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FeaturesSiteseeing with the HSE
Site managers! Do you live in terror of a safety visit, no matter how innocent you are? And do you wish you knew what went on in those inspectors' heads? To unravel the mystery, we spent a day with the dark hero of health 鈥� Norman the HSE inspector.
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FeaturesDeconstructing sarah
Sarah Wigglesworth, rebel intellectual, fat architect and straw enthusiast, has just accepted an MBE, and is about to become something of a television star 鈥� we discuss postmodern irony with her
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Laing O'Rourke tops January chart with 拢517m contracts
New year success also puts Laing into a strong second place in annual tables, threatening Bovis' supremacy
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FeaturesJust the job
Richard Beasley is a Sheffield decorator working on pubs and cafes for the British army in Iraq. We spoke to him 鈥� on site at Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra 鈥� about night-time gunfire, daily temperatures and living in a tent in a former dictator's garden
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FeaturesYou dirty old man
That means us, folks 鈥� Britain has easily the worst record in adopting European environmental law. And, with less than two years before the UK must start eco-rating all new buildings, it seems the upcoming rules on energy efficiency will offer no exception.
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FeaturesAs good as it's got
Once again, Foster and Partners has shown the wonders modern CAD can perform 鈥� this time by combining the golden spiral of the Nautilus with wonderfully imaginative engineering. So, who wants to be a millionaire?
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Factfile: February 2004
The Christmas season didn't do much to dent Scottish planners' workload, with a total of 1244 units approved in December. In the housing associations table, Garston Urban Village scored a major approval, and Persimmon and George Wimpey made headway in the private sector.Approvals into the new year dwindled virtually across ...
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FeaturesExpert eye
Show homes will be your shop window, says Andrew Smith, Berkeley Homes' first head of landscape design. A chartered landscape architect with a masters in landscape ecology, design and management, Smith was previously a director at landscape consultancy Woodhams.
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FeaturesSpot the difference? Three years, 60 jobs and a whole lot of cash
Here we see the damage Kate Barker's review of the planning system has caused a London scheme and the threat it has posed to one company's future
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FeaturesWhat the planners think
RTPI president Mike Hayes describes the view from his side of the fence
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FeaturesNew Part L
The second part of our super E-Z-Read庐 guide to next year鈥檚 likely changes to Part L looks at killer details such as refurbishing existing buildings, clashes with other regulations and why the product manufacturers are hopping mad.
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FeaturesTop Ten tips
How to wangle planning permission 鈥� by Mary Power, director of property agent FPDSavills
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Local lowdown
Private and social housing projects in the Midlands are boosting demand for experienced construction professionals, says Robert Smith of Hays Montrose
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Winter warmer
In this month's Tracker, Experian Business Strategies reports on an unseasonably active December and predicts that growth in UK construction will stabilise over the next three months
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FeaturesFurther and better particulars of 鈥� Robin Southwell,聽Chief executive of AirTanker
Our series on key construction figures looks at the former-Atkins-boss-turned-major-client, in his new role as boss of aerospace consortium AirTanker. We analyse the comeback of Robin Southwell
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FeaturesSexy education
Last year, 11 signature architects were given some homework: each had to design an ideal school to show education planners what they're supposed to look like. Here's what they handed in