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FeaturesPFI/PPP contractor of the year
Skanska was an early starter in the PFI race and has stayed in the lead ever since, making it worthy of first prize in this new category, sponsored by Saint-Gobain Weber
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FeaturesRegional Housebuilder of the year: fewer than 500 homes
You can't argue with a 40% profit leap and a customer satisfaction result that's off the scale 鈥� so the judges just had to hand Ward Homes this British Gypsum-sponsored prize
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FeaturesEntrepreneur of the year
Three firms prove a bit of imagination can transform a business, with the winning prize, sponsored by Taylor Woodrow, going to independent-minded SmartNewHomes.com
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FeaturesIntegrated supply chain team of the year
Having the confidence to question the working methods of its supply chain and to invent new ones brought Mace to pole position in this new category, sponsored by Ramesys
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FeaturesSustainability award
Ibstock Brick took first prize in this St George-sponsored category because its environmental programme has done more to clean up construction's image than any other
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FeaturesBest Practice award
Against the very best from across the industry, Forticrete won this year's Best Practice Award, sponsored by The Concrete Centre, for achieving excellence in all areas of its business
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FeaturesMake my day
Duncan Innes, the director of English Partnerships, is seen as John Prescott's enforcer for the all-important task of building houses in the South-east. But it would be difficult to imagine a more mild-mannered Dirty Harry, as we found out.
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FeaturesThe government is evolving the ideal eco-friendly home for the 21st century. But can we afford it?
A leaked report has revealed how the government is planning to put the burden of its demanding environmental policy on housebuilders. We look at the plans and their implications
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FeaturesThere's a visitor for you
That alien spaceship over there is the bird flu virus, and its favourite place to be is in modern hospitals, because they seem to have been specially designed to help it infect its victims. We look at how engineers and microbiologists are fighting back
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FeaturesCost model: Office refurbishment
Although recovery in the commercial market may be just around the corner, canny developers are already active generating good returns in refurbishment. Here Davis Langdon & Everest and Mott Green Wall look at the opportunities and constraints in bringing existing buildings bang up to date
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FeaturesStage magic
Or how Grimshaw transformed precision, clarity and a stumbling quest for answers into nine performance arts spaces in a scientific research centre in upstate New York
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Eastern block
London's Whitechapel district is one of the most aggressively hard-core inner city areas in Britain. Architect Wright & Wright was asked to design a law department for London Metropolitan University on a long, thin slice of it. We find out how it tackled the brief.
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FeaturesUrban flagship
Curvaceous and clad in steel, 星空传媒 Design Partnership's Armada development is the wildly successful centrepiece of a windswept Dutch city's regeneration.
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FeaturesAce venturer
Four months in and Nelson Ogunshakin, the Association of Consulting Engineers' new chief executive, is steering his ship into unchartered waters. He tells Kate Allen why his plans simply can't fail.
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FeaturesWhen the battle's lost and won
For weeks, clan McAlpine has been locked in a High Court battle over possession of the family name. Last Wednesday the drama reached its denouement. We report on what happened
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FeaturesBe afraid (but not very afraid)
The scarily tough and complex demands of the new Part L have left many contractors confused and anxious. But difficulties enforcing the energy-efficiency regulation suggest that its bark may be a lot worse than its bite.
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FeaturesPlanes, brains and panels of steel
Those clever architects at Feilden Clegg Bradley didn't take the easy route to their RAF museum pavilion in Hendon. Alex Smith divebombs on the challenges of cladding a semicircular roof in stainless steel and lining it with tensile fabric