All Features articles – Page 601
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It's time to change
Peter Mason - In the wake of the safety summit, how can construction clean up its act on health and safety? It could start by learning from the oil and gas industry
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University challenge
Cambridge estates head David Adamson is determined to make the industry work together. So any firm that wants a slice of the university's record £528m build programme had better start listening …
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Better, naturally
Sally Sullivan - Why bother saving a few pennies on decorating materials when they could be making you ill?
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Assembling the Assembly
Creating a giant, lopsided egg about to topple over is very easy if you're using a Biro, but how on earth do you do it with structural steel? Andy Pearson went onsite at the GLA headquarters to find out.
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Appointments
ContractorsBaggaley Construction has appointed Mike Shires, president of the Nottingham City Business Club, training and development manager.John MacLean has been made project finance director at Morrison Developments.Project and construction management group Spring and Company has appointed Tim Dawson project management associate. Jane Urquhart joins as cost manager for construction ...
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When all the cows have gone
The rural economy faces collapse in the wake of foot and mouth. Meanwhile, our booming cities are ever more choked for space. It's time to reopen the debate about building on the green belt, argues Marcus Fairs
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Letter from Moscow
Peter Titus - Contrary to what you've heard, Russia's capital is a great place to work. But bring your mittens
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Home improver
Birmingham council's David Thompson is passionate about giving people better places to live. Which is why he's handing over 92,000 homes to the private sector.
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Here's the hard part
Building's Client profile series returns with EasyEverything, the cybercafe that's planning to open 50 stores every year for the next three. The good news is, it's looking to partner. The bad news is, everything is easy except getting work for it.
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Ground speed
Tesco wasn't prepared to queue for long to get its new Essex distribution centre, so Taywood proposed an unusual steel-fibre reinforced concrete floor that could be installed in a mere 25 days. Thomas Lane finds out how it worked.
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How long has it got?
Nick Schumann - clears up the confusion surrounding building life design. It's simple really …
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Foot and mouth: The forgotten victims
For weeks, our TV screens and newspapers have been filled with images of the havoc wreaked by foot and mouth on agriculture and tourism. But the effects of the disease on rural builders are no less devastating. Tom Broughton visited Carlisle, one of the worst-affected areas.
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Five ways to keep your staff happy
Let clients dictate the pace of workEmployees don't like it one bit if their managers put the pressure on. They are much more likely to work hard and long hours if they know it is because of customer demand.Small freedomsThese can be as apparently insignificant as moving the desk, controlling ...
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Dear Robert
Robert Smith of Hays Montrose tackles your work problems. This week, teambuilding for architects and how to get a health and safety qualification
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The complete guide to underfloor heating
Underfloor heating has finally banished the dodgy reputation it gained in the 1960s for burned feet in the morning, being cold when the heat was needed in the evening, and massive electricity bills.
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Appointments
ContractorsSheffield-based BDB Design Build has promoted David Hutchinson to director.HousebuildersDavid Dodge (right) has joined Gleeson Homes as managing director in the North-east.ConsultantsProperty consultant Ambury has appointed Ian McArdle, previously with Chesterton Katalysis, managing director.Bill Ritchie, Robert Butler and Keith Boxer have joined engineer Whitby Bird & Partners as directors of ...
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What's your strategy?
Angela Baron of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development on how to link your people management with your business strategy
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Is this the one?
With construction portals failing left, right and centre, it might seem like a bad time to launch an internet venture. But the big-league backers of Asite are convinced that they can defy economic gravity.