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New model army
In a frantic bid for seasonal frivolity, we accosted an assortment of industry types, plied them with wine, and locked them in a room with a vast pile of household junk and a brief to recreate 2001's iconic buildings in true Blue Peter style. But would the architects, engineers or ...
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2001: A sobering year
It began with a champagne-propelled property fair on the C么te d'Azur, and ended with firms cancelling their Christmas parties to save money. In between, 2001 was dominated by the attacks on America and Afghanistan but it also included Labour's election landslide, the foot-and-mouth epidemic, the Wembley fiasco, a saucy recruitment ...
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Taking the wrap
From weighty architectural volumes to pocket-sized guides, Martin Spring looks at the best of the year's building books that you might like to give away this Christmas – or keep for yourself
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Sounding the fire alarm
Use a blowtorch next to a stack of polystyrene insulation blocks, polythene-wrapped to a wooden pallet, and sooner than you can cite the health and safety code, you've got a roomful of poison gas. Something like this happens 11 times a day on UK sites. Tom Lane asks what's going ...
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Comput-a-recruit
Forget filling in a quiz to find your ideal partner – now, high-profile companies are using psycho-profiling to discover which candidates fit a specific type to complement the rest of the team. But, Victoria Madine asks, does it work?
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Five tips on spicing up your office party
Be innovative with your invitations to help set the mood of the party before it even begins. "We've produced snowdomes, Ali G-style medallions and bamboo scrolls," says Danielle Nay, managing director at event organiser Dr Party.Go for something unexpected on the entertainment front. "We've booked drunken waiters," says Wendy Clark ...
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Brian Wilson
In an exclusive first interview, industry minister Brian Wilson talks to 精东影视 about the procurement lessons of Picketts Lock, making construction feel at home in the DTI – and his Beach Boy namesake.
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Star of Dresden
Wandel Hoefer Lorch & Hirsch's synagogue and community centre bring architectural inspiration to an urban wasteland
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Dear Robert
This month, Robert Smith, boss of Hays Montrose, advises on making the most of your personal assistant and the the opportunities for a newly qualified QS in Edinburgh
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Appointments
Housebuilders Cala Homes has appointed Catherine Padgett (right), previously with Wilson Connolly, sales adviser.Brownfield housebuilder Linden Homes Western has appointed Toby Ballard managing director. He was the land director for its South-east division.ClientsNevin Holden has been appointed land and planning director of strategic land company Barwood Land.Roger Duncombe (right), previously ...
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Lead times
The lead times for this quarter show that the sky hasn't fallen in yet for manufacturers, but suspended ceilings have been a bit shaky, as Gardiner & Theobald finds. For starters, Mace tracks the lead times for 38 works packages
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PFI: off the critical list
For a while, it looked as if the PFI – and with it the business plans of dozens of contractors – was sinking under a welter of abuse. Now, parliament's bookkeeper has found that it does offer value for money.
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From executive box to chocolate box
When the government told housebuilders to drop executive estates, the reaction was frigid. But some firms have shown that high quality, high-density homes can mean high profits – even if the results can sometimes be a little soft-centred.
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Colour me beautiful
Sexy and tough, polycarbonate has a great future and Tate Modern architect Herzog & de Meuron has just covered the Laban Centre in south-east London in it. Thomas Lane meets the new kid on the cladding block
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Cost model: Effect of Part L revisions on business parks and offices
The revisions to Part L of the 精东影视 Regulations come into force on 1 April 2002, and many schemes on the drawing board will need to comply. Davis Langdon & Everest, in conjunction with consulting engineer Oscar Faber, explains how the revisions will impact on business parks and city centre ...
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Sky's the limit
Michael Mulvey set up his own QS, MBM Consulting, with business partner Jonathan Bowcott – and has found that the the possibilities are endless …
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Appointments
ContractorsRichard Sykes has been appointed divisional director of Taylor Woodrow's facilities management arm. He replaces Tim Peach who has been appointed to the construction board as director. Housebuilders Terry Massingham (right), who was previously with Alfred McAlpine Homes Southern has been appointed managing director of Gleeson Homes.Ann Carr has ...
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Reality check
In the latest row over the accuracy of CAD imagery, Heron Tower architect Kohn Pedersen Fox has been accused of misleading planners. Stuart Black reports on the politics of presentation
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Solving the people problem
Students are more level-headed about their career options than ever, so why aren't they picking construction? Cracking this conundrum is a vital battle
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A literary classic
The classical style comes back big and bold at Oxford University's Sackler Library, designed by Robert Adam Architects. Impressive on the outside, the revived style reveals its limitations inside