More Focus – Page 390

  • Features

    The chance that paid off

    2004-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Or, how an NHS trust in ormskirk decided to twist, not stick, by embracing a procurement method it had never used before. And boy, did it win hands down …

  • Features

    To sum up …

    2004-10-22T00:00:00Z

    As recent high-profile projects have shown, it’s absolutely crucial to set the right budget – and stick to it. Here are Procure21’s ways and means

  • Features

    Shepherd hits the top in September with £113m win

    2004-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Five deals push Yorkshire firm into pole position, but Bovis Lend Lease still dominates the annual table

  • The glass cube advertises modern art without actually showing any paintings
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    Stop the traffic

    2004-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Stuttgart has not so much lost a large hostile underpass as gained a stunning £48m gallery of modern art, in the form of Hascher Jehle’s perfect glass cube.

  • 1.6 km high, 3 km wide, and $200m: Bucky Fuller’s modest proposal for Manhattan
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    The greatest buildings never built

    2004-10-22T00:00:00Z

    A dome that would have covered half of Manhattan … a cathedral that would have towered over Liverpool … the National Gallery’s ‘monstrous carbuncle’ … Naomi Stungo looks back over the 10 finest projects that never made it past the concept stage

  • Features

    Up and coming from down under

    2004-10-22T00:00:00Z

    This is a good time to be in salary negotiations – especially if you’re a young professional from the antipodes. Victoria Madine analyses the 2004 Hays Montrose/ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø contractors’ salary guide, Brett Ryder provides the kangaroo

  • The MoD’s £2bn single-living accomodation module (SLAM) programme makes extensive use of volumetric units
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    Cost model: Off-site manufacture

    2004-10-22T00:00:00Z

    The market for off-site manufacture is expanding rapidly, boosted as it is by public sector investment programmes. Davis Langdon looks at the cost benefits, barriers to innovation and procurement issues involved in OSM

  • Kent and Surrey
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    Local lowdown: Kent and Surrey

    2004-10-22T00:00:00Z

    As town-centre regeneration creates job opportunities in Kent and Surrey, Robert Smith of Hays Montrose looks at some of the major projects in the region

  • Bill Frame
    Features

    Appointments

    2004-10-22T00:00:00Z

    This week's movers

  • Features

    Whitbybird's 21st birthday fly-by

    2004-10-20T12:19:00Z

    Whitbybird's birthday at the Science Museum attracted plenty of high-flyers including Terry Farrell.

  • Features

    How to find the X-factor

    2004-10-19T16:34:00Z

    John Cowell is a construction marketing consultant and brother of pop mogul Simon Cowell, which makes him well qualified to write a series of articles on self-promotion in the building industry.

  • Elite Elise
    Features

    Move over Fangio

    2004-10-19T14:48:00Z

    Davis Langdon's clients and staff scrape their way around a muddy Castle Combe to raise money for charity.

  • Index Township challenge
    Features

    South African township builds on Irish goodwill

    2004-10-18T16:08:00Z

    Irish builders volunteer to build 50 houses in Cape Town.

  • Features

    Shining examples

    2004-10-15T00:00:00Z

    More, better, faster, cheaper: what the government is demanding from the housebuilding industry, especially homes with a pricetag of £60,000, looks beyond the realms of the possible. Yet, just look at the winners of this year's ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Homes Quality Awards, organised by ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø in association with the Housing Forum. In ...

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    The results

    2004-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Th ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Homes Quality Awards 2004

  • Best company-wide sustainability award
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    Best company-wide sustainability award

    2004-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Housebuilders are broadening their definition of sustainability. For its all-round commitment, Countryside Properties was a clear winner in this category, sponsored by Energy Saving Trust

  • Best approach to partnering and supply chain management
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    Best approach to partnering and supply chain management

    2004-10-15T00:00:00Z

    A large field of finalists lined up for this award, sponsored by Construction Industry Solutions. Haslam and Keegans were both frontrunners but Fusion 21, Merseyside’s best known partnership since Dalgleish and Rush, took the award

  • Best training/people development award
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    Best training/people development award

    2004-10-15T00:00:00Z

    The panel had a long line-up of contenders again for this category, sponsored by Technical Resourcing – and judges were particularly pleased to see these finalists making the link between training and profitability. In the end, London & Quadrant emerged victorious

  • Best health and safety initiative
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    Best health and safety initiative

    2004-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Our finalists in this category, which is sponsored by the Traditional Housing Bureau, demonstrated how they were going beyond the basics and innovating to improve safety standards. It was Bellwinch’s proactive approach that won it the overall prize

  • Best customer service award
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    Best customer service award

    2004-10-15T00:00:00Z