All Features articles – Page 256

  • Haggerston school
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    School refurbishment: Shouldn't you be revising?

    2012-11-15T00:00:00Z

    Erno Goldfinger’s brutalist Haggerston school in north-east London has been sensitively modernised

  • Health
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    Healthcare: Is the wait nearly over?

    2012-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Details of the NHS restructure are now beginning to emerge, but the industry is still anxiously wondering how the new procurement system will work

  • The consortium aims to ensure the value of work experience
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    Securing the future of the industry

    2012-11-09T00:00:00Z

    A highly productive workforce will be vital if Britain is to build its way out of recession. A consortium of contractors is working with government to ensure the industry has the skills to boost growth

  • Eoghan Hanrahan
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    Richard Blakeway: Boris' house master

    2012-11-09T00:00:00Z

    GLA deputy mayor for housing Richard Blakeway on getting housebuilding moving in the capital

  • blacklisting
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    Blacklisting: Where will it end?

    2012-11-09T00:00:00Z

    How much damage will the unfolding blacklisting allegations inflict on contractors?

  • Specifier
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    Blackfriars: The world's largest solar-powered bridge

    2012-11-09T00:00:00Z

    The £550m revamp of Blackfriars station in London includes the world’s largest solar-powered bridge - a 6,000m2 installation

  • tracker
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    The Tracker: Awaiting orders

    2012-11-09T00:00:00Z

    There was no change in the monthly activity index for September, but civil engineering orders have dropped alarmingly, according to the latest figures from Experian Economics

  • Streatham Ice Rink
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    Streatham Hub: How to build an ice rink above a swimming pool

    2012-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Streatham Hub in south London contains not only a supermarket, apartments and a bus station, but a first-floor ice rink above a heated pool

  • Jane Nelson, executive director at Mears Group
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    My working day: Jane Nelson

    2012-11-02T16:23:00Z

    The executive director at Mears Group starts the day with a hit of ‘Daily Mears Matters’ on her Blackberry

  • Make’s Birmingham Retail Strategy
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    High and mighty: Visions of the high street of the future

    2012-11-02T00:00:00Z

    With one in seven shops now boarded up in Britain’s town centres, four leading architects suggest ways to revive the high street

  • Ecobuild
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    Getting to grips with micro economics

    2012-11-02T00:00:00Z

    A new report suggests that small-scale renewable technologies on commercial developments might cost more than they’re worth. But others argue that this misses the bigger picture. Katie Puckett investigates

  • Middle East
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    Middle East: A new day dawns

    2012-11-02T00:00:00Z

    The 2008 liquidity crisis in the Middle East and then the Arab Spring did much to scare off UK firms. Now, a faster than expected recovery is drawing them back to Abu Dhabi, Qatar and particularly Dubai - which is seen as the business hub for the region

  • Economics
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    Infrastructure: Water companies

    2012-11-02T00:00:00Z

    Water companies are changing their business models and the way in which they work with their construction partners. Simon Rawlinson and Mike Nugent of EC Harris examine the water industry’s growing focus on whole life performance

  • Commonwealth Arena
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    Glasgow Commonwealth Games

    2012-11-02T00:00:00Z

    Glasgow’s 2014 Commonwealth Games is being hosted at a fraction of the cost of the London Olympics, but it still has ambitions to leave a legacy for the public. Ðǿմ«Ã½ assesses the success of the new sporting venues. Photos by Alan McAteer

  • NA
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    FITs cuts: Come rain or come shine

    2012-11-02T00:00:00Z

    When the energy minister said he was cutting solar subsidies the government was told it would destroy a 25,000-strong industry. Vern Pitt finds out if the actual impact has matched the dire forecasts

  • Vinci Centre
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    Inside Vinci's technology centre

    2012-11-02T00:00:00Z

    High impact: Discover a place where building materials are tested to their absolute limit

  • Ecobuild
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    Benchmarking risk with EcoPAS

    2012-11-02T00:00:00Z

    Will a new data bank provide commercial developers with the proof that sustainability makes financial sense?

  • Aviation
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    New sky thinking: The airport debate

    2012-11-02T00:00:00Z

    With the debate over airport expansion in the South-east threatening to tear apart not just the coalition, but the Conservative Party as well, four leading thinkers make the case for their preferred option

  • Airport
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    The airport debate

    2012-10-31T11:29:00Z

    Heathrow, Stanstead, Estuary? Today, Sir Terry Farrell reveals his preferred airport option

  • Market forecast
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    Market forecast: Five years on …

    2012-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Half a decade since the start of the economic crisis, output is still falling and tender prices continue to head south. Peter Fordham of Davis Langdon, an Aecom company, reports