More Focus – Page 484
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FeaturesPiano's forte
With an international track record in performing and visual arts buildings, Italy's Renzo Piano has now converted a sugar factory in Parma, near Florence, into a simple, elegant, no-frills concert hall.
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Vanishing acts
How are the empty seats around industry's boardroom tables being filled? By raiding parties snatching the brightest and best from rivals and other sectors. And it looks like the vacuum will suck in even more companies before it is filled.
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What price procurement?
The hysteria over online bidding is misplaced – it can reap benefits for the whole supply chain
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Five tips on IT maintenance
Watch the bugs don't bite There are thousands of computer viruses around with hundreds of new ones every week. Some do very little damage but others can cause the inconvenience of protracted down-time and the expense of cleaning systems. Make sure you are using quality antivirus software and it is ...
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Cost update: March 2002
The increase in construction inflation rates hides a much more modest rise in retail inflation, according to Davis Langdon & Everest. And turn to page 60 for an analysis of the likely effect of the imminent aggregates tax on the industry
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Support network
Victoria Madine talks to Liz Emeny of services engineer Rybka about her new forum for young professionals in the built environment
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FeaturesAppointments
ContractorsEast Midlands-based construction group DE Clegg has appointed Bill Fiddian managing director of Clegg Construction. Steve Giltrap joins as managing director of Clegg Food Projects. He will take over from David Short (left), who becomes group managing director.Contrad Construction, the privately owned chartered building company, has appointed Jane Richardson marketing ...
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Mind your language
As construction sites become increasingly dependent on foreign workers, Matthew Richards asks whether the industry is doing enough to break down a potentially fatal language barrier
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FeaturesMy kind of town
Why waste time designing a mere building when you can create your own city? When you're done, you can stroll through the boulevards, or even shoot 300 m into the air for a bird's eye view. Andy Pearson ponders on the practicalities of playing God
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FeaturesThe talented Mr Ripply
An open air museum in Sussex has charted timber-frame from Tudors and traditional cottages to arrive at a new architectural idiom for the countryside
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FeaturesEden better
Aggregates group RMC has the finest, most magical head office of any company in the construction industry. In fact, hanging gardens make it look more like uninterrupted parkland than a headquarters. So why did its owner want to change it? Martin Spring found out.
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2200 housing associations have 5 years to comply with 37 performance indicators. Can they handle it?
In our new regular section on housing, Victoria Madine reveals how housing associations have been given five years to comply with the Egan agenda, and overleaf, Roger Humber bemoans the forced nationalisation of housebuilding
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Our new police state
The government has taken control of housing, and the result is more mergers and takeovers – and a disastrous slump in the number of homes being built
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Let's make it better
Training consultant Uly Ma talks to Victoria Madine about Project BUILD, a scheme for helping managers improve the working environment
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ConsultantsAlan Wedlock has joined quantity surveyor Cyril Sweett's consulting team as senior consultant. Simon Rowland, formerly partner at Watson Burton, has joined law firm Dickinson Dees as associate. V&A Project Management has appointed Jimmy Floyd, formerly with Scottish & Newcastle, project manager in its Newcastle office. HousebuildersHomes developer ...
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Was it worth it?
Three years late and more than £20m over budget, Stephen Hodder's Clissold Leisure Centre became notorious as the pool that sank Hackney. Marcus Fairs asked residents whether they felt it was money well spent
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Just the job
Architect Jane Briginshaw tells Matthew Richards how on earth she manages to run her own practice, lecture at a university and be an active local councillor
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ConsultantsHaley Somerset Consulting has promoted David Jenvey associate director within its construction services group.David Upton, director of civil engineer of Upton McGougan, has been appointed vice chairman of the Association of Consulting Engineers.Engineering and environmental consultant White Young Green has promoted Simon Martin to associate director, based in the Bristol ...
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FeaturesThe go-getter
Amanda Clack, the youngest-ever fellow of the RICS, is leading a shake-up of her profession. Here she tells Victoria Madine why project managers do not deserve the bad press they sometimes get from the rest of the project team.