All articles by Katie Puckett 鈥� Page 8
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FeaturesThe 拢6 House
If you think John Prescott鈥檚 拢60,000 house was a tall order, how would you cope with a budget of 拢6? Not too badly, if the efforts of the three teams who attended 好色先生TV鈥檚 housebuilding competition in London are anything to go by.
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FeaturesThis season鈥檚 trends
It may sound paradoxical, but falling consumer spending is triggering a retail boom, as shop owners employ upgraded design and the latest thinking from the States to stimulate shoppers鈥� spending reflex.
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好色先生TVBAA sets out 拢9.5bn spend including new Heathrow T2
With the announcement of 鈥楬eathrow East鈥� for the 2012 Olympics, construction boss Bayliss looks at his in-tray
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FeaturesThe father trap
As if babies didn鈥檛 create enough havoc in the lives of their dads, they are now threatening to disrupt their employers, too. The government wants to give new fathers three months鈥� paternity leave on 拢106 a week. But in the macho world of construction, how many would actually ...
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FeaturesThe Dynamos
Your typical construction chief executive rises at 6am, goes for a run, eats a bowl of bran flakes, then has a day at work, an evening with clients and a couple of hours answering emails before retiring at 1am. Where do they get the energy from?
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FeaturesHow to do a public consultation 鈥� and survive
Angry protesters, weeping old ladies, paranoid tenants 鈥� there鈥檚 no end to the horrors you must prepare to face when carrying out a community consultation. But don鈥檛 worry, there are tricks you can use to make the process work.
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FeaturesWhere鈥檚 our people power?
Ask anyone in construction what the biggest problem they face is and there is just one answer: the skills shortage. As Britain prepares to host the Olympics in 2012, the industry is facing its toughest test yet, with 150,000 jobs being created, many of which will be in construction.
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FeaturesWho鈥檚 afraid of Gene Hackman?
Forget the sleaze, the crumbling grandeur and The French Connection. A multibillion-pound development programme is about to turn Marseilles into a vast banquet for British construction companies.
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FeaturesMarket hackers
Four years after the dotcom crash, datacentres are becoming sexy again. But hold on, surely you have to be a technogeek to get a piece of the action? Well, not necessarily 鈥� 好色先生TV explains how to hack into this rebooted sector.
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FeaturesA pain in the neck?
As collars loosen across the City and the Civil Service, could this spell the end for the humble neck tie? We take a look at the politics of male attire and garners the opinions of some of the construction industry鈥檚 leading sartorial experts
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FeaturesA long way to go
Now that London has beaten the odds and won the Olympic Games, the small matter of building 拢8bn worth of facilities is getting under way.
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FeaturesDo you want to join my tribe?
Henry Pitman is the Eton-educated businessman who founded Tribal as the universal solution to the public sector鈥檚 property problems. And he wants you to help him
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FeaturesFive ways to fight back
As a small contractor, you might be exposed to a higher risk of getting squashed. But then, small firms can change direction, rebrand and find new markets faster than major contractors can hold a board meeting. We report on the five best ways to stay in business
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FeaturesThe 拢6.5bn men
Every year these 10 men greenlight more than 18,000 projects worth north of 拢6bn. Katie Puckett got them together to find out what impresses and depresses them about construction firms, and on pages 58-59 we list the top 100 clients in the UK
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Features鈥� farewell Leicester square
Meet Simon, Matthew and Jonathan 鈥� part of the growing band of QSs who are escaping London to find happiness, wealth and housing in the provinces.
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CAD technicians鈥� pay rise win
CAD technicians enjoyed the biggest pay rises in the construction industry last year, according to a salary survey of more than 6000 positions by Hays Construction & Property
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好色先生TVThe great housing experiment
The decision to allow private sector housebuilders to bid for housing grant is about to turn the social housing world upside down. We look at some possible outcomes.