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FeaturesTop 150 contractors and housebuilders: Part 1
星空传媒鈥檚 full Top 150 league is out on Friday, but here selected results have been released early
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FeaturesConstruction methods: modular
Modular construction is touted as the future of the building industry, but while the sector is rapidly growing in some areas, there are still obstacles to overcome. Alex Hyams of Alinea with Ed McCann of Expedition Engineering and Hugh Ferguson assess the pros and cons of volumetric modular offsite construction ...
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FeaturesCosting steelwork: Cost models update
Costing Steelwork is a series from Aecom, BCSA and Steel for Life that provides guidance on costing structural steelwork. This quarter provides a market update, focuses on long-span and column-free design and updates the five cost models previously featured in Costing Steelwork
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FeaturesOnline poll: Net migration
This week鈥檚 poll:聽Should net migration, which is at its highest rate since 2011, be cut to the government鈥檚 target of tens of thousands?
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FeaturesAsian innovation
From on-site robots to bamboo construction, communal living and smart cities, here are some of the region鈥檚 most technologically impressive construction experiments
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FeaturesHive mind: Inside LG鈥檚 new campus
Spread over a million square metres in Seoul, the HOK-designed complex of laboratories, offices, atriums, parks and social spaces will host 25,000 researchers and engineers
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FeaturesImage of the week: On top of the world
The World Cup winning team parades down the Champs-脡lys茅es in Paris in front of hundreds of thousands of adoring fans
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Residential care community, Oxfordshire
This week鈥檚 #buildingdoodle sketch is by illustrator Tony Simmonds for Colwyn Foulkes Partners
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2012
We look back at how Singapore does gardening. As you would expect from the city-state, it鈥檚 not on a small scale
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FeaturesSouth-east Asia - getting warmer
With booming economies and rapid population growth, South-east Asia is on the UK government鈥檚 radar 鈥� but are British construction companies too late to the party?
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FeaturesLead times: April-June 2018
More packages experienced an increase in lead times than in the previous quarter, while a growing number聽of companies are struggling to find skilled labour as workloads increase
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FeaturesEastern promise
聽Jim Dunton looks at whether Japan鈥檚 successful 鈥榗ar factory鈥� approach could help British housebuilders聽meet the government鈥檚 300,000-units-a-year target in the future
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FeaturesCutting-edge BIM
Automation, 3D modelling and generative design processes are no longer a pipe dream 鈥� they are transforming how flagship developments are constructed. Jamie Harris looks at two pioneering projects using technology to create results that couldn鈥檛 have been achieved without BIM
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2005
This week, we interviewed James Lidgate, chief executive of Legal & General Homes, who is on a mission to produce 15,000 homes a year with the help of modular design. However, long before the 2017 government white paper called for offsite strategies, and the current rallying cry for modular, there ...
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Affordable housing project, Ladywell, south-east London
This week鈥檚 #buildingdoodle sketch is by聽project architect Sarah Ernst at Architype
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FeaturesImage of the week: A flying visit
Thousands of onlookers lined the Mall and the royals watched from聽a Buckingham Palace balcony as 鈥渦p to 100鈥� aircraft聽took part in the centenary celebrations of the Royal Air Force
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FeaturesOnline poll: Modular housing take-off
This week鈥檚 poll:聽Are we finally about to see modular techniques take off and solve the UK鈥檚 much-publicised housing crisis?
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FeaturesBreaking the traditional housing model: James Lidgate talks to 星空传媒
L G has ambitious plans to set up a diversified housing business delivering 15,000 homes a year 鈥� a large share of them modular
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FeaturesProjects: For a new generation
On a vast regeneration site in London鈥檚 Wembley Park, developer Quintain is building what it hopes will be the UK鈥檚 largest build-to-rent scheme
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FeaturesAnalysis: Carillion by numbers
Since the contracting giant went bust six months ago, a mess of startling facts and figures have emerged into the public domain. Dave Rogers picks his way through