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  • In 1930s New York, steelworkers balanced on beams even during the lunch hour. At One Churchill Place in the 21st century, they used the far safer cherry-picker access platforms
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    What鈥檚 the big idea?

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    Well, one of them is an access platform that keeps steelworkers safe and another is a steel contraption that halves the time taken to raise tower cranes. And these are just a few of the innovations helping CWC to build smarter

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    Appointments

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    Movers and shakers this week

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    拢276m haul puts Bovis back on top in February

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    Contractor resumes usual position as leader of monthly league, pushing Sir Robert McAlpine into second place

  • This lift shaft serves the 30 storeys of 40 Bank Street
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    On the up

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    Meet Len Halsey and Ron Reeves, the lift specialists who keep Canary Wharf鈥檚 513 lifts and 99 escalators moving

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    Costs: School toilets

    2005-03-17T17:25:00Z

    Jamie Oliver is sorting out the nation鈥檚 school kitchens, but what about the toilets? Peter Mayer of 星空传媒 Performance Group sums up the issues on choice of material and long-term durability

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    Checklist

    2005-03-17T17:22:00Z

    Schools are given a lot of hard knocks by their users. Barbour Index and Scott Brownrigg explain how to specify buildings that can take it without blubbing

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    Products

    2005-03-17T17:13:00Z

    The latest ways to impress the client for your next educational building include specifying maintenance-free vinyl floors, easy-fit conduits and plumbing, and modular designs for entire schools

  • These fungal growths in the atrium can be used as dining areas or seminar spaces. They are accessed from balconies that double as circulatory space for the whole school
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    Education

    2005-03-17T16:59:00Z

    Essential information this week for all those specifying a school, college or university, including up-to-the-minute accessories and fittings, tips on whole-life costing, and how much those head-flushing, girls-weeping toilet cubicles are going to cost you. But first we have the coolest college atrium on the planet 鈥�

  • Vinnie Jones
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    Lock, Stock, and two cordless powertools鈥�

    2005-03-17T14:40:00Z

    Vinnie鈥檚 got at 18-volt combi drill driver, and he ain鈥檛 afraid to use it.

  • Sir Robert McAlpine has been quietly getting on with the Emirates Stadium in Highbury, north London. The north end is at the most advanced stage with the final form of the building visible in its completed roof structure
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    Going great guns

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    What with all the fuss over Wembley, you could be forgiven for forgetting that a certain other north London stadium is under construction. We went to the new Highbury to check the state of play

  • Diarmuid Gavin
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    Diarmuid Gavin

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    Don鈥檛 be fooled by the affable exterior 鈥� television鈥檚 most popular gardener is plotting a revolution in our own back yards. Here he lets us in on the secret and tries to recruit you as well.

  • Whatever happened to those fearless construction managers? 鈥�
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    Whatever happened to those fearless construction managers? 鈥�

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    The case of Great Eastern Hotel vs Laing is the first time that a court has turned a construction manager upside down and given him a good shake. On this occasion, 拢10m fell out of Laing鈥檚 pockets. So, has the game fundamentally changed, or was this case the exception the ...

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    CM in the dock

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    Does this ruling concern the competence of one particular construction manager or does it have wider significance for the whole profession?

  • Nearly 90% of Hotchkiss鈥� factory workforce has been through its apprentice scheme
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    Companies close up

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    Nick Jones visits the factory of ductwork contractor Hotchkiss to find out why a traditional approach to training has led to an impressive awards cabinet

  • The college鈥檚 front block has been extended to fill in the ground-floor set-back. A new curtain wall has been added in keeping with the 1960s educational building
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    Canterbury tale

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    Architect Rivington Street Studio has turned a run-of-the-mill repair and maintenance job into an elegant refurbishment for a faded campus of the Kent Institute of Art & Design.

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    The bitter truth

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    It鈥檚 difficult for an expert witness to tell the party paying them that their case leaks like a sieve, but it is in everybody鈥檚 best interests that they do just that

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    Big deal

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    Is this so new? Construction managers have breached their contracts before, the only difference is that the dispute never got to court 鈥� which demonstrates one of CM鈥檚 many benefits

  • The Arnolfini wedding
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    The Arnolfini wedding

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    Bristol鈥檚 famous marriage of art gallery, 1970s office and Victorian warehouse has been comprehensively redesigned by Snell Associates 鈥� We found out how it was done

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    Cost update: March 2005

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    In this quarter鈥檚 analysis of construction materials and labour prices, Davis Langdon reports on the double whammy of electrical costs and electricians鈥� pay deal that is making it pricey to get the sparks flying 鈥�

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    Architects face York plaque attack

    2005-03-07T17:00:00Z

    A York councillor is proposing shaming bad buildings with a plaque of shame.