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Appointments

2004-05-27T10:53:00Z

Movers and shakers this week

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The general idea

2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

Andy Wolstenholme talks to us through the battle for T5

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Mike Davies

2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

T5's project architect tells us about his 20 years spent designing the same building

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Introduction: Why T5 is the future of UK construction

2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

The construction of a passenger terminal at Heathrow was essential if the airport was to cope with a rise in the market for air travel of up to 7% a year, and if it was to maintain its claim to be Europe's premier airport. Necessity was the mother of Terminal ...

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IT

2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

We explain how the design process was optimised

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Community relations

2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

"I've worked on projects at Heathrow and Stansted, but this is one of the most challenging jobs I've done – Terminal 5 is very large and very visual. It has a potentially huge impact on local residents in terms of nuisances like construction noise; my role is to ensure that ...

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Words from the front

2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

Mitch Parsons, a construction manager from Laing O'Rourke north, describes life at the sharp end of T5B

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On site

2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

It's finally up. After years of design work, months of testing and weeks of careful assembly, the first section of the main terminal's giant waveform roof is in place.

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Prefab

2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

Here's where talk of templates becomes literal. We tell it like it is

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Procurement

2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

We explain how the celebrated T5 agreement works

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What there is still to do

2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

– and will the terminal's interior rise to the occasion?

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The captain, speaking

2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

We listen carefully to Tony Douglas, T5's managing director

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Workers' welfare

2004-05-27T00:00:00Z

We report on how baa is making sure all its construction staff live to see the end of the job

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A grave responsibility

2004-05-21T00:00:00Z

Graham Farrant's task is to create a profitable group that will advise individual clients and lobby for their collective interests. This is about as popular a job as undertaking – which is apt, given what happened to the last body.

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Not a matter of life and death …

2004-05-21T00:00:00Z

As Bill Shankly said, football is much more important than that – at least it is to Redrow founder Steve Morgan. We tell the story of his struggle to win a place on the board of his beloved Liverpool FC, and gets expert analysis from the man himself

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Rise of the machines

2004-05-21T00:00:00Z

It is the year 2004, and a 400-year-old firm in Sussex, England, has become mankind's last hope of resistance to the machine-made roof tile – but for how much longer?

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Amec conjures April victory with £460m MoD contract

2004-05-21T00:00:00Z

Refurbishment deal puts contractor £120m ahead of Laing O’Rourke while BDP tops architects league

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Just the job

2004-05-21T00:00:00Z

Solicitor Anthony Fine was among the first to specialise in PFI contracts. Here he tells us about the challenges it poses and his predictions for this evolving market

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Homage to valencia

2004-05-21T00:00:00Z

A small town at the foot of a Spanish citadel has embraced the modern with architect Paredes Pedrosa's congress centre. And in so doing, it has added to Valencia's illustrious architectural heritage

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Mark Whitby's 31 buildings

2004-05-21T00:00:00Z

Nick Hornby is not the only one who can write lists, you know. Inspired by Hornby's compilation 31 Songs, by the Sydney Opera House saga and by his lifelong passion for architecture, Mark Whitby, founder of Whitbybird, decided to let us in on his list of engineering masterpieces. Here's the ...