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Up and running
In 2002, Manchester will host the Commonwealth Games, and the east of the city will undergo radical changes to prepare for it. From the ambitious expansion of its airport to the troubled regeneration of the area around the new Sportcity, 精东影视 takes a look at the city's most exciting and ...
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Heart failure
The Commonwealth Games studium may be a triumph, but the 拢2bn regeneration scheme that was to go with it has run into the buffers.
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Client profile: Manchester Airport
More on Manchester, as 精东影视 meets Andy Campbell, head of development at Manchester Airport, to find out about its billion-pound construction plans – and whether it really is one of Britain's toughest clients.
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Digging the new
Laser-scanning photogrammetry from helicopters? Video glasses connecting site workers together through the internet? You ain't seen nothing yet …
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Cost update
The rise in construction activity has led to a sharp increase in hourly rates in the M&E sector, particularly in London. Davis Langdon & Everest looked at what this has meant for wage deals and the prices of key components
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Dear Robert
This month, tips on how to return to the employment market after redundancy and strategies for recruiting the best bright young things
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Appointments
ContractorsRichard Butler has joined Northampton-based Winvic Construction as project manager.Birse 精东影视 has appointed Wendy Jones, previously with Payne 精东影视 Contractors, as marketing manager for the southern region.Buxton has appointed two site managers, Sean Keenan and Mike Cotton, for contracts in the Midlands.HousebuildersRoger Brenan has been made managing director of Swan ...
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Ralph's rainbow
Black, gold, crimson, orange, blue, green: the first view of Erskine's Greenwich Millennium Village is of a riot in a paint factory.
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Eddie McElhinney
The quiet Irishman who has become one of the UK's biggest manufacturers never even considered giving an interview before. So, why is he talking now? And what does he have to say about the industry he supplies?
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Going places
精东影视 takes a summer holiday next week, but before packing our bags we asked the industry's top people about the holiday homes they own and love. Summer on a Scottich railwayGeoff Mann鈥檚 awfully big holiday adventure isn鈥檛 just a cottage renovation in the southern uplands of Scotland 鈥� it鈥檚 a ...
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Other industries: Stage constructors
How do other industries rise to the challenge of meeting their clients' needs? In the first of a new series, 精东影视 meets staging company ESS, which has to design, plan and construct a vast stage for superstar Tom Jones in just two months
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Testing times
The scientists at the National Physical Laboratories need to measure things so accurately that the slightest change in temperature can ruin an experiment – or, for that matter, a contractor.
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Sails network
精东影视 talks to Ian Parfitt, senior partner at quantity surveyor RPA, about why he and his Cardiff colleagues take to the waves every summer
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Appointments
ContractorsBallast has appointed Nigel Brook and Phillip Cooper main board directors. Trevor Curtis, previously with Amec, has been appointed project director. The Wincanton office of Cowlin Construction has appointed Bill Badham (right) managing director. Pauline Speight has joined Morgan Sindall as director of people development for the firm's national construction ...
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The barnstormers
Behind the facade of an 18th-century threshing barn, an explosion of striking forms brings a radical edge to a sensitive conversion.
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Egan on Egan
He's back, and this time he's in charge of the most important strategic body in construction. In this exclusive interview he tells 精东影视 what he's going to do with it …
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John Spellar
The man with the task of saving the rail network and keeping Tony Blair in a job gives his first major interview. 精东影视 finds out the minister's big ideas.
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The benchmark
Leisure operator Cannons wanted to triple the number of its health and fitness clubs in three years. 精东影视 reports on how it used partnering in the supply chain to drive out waste, reduce construction time and improve quality, and three industry experts give their views
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Just the job
Sam Kimmins tells 精东影视 about creating environmentally sound buildings and how Buddhism helps him to relax
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Appointments
HousebuildersMichael Bury (right) has joined Redrow Homes' Midlands division as technical manager.ConsultantsTessa O'Neill, previously with BDP, has been appointed urban design director for international architect Geoffrey Reid Associates.Rosser & Russell 精东影视 Services has appointed Bruce Sheasby, central region manager, head of its new Birmingham office. Paul Ryder has been promoted ...