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CommentMy working day: Claire Hunt, ADP
What does a typical day for a landscape architect involve? ADP鈥檚 Claire Hunt explains what keeps her busy in working hours
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CommentLatest new orders figures provide little to be cheery about
The disturbing fact is that the volume of orders being won has been the same for the past four years
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CommentWhy jobs in construction are increasingly valuable for the UK and should be nurtured
Construction can provide a vital opportunity to school leavers
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CommentWelcome to reality
More direction from government is needed in order for the Construction Strategy to have any impact
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CommentConstruction activity: Light and shade
On the one hand, construction activity is at its lowest level in 14 years. On the other, there are some signs of a slowly improving situation - that鈥檚 if you鈥檝e survived this long
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CommentWe'll need suitably skilled workers to maintain growth
The housing sector may be witnessing a recovery but with growth comes challenges
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CommentHansom: Name that tune
There鈥檚 a live performance from the Town and Country Planning Association, a former QS faculty chair at RICS makes a comeback (in Coventry), and is the government still on-song with its Part L plans?
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CommentCavity wall industry needs incentives
Having little work to win could jeapodise the future of a trained workforce
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CommentAct now to avoid energy crisis
We are losing time to put the necesary infrastructure in place to ensure stable energy provision for the UK
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CommentReader competition: Spot the building
Identify the six construction projects in this photo montage and you could win 拢25 of vouchers
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CommentWonders & blunders with Brian Johnson
Brian Johnson compares two UK schools - one that captures the worst of the brutalist movement in post-war Britain, the other, a blueprint for the future
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CommentSix of the best Serpentine Pavilions
Giant sphere or wafer thin canopy? Vote for your favourite past pavilion from our shortlist 鈥�
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CommentSerpentine Pavilion: Better from afar
Fujimoto鈥檚 Serpentine Pavilion is a dazzling vision from a distance but disappoints on closer inspection
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CommentWhy we need DECs
The current focus on Energy Performance Certificates is a distraction from the vital monitoring that鈥檚 needed to reveal how buildings perform when people are actually using them
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CommentLimitation of adjudication: Aspect Contracts (Asbestos) Ltd vs Higgins Construction Plc
Did the adjudication process give Aspect a new cause of action against Higgins to recover the money which it had paid out on the temporarily binding decision of the adjudicator?
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CommentMy working day: John Phillips, Kier Harlow
Kier Harlow鈥檚 operations director explains what made him want to work in social housing and why his working day can often be unpredictable
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CommentMy digital life 鈥� Tony Fretton
Architect Tony Fretton on wellington boots, the Royal Horticultural Society and listening to the jazz of the Vijay Iyer Trio
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CommentCarbon targets must be credible
The infamous 400 parts per million of CO2 has passed and concentration just keeps going up. So what should be done?
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CommentHansom: Location, location
Bristol dons red trousers, RTKL treasures its view of St Paul鈥檚 cathedral, Scotland flexes its economic muscles, and some surveyors find their way to the kitchen