All Features articles – Page 434

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    Five ways to spot a sinking ship

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Why are your directors always having meetings? Why is everyone so angry? And why has the boss just moved the sofa out of his office? Mark Leftly explains how to spot if your firm is heading for the rocks

  • Tony Birkbeck
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    Prater learns from rival's fall

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    SME focus - Two months after buying most of Coverite, the roofer is still cautious over expansion

  • The concrete blocks forming the labyrinth provide thermal mass
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    Playing it cool

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    The first glasshouse to be built at Kew in almost 20 years is not designed to keep heat in – quite the opposite in fact. Which is why concrete proved to be as vital a component as glass.

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    Construction lessons

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    A new prestressed slab product has helped to deliver quality student accommodation at a West Country university within a tight deadline, reports George Tootell, special projects director at Buchan Concrete Solutions

  • Eurocode 2
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    Cracking the code

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    The British Standard for the structural use of concrete is to be replaced with Eurocode 2 in March 2008. But there’s no need to worry, says The Concrete Centre’s Charles Goodchild

  • Concrete was used to great effect at Manchester Ravensbury Community Primary School
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    A class of its own

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Concrete's thermal efficiency and adaptability means it's not only well placed to deliver the government's school construction and refurbishment programme, it can do so sustainably, says The Concrete Centre's Andrew Minson

  • The library’s copper-clad performance centre protrudes from the main building
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    Centre of learning

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    The successful design and construction of Oldham's library and lifelong learning centre could teach other PFI consortiums a thing or two

  • Steve McGuckin
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    ‘Be careful what you say. If you claim to have done something, I'll check it'

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Land Securities, aka the builder's developer, is spending £700m a year. But you won't win any of it if you're what development director Steve McGuckin delicately terms a bullshitter. Katie Puckett found out about his plans to take even tighter control.

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    Carbon trading

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Timber homes might have less embodied CO2 than than those buit from concrete. But new research shows that over their lifetime, concrete homes win the carbon battle hands down. By Jeff Dyson of The Concrete Centre

  • Geoff Wright
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    Geoff Wright takes a bow

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Hammerson boss retires today after 37 years and hints at future industry roles

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    Impress your boss - Women's loos and regs

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    A bluffer's guide to ... Women's loos and regs

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    Places to be - July and beyond

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Your monthly guide to all the best networking events, parties and essential industry seminars

  • The roof undulates over the visitor centre
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    Bespoke Savill style

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    An elegant visitor centre with a timber gridshell roof cuts a swath through Windsor Great Park

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    Appointments

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    This week's career movers ...

  • 99% campaign
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    The 99% campaign - Incentives for action

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Your suggestions on improving the energy performance of existing building stock including carbon trading, stamp duty and tax relief.

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    Skanska enjoys £1bn month as Barts gets go-ahead

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Swedish firm tops monthly league thanks to £1.2bn PFI hospital scheme

  • Olkiluoto 3 under construction. It will join two existing plants and a wind turbine.
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    Nuclear power station in Olkiluoto, Finland: The 1.6 billion watt baby

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    320,000 m³ of granite blasted away, 12,000 m³ of concrete poured in one go: the team building Europe's first nuclear reactor in a decade aren't messing around. Still, the most complicated thing is the paperwork. Thomas Lane reports from Finland

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    Property and transport in Moscow

    2006-06-28T10:00:00Z

    Looking for a home in the land that minimalism forgot?

  • Photo by Libi Pedder
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    No regrets

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    The chairman of Wembley National Stadium Limited has broken his silence on the project, but don't ask him to take the blame for its troubles.

  • Machiavelli
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    The office

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Do you have a tricky problem in the workplace? Let our office politics strategist show you how to turn it to your advantage …