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FeaturesA precision operation
The team at Birmingham鈥檚 Royal Orthopaedic Hospital was charged with creating a 拢15m state-of-the-art specialist treatment centre. So what made them choose modular construction 鈥� and was the operation a success?
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FeaturesA cure for one-off-clientitis
Does the idea of working with any one of 600 NHS trusts, all with varying levels of construction experience, make your heart stop? fret not 鈥� an antidote has been found 鈥�
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FeaturesLike Phoenix from the ashes
The miraculous resurrection of Sandwell鈥檚 fire-ravaged A&E meant that this hospital was not a casualty for long 鈥� thanks to ProCure21 coming to the rescue
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FeaturesVitruvius鈥� WOW factor
When people think of NHS architecture, they imagine grey monoliths with endless corridors and stark fluorescent lighting. but all that is changing in a drive to increase design impact 鈥� with a little help from ancient Rome 鈥�
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FeaturesCare at the centre
Any project that changes construction route halfway through is bound to hit rocky ground, surely? Here鈥檚 how procure21 meant Oldbury鈥檚 care centre avoided trouble 鈥� and avoided the need for adjudicators 鈥�
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How do you measure up?
What鈥檚 the best way to benchmark the performance and value of your projects when the existing data isn鈥檛 exactly bang up to date? Get rewriting the rules, that鈥檚 how 鈥�
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FeaturesThe chance that paid off
Or, how an NHS trust in ormskirk decided to twist, not stick, by embracing a procurement method it had never used before. And boy, did it win hands down 鈥�
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To sum up 鈥�
As recent high-profile projects have shown, it鈥檚 absolutely crucial to set the right budget 鈥� and stick to it. Here are Procure21鈥檚 ways and means
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Shepherd hits the top in September with 拢113m win
Five deals push Yorkshire firm into pole position, but Bovis Lend Lease still dominates the annual table
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FeaturesStop the traffic
Stuttgart has not so much lost a large hostile underpass as gained a stunning 拢48m gallery of modern art, in the form of Hascher Jehle鈥檚 perfect glass cube.
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FeaturesThe greatest buildings never built
A dome that would have covered half of Manhattan 鈥� a cathedral that would have towered over Liverpool 鈥� the National Gallery鈥檚 鈥榤onstrous carbuncle鈥� 鈥� Naomi Stungo looks back over the 10 finest projects that never made it past the concept stage
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FeaturesUp and coming from down under
This is a good time to be in salary negotiations 鈥� especially if you鈥檙e a young professional from the antipodes. Victoria Madine analyses the 2004 Hays Montrose/星空传媒 contractors鈥� salary guide, Brett Ryder provides the kangaroo
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FeaturesCost model: Off-site manufacture
The market for off-site manufacture is expanding rapidly, boosted as it is by public sector investment programmes. Davis Langdon looks at the cost benefits, barriers to innovation and procurement issues involved in OSM
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FeaturesLocal lowdown: Kent and Surrey
As town-centre regeneration creates job opportunities in Kent and Surrey, Robert Smith of Hays Montrose looks at some of the major projects in the region
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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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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 ...