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The human factor
When the market wobbles, you need key staff more than ever you did when it was booming
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Five ways to beat stress
A good night's sleep Medical research confirms what the overworked have always known – the more you sleep, the less stressed you feel. Eighty years ago, the UK slept nine hours a night, but since then it's fallen by 90 minutes. So lie back and snooze like it's the 1920s.A ...
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Catch of the day
Win or lose, at least you used to know where you stood with costs and payments into court. Nowadays it's a grey area that can easily become a swirling fog
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Don't even think about it
Adjudication is potentially so flawed that even a lousy claim stands a chance of success. So for main contractors and employers, deterrence is the name of the game
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Cost study: West Lothian College
A brand new campus developed on a greenfield site in Livingston, procured through PFI by trading in the former college site, was the best way to offer West Lothian College real value for money. HBG Construction and architect RMJM Scotland explain how they accommodated both traditional and high-tech styles – ...
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Healthy relationships
Construction's appalling safety record is getting worse and will only improve when the industry learns to work together in a non-adversarial way.
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FeaturesHow to fix an unfixable roof
The roof of the Commonwealth Institute had attained the status of an urban myth among London's roofing contractors, who told awestruck tales of leaks that no man could fix. Alex Smith finds out how it was finally sorted
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Regulations: Don't be an April fool
Sweeping changes to Part L of the Building Regulations come into effect on 1 April, and will have major implications for roofing specifiers. Insulation will have to be thicker, and buildings must be airtight and condensation-free. Alex Smith examines the ways you can keep up with the key changes
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Lifetime costs: Full metal packet
Metal roof coverings are many and varied – and so are the accompanying costs. In the first of Specifier’s Lifetime costs series, the Building Performance Group offers a guide to lifespan, whole-life costings and the durability of metal sheet roofing
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Checklist: Commercial roofing
In our first Checklist, Peter Claridge of Davis Langdon Schumann Smith takes you step-by-step through the essential points every commercial roofing specifier needs to consider, from identifying the roof type through to weatherproofing
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FeaturesProducts: The height of innovation
In the first of our special products sections, Specifier gets a bird's eye view of the best new roofing systems and how they've been applied – including Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners' record-breaking Frankfurt trade fair roof, and how Velux uses its own windows.
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NewsMorgan Sindall calls halt to spending spree
Group to digest recent purchases before make further acquisitions as orders top £1bn for first time.
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NewsRailtrack launches charm offensive at Bishopsgate
Forty architects invited to draw up sensitive plans for controversial goods yard on outskirts of City.
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On shaky ground
The Millennium Bridge should have been British engineering's finest hour. Instead, it has become a metaphor for a profession in crisis.
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Fitzpatrick joins the global hunt for skilled staff
Building division executives go to South Africa to try to recruit surveyors and site managers.
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FeaturesTerry Farrell
When an ennobled architect suggests tearing down the walls of Buckingham Palace, you know you're dealing with something of a nonconformist. Mark Leftly finds out what Terry's rebelling against.
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NewsMetronet outlines London Underground PPP plans
Consortium sets out how the work will be divided, as Tube part-privatisation gets provisional go-ahead.
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Taxpayers kept industry booming in 2001
Construction orders for last year increased 2% compared with 2000, according to figures released by the DTI.
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ABB sheds 200 UK staff in global shake-up
Top 10 mechanical and electrical contractor ABB Technologies has shed 200 UK staff after a global shake-up of its Swiss parent company, ABB, writes Tom Broughton in Zürich.