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IT: Design software Model behaviour
Why is Amec modelling the building design process with the software that NASA uses to engineer spacecraft? To prioritise design tasks, and to get team members working together.
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New, improved National Construction Week
Are you ready? National Construction Week, such a risible non-event in October 1997, has a fresh start on Monday. This time, the week will last five days, not 10 (ouch) and there s stacks of sponsorship. After all the television expos茅s on cowboy builders and the millennium project ...
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Construction’s second chance
Next week, the industry has the opportunity to boost its public image. With a barrage of events planned for National Construction Week, will the event be more of a hit this year than last?
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Bob the Builder
What with his own Miss Moneypenny, crane Lofty and hell-raising scarecrow Spud there's never a dull moment in Bob the Builder's yard. But is it enough to save the image of construction?
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What's the score?
Five years after it opened, the McAlpine Stadium is still regarded as a class player among football grounds.
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Clear as a bell
Basildon's new landmark is a glass campanile that lets passers-by watch the bell-ringers at work. How did Buro Happold stop the lightweight tower swaying with the motion of the bells?
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A new dimension
If Ray Crotty ruled the world, IT would revolutionise the construction industry and all buildings would be designed in 3D.
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The joy of specs
Eganised construction of average quality meets the requirements of standard contracts, but don't you think it's a bit joyless? So, how about a standard form that specifies top-quality craftsmanship?
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A slice of the action
Imagine if construction could develop a computer-generated picture of an evolving project, an auditable bank of information about its management. Disputes could be largely avoided. Stop imagining.
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Forbidden and forbidding
The Competition Act, which comes into force next March, prohibits a number of business practices and could hit Egan-inspired agreements.
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Surviving specification
The spec writer's lot is not a happy one. Ignored most of the time, they often get it in the neck when things go wrong. But there are ways to maximise the positive and minimise the brickbats.
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Pedalling your wares
Cycle and car-parts retailer Halfords has plans for 15 new stores worth 拢500 000 each this year. How can you become a preferred contractor or consultant?
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The Professionals
The Federation of Recruitment and Employment Services' Christine Little on how a recruitment consultant can help employers find the best staff.
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Appointments
Contractor Clugston Construction has appointed Peter Deakin director of its southern operation. Matthew Mercer and Anne Pugh have been made regional managers and Peter Dobson has become marketing manager for the region.Consultants Civil and structural consulting engineer Thorburn Colquhoun has promoted Colin McPherson to associate director.Peter ...
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Sporting chance
Manchester City Council is refusing to let funding problems scupper its ambitious plans for the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Can it win the race?
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Star of the big screen
Many think of Bradford as the grubby embodiment of the thoroughly Yorkshire sentiment, Where there's muck there's brass . Yet Bradford in 1983 confounded its ill-informed detractors by becoming home to a resource that stood for everything that was new, modern, even futuristic: the National Museum of Photography, Film ...
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Cowboys: what you think
Next week, construction minister Nick Raynsford is expected to launch a massive consultation exercise to find ways to protect homeowners from the menace of cowboy builders.
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Chris Smith
The minister who has to juggle culture, media and sport is bidding to delegate responsibility for architecture to a new champion. Probably just as well, as his portfolio doesn't give him much time to keep up with new buildings.
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Gonks, gifts and guided tours
National Construction Week is back. This time the industry plans to use hands-on events and freebies to convince the media and public that there s more to building than wet concrete.
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What a performance
The Royal Opera House in Covent Garden has been hitting the headlines since it went on site in 1996: defective design, vandalism, strikes and claims have plagued it. Well, it was never going to be easy imagine trying to do 拢220m of work in a maze the size ...