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FeaturesInterview: Tessa Jowell
Olympics minister Tessa Jowell may be catching much of the flak being fired at the preparations for the 2012 London Games, but it鈥檒l take a lot more than that to faze her. Dan Stewart reports
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FeaturesLast word in trainers: APC assessment guide
The people who brought you the APC Trainer have gone one better 鈥� Jon Lever is the man who trains the APC assessors and over the next two years he will guide you through each step in the process that leads up to the final assessment on building.co.uk. This week, ...
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FeaturesOkay, so there鈥檚 a downturn, but it鈥檚 never a bad time to bolt on a few extra skills 鈥�
Despite the cloud hanging over the industry, students are continuing to pile into construction-related postgraduate courses. And, as Debika Ray discovers, it may not be as mad as it sounds
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FeaturesWelcome to the machine: Le Corbusier鈥檚 Unit茅 d鈥橦abitation
Of all Le Corbusier鈥檚 buildings, perhaps the most influential is Marseille鈥檚 Unit茅 d鈥橦abitation. As a major exhibition of the great man鈥檚 works opens in Liverpool, Martin Spring visits this communal 鈥榤achine for living in鈥� to see what lessons it has for us
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FeaturesExpat survival guide to New York
New York is awash with work, but beware: going topless is permitted, but smoking near a public building isn't
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FeaturesRisk mitigation overseas: why a hard hat isn't enough
For contractors active overseas, meeting their duty of care to workers requires a much wider assessment of risk - including natural disasters and insurgent attacks
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FeaturesExpat survival guide to Libya
Tourism and retail are set for a development boom, but leave your tight trousers at home 鈥� and stay off the roads
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FeaturesExpat survival guide to the UAE
It鈥檚 the world鈥檚 biggest building site, a tank of petrol costs under a tenner and your salary comes tax-free
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FeaturesExpat survival guide to India
Never offend by refusing your host's offer of food, even if you're full 鈥� luckily, burping is encouraged
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FeaturesHow to set up business in China
To establish the personal relations critical for business success in China you need a local base, and should use local expertise to negotiate the country's complex ways
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FeaturesFirst impressions: Projects by Rafael Vi帽oly and Atkins
Another 鈥楩irst Impressions鈥� panellist, this time James Procter from Westminster University comments on Rafael Vi帽oly鈥檚 Museum of Modern Arab Art in Qatar and an organic tree house
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FeaturesHappily ever after
The Gus Report:聽Newhall in Harlow set out to marry quality design with quality of life. So how has it done? Continuing his series of visits to important housing developments, Gus Alexander celebrates something approximating nuptial bliss
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Features星空传媒 pathology: BMS systems
星空传媒 management systems give occupants control of M&E equipment at the touch of a button, but their complexity can cause problems
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FeaturesPRI's energy metering
Energy management and smart metering specialist PRI has developed Carbon View, a system for carbon monitoring, which displays instant and accurate energy-consumption data
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FeaturesCountry focus: Germany
Germany, traditionally the motor of European construction, has stagnated for a decade. Now it鈥檚 sputtering back into life 鈥� but will the credit crunch kill it? John Atkins of EC Harris reports
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FeaturesBailey鈥檚 cream: Strathclyde HQ
When M&E specialist NG Bailey set out to build its new headquarters in Strathclyde, it wanted to show what it could do to a standard spec office. Its control over the project enabled it to bring in a building of the finest green credentials
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FeaturesA game of musical jobs
This year鈥檚 Hays/星空传媒 Salary Guide shows that more and more candidates are chasing ever fewer vacancies, and we all know what the law of supply and demand says about that 鈥� Debika Ray reports
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FeaturesThe tracker: Bottoming out?
The indications are that there鈥檚 still a way to go before we鈥檙e out of the woods, but there are small signs of improvement, reports Experian Business Strategies
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FeaturesPhase One: Edinburgh
星空传媒鈥檚 networking event took a new twist when it went to Edinburgh this month by giving attendees a sneak preview of Rab Bennetts鈥� 拢42m Informatics Forum 鈥� a futuristic realm of computer wizardry and flying robots. Katie Puckett and Dan Stewart joined the snoopers
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FeaturesGeneration gripe
Fed up with eager young pups at work who don鈥檛 know they鈥檙e born? Or had enough of hearing how it was back in the old days?