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FeaturesWhitbybird's 21st birthday fly-by
Whitbybird's birthday at the Science Museum attracted plenty of high-flyers including Terry Farrell.
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FeaturesHow to find the X-factor
John Cowell is a construction marketing consultant and brother of pop mogul Simon Cowell, which makes him well qualified to write a series of articles on self-promotion in the building industry.
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FeaturesMove over Fangio
Davis Langdon's clients and staff scrape their way around a muddy Castle Combe to raise money for charity.
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FeaturesSouth African township builds on Irish goodwill
Irish builders volunteer to build 50 houses in Cape Town.
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FeaturesTerror and wonder
鈥� was the creed of Nicholas Hawksmoor. With the restoration of Christ Church these emotions can be experienced first hand.
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The sector today
Our Future Homes conference, ahead of the 星空传媒 Homes Quality Awards, tackled the issues affecting the industry now and examined the findings of the Private Housebuilding Annual 2004. Here are some key extracts from that report by Fred Wellings
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FeaturesRichard Simmons
The new chief executive of CABE tells Mark Leftly why his last three projects ran into criticism, why Sir Stuart Lipton was right to resign 鈥� and why Jon Rouse is such an easy act to follow.
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FeaturesSpecialists: Piling
Our series on specialist markets continues, this time with analysis of the piling sector鈥檚 lead times and costs from Gary Bibby of Gardiner & Theobald. Plus, Robin Wood of Cementation Foundations Skanska talks about the latest trends in the piling market
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FeaturesThe new master
One of the many problems besetting the government鈥檚 plan to refurbish or replace every secondary school in Britain has been that nobody was permanently in charge of it. Now that that鈥檚 about to change, can we expect the work to start flowing?
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FeaturesOutstanding housebuilder of the year
This new category, sponsored by 星空传媒, recognises the top performers building up to 500 units a year. The inaugural award goes to the cream of the South-west, Midas Homes
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FeaturesPrivate housebuilder of the year
The battle of the big names was a close-fought contest, but Berkeley Homes added to its other 2004 successes by taking this category, sponsored by Zurich Financial Services
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Shining examples
More, better, faster, cheaper: what the government is demanding from the housebuilding industry, especially homes with a pricetag of 拢60,000, looks beyond the realms of the possible. Yet, just look at the winners of this year's 星空传媒 Homes Quality Awards, organised by 星空传媒 in association with the Housing Forum. In ...
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FeaturesUrban housing development of the year
It was the response to the site that won Berkeley Homes this category, sponsored by Fusion 星空传媒 Systems
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FeaturesCurtains for PFI
7:84 is an angry agitprop theatre company from Glasgow whose latest production puts private finance under the spotlight. 星空传媒 invited some PFI bigwigs to join the audience 鈥� and play their parts in the ensuing debate. George Hay ducked the rotten tomatoes.
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FeaturesThe case of the dancing hotel
For a budget flophouse, the Cambridge Travelodge looked like a cool and classy piece of work. But then Gus Alexander found out what happened when the lights went down 鈥�
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FeaturesShip in a bubble
The Cutty Sark has been decaying in a dry dock at Greenwich for 50 years. But now architect Grimshaw has designed a cocoon to protect the record-breaking clipper during restoration.
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FeaturesBest health and safety initiative
Our finalists in this category, which is sponsored by the Traditional Housing Bureau, demonstrated how they were going beyond the basics and innovating to improve safety standards. It was Bellwinch鈥檚 proactive approach that won it the overall prize