All Features articles – Page 161

  • Youth Zone Ðǿմ«Ã½
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    Sketch of the week: Youth zone

    2017-02-10T00:00:00Z

    This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by John Puttick of John Puttick Associates

  • Picturing resistance
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    Image of the week: Picturing resistance

    2017-02-10T00:00:00Z

    A Zaha Hadid painting is displayed in New York in MoMA protest against Trump’s travel ban

  • Archive image from 1997
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    This week in 1997

    2017-02-10T00:00:00Z

    We look at hospital rebuilding, 20 years ago

  • A crane
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    Strategic advances?

    2017-02-09T06:00:00Z

    The government’s modern industrial strategy has been welcomed by business groups but are there opportunities for construction to benefit?

  • Burntwood School
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    A question of priorities

    2017-02-08T06:00:00Z

    The government’s flagship programme to regenerate the schools estate has just seen the start of its second phase. Ike Ijeh assesses what the Priority School Ðǿմ«Ã½ Programme has offered pupils and the construction industry so far

  • Technal-2CMYK
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    What to specify: Education

    2017-02-07T06:00:00Z

    There’s lots to learn this week about the new products for schools and universities, from hard landscaping for a primary school to Portakabin modules and floor screed

  • Lead times
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    Lead times: October - December 2016

    2017-02-06T11:41:00Z

    Lead times have changed for only two packages - the lowest level of change recorded in the last decade. But many packages are reporting difficulty in getting qualified or experienced staff, reports Brian Moone of Mace

  • The NEC
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    CPD 1 2017: Living walls

    A living wall incorporates vegetation into facades or other internal or external walls. This CPD, sponsored by ANS Global, will examine the benefits and the key design considerations

  • 38th Baotu Spring Lantern Festival
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    Image of the week: Magic lanterns

    2017-02-03T07:00:00Z

    Tourists visit the 38th Baotu Spring Lantern Festival to celebrate the Chinese new year

  • Cars in flood
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    Hell or high water

    2017-02-03T06:00:00Z

    The North-west may have been spared flooding so far this winter, but the occurence and severity of the region’s floods is steadily increasing

  • Hotel design by Ewen Miller
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    Sketch of the week: Hotel design

    2017-02-03T06:00:00Z

    This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Ewen Miller, managing director at Calderpeel Architects

  • Archive image
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    This week in 1992

    2017-02-03T06:00:00Z

    We look at wind power, 25 years ago

  • Prison
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    New prisons: Not much in the swag bag

    2017-02-02T06:00:00Z

    Converting old prisons into housing to fund new prisons in less expensive locations isn’t going according to script

  • Swansea Bay
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    Bay watch

    2017-02-01T06:00:00Z

    With the government-commissioned review into the cost-effectiveness of tidal lagoons giving Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon the thumbs up last month, could this be a watershed moment for tidal energy?

  • Tracker index
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    Tracker: December 2016

    2017-01-31T10:25:00Z

    In the final month of last year there was growth in the total activity index due to improvements in the non-residential and the civil engineering sectors

  • Scott Boote Ðǿմ«Ã½ doodle of private villa
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    Sketch of the week: Private villa

    2017-01-27T07:00:00Z

    This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Scott Boote, an associate at Webb Yates Engineers

  • Gina Miller outside the Supreme Court
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    Image of the week: Higher authority

    2017-01-27T07:00:00Z

    Campaigner Gina Miller speaks outside the Supreme Court, after Britain’s most senior judges ruled Theresa May cannot trigger the Brexit process without consulting parliament

  • Woman
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    Redressing the balance: Women engineers

    2017-01-27T06:00:00Z

    With just 9% of UK engineers women, the sector clearly has a long way to go to achieving a diverse workforce

  • Archive image
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    This week in 1982

    2017-01-27T06:00:00Z

    Three-and-a-half decades ago, Ðǿմ«Ã½ reported that building graduates would not struggle to find employment

  • Economic-Construction-Market-Review-January
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    Market review: Contract values fall

    2017-01-26T06:00:00Z

    Despite the vote to leave the European Union, construction output remained healthy in 2016, but the value of contract awards declined over the year