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Star of track and field
Rugby-loving Paul Westbury is Buro Happold's youngest ever partner. Here's how the 31-year-old is tackling one of engineering's toughest conundrums: how to make stadiums flexible and attractive.
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Going to plan?
Everyone agrees that masterplans are essential to any self-respecting regeneration project. It's just a pity that councils and urban regeneration companies don't know what they are …
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Is this the one?
With construction portals failing left, right and centre, it might seem like a bad time to launch an internet venture. But the big-league backers of Asite are convinced that they can defy economic gravity.
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Oh, what a delivery
Steve Elliott - Overbury's Perfect Delivery initiative promises no snagging and no defects. Here's how it works
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Five grants for small businesses
Small Firms Loan Guarantee scheme offers 70% guaranteed loans from 拢5000 to 拢100,000 for 2-10 years (85% and up to 拢250,000 if the company has been trading for more than two years) for firms that have a viable business proposition but have failed to get a conventional loan because of ...
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We have lift-off
Don't worry if you haven't booked your ticket on the first passenger shuttle. NASA's space lift could soon be the easiest and fastest way of getting into orbit …
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Same old innovations
Tom Barker - What does it take for a project to be considered innovative in these days of domes, wheels and giant greenhouses? And does it matter?
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Cost study: 6 Brindleyplace, Birmingham
Text At-a-glance guide 6 Brindleyplace, Birmingham ProjectSpeculative headquarters office block with ground-floor retail space ClientArgent Procurement featuresPartnering between developer, design-and-build contractor and consultants was refined over four successive projects to produce a cost-effective, snag-free building Design features Efficient floor plans with 82% net:gross ratio Simple, robust ...
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What's your strategy?
Angela Baron of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development on how to link your people management with your business strategy
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Appointments
ContractorsJoan Hillcock has been made business development director of Crispin & Borst Group. At C&B subsidiary Colin Hatch, Nigel Marsden has been promoted to construction director and Tony Clark to commercial director.Paul Reader has been appointed social housing director of M&E contractor and maintenance specialist Environmental Property Services.Dominic Snape has ...
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English Heritage goes back to the past
Under Sir Jocelyn Stevens, the quango backed a series of exciting designs, from the Swiss Re tower to the V&A spiral. Now it seems to have clamped the brakes on. Has English Heritage reverted to type?
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After the fire
Alistair McAlpine聽- That we have turned the countryside into a charnel house is horrific. It is also a unique opportunity to create a less polluting, more humane farming system
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Beyond bars
HLM Architects' PFI prison may be a regression to Victorian design values, but its pastel shades and female warders make the Salford complex humane as well as stark.
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Changing the record
One year ago, the government ordered councils to abandon "lowest price wins" procurement and start buying buildings on best value. Now bolder councils have taken on the challenge
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Why I want women
Paul Hodgkinson wants 50% of Simons Group employees to be female by 2011. Here's why
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Five London party venues
The Science MuseumExhibition Road, SW7The museum provides eight galleries as well as the Wellcome Wing for parties. The Wellcome Wing has a simulated space ride, eight floors of interactive exhibits, a 420-seat Imax cinema, and dining areas for up to 700 people. It costs 拢6500-10,000 to hire and is available ...
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Top floor for site huts, hard hats and dirty floors
Sloane Square emporium Peter Jones has definitely seen better days. But up on the roof, a Bovis-led team is running a four-year revamp that will transform the store into a 21st-century shoppers' paradise.
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A light touch
Paul Traynor - Lighting designers often have their concepts ruined by engineers. How can this be avoided?