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New-build completions
NHBC-registered new-build private and housing association completion figures for February 2003 show activity is up across the board on last month, and overall private completions have redressed the balance after January鈥檚 year-on-year fall. All figures are supplied by NHBC.
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FeaturesDo houses that are built in a factory have to end up looking like this鈥�?
The trouble with factory-built houses is that they look as if they were built in a factory. But off-site manufacture is not incompatible with sophisticated design, as the coming generation of prefab homes will demonstrate.
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FeaturesOur trends in the North
Huddersfield may not be the first place to come to mind when you think of loft apartments. But a live鈥搘ork scheme for artists opened by Places for People is proving that studio-style spaces can work in Yorkshire as well as Manhattan
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FeaturesMiller's tale
Tim Hough, Miller Homes' new managing director, plans to expand into the South-east and build on the company's reputation for quality and care. But is it the firm's results that are giving him the best reason to be cheerful?
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Thinking of going prefab?
鈥� then this is the place to start. Homes brought in cost consultant MDA to answer your frequently asked questions
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Get it right: Factory-produced systems
The Egan report highlighted the need for off-site manufacture to increase the quality of the end product and to reduce programme times.
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Bovis to axe 40 staff after review of market prospects
Contractor reveals redundancy plans in the same week that QS EC Harris decides to close Glasgow office.
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Contractors to get training in Egan principles
Construction body Be launches one-day course package on collaborative working.
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Labour agency set to import workers from Romania
The Home Office has agreed in principle to a proposal to import east Europeans to help solve the skills shortage.
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New bosses for Kier and Alfred McAlpine
Contractors' chief executives both scale back roles by becoming chairmen of the companies.
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FeaturesThe children's crusade
How can you make a name for yourself if that name belongs to your famous parent? We talk to people who've wrestled with this problem 鈥� and found their own answers.
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We need vocal locals
Council planners generally put the interests of the community first, but if things don't work out that way, there's not a lot the community can do about it
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FeaturesDressed to thrill
Inspired by a wallet-busting designer frock, yet designed to be a bargain in itself, the exterior of Future Systems' Selfridges store in Birmingham is a sight to behold. We got the inside story on how this futuristic, shimmering, blue beehive was built.
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HBG is cock of the north in February league table
Sir Robert McAlpine and Laing head down the monthly table, but Bovis Lend Lease stays on top over the year.
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Local lowdown
This month, Robert Smith of Hays Montrose looks at the job market in Northern Ireland, where a glut of civils projects means that engineers are hot property