is a lucrative career move, according this year's Mirza & Nacey survey of QSs' fees
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FeaturesWish you were here?
Professionals from the construction industry have a lot to offer when it comes to disaster relief. But helping traumatised locals to rebuild their lives is a sensitive business. As Marcus Fairs and Matthew Richards discover, Rambos need not apply
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FeaturesGreat expectation
After years of abortive planning, a realistic scheme is finally emerging for the redevelopment of King's Cross, and it's billed as the most exciting regeneration project in central London for a century and a half. In the first of three articles in the run-up to Prescott's urban summit, Martin Spring ...
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FeaturesSpotless enterprise
Is there life on Mars? Britain is sending a robotic spacecraft to find out. But the space experts' first challenge was to create a room so spotless, the craft could be built bacteria-free. Otherwise it might confuse Martian germs with the Milton Keynes variety … Andy Pearson boldly went to ...
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FeaturesAfter Wembley
Two years of working flat out trying to get the new national stadium built would be enough to persuade most of us to hang up our boots, but Paul Gandy, managing director of the UK arm of Multiplex, has set himself a new goal – building, rather than demolishing, famous ...
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Sitting pretty
Creating the right impression can help your career and your work environment.
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FeaturesSense and sensuality
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma synthesises Japanese traditionalism and European modernism in the form of a bamboo house in the forests of China. Sounds about right for this year's winner of Finland's Spirit of Nature Wood Architecture Award …
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Your neck of the woods
As in most Building regional surveys, how you’re doing depends on where you’re doing it.
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Lead times
Lead times continued to decline in the past quarter, with only three packages taking longer to arrive on site, according to Mace. Gardiner & Theobald reveal how technology is raising the performance of the lifts
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FeaturesPrivate sector housebuilder of the year
The supreme award in this category, sponsored by Eternit building materials, goes to south-east player Laing Homes
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Game theory
Keeping everybody with an interest in your project happy can involve complicated strategies – that is why it's worth learning the rules …