More Focus – Page 418
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Benchmark costs
How much you spend on a school sports hall naturally depends on the project and its specification. Paul Moore of multidisciplinary consultant EC Harris breaks down the benchmark costs of 10 recent schemes to give you a guide
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You do the honours
In the wake of construction's dismal showing in the honours, we invited readers to name their own winners
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Jarvis digs deep
When your clients and your suppliers join with the media, the HSE and City analysts to attack you, you need to come up with a pretty good survival plan. We report on Jarvis' struggle to regroup
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The buyers
Welcome to ¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ’s first ever table of construction’s 100 most powerful clients. Over the next eight pages we measure their worth by sector, region, project and reputation. Andy Pearson mingles with the people who push the buttons, Camargue and Glenigan provide the ammunition
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Tender price forecast: London lags behind
London’s office developers are in hibernation and are likely to remain so for at least another year. This is dampening inflation in the capital – but in other areas, such as Wales and north-west England, the market is booming and costs are rising. Davis Langdon & Everest presents the big ...
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Beginning of a beautiful friendship?
What's this? Surely it can't be true? The private and public sectors working harmoniously side by side on construction projects? We report on what John Prescott's regeneration cash is doing for workers on both sides of the fence
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Regeneration game
Paul France and Steve Glands from recruitment consultants Hays Montrose discuss the regeneration jobs boom …
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Here’s the pitch
Sport England’s standardised design is starting a Mexican wave of achievable, accessible halls that don’t look like tin boxes. We report from the touchline at Dagenham.
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Our homes in Havana
A UK architect is bringing prefab housing to Cuba in the hope that it will eliminate poor quality homes, delays and light-fingered builders. With government backing, residents of old Havana could soon be moving to new homes, leaving their grand colonial buildings for the tourists.
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Aisle be back
Construction's often lucrative relationship with supermarkets has had its sticky-wheel moments. But now that competition between stores has hit an all-time high, the sector is racing back towards the building checkout.
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Maker's mark
London's Holloway Road was not exactly crying out for an edgy, in-yer-face building, but Daniel Libeskind's latest design does wonders for it anyway. Martin Spring assesses the design, Thomas Lane reports on the building techniques.
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Bovis wins league in 2003 with £600m December deal
Hard on Bovis' heels in monthly and annual leagues is HBG, and Gardiner & Theobald tops QS chart
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Just the job
After completing his science degree, Matt Tanner decided to work in construction. We find out if being a project manager is all he hoped it would be …