All Features articles – Page 161
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Sketch of the week: Youth zone
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by John Puttick of John Puttick Associates
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Image of the week: Picturing resistance
A Zaha Hadid painting is displayed in New York in MoMA protest against Trump’s travel ban
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Strategic advances?
The government’s modern industrial strategy has been welcomed by business groups but are there opportunities for construction to benefit?
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A question of priorities
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
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What to specify: Education
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
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Lead times: October - December 2016
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
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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
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Image of the week: Magic lanterns
Tourists visit the 38th Baotu Spring Lantern Festival to celebrate the Chinese new year
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Hell or high water
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
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Sketch of the week: Hotel design
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Ewen Miller, managing director at Calderpeel Architects
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New prisons: Not much in the swag bag
Converting old prisons into housing to fund new prisons in less expensive locations isn’t going according to script
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Tracker: December 2016
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
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Sketch of the week: Private villa
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Scott Boote, an associate at Webb Yates Engineers
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Image of the week: Higher authority
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
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Redressing the balance: Women engineers
With just 9% of UK engineers women, the sector clearly has a long way to go to achieving a diverse workforce
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This week in 1982
Three-and-a-half decades ago, Ðǿմ«Ã½ reported that building graduates would not struggle to find employment
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Market review: Contract values fall
Despite the vote to leave the European Union, construction output remained healthy in 2016, but the value of contract awards declined over the year