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Get it right - doors and windows
It seems problems with windows in new homes are all too common. Zurich 黑洞社区 Guarantees鈥� annual Customer First Survey of new homebuyers showed that 43.6% of respondents had problems with the windows in their new homes in 2002. Water penetration through the building envelope comes high on the list of ...
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FeaturesThe very model of a modern district general
The celebrated ACAD diagnostic and treatment centre in north-west London is to have an equally revolutionary and even more ambitious big brother. It will be a complete acute hospital that promises streamlined healthcare, uplifting architecture and close community links
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Just the job
Andy Fuller, Persimmon Homes' construction director, tells Sally Whitehill why he's spent 16 years at the same firm 鈥� and why he's planning to stick around
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Lead times
Most companies have been busy in the first quarter of the year, but market uncertainties are expected to drive down lead times in the future
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Into the fast stream: The further education market
With building expenditure in further education about to increase 60%, we highlight the challenges and opportunities in the sector
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The price of passion
The Scottish parliament is spectacular on many levels 鈥� not least in spiralling nine times over budget. But as these first pictures of the building show you get what you pay for.
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New-build completions
NHBC-registered new-build private and housing association completion figures for February 2003 show activity is up across the board on last month, and overall private completions have redressed the balance after January鈥檚 year-on-year fall. All figures are supplied by NHBC.
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FeaturesDo houses that are built in a factory have to end up looking like this鈥�?
The trouble with factory-built houses is that they look as if they were built in a factory. But off-site manufacture is not incompatible with sophisticated design, as the coming generation of prefab homes will demonstrate.
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FeaturesOur trends in the North
Huddersfield may not be the first place to come to mind when you think of loft apartments. But a live鈥搘ork scheme for artists opened by Places for People is proving that studio-style spaces can work in Yorkshire as well as Manhattan
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FeaturesMiller's tale
Tim Hough, Miller Homes' new managing director, plans to expand into the South-east and build on the company's reputation for quality and care. But is it the firm's results that are giving him the best reason to be cheerful?
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Thinking of going prefab?
鈥� then this is the place to start. Homes brought in cost consultant MDA to answer your frequently asked questions
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Get it right: Factory-produced systems
The Egan report highlighted the need for off-site manufacture to increase the quality of the end product and to reduce programme times.
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Bovis to axe 40 staff after review of market prospects
Contractor reveals redundancy plans in the same week that QS EC Harris decides to close Glasgow office.
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Contractors to get training in Egan principles
Construction body Be launches one-day course package on collaborative working.
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Labour agency set to import workers from Romania
The Home Office has agreed in principle to a proposal to import east Europeans to help solve the skills shortage.
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New bosses for Kier and Alfred McAlpine
Contractors' chief executives both scale back roles by becoming chairmen of the companies.
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FeaturesThe children's crusade
How can you make a name for yourself if that name belongs to your famous parent? We talk to people who've wrestled with this problem 鈥� and found their own answers.