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FeaturesHot Leeds!
Financial and media firms are flocking to the emerging capital of the North to share its 24-hour European-class culture. Which is good news for construction companies 鈥�
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FeaturesWe're saved! It's Utilityman
Computer-enhanced, radar-enabled, global-satellite-positioned, they can see through 3 m of tarmac and earth to find exactly what's hiding under innocent-looking roads. Andy Pearson reports on a new breed of superhero.
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Doing the Whitehall shuffle
With Cabinet reshuffles, it is always a case of dealer's choice. But no prime minister in living memory has scooped up the departmental deck and dealt it out again with quite the regularity of Tony Blair.
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Self-abuse
When self-certification was set up, it was welcomed as a way to cut red tape and rid the industry of rogue traders. So why, just two months on, are furious builders and regulators clamouring to get rid of it?
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The matrix
It's easy enough to say that the most powerful asset a company has is the knowledge of its staff. But the trick, says Victoria Madine, is in harnessing this power for the benefit of your business
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FeaturesTake me to the river
After leaving Whitby Bird, founding partner turned developer Bryn Bird has created his first project 鈥� a glamorous waterfront live鈥搘ork complex built on top of Brunel's Rotherhithe Tunnel and nestled beside the Thames
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Overseas firms dominate the UK market in April
Ironically, Jarvis had a good month, but the other top spots are taken by French, Swedish and Australian firms.
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FeaturesMan the maker
John Hall over there, sitting on the roof he鈥檚 making, is a craftsman in an industry that is being told over and over again that technology holds the only key to the future. So 精东影视 spoke to the descendants of the people who built the cathedrals and asked them to ...
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Not up to standard
If we ripped up standard forms of contract, our clients would be much happier people
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Five tips on group brainstorming
There's no such thing as a bad idea It's a brainstorming session, not a serious debate. Remember, this is supposed to be fun, so don't criticise other people's ideas.It's a collaborative effort One good idea can grow another and an idea suggested by one person can trigger a better one ...
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How green is your property?
A new EU directive to promote energy efficiency could mean that buildings may soon be regulated like kitchen appliances. The good news is that substandard buildings could be brought up to scratch. The bad news is those that fail to make the grade may be demolished.
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Cost update: May 2002
This quarter, Davis Langdon & Everest examines preliminaries percentages of four case studies, plus the latest price change information for labour and materials, including the first effects of the new aggregates levy
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Just the job
Pat Johnston, trainee carpenter with affordable housing developer Lovell, talks about how she got into the business and what it's like being a woman in a man's world
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FeaturesAppointments
HousebuildersCharles Church has appointed Mike Tilley, previously with Alfred McAlpine, sales and marketing director of its South Midlands region. Independent housebuilder Britannia Developments has appointed Kate Norton field sales manager.ConsultantsMultidisciplinary practice FaberMaunsell has taken on Peter Hirst, previously with Aspen Burrow Crocker, as associate director of its Birmingham building engineering ...
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Catcher in the team
With insurance premiums rising, project members are looking at the Egan idea of junking separate indemnity cover for all-for-one project insurance. One problem, however, is that the insurer would be on the team, having a big say.
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FeaturesGreat lakes
Poetry and progress find architectural expression in the four magical island pavilions that form the centrepiece of Switzerland's Expo.02
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FeaturesElizabeth Whatmore
After all the shake-ups, reshuffles and departures, the Construction Directorate's new multi-tasked minder is determined to take the industry forward 鈥� by encouraging it to stand on its own two feet.
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FeaturesThe glass oasis
One of the IRA's unsolicited gifts to Manchester was a bombed out, wind-scoured, traffic-ridden wasteland. Martin Spring finds out how the architect turned it into Britain's dearest block of flats outside London.
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FeaturesChina in our hands?
Early gold could be on offer at Beijing 2008 鈥� if the team from the British construction industry manages to bring home juicy contracts. Matthew Richards assesses its chances
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