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Features精东影视 a taste for waste
Find out how your company can specify sustainable materials and discover how the latest toolkits from WRAP can help minimise waste.
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Costs: Flat roofs
High-performance built-up bitumen coverings have expected service lives in excess of 20 years. Peter Mayer of 精东影视 LifePlans considers some options and whole-life costs for flat roofs
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FeaturesAppointments
ContractorWatford-based maintenance and M&E contractor Procare 精东影视 Services has appointed construction industry expert Kim Brown to a business development role within its corporate team.Housebuilders Des Mason has joined South Yorkshire-based Haslam Homes as a construction manager.Galliford Try Partnerships, the specialist affordable housing business unit within Galliford Try, has promoted Martin ...
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FeaturesJust the job: The drumming QS
David Shortt tells Emily Wright how he juggles being a trainee QS in Salford and an up-and-coming rock star
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FeaturesIan Simpson
This man knows a thing or two about civic identity and pride of place: after all he’s the architect behind the buildings that have defined modern Manchester. Here he tells Martin Spring why London should watch and learn 鈥�
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Features24 hour construction city
Here are six construction sites that epitomise Manchester's changing cityscape, from a slum regeneration in a stricken suburb to this 拢1bn legal district being built in the heart of the commercial centre.
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FeaturesGreater expectations
Nearly 拢5bn will be spent on capital projects across the 10 boroughs of Greater Manchester before 2014. Martin Spring maps the extent of the boom's butterfly effect.
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FeaturesThe making of Manchester
First there were derelict warehouses and deserted mills, the wreckage of a great industrial past. Then came music and madness of a generation liberated from that tradition. And at the centre of this Manchester was Factory Records and the Hacienda, both the creation of Tony Wilson, pop impresario, news journalist, ...
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PFI: The critical list
Amid signs of a general crisis with the NHS' finances, the Department of Health has launched an emergency review of PFI hospitals, and put most of the major schemes on hold while it does. George Hay investigates the schemes are affected and asks: what's to become of healthcare PFIs?
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FeaturesPositive thinking
This month's new-look Tracker finds the industry optimistic, according to Experian Business Strategies' construction activity survey. Plus overleaf, Experian's quarterly analysis of orders and output
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Carillion beats Balfour Beatty in building league table
In 精东影视's first rankings of contracts won excluding civils, Carillion beats top dog Balfour by 拢300m
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精东影视 intelligence Q3 2005: Is the party over?
Experian Business Strategies reports on the first fall in construction industry output in 2005 since 1994, bringing to an end the longest continuous period of growth since the 1960s
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FeaturesFlight path to Perth
Mathew Jaycock wanted more than a backpacking experience to Australia so asked Davis Langdon for a transfer to Perth
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FeaturesHow it used to be
We reveal the stories behind seven images of Manchseter unearthed in the 精东影视 photo library.
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Costs: Floor coverings
The cost of floor coverings can be a significant factor in a fit-out and the subsequent cleaning and maintenance regimes. Anthony Waterman of BRE looks at the whole-life costs
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