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The hired gun's guide
Working for an agency can boost your freelance earnings - as long as it also works for you. We look at how to get the best service
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FeaturesDon鈥檛 supersize me
The Peabody Trust鈥檚 latest exercise in modular housing at Barons Place, west London, houses key workers in compact-and-bijou microflats. We mind our head and step inside a new fun-sized way of living.
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A touch of class
This City Academy is the first of 200 the government wants to build in deprived inner city areas. However, it鈥檚 unlikely that the others will be designed by Richard Rogers and boast a really pukka kitchen garden
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FeaturesThe big picture
Andy Pearson presents six case studies of OSM in action, starting at BAA鈥檚 vast Heathrow Terminal 5 project, where off-site solutions have been found for diverting rivers, building a roof the size of five football pitches, and providing the services for the main building
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FeaturesThe lone ranger rides again!
Tired of the long hours and unpaid overtime, professionals are heading for the open plains of self-employment 鈥� in increasing numbers. We talked to construction鈥檚 guns-for-hire
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Blocking out the pain
Construction manager Tony Bennett is planning to run 250 miles while holding a brick, a feat that will earn him a place in the Guiness Book of Records.
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Off site and off piste: Bob the Builder takes to the slopes
Bob the Builder premiers latest movie at the ICA and unveils a glamourous new leading lady.
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FeaturesL of a challenge
Industry has less than a month to respond to the ODPM鈥檚 radical proposals for Part L of the building regs. John Tebbit, industry affairs director at the CPA, picks out the highlights.
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FeaturesPFI in limbo
Ten years after it burst on the scene, PFI has become bogged down in project delays. As research published this week reveals yet more missed PFI targets, We report on how contractors are upping sticks and taking their expertise abroad
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Language skills
Learning the right words and phrases is the key to understanding a new culture. So, here with 鈥淥ff-site manufacture: Lesson one鈥� is Mtech Group
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FeaturesInside off-site
Modern methods of construction are now being used on all manner of projects, from restaurants to naval bases. Mark Faithfull looks at the latest developments and asks: could this be the age of off-site?
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Are parliaments inherently unmanageable?
Solicitor Matthew Bell argues that Holyrood was always going to be a problem 鈥� but at least it is in good company 鈥�
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FeaturesHolyrood reaction
The Fraser Report may have passed down its judgment on the Scottish parliament building, but the mud is still flying. Here, 星空传媒鈥檚 readers join the fray and Rob Smith, senior partner at Davis Langdon, defends his firm鈥檚 decisions as cost consultant on the project
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OSM experienced
For many project teams, using OSM means embarking on a scarily steep learning curve involving substantial changes to their traditional building processes. So how can they be sure of getting it right? At Mtech Group, we apply this simple checklist, nominally aligned to the RIBA workplan, that focuses the project ...
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FeaturesTricky business
In the fourth of five monthly articles, 星空传媒, in association with ConstructionSkills, investigates why construction operates so inefficiently 鈥� and asks what can be done to improve performance.
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FeaturesIT workshops: How builders are updating their skills
Robin Hood-Leeder explains how the Federation of Master Builders is trying to help its members improve their performance by setting up IT workshops
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FeaturesB-Trac Services: A business success story
Paul Banner is managing director of B-Trac Services, a small maintenance company in the West Midlands working for housing associations. He explains how his firm achieved Investor in People status
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FeaturesBlob on the Tyne
Foster鈥檚 Sage music centre in Gateshead is positively puffed up with pride. And justifiably so thanks to a dramatic riverfront setting and its promise to put the city on the cultural map
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Ask Edward
The right to employee status and the right to a pay rise are this week's points of legal confusion