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Five of the best places to network
Manchester:The Atlas bar (376 Deansgate) is a favourite watering hole for designers, as is Loaf (5-6 Deansgate Locks, Whitworth Street West). On a more professional note, check out the Centre for Understanding of the Built Environment, or CUBE, (113 Portland Street), which is becoming a key networking location.Bristol:The bars and ...
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There's something strange in the attic …
From the street, it's a listed Victorian warehouse. But up on the roof, a weird 拢250,000 extension is being built to showcase the latest building technologies.
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Web watch
www.gecanderson.co.ukGEC Anderson has launched a new website for specifiers of stainless steel. The site includes product data, frequently asked questions, CAD downloads and technical details, plus images of the company's worktops, sinks, bowls, cabinets, shelving and sanitary appliances.www.callenders.co.ukCallenders Interactive Roofing Centre features the "SpecBuilder" to help in the specification of ...
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Why grey and brown?
Sally Sullivan - Hospitals don't have to look so drab, but it will take manufacturers' help to brighten them up
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Whole-life cost model
Two years after the first Whole-life cost model, Citex has returned to the office sector, updating its occupancy costs for three model buildings and comparing it with this City of London office block
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Who's shortlisted for the 2001 精东影视 Awards?
Fifty-nine of the industry's leading companies were shortlisted this week for the 2001 精东影视 Awards. Now in their seventh year, the awards honour financial success, excellent management, professionalism, investment and innovation. There are two new awards – for sustainability and e-construction – recognising new challenges facing the industry in ...
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12 steps to a safer industry
Next week the construction industry will present its ideas for reducing site accidents to the safety summit demanded by John Prescott. In preparation, 精东影视 invited seven people with extensive site experience to our own mini-summit to find out what they are doing to improve safety – and what more could ...
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Tim Walker
Prescott's site safety summit is only four days away, so it's no wonder the new boss of the Health and Safety Executive has his attention firmly fixed on construction.
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Flagship enterprise
Green architecture, integrated community services, lifelong learning and lots of big drums are all showcased in Edward Cullinan Architects' Greenwich Millennium Village primary school.
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Revolution in retirement
McCarthy & Stone may be in the business of building retirement homes, but its attitude to IT is far from fuddy-duddy.
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Fire-Resistant Facade
Sch眉co has designed a fire-resistant facade, the BF F30/G30, to prevent fire spreading between buildings or to create escape corridors within them.
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Cost Update
This quarterly analysis looks at prices for mechanical heating and labour rates for electrical contracting.
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A degree of skill
How a pilot course in construction and property aims to tackle skills shortages in the industry.
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Appointments
ContractorsRegional construction group EBC has appointed Mark Hoyland commercial director for its Eastleigh and Reading offices.Tim Westwood (right) has joined Kier Regional as regional business development manager.Linford 精东影视 Group has appointed Steve Chinn marketing director. Ian Tyrls has been made design-and-build manager.Terry Whittingham has joined SOL Construction as business ...
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Skanska hits top with 拢149m in a month
Swedish contractor won most work in January, but Bovis Lend Lease still tops annual league.
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Designers in the safety spotlight
In the third of our series in the run-up to John Prescott's safety summit, 精东影视 asks if safety is a matter of design, and if designers are doing enough to combat site deaths.
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Sheriff of the skyline
When Carl Powell arrived as Westminster's planning director, developers expected a high-rise bonanza. But the Texan has spent the last two years cutting them down to size.
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Life on Mars
It may sound like science fiction, but the prototype of Foreign Office Architects' house for Mars is about to be unveiled as part of Nasa's Future Homes display in Sweden.
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Chaos theory
You can tell at a glance there's madness in the method used to design this canopy over Melbourne's Federation Square. Its structure is based on the mathematical model that describes the pattern of patchwork quilts …