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  • Breakfast
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    2012 countdown: The Games in numbers

    2010-07-02T00:00:00Z

    The sheer scale of the 2012 project makes it a statistician’s dream. Here are a few figures, from the biggest buildings to the barest bones …

  • Diane Johnson
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    Electrical Contractors Association: Precedent Johnson

    2010-06-25T00:00:00Z

    Diane Johnson is the ECA’s first woman president.What’s she got planned for her year at the helm?

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    Costs and challenges of biodiversity planning

    2010-06-25T00:00:00Z

    Dormice are protected, frogs need water and bats return after removal – just some of the challenges in dealing with British fauna and flora

  • Spanish HQ
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    Green FIZZ: Coca-Cola's Spanish HQ

    2010-06-25T00:00:00Z

    Coca-Cola’s new Spanish HQ is refreshingly eco friendly and even boasts a LEED ’gold’ certification

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    Millennium projects: 10 years of good luck

    2010-06-25T00:00:00Z

    From the wobbly Millennium Bridge to the infamous Spinnaker Tower and the runaway success of Tate Modern, fortune smiled on some millennium projects more than others. Ike Ijeh celebrates their 10th anniversary

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    Can you arrange these tiles to make a coherent company?

    2010-06-25T00:00:00Z

    Bovis UK has just lost its third chief executive in four years, its relationship with its Australian parent is difficult and talk of a sale is in the air. Sarah Richardson looks at what is going wrong

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    The 2010 consultants’ salary guide

    2010-06-25T00:00:00Z

    This year’s Ðǿմ«Ã½/Hays Construction & Property pay guide tells a familiar story of cuts and freezes. Roxane McMeeken finds out who’s getting by on economy baked beans, and why employers might be about to get a lot of belly aching

  • Misuse of MEPW
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    Is it a crane? Is it a mobile access platform?

    2010-06-24T11:55:00Z

    It’s both, apparently – or so these workers seem to think

  • Thomas Heatherwick Shanghai pavilion
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    First Impressions: Thomas Heatherwick’s Shanghai pavilion

    2010-06-23T11:03:00Z

    Kingston University/Design Museum student gives his first impression direct from Shanghai

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    Greening commercial property: What is acceptable behaviour in an office?

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Well, installing energy-efficient plant and using it intelligently, are two examples. And this Carbon Trust mini-conference explains why it could save us all £27bn over the next 40 years

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    Aldar’s Abu Dhabi HQ: One last spin of the wheel

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Aldar’s Abu Dhabi headquarters is one of the final feats of jaw-dropping construction machismo we’ll see from the UAE for a while, says Thomas Lane. And it gives us plenty of reasons to mourn their passing …

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    The Prince’s Trust: Helping young people Get into Construction

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Construction wants to attract a diversified workforce, and many would-be workers are trying to get away from unemployment and crime. Sarah Richardson meetsMike Peasland, who’s helping the Prince’s Trust to help them do just that

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    Bat boxes

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Brick maker Wienerberger has teamed up with environmental consultantancy EcoSurv, to design a bat box, providing a comfortable roost for UK native species and helping developers gain credits under the Code for Sustainable Homes

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    Gas membrane

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Construction membranes specialist Icopal has extended its range of gas membranes with the launch of the Monarflex CO2 membrane

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    Precast concrete structure

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Structherm Fastbuild is being used for the construction of 10 low-energy homes on the outskirts of Edinburgh

  • ISO Chemie
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    Sealing strips

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    ISO-Chemie, maker of foam sealants, has launched ISO-Connect HB-Band, a permanent horizontal seal to prevent moisture transfer and rising damp between wall sole plates and foundation walls or floor slabs in timber-framed buildings

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    Soffit insulation

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Promat has launched Promat TLFR Board to complement its existing range of soffit insulation solutions

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    Concrete panel construction

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    H+H’s full-storey height aircrete construction system with thin joint bonding has enabled Miller Homes to create a zero-carbon house as part of the Pinnacle development of 79 homes in Basingstoke

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    Mechanical ventilation

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Itho has launched a compact mechanical ventilation and heat recovery unit suitable for two to three bedroom apartments and houses

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    Concealed door closer

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    A new concealed door closer which assists with compliance for disabled access regulations and the use of doors by the very young and the very old is now available from Sapa Ðǿմ«Ã½ Systems