All Features articles – Page 341

  • David Yaw
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    Middle East Q&A: David Yaw

    2009-01-07T13:40:00Z

    Halcrow's Middle East managing director reveals the firm's strategies for Saudi and Syria

  • Mike Cheeseman
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    How to move to Australia

    2009-01-07T10:55:00Z

    Mike Cheeseman, 47, is a British surveyor who moved to Australia two-and-a-half years ago

  • The winners in their moment of apotheosis. Usually in a caption we’d tell you who they were, but wouldn’t that spoil the surprise?
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    Strictly ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV: construction's finest dance contest

    2008-12-19T00:00:00Z

    Passion, tragedy, triumph and dead fancy footwork – if you thought only Saturday night telly could bring you all these things, think again. ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV’s answer to Strictly Come Dancing reveals the amazing grace of construction folk

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    The tracker: Bleak midwinter

    2008-12-19T00:00:00Z

    No tidings of comfort or joy here, especially for the shrinking residential sector, as employment prospects plummet and order books languish, says Experian’s Business Strategies division

  • Amanda Levete
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    Nothing could be better

    2008-12-19T00:00:00Z

    Empty sites and redundant buildings can be colonised for all kinds of creative purposes, says Amanda Levete. It just needs a little imagination on the part of government to get them going

  • It's a horrible life
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    ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV's Review of the Year 2008

    2008-12-19T00:00:00Z

    We know, we know, the year we’ve just had was about as enjoyable as the tooth-drilling scene from Marathon Man. But it was certainly dramatic, and if you look hard enough, you might even find one or two Frank Capra moments to celebrate. ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV presses the rewind button

  • Tom Bill
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    What is going on at structural steel specialist Panceltica?

    2008-12-15T13:06:00Z

    The Qatar firm poised to take over the Middle East with its snap-together housing has just pulled its shares from AIM

  • Skyline
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    Expat survival guide to Shanghai

    2008-12-15T09:00:00Z

    A hoard of global and local developers have set up shop in Shanghai – so to be a hit in business, wear a sober suit and flash a gold-printed card

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    So what do you think?

    2008-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Nobody can ignore the green agenda any longer. But what do people in the industry really think about the environmental issues affecting their business? This Overbury study provides some absorbing answers

  • Nobel House in London: the The fit-out Overbury completed for Defra was the first commercial office project in the UK to achieve a BREAAM ‘excellent’ rating
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    On your marks

    2008-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Both Chris Booth and Anthony Brown from Overbury have one aim in mind: to deliver in a fast and complex market. Here, they tell Pamela Buxton how they intend to do it

  • From left: Alex Solk, Andy Merrin, Jonathan Walker, Matt Fulford and Jerry Lehane
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    Let’s talk

    2008-12-15T00:00:00Z

    We asked industry experts from across a number of disciplines to make sense of the new energy performance certificates. Here’s what they said…

  • Network Rail’s Manchester office
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    Public good

    2008-12-15T00:00:00Z

    With the commercial world in turmoil, the public sector is drawing more and more attention – just as well then, that these days it can match private facilities for design flare and value.

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    Foreword

    2008-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Times are challenging, but, says past BCO president Gordon Carey, now more than ever the office fit-out industry needs to work together to achieve a high-quality product

  • Make yourself at home: The office of the future will have a residential feel or be like a club
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    What is the future for fit-out?

    2008-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Josephine Smit asks some of the industry’s leading experts

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    Fast movers

    2008-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Developments in software technology are helping to make fit-out projects ever more efficient – a real boon in such a time-critical sector

  • Accountant BDO Stoy Hayward
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    A decade in design

    2008-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Not so long ago, the term ‘office fit-out’ meant deciding where to put the rubber plant. But over the past 10 years, design trends have moved dramatically to meet the demands of today’s design-savvy workers.

  • Work on Europe’s third generation of nuclear reactors is not going to plan.
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    Is Europe losing its nuclear construction skills?

    2008-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Work has started on Europe’s third generation of nuclear power plants. Problem is, the firms building them are finding it much harder than expected – the Finnish plant in this picture is three years late. Thomas Lane finds out what this means for the UK’s own nuclear plans

  • Hawkins\Brown’s New Art Exchange for the deprived community of Hyson Green in Nottingham
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    Hawkins\Brown¹s New Art Exchange: cubism reimagined

    2008-12-12T00:00:00Z

    HawkinsBrown’s New Art Exchange for the deprived community of Hyson Green in Nottingham is a black box on the outside, a blank canvas for artists inside.

  • Meet the ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV London 2012 Team
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    The ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV London 2012 team: an awfully big adventure

    2008-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Meet the ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV London 2012 team – seven young people who’ve been given the chance to help build one of the most high-profile and demanding projects the UK has ever seen

  • KPF hotels in Shanghai, China
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    Video: KPF hotels make their mark in Shanghai

    2008-12-11T09:01:00Z

    RLB Shanghai director Iris Lee introduces two KPF hotels under construction in central Shanghai