More Focus – Page 384

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    Good for the little guy

    2005-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Sharing intelligence means that business improvement is no longer the exclusive preserve of big companies

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    Gimme shelter

    2005-02-04T00:00:00Z

    To meet its targets, the government needs an industry that, in truth, doesn’t exist yet. Meet the organisation helping housebuilders navigate their way into the brave new world

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    Ready for take off

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    As a client, it’s easy to see how far the industry has come, but there is still a long way to go

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    Constructing Excellence Focus

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    What is CE?

  • Quintain’s concept for a shopping centre at the £1.3bn Wembley development
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    Muck in

    2005-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Developers will never deliver better public spaces if they see construction as a nasty diversion from the real business. Thankfully, a new guide tells them how to get involved

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    Finding a just price

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    We use common sense when we lease a car. Why not when we procure a building? We can, argues Andrew Green

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    Over the first hurdle

    2005-02-04T00:00:00Z

    As this survey shows, local authorities are making real headway toward being good clients, but insiders are warning that the hardest part is yet to come

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    Raising the game

    2005-02-04T00:00:00Z

    The challenge is to avoid complacency by continually redefining excellence

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    Future in hand

    2005-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Ðǿմ«Ã½ the next generation takes more than offering courses. What skills are needed? Who wants to learn them? And who’s going to pay? Constructing Excellence adopts the holistic view

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    Specifier Products

    2005-02-03T12:03:00Z

    Just about everything you need to build the kind of copper-clad, circular, streamlined, siphonically drained, airtight roof that will make you envied by your competitors and adored by your clients

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    Checklist

    2005-02-03T11:59:00Z

    Roofs have to withstand tough environmental conditions, and now climate change is posing even more challenges. Here, Barbour Index and Scott Brownrigg weigh up the options

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    Costs: Metal roofing claddings

    2005-02-03T11:46:00Z

    Metal self-supporting roofing is becoming ever more popular, and not just in the commercial and industrial sectors. Peter Mayer of Ðǿմ«Ã½ Performance Group considers the options and costs

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    Roofing

    2005-02-03T11:40:00Z

    Overhead glazing failures are a specifier’s worst nightmare. At worst, large pieces of glass could fall on to people below causing death or serious injury. At best, such failures generate litigation and bad publicity for projects.

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    MIPIM in miniature

    2005-02-01T15:49:00Z

    Capita Symonds has squeezed everything you need to survive MIPIM into a 1x4in box.

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    The race to build the £60k houses

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    The government has come up with a startling solution to the barriers to home ownership: to use public land and industrial production to build 60,000 £60,000 houses. Housebuilders are currently competing to design the prototype. We find out how it’s supposed to work.

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    Appointments

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    Movers and shakers this week

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    Rights stuff

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    A recent survey has uncovered disturbing ignorance of discrimination law.

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    The sustainable communities summit 2005

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    Prescott and three other Cabinet colleagues are to convene with 2000 housebuilders, architects and public sector experts in Manchester next week to take stock of how the £22bn sustainable communities plan is faring.

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    Regeneration in practice: Manchester

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    One of the city’s most crime-ridden housing estates is being given a John Prescott makeover, complete with signature architect and PFI funding. We report on how Plymouth Grove is going from war zone to des res

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    Cherry wins battle for Country

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    Alan Cherry, the chairman of Countryside Properties, was this week poised to take the company private after rival shareholder Rock Pacific agreed to support his improved £222m offer for the firm.