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FeaturesSpecialist costs: Concrete frames
Ian Purton reports on the impact of the new Eurocodes, the increase in post-tensioned flooring and recent cost changes in the sector
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FeaturesSpecialist costs: Structural steelwork
The Chinese construction market and the Eurocrats in Brussels are having an effect on the steelwork sector, reports David Cane
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FeaturesBalance of power
星空传媒’s annual rundown of Europe’s top 300 contractors confirms the continued dominance of the French - Vinci and Bouygues remain in the top two positions. Mark Leftly and Emily Wright reveal the secrets of the superpowers’ success and split the continent into six regions to analyse how fast the PPP ...
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FeaturesClass struggle
The government has 拢5bn to spend on its city academies programme over the next four years, but it鈥檚 finding it strangely difficult to get the construction industry to take its money 鈥� Eleanor Cochrane looks at what鈥檚 going wrong while Martin Spring considers the architecture
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FeaturesSustainability: On-site renewables
In the first of our spotlights on sustainability, Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon examines the increasingly prevalent issue of on-site renewable energy, including the options available and costs
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Just the job: Hayley Bufton at Willmott Dixon
Hayley Bufton has had quite a busy year, bagging Willmott Dixon's trainee of the year award and finding time to front a national advertising campaign 鈥�
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FeaturesSir Steve Redgrave
Britain鈥檚 leading Olympian has retired from the soul-bending agony of international athletics and has begun a number of jobs in construction, the industry he left 20-odd years ago. Tom Broughton found out what they are, and why he鈥檚 returned.
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FeaturesExtra time and penalties
Football fans, government officials and construction experts alike are obsessed with the struggle to get Wembley finished in time for the FA Cup Final in May.
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FeaturesUp, up but not away
The world鈥檚 first permanent inflatable roof has just landed at Heathrow airport. Before it got there, a project team including a hot-air balloon specialist had to design it, build it and get it past the regulators. Thomas Lane finds out how they made sure it didn鈥檛 fly away
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FeaturesYour passage to India
One of the fastest-growing economies on the planet, India will be the second biggest economy in the world by the middle of this century.
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FeaturesMusic, maestro
Santiago Calatrava鈥檚 拢82m opera house in Valencia is a symphony in concrete and glass: the largest auditorium in Europe and the centrepiece of an arts and sciences complex designed by the local virtuoso
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FeaturesYou know what your trouble is?
Now that we鈥檙e in the penitential month of January, it鈥檚 time to take a long, cold, sober look at what鈥檚 wrong with everybody else. So here鈥檚 how the professions think their industry colleagues could improve 鈥�
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FeaturesWorld service
The attractions of foreign labour extend beyond the waking giant of India. More and more UK companies are finding more and more ways of using the global labour force to boost performance. Thomas Lane reports on who鈥檚 doing what, and how much money they鈥檙e saving
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Projects update: Regulations
Not only is the controversial Code for Sustainable Homes a watered-down version of BRE鈥檚 EcoHomes scheme, but it will have to be revised in about three years 鈥�
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