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FeaturesHousing Futures 2024
精东影视 Futures, a joint initiative between CABE and the RIBA, has just produced Housing Futures 2024, a set of reports that speculate on developments in British housing to 2024.
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FeaturesWhere workers dare
Following last week's profile of a decorator in Iraq, recruitment consultant Richard Dobell reveals why construction workers are clamouring to go there
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FeaturesIn the next six months: New CIS system will tax the technophobes
National Federation of Builders is to assess the level of computer literacy among its members to find out how many will be able to handle an online tax system.
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FeaturesGateshead M&S by John Pawson: Nothing to shout about
Marks & Spencer鈥檚 efforts to rebrand itself as a sophisticated purveyor of aspirational housewear has led it to put a super-minimalist John Pawson house in its Gateshead store. We ran a jaundiced eye over the results 鈥�
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FeaturesWhat a difference a year has failed to make
Twelve months after John Prescott promised to kick-start Britain's biggest regeneration project in the Thames Gateway, visits three key areas and finds that few of the grand plans have left the drawing boards. Plus, the first of our regeneration jargon-busters
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FeaturesAnd now from the BBC 鈥�
The Beeb asked Allies & Morrison to create a vast media village next door to another enormous office block at its bleak White City site 鈥� without creating the last word in urban alienation. We finds out what happened next, Adam Wilson collects the photographic evidence
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FeaturesAll together better
Willmott Dixon thought that a completely rational building process would be about 30% faster than a conventional one. So it tried out its ideas on a social housing development in west London. We found out what happened
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Cost update: March 2004
This quarter, waterproofing comes under the glare of Davis Langdon & Everest's Hot Rates spotlight. And overleaf, the cost of a plumber and an electrician these days, plus why metal prices have gone through the roof 鈥�
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FeaturesSiteseeing with the HSE
Site managers! Do you live in terror of a safety visit, no matter how innocent you are? And do you wish you knew what went on in those inspectors' heads? To unravel the mystery, we spent a day with the dark hero of health 鈥� Norman the HSE inspector.
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FeaturesDeconstructing sarah
Sarah Wigglesworth, rebel intellectual, fat architect and straw enthusiast, has just accepted an MBE, and is about to become something of a television star 鈥� we discuss postmodern irony with her
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Laing O'Rourke tops January chart with 拢517m contracts
New year success also puts Laing into a strong second place in annual tables, threatening Bovis' supremacy
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FeaturesJust the job
Richard Beasley is a Sheffield decorator working on pubs and cafes for the British army in Iraq. We spoke to him 鈥� on site at Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra 鈥� about night-time gunfire, daily temperatures and living in a tent in a former dictator's garden
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FeaturesYou dirty old man
That means us, folks 鈥� Britain has easily the worst record in adopting European environmental law. And, with less than two years before the UK must start eco-rating all new buildings, it seems the upcoming rules on energy efficiency will offer no exception.
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FeaturesAs good as it's got
Once again, Foster and Partners has shown the wonders modern CAD can perform 鈥� this time by combining the golden spiral of the Nautilus with wonderfully imaginative engineering. So, who wants to be a millionaire?
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Factfile: February 2004
The Christmas season didn't do much to dent Scottish planners' workload, with a total of 1244 units approved in December. In the housing associations table, Garston Urban Village scored a major approval, and Persimmon and George Wimpey made headway in the private sector.Approvals into the new year dwindled virtually across ...
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FeaturesExpert eye
Show homes will be your shop window, says Andrew Smith, Berkeley Homes' first head of landscape design. A chartered landscape architect with a masters in landscape ecology, design and management, Smith was previously a director at landscape consultancy Woodhams.