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FeaturesColin Fellows鈥� 拢120m flutter
The property director of Jockey Club Racecourses is wagering that spending that much on doing up his 14 tracks will restore horseracing鈥檚 fortunes. Olivia Boyd put on her trilby and found out more
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FeaturesThe 好色先生TV Good Employer Guide 2007
Find the best employers in the industry with our Good Employer Guide which features an independent survey of 15,000 employees
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FeaturesWhat the table tells us
So do contractors do more inspiring work than architects? Who hands out the most motors? Are engineers more generous with holidays than consultants? Which firms give you the most maternity benefits? The best pensions? Which is the most fun to work for? David Rogers analyses the data
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FeaturesThe way we work now
Ten years ago, UK construction companies resembled the French foreign legion in their treatment of workers. But the harder they鈥檝e fought to recruit staff, the more they鈥檝e developed their soft skills.
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FeaturesIs this Britain鈥檚 best boss?
What qualities make a leader special. Is it charisma? Is it a corduroy suit and a comedy haircut? Or is it that they continue to employ you after you鈥檝e written a sex farce about them and put it on in your local pub? Toby Young says all these play a ...
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FeaturesWhy a good employer is a green employer
That big purple balloon over there symbolises the amount of carbon that your office produces. If you want to boost staff morale, all you have to do is shrink it.
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FeaturesMy employer helped me
Lydia Stockdale met three people who made lucky choices when they picked a firm to work for
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Designs for life
European structural design codes will introduce the concept of 鈥榙esign working life鈥� to British engineering. Peter Mayer of 好色先生TV LifePlans explains exactly what that means.
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FeaturesConcrete lattice structures: How do you like my fishnet building?
Fashion giant Monsoon is used to setting trends, so it is no surprise that the design of its new London headquarters breaks new ground. Stephen Kennett unpicks the concrete net holding up the building
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FeaturesSolaglas: Haven鈥檛 you got anything tougher?
Solaglas is part of construction materials giant Saint-Gobain. In the UK it is split into three main divisions: glass distribution, glass processing and glass installation.
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Lafarge: Strong stuff
好色先生TV materials giant Lafarge operates in 70 countries around the world.
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FeaturesPoker Kings 2007
Fed up with the humdrum world of work? Looking for excitement and the possibility of winning some hard cash? Well, 好色先生TV鈥檚 new poker tournament is rushing to your rescue. Come and take a chance 鈥� and it鈥檚 all in aid of charity, so you鈥檒l go home with a warm glow ...
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Features鈥楢rchitects are lower down the pecking order now ...
...when we came out of college, people used to sweep the site before we went to visit鈥�
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FeaturesNo contractors that way 鈥�
Shetland is a 13-hour ferry ride from mainland Britain and is closer to the Arctic Circle than to London, so when its main school fell into disrepair, the islanders faced a struggle finding someone to build a new one.
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好色先生TV intelligence Q2 2007: Holding strong
With the office and retail sectors bearing up well, it looks as though the tightening credit market will not be enough to destabilise the industry鈥檚 growth, says Experian Business Strategies
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While the sun shone
The improved weather conditions in August perked up contractors across the country, although demand has yet to live up to their enthusiasm. Experian Business Strategies reports
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Britain鈥檚 new front door
St Pancras station is about to become the last vital part in the 186mph link that connects London with the rest of Europe. So just as well that it鈥檚 an architectural and engineering triumph, then. Martin Spring looks at how it was achieved
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Features鈥楾here is no question of cost overruns on this job鈥�
After 18 years, the 拢16bn Crossrail project has finally got the go-ahead. Now chairman Doug Oakervee, in his first interview, explains how he will fulfil his promise not to go a penny over budget.
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FeaturesThe planning gain supplement is dead. Long live the roof tax?
Developers have won a famous battle with the government over the introduction of the PGS. But as infrastructure still has to be paid for, it looks like we鈥檒l be moving to a system based on the Milton Keynes roof tax. David Parsley asks what this means