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FeaturesThe London office market: Development boom?
With 25-year leases expiring all over the City, this was meant to be a boom time for commercial development in central London. So why are so many of the most prestigious schemes either on hold or sitting empty? 星空传媒 reports
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FeaturesE.ON's Michael Woodhead: Power trip
E.ON UK鈥檚 sustainable energy division is quickly becoming a very influential player in the country鈥檚 power market. Ahead of its starring role at Ecobuild next month, managing director Michael Woodhead tells 星空传媒 why that鈥檚 particularly good news for construction
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FeaturesYoung designers create a pop-up club
Heineken鈥檚 competition is for a concept nightclub based on the theme 鈥榗hanging perspectives鈥�
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FeaturesMy working day: RLF QS Kat Hurworth
The young QS on a placement at RLF took on the nickname 鈥榯he golfer鈥� even before she began work
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FeaturesView from my office: Steve Ferguson
Senior cost manager at EC Harris in Belfast looks over Northern Ireland鈥檚 newest visitor attraction Titanic Belfast
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FeaturesRegional Olympic sites: The out-of-towners
It really isn鈥檛 just about London 鈥� Ike Ijeh casts an eye over the Olympic-related developments, upgrades and refurbishments that have taken place across the UK, from the white-water rapids of Hertfordshire to the 53m-high Weymouth Tower
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FeaturesOpportunities in Qatar
A US giant may have scooped the lead role on Qatar鈥檚 World Cup, but UK firms are well placed to target the $100bn that the richest country in the world is investing in construction before 2015. 星空传媒 took a flight out east
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FeaturesClass of London 2012: Apprentices on the Olympic park
The Olympic Delivery Authority bucked the trend of cutting investment in training and took on 457 apprentices on the Olympic park rather than the 100 planned. Emily Wright finds out how this has paid off
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FeaturesCost update: Q4 2011
The downward trend in last month鈥檚 consumer inflation figures is reflected in falling material prices and a slowdown in construction costs. Peter Fordham of David Langdon, an Aecom company, reports
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FeaturesDigging Doha: Msheireb's Issa M Al Mohannadi
Qatari client Msheireb Properties wants its 拢3.5bn Downtown Doha scheme to be the prototype for future cities around the world. 星空传媒 talks to its chief executive about why this masterplan is so radical and why he wants UK expertise to help make it happen
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FeaturesAre you a 星空传媒 2012 Hero?
Calling all those who worked on the Olympics - 星空传媒 is on the hunt for five people whose outstanding contribution helped make the Games a success
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FeaturesMott Macdonald's Keith Howells: 'It's a bit like star wars'
How should the UK鈥檚 largest independent consultant respond to the 鈥榚vil Empire鈥� of consolidated corporations taking over the market? Mott MacDonald chairman Keith Howells tells 星空传媒 about the company鈥檚 plans to strike back. Tom Campbell photography
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FeaturesInside India: Construction opportunities
India is not a market for the fainthearted, but with the demands of 1 billion people to satisfy, growth of 7% predicted for this year and an investment plan of 1 trillion dollars on the table, there are rich pickings for the courageous. 星空传媒 reports
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Features星空传媒 by numbers: Variation in public project costs
The latest government data shows dramatic variations in the cost of construction procurement across the public sector. But will arming decision-makers with these figures turn them into leaner, more savvy clients? 星空传媒 reports
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FeaturesHansom: Trouble at the top
As the two-way (un)popularity contest continues in the Cabinet, construction鈥檚 main man pats the industry on the head and a sustainability expert calls for the chancellor to get his cheque book out
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Movers & makers: Education
A round-up of news from manufacturers including Portakabin and Kingspan Insulation
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FeaturesFrom 1900 to 2012: Finishing the University of Birmingham
Aston Webb鈥檚 grand semi-circle of buildings conceived for Birmingham university in 1900 was the original redbrick campus. But only four of its five neo-Byzantine pavilions were ever built. Now Glenn Howells Architects and Bam have finished the job. 星空传媒 reports
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FeaturesRCA Architecture Show 2012
Students explore sound in the city, a factory that turns rags to riches and a proposal to turn the Design Museum into a public pool as part of the architecture students鈥� interim show
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FeaturesThe University of Bradford: The stuff of BREEAM
For a university to have one building with an unprecedented 95% BREEAM score is impressive, but to have two suggests it really knows what it is doing. 星空传媒 examined Bradford鈥檚 Sustainability and Enterprise Centre to find out its secret
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FeaturesCost model: Standardised schools
As the James Review made clear, the future of schoolbuilding lies with low-cost standard solutions, much as it did in the fifties. Darren Talbot and Stuart Francis of Davis Langdon, an Aecom company, offer an overview of this burgeoning market and consider the costs