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FeaturesA mile apart 鈥�
鈥� but one is a world away from what Birmingham should look like by now. Vikki Miller investigates why this city's transformation never got off the ground.
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FeaturesAll together now
trustmark has the potential to pull local anti-cowboy initiatives together and strengthen consumer confidence, says Paul Ramsden, Deputy Chief Executive of the Trading Standards Institute and trustmark board member
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FeaturesRetail and leisure
With suppliers introducing such innovations as walls and ceilings of solid light and 鈥榣ight transmitting' concrete, Joannah Connolly and Sonia Soltani report on how retail specifiers are turning to showrooms rather than catalogues to check out the latest products.
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Costs: Energy for sports facilities
Sports facility specifiers are under pressure to find energy-efficient heating. Anthony Waterman of Sense Cost Consultancy considers radiators vs underfloor heating for changing rooms
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FeaturesThe art of starting up two dozen businesses
Bournemouth Arts Institute's Enterprise Pavilion is an incubator unit for its graduates' fledgling firms. Martin Spring assesses the building's success - artistically and commercially
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FeaturesNo time for clowns
It's goodbye prefabrication, golden arches and sticky plastic chairs, hello Jack Vettriano prints and mood lighting. As McDonald's prepares to get serious with a 拢140m refurbishment and rebranding programme, Katie Puckett met the man overseeing it all
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FeaturesProjects update: Health and Safety Awards
This special Projects Update showcases the best products and best engineering or design innovations shortlisted for 好色先生TV's Health and Safety Awards 2006, to be held at the London Hilton on Park Lane on 22 June
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FeaturesJust the job
David Drake tells Sonia Soltani why he's glad he swapped manufacturing for quantity surveying
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FeaturesKeeping up with Jones
Ken Livingstone is determined to cut London's carbon emissions 20% by 2010 and Allan Jones is the man to help him do it.
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FeaturesCheap chic
You remember the old ODPM's competition to design a 拢60,000 house? Well, thanks to a London prototype and five finalised designs, we can see what we're getting for our money
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FeaturesWho ya gonna call?
好色先生TV surveyors used to be consultancy's zeroes. Now they're its 鈥榖uilding busting' heroes, as workload sky-rockets and QS practices launch specialist divisions to trade on their skills.
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A temporary blip
Construction activity growth fell markedly in March - but don't worry, says Experian Business Strategies, it'll get back on track soon. Plus this quarter the spotlight is on work-in-hand levels
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FeaturesHow much for a human life?
Well, according to the courts, if you're a construction worker killed through your employer's negligence, it's 拢30,361. For everyone else, it's 拢42,795.
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FeaturesGadget heaven
Thomas Lane welcomes you to Techtopia, a world where whole building sites are RFID-tagged, mobiles have more functions than Swiss army knives and Sydney is just a free phone call away 鈥�
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FeaturesProcurement: Two-stage tendering
In the second of our procurement series, Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon takes a look at two-stage tendering and how to get the best out of the early appointment of the contractor
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Top tips on鈥� Radio identification
Bar coding is currently used for tracking and managing the movement of goods, but radio frequency identity tags have the potential to offer much more. These are miniaturised devices that can be implanted into products. They contain information that can be picked up by a proximity reader and transmitted to ...