More Focus – Page 357
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FeaturesGet the job
Craig Paterson explains how a good telephone manner can put you ahead of the competition
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FeaturesLovely idea...
… shame about the council’s cost-cutting hit men. Gus Alexander takes a stroll around Whitechapel’s Idea Store, the David Adjaye-designed library-cum-IT-superstore, and laments what might have been
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Projects update: health and safety
The seconds following a site accident can make all the difference between life and death, which is why the Red Cross has set up a programme of construction-specific first aid training days
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FeaturesVintage Rogers
Richard Rogers Partnership is the latest of the big-name architects to design a winery – this one for a vineyard in the northern Spanish village of Peñafiel.;
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FeaturesOut of control
In the week that the RICS lent its support to Building’s Reform the Regs campaign, Sarah Richardson spent a day with Leeds building control to witness the problems at ground level
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FeaturesThe inheritors
The standard business model of the standard volume housebuilder is well tried, well tested and increasingly obsolete. Now the market is being invaded by dynamic, agile firms that have adapted to an environment in which affordability, sustainability and brownfield expertise are what count.
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FeaturesWith this issue...
....of Building we are publishing a Channel Tunnel Rail Link supplement.
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Lead times
This quarter Mace finds many lead times unchanged, but on the brink of increases next year as strong order books put the pressure on …
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Miliband talks up importance of ‘vision thing’ at Gateway
The government intends to have a strategic framework for the Thames Gateway in place by next summer, said communities minister David Miliband.
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FeaturesThe Xinhui factor
Could shipping modules from China be a cheap solution for prefab housing? Joint venture Verbus thinks so, and has invested £1m devising a system to win over developers at next week’s launch. Katie Puckett follows a prototype on its journey from Xinhui to Salisbury
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FeaturesThe fall of Paris
For the first time, Building tells the extraordinary story of how Paris Moayedi, the man who dazzled the construction world for the best part of a decade, lost control of his own company.We reveal the boardroom splits, the desperate financial manoeuvres, the public relations disasters and the boardroom coups that ...
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FeaturesJust the job: Saira Is-Haq at the NHBC
Trainee building surveyor Saira Is-Haq talks about being the only Asian - and woman - on her course
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FeaturesTurin triumphs
The next Winter Olympics don’t take place until February, but have Italy’s design teams already won gold? In the second of our features on making the most of the Games, we look at how Turin’s facilities are promising to be a success.
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FeaturesThe old romantic
He may no longer be the carefree youth who proposed to his wife a week after they met, but Keith Miller’s more considered approach to business looks set to see the Miller Group pass the £1bn-turnover mark.
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FeaturesSome legacy
A little more than a year after Athens hosted the ‘best ever’ Olympics, this is what its facilities have become – desolate monuments to poor planning and incoherent politics. Over the next five pages, Mark Leftly reports on the lessons that London needs to learn.
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Costs: Solar hot water systems
Will the new Part L see mass uptake of solar hot water systems? Peter Mayer of Building LifePlans looks at the specifications and their whole life costs