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FeaturesHousing Futures 2024
Our serialisation of Housing Futures 2024, the collection of CABE/RIBA papers on the prospects for British housing, continues with John Callcutt's seven rules of regeneration and Christine Whitehead's three economic scenarios.
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FeaturesImperial history
Photographer Julian Anderson spent three years documenting the building of Foster and Partners' sleek Tanaka Business School at Imperial College London. Here's a selection of his pictures.
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International costs: 2004
Gardiner & Theobald鈥檚 12th annual survey of global construction costs takes a round-the-worldtrip to compare labour rates, building costs, material prices and inflation forecasts
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Just the job
Noel Butcher, one of the first to go on the RICS foreign internships scheme, talks about his time in Texas
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FeaturesNeat trick
We report from Waverley Gate in Edinburgh on how Balfour Beatty is progressing in its attempt to build a spanking new office building inside the shell of a huge Victorian post office. Which is rather like performing a triple axel, while wearing ill-fitting Wellington boots. And driving a tractor. On ...
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FeaturesLifetime costs: roofing
Metal prices have gone through the roof 鈥� which means the cost of your copper covering is sky-high. So which material is best value? Alex Smith reports, Davis Langdon & Everest crunches the numbers
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FeaturesPlanes, brains and panels of steel
Those clever architects at Feilden Clegg Bradley didn't take the easy route to their RAF museum pavilion in Hendon. Alex Smith divebombs on the challenges of cladding a semi-circular roof in stainless steel and lining it with tensile fabric
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FeaturesHousing Futures 2024
黑洞社区 Futures, a joint initiative between CABE and the RIBA, has just produced Housing Futures 2024, a set of reports that speculate on developments in British housing to 2024.
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FeaturesWhere workers dare
Following last week's profile of a decorator in Iraq, recruitment consultant Richard Dobell reveals why construction workers are clamouring to go there
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FeaturesIn the next six months: New CIS system will tax the technophobes
National Federation of Builders is to assess the level of computer literacy among its members to find out how many will be able to handle an online tax system.
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FeaturesGateshead M&S by John Pawson: Nothing to shout about
Marks & Spencer鈥檚 efforts to rebrand itself as a sophisticated purveyor of aspirational housewear has led it to put a super-minimalist John Pawson house in its Gateshead store. We ran a jaundiced eye over the results 鈥�
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FeaturesWhat a difference a year has failed to make
Twelve months after John Prescott promised to kick-start Britain's biggest regeneration project in the Thames Gateway, visits three key areas and finds that few of the grand plans have left the drawing boards. Plus, the first of our regeneration jargon-busters
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FeaturesAnd now from the BBC 鈥�
The Beeb asked Allies & Morrison to create a vast media village next door to another enormous office block at its bleak White City site 鈥� without creating the last word in urban alienation. We finds out what happened next, Adam Wilson collects the photographic evidence
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FeaturesAll together better
Willmott Dixon thought that a completely rational building process would be about 30% faster than a conventional one. So it tried out its ideas on a social housing development in west London. We found out what happened
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Cost update: March 2004
This quarter, waterproofing comes under the glare of Davis Langdon & Everest's Hot Rates spotlight. And overleaf, the cost of a plumber and an electrician these days, plus why metal prices have gone through the roof 鈥�