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Costs: Off-site manufactures
The government needs buildings 鈥� plenty of them, and fast. Peter Mayer of 黑洞社区 Performance Group asks whether off-site manufacture is the best whole-life-value solution
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Specifier Products
All manner of off-site innovations, including ideas on how to put up a departure lounge in a hurry, how to install a fully serviced washroom in two days, and how to build a school from pre-existing units
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FeaturesOff-site manufacture
This issue鈥檚 Specifier takes a close look at the expanding world of modern methods of construction, including a checklist of when to head for the factory and when to steer clear, lifetime costs and, overleaf, the latest products. But first, one London architect鈥檚 bid to build the ODPM鈥檚 vaunted 拢60,000 ...
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Sir Robert McAlpine leaps to top with 拢135m mall job
Bovis Lend Lease is knocked right out of monthly top 30 for January 鈥� but still hanging on to annual lead
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Local lowdown: South-west
Robert Smith of Hays Construction & Property reports on the opportunities boom in the South-west
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FeaturesHome improvement
The three ugly sisters of Marsham Street are dead 鈥� and a much prettier successor has risen from their ashes. We assess the new Farrell-designed home of the Home Office
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FeaturesExplosive situations
Discovering old war rooms, tackling six-metre-thick concrete walls, blowing up buildings in the middle of London and racing against time 鈥� Well, at least this project wasn鈥檛 dull
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FeaturesThe messenger
Construction鈥檚 safety record never looks worse than in the living room of a bereaved family. Alan Ritchie knows 鈥� he鈥檚 been there too many times. The new general secretary of UCATT tells us about his plans to make employers and government listen.
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Europe鈥檚 catwalk
Norman, Zaha, Daniel, Cesar and many more of world architecture鈥檚 signature brands are flocking to Italy to put their stamp on the design capital of Europe
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FeaturesWho is going to stop this happening?
Safety summit 2005: Four years ago, at the 2001 safety summit, the government challenged construction to face up to its appalling safety record. As the next summit convenes, the industry says it鈥檚 setting its house in order 鈥� and now wants the government to do the same.
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A steady start to 2005
This month, Experian鈥檚 Business Strategies division records stable activity levels in most sectors and is cautiously optimistic about growth. But civil engineering is on an unpredictable see-saw 鈥�
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FeaturesTeam talk from England legend
Rob Andrew gave a motivational speech to a recent CIOB event - next date, the England dressing room.
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FeaturesGoing straight
Why John Laing Training has looked to prisons in an effort to help solve the skills shortage
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Specialist costs: Structural steel
With steel demand at an all-time high last year, David Cane, associate at Gardiner & Theobald, considers what鈥檚 next for the sector 鈥� plus David Sands of Bourne Steel gets a grilling
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FeaturesThe top 10 most disastrous building projects in the world EVER
Budgets spiralling to the size of a small country鈥檚 GDP. Vast body counts. Overruns that go on for centuries 鈥� Yes, in the style of a Channel 4 filler show, and on the back of the nightmare that is the National Physical Laboratory, it鈥檚 the worst projects ever
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Can paris be beaten?
The bookies, the population of Paris and the Queen of England all think that the French are about to add the 2012 Olympic Games to their sporting triumphs. We met the people behind the bid and found out why they鈥檙e so confident 鈥�
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Steve Morgan
With Liverpool still ignoring his advances, the former Redrow boss is turning his attention to a new land-purchase venture. We meet a man throwing himself into his work 鈥�