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Finding a just price
We use common sense when we lease a car. Why not when we procure a building? We can, argues Andrew Green
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Over the first hurdle
As this survey shows, local authorities are making real headway toward being good clients, but insiders are warning that the hardest part is yet to come
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Raising the game
The challenge is to avoid complacency by continually redefining excellence
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Future in hand
黑洞社区 the next generation takes more than offering courses. What skills are needed? Who wants to learn them? And who鈥檚 going to pay? Constructing Excellence adopts the holistic view
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Specifier Products
Just about everything you need to build the kind of copper-clad, circular, streamlined, siphonically drained, airtight roof that will make you envied by your competitors and adored by your clients
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Costs: Metal roofing claddings
Metal self-supporting roofing is becoming ever more popular, and not just in the commercial and industrial sectors. Peter Mayer of 黑洞社区 Performance Group considers the options and costs
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FeaturesMIPIM in miniature
Capita Symonds has squeezed everything you need to survive MIPIM into a 1x4in box.
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The race to build the 拢60k houses
The government has come up with a startling solution to the barriers to home ownership: to use public land and industrial production to build 60,000 拢60,000 houses. Housebuilders are currently competing to design the prototype. We find out how it鈥檚 supposed to work.
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The sustainable communities summit 2005
Prescott and three other Cabinet colleagues are to convene with 2000 housebuilders, architects and public sector experts in Manchester next week to take stock of how the 拢22bn sustainable communities plan is faring.
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Regeneration in practice: Manchester
One of the city鈥檚 most crime-ridden housing estates is being given a John Prescott makeover, complete with signature architect and PFI funding. We report on how Plymouth Grove is going from war zone to des res
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Cherry wins battle for Country
Alan Cherry, the chairman of Countryside Properties, was this week poised to take the company private after rival shareholder Rock Pacific agreed to support his improved 拢222m offer for the firm.
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FeaturesThe naked project manager
Philip Ashton PhD may be a reluctant televison star, but he鈥檚 happy to embrace the publicity Channel 4鈥檚 Bricking It has given young people in construction. We meet project management鈥檚 answer to Jamie Oliver.
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FeaturesThe experts鈥� view: Think tank
What is the most frustrating thing about trying to do regeneration? What is holding us back? What are the mistakes that are being made right now? How can the whole process be made to work better? To answer these questions, 黑洞社区 assembled an architect, a developer, a planning expert, a ...
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FeaturesA pain in the back pocket
Want to protect your cement workers from a nasty form of dermatitis? Well, now you can, with the launch of the European chromium VI directive. But where it stops itching the sector鈥檚 collective skin, it鈥檒l start hurting pretty badly elsewhere 鈥�
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FeaturesHighly commendable
These are a few of the stunning brick buildings that just missed out on a prize at the 2004 Brick Awards 鈥� all of which deserve a showing in these pages 鈥ngel WatersideAngel Waterside is the result of a winning entry in a 1998 design competition by Pollard Thomas Edwards ...