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This CPD, sponsored by Siderise, outlines developments in cladding used in high-rise residential tower blocks and examines the testing involved prior to installation
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FeaturesAccess to finance: The banks that like to say 鈥榥o鈥�
Investors are running scared of construction 鈥� put off by the collapse of Carillion, historically low returns and the feeling a problem job is just around the corner. So, is there anything the industry can do to improve its access to finance?
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FeaturesRaising the Bar competence report: explained
Raising the Bar could be one of the biggest shake-ups the industry has seen in decades. But has it been set up to fail?
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FeaturesWhat will the Tokyo 2020 Olympic venues look like?
Ike Ijeh discovers that some arenas originally built for the 1964聽summer games in Tokyo will be recycled for use in the next Olympiad
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2016 鈥� Let the games begin
As the venues being constructed for the Tokyo 2020 near completion, we look back on the problems that hit the Rio Olympiad聽in 2016
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FeaturesMarket forecast Q2 2019: Slowing down
All construction work output experienced a fillip in Q1 2019, while tender prices increased over the year at Q2 2019
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Kersfield Estate, Wandsworth, London
This week鈥檚 #buildingdoodle sketch is by聽Mae architects
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FeaturesSomewhere along the line: How is the Crossrail delay impacting local businesses?
Businesses next to and near the sites where new Crossrail stations are being built are at once feeling the pinch from a lack of footfall as the project stutters and looking forward to increased revenue from more customers when the project finally completes
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FeaturesImage of the week: Didcot power station
The cooling towers at the disused coal-fired Didcot power station in Oxfordshire are demolished
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FeaturesAre contractors with poor payment records about to be let off the hook?
A government plan barring late-paying contractors from bidding for major public contracts comes into effect in September. But there are loopholes
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FeaturesTracker: June 2019
Overall activity continued to gather momentum in June, and all sectoral activity indices reflected expansionary tendencies
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FeaturesLight years away: how close are we to space tourism?
Space tourism still has some giant leaps to make before humankind can take聽a holiday on the moon.聽What鈥檚 slowing lift-off?
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2013 鈥� In a hotel far, far away
As we look at the progress of space tourism, the archive revealed what lunar holiday resorts could look like 鈥� don鈥檛 expect any Jacuzzis or all-inclusive cocktails
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FeaturesImage of the week: Into the wood
A visitor poses by the White Gates at the 2019 Archstoyanie annual festival of landscape objects in聽the Nikola-Lenivets art park in Russia鈥檚 Kaluga region
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FeaturesA construction holiday: A nerd鈥檚 guide to site-seeing
From playing I-spy with heavy plant to gasping in awe at hydro-electric dams, here is our guide to 鈥榞eeking out鈥� on construction while on holiday
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Mixed-use modular scheme, central London
This week鈥檚 #buildingdoodle sketch is by聽Dominic Eaton, director at Stride Treglown
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This CPD, sponsored by Helvar, will look at the issues around the effectiveness of good lighting systems聽
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FeaturesFacing the Future 鈥� the Big Construction Survey - win an iPad air
Have your say and you could win an iPad Air
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