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FeaturesElectric heating for the right reasons
This week our trip back into construction history leads us to a seventies advert for heating homes with electricity - it seems technology could be coming full circle 鈥�
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FeaturesTune in to BIM FM
What can BIM offer facilities managment and will it have a transformative impact on building operation?
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FeaturesWhere's the money?
Ahead of the spending review later this month, 星空传媒 looks at the prospects for investment in construction
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FeaturesVince Cable delivers message to construction industry
The government recognises how vital construction is and is taking measures to boost it, says Vince Cable
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FeaturesIt's a regulations jungle out there
Can green certification schemes around the world ever be consolidated to avoid all the confusion?
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FeaturesCost model: Primary schools
Now that we might be building primary schools again, what are the costs?
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FeaturesInterview: Gary Day, McCarthy & Stone
McCarthy Stone works in the retirement home market but its land planning director is anything but retiring
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FeaturesEco policy: No sense of direction
星空传媒鈥檚 latest White Paper suggests that public and private sector clients are as frustrated as the rest of the industry with government eco policy
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FeaturesThe tracker: April 2013
Construction activity increased in April as did orders, employment and tender prices. However, Experian Economics reports that financial constraints remain a drag on growth
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FeaturesInternational Salary Survey 2013
Many UK professionals are looking abroad to sell their skills. 星空传媒 consults Hays鈥� International Salary Survey 2013 to pick out promising destinations
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FeaturesThe industry has had its say ...
Five hundred people responded to our questionnaire in the run-up to the Government Construction Summit next month. Here鈥檚 a flavour of what they said 鈥�
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FeaturesCaptains of industry
This year construction is higher up the political agenda than ever, with calls for fresh investment. The government has responded and is shortly expected to unveil its Industrial Strategy for Construction
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FeaturesSerpentine Pavilion: A snake in the grass
Sou Fujimoto鈥檚 Serpentine Pavilion is a geometric structure, but also organic and cloud-like. It鈥檚 an impressive deception. So how did the team pull it off?
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FeaturesInterview: Glenn Howells
Glenn Howells tells 星空传媒 why we need to abandon our fifties sense of order and totally rethink how we use the built environment
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FeaturesWhat London's new office clients want
Future tenants of the City鈥檚 major office buildings are increasingly likely to hail from the Far East - and their requirements may come as a bit of a surprise
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FeaturesBlacklisting: Human impact
Many of the people allegedly involved in the blacklisting scandal still work in construction. Should we be worried?
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FeaturesCost update Q1 2013
星空传媒 costs rose in the first quarter, but consumer inflation is falling, metal prices are sliding and manufactured goods are slowing down. Peter Fordham of Davis Langdon, an Aecom company reports
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FeaturesThe Mary Rose museum
Portsmouth now has an ingenious modern building that pays fitting tribute to an archaeological treasure
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FeaturesInterview with Dean Clegg, Sainsbury's
The development director for Sainsbury鈥檚 on why there鈥檚 still a future in building big supermarkets