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Just rewards
The built schemes recognised in this year's Housing Design Awards cater for yuppies, special needs and seaside residents
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Q: Who is the biggest UK contractor? A: Ove Arup
This response was given by a third-year architecture student to a series of questions 精东影视 asked about construction. So what are the chances of the industry ever working together if tomorrow's designers are training to be in an exclusive and isolated tribe?
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A monumental statement
One of Scotland's most famous beauty spots, Loch Lomond, can now be enjoyed in full by tourists thanks to 拢60m of visitor facilities. And as we found out, it's helped the locals, too
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The world is not enough
Project managers, quantity surveyors and engineers may be in demand across the globe, but salary prospects in the world's hotspots may leave travellers cold
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Balance of Yin and Yeang
Malaysian towers maestro Ken Yeang has got the design bit of his job sorted out. More unusually, he's come up with a fully considered business philosophy as well. We found out about it over a precisely timed power breakfast.
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The right thing to do
On why doing good in the world and doing well for shareholders are not incompatible – in fact, they can be mutually reinforcing
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Scream test
When John Roberts was asked to build the world's most fearsome wooden roller-coaster, it was all a question of making it as frightening as possible without actually causing anyone's head to come off …
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System addict
Tom Dengenis wants to solve your behavioural problems – on construction projects, that is. Andy Pearson speaks to the man behind the UK arm of e-commerce venture Bidcom
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Perfect merger
Angela Baron says planning and communication are required to stop a merger or acquisition becoming a marriage made in hell
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Appointments
ContractorsNorthampton-based Swallow Construction has appointed Terry Ireland (right) project manager. Alan Pepper joins as site manager for Kettering Venture Park office development. HousebuildersAlan Dingley, formerly of Alfred McAlpine, has been appointed development director of independent housebuilder Elite Homes and Phil Barnes has joined the company's sales team.Michele Corrigan (right) has ...
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Sleek and cheerful
Stanhope's Chiswick Park office development is light on colourful Richard Rogers touches and strong on refinement, parkland, barbecues and treasure hunts
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The drug problem
To all the dangers present on a construction site you can now add accidents caused by cannabis, ecstasy, amphetamines and cocaine
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The wizard from Oz
Stone the crows! They've got someone from the New World to design the visitor centre for England's oldest monument. But Barrie Marshall has already won plaudits for his magical understanding of Stonehenge
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The Eden effect
Or how two enormous greenhouses have cultivated economic growth in a corner of the country blighted by poverty
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Engineering change
Engineering firms are taking a leaf out of the quantity surveyors' book by diverging into the lucrative field of management consulting.
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Strength through reform
Can the Egan agenda survive recession? Without it, a downturn would be horrific
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Five things you should know about efficient cash flow
At the start When you sign a contract on a new project, find out where to send invoices as this may not be to the client's main address. If you are concerned, request a small payment up front to test the payment system. Schedule invoices on a monthly basis ...
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Have your quake and beat it
Modern seismic codes in Japan have forced designers to look for radical solutions to earthquake damage. But it is the country's distant past that has inspired the latest seismic shift in architecture
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Who's driving what?
We continue our series on what construction can learn from the motor industry
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Just the job
We talk to trainee architect Kanyisa Sobuwa, who says that the best thing about her job is seeing her ideas come together in the shape of a finished building