More Focus – Page 344
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Battle of Waitrose
Nine weeks they lost to the dead. Nine weeks they struggled to bring to being the store, with quiche bedecked. What cunning? What buildcraft? Thomas Lane tells the tale.
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Doors and windows
How do you turn an old tyre factory into a swanky office and leisure destination? As Sonia Soltani discovered, if you're Shed KM, you stick a beautiful glass box inside the existing brick box. The result kicks off our doors and windows special
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Costs: Rooflights
Dome rooflights are a great way to get light into a building. Peter Mayer of ¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ LifePlans considers the specification options, durability and whole-life costs
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What Brunel did for us ...
Two hundred years after his birth, the ever-present legacy of the great Isambard Kingdom Brunel still inspires the modern-day engineer to create something different.
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Fit-out update: Office fit-out
Phil Brown reports on one of the busiest markets for contractors
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Projects update: Sustainability
Amec may have been first out of the blocks to sign up to Envirowise, but there's no need to get left behind. You can contribute to several initiatives without leaving your desk …
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Why not work in ... Belfast
Investors and confidence are coming back to Belfast. Robert Smith of Hays Construction & Property can help you get in on the action
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Shrewd Operator
The winner of this year's ¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ Award for Chief Executive of the Year is John White, boss of Persimmon, the UK's biggest housebuilder.
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Forget T5, here's T-Rex
Beijing is about to get an airport that is large enough to handle the entire population of Britain in a single year, thanks to yet another collaboration between Arup and Foster and Partners
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Paul's problems with women
In April 2001, Simons Group boss Paul Hodgkinson used the pages of ¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ to make a bold pledge: that 50% of his staff would be female by 2011. It's five years on, but is he halfway there? Photographs by Julian Anderson
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The nightmare has begun
The industry is in a state of blind panic over Part L, the revised energy regulations implemented yesterday. Thomas Lane explains what we now can and can't build - and why we should all keep panicking …
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Enough hot air
In the first of a new series of fortnightly columns, Robert Webb asks if the drive towards sustainability leaves the industry poised for a quiet revolution
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Like father, like daughter
It takes a certain type of woman to follow in her father's footsteps, particularly if his job involves working 100-hour weeks on a building site or being paid to dress up in a wig. Emily Wright meets an architect, a lawyer, a small contractor and two very similar looking facilities ...