More Focus – Page 319
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The new boy
The previous chief executive of ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Schools for the Future spent eight stormy months struggling with the brief before jumping overboard. Tim Byles, the local authority bureaucrat who replaces him, has a different plan, a different style, and (he hopes) a different fate.
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What will be the affects of changes to the CIS?
Neil Graham and Jarlath McCloskey of Berg Kaprow Lewis look at how CIS in April will impact on construction businesses.
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Six ways to reduce waste
When dealing with construction waste there are six questions you should ask yourself. WRAP's Mervyn Jones explains
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Style council
OFFICES — Ealing borough council wanted to migrate 2,500 staff from an archipelago of offices into its headquarters, and turn that into a sexy, sustainable civic centre for the good burghers of west London. Sonia Soltani reports on how it did the job, with a little help from Pringle Brandon
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What to specify: offices
Glazed curtain walling, state-of-the-art lighting and a host of other products designed to make offices safer, more comfortable and generally less depressing …
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What it costs: mechanical ventilation
In many instances mechanical ventilation may be the only option to manage office environments. Peter Mayer of ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø LifePlans explores the options
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Let there be light
WHO MAKES IT — DP Architectural Lighting has established its name in the big league of interior design by providing bespoke lighting solutions to high profile clients like Foster and Partners.
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Timber frame business centure: From little acorns…
HOW WE WORK TOGETHER — Directors from Reid Architecture, Woolgar Hunter and Donaldson & McConnell explain why they opted for a timber-frame solution on a business centre in West Lothian.
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‘We don’t hug trees and do Kum Ba Yah’
Murray Coleman is not a man to mince his words, as Mark Leftly found when he trailed the new Bovis Lend Lease construction boss around one of the contractor’s more problematic PFI projects
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The 2007 ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø horoscope
Will the Olympic budget keep soaring? Will Ray O’Rourke buy when Amec sells? Will Ucatt survive against the super union? Will QSs still be interested in property? And will we still be talking about Wembley in December? Consulting a beginner’s guide to astrology, we reveal all this and more in ...
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‘You could run this building as a traditional school – but it would be a waste’
ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Design Partnership’s Marlowe Academy in Ramsgate is like no other school – it has a campus feel, there are no corridors and the students don’t even bunk off.
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Escaping doesn’t have to be this hard …
Ready for another year of sitting at the same desk, talking to the same people and staring out of the same window? No? Claire Dodd helps plot your bid for freedom
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A well-oiled machine
Honda’s construction team has taken inspiration from the company’s car production lines to keep its projects purring smoothly
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Laing O’Rourke strikes it rich in Bedfordshire
Contractor dominates November league with £120m social housing deal
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2006 Pub Olympics
Think ancient Greece, think heroics: the passion, the struggle, the glory. Now think London pub: designers, QSs and builders slugging it out with ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø contributors for gold. Inspiring, isn’t it?
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This was the year that was 2006
Government plans for nuclear Future. Coleman in, Millett out at Bovis. Gordon Brown sets leadership agenda. Wembley still unbuilt. Consultants flee war-torn Lebanon. Treasury reviews the PFI’s future. ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø buys pints. Jack Lemley slams London 2012.
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Steady as she goes
Contractors in all sectors and across all regions were feeling buoyant in October. According to the Experian Business Strategies survey, activity is rising across the board – and especially in civil engineering. When it comes to the future, though, they’re a little less certain
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Pub Olympics
Who tops the medal table when it comes to pub sports? We preview ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø's inaugural Pub Olympics