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CommentPicking teams
The Brexit referendum could transform the UK from a cultural and economic global focal point to a recession-wracked pariah
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CommentLondon beckons
Three weeks from now, Londoners will head to the polls to decide who will fill the sizeable Boris-shaped void in the capital鈥檚 City Hall
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CommentZaha the great
Zaha Hadid broke boundaries and will inspire a new generation of young architects with her inventiveness and experimentation
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CommentZero Carbon RIP
Improving quality of life and tackling climate change must go hand in hand in delivering the new homes that the UK needs
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CommentUnstoppable BIM
After half a decade of pressure, persuasion and investment, how successful has the initiative been?
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CommentBIM: The new way of doing business
A 50% adoption rate is an astonishingly high level of engagement
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CommentPayment niggles
We鈥檝e made great strides against payment abuse over the years but further changes to the Construction Act are needed
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CommentA Budget and its blunders
The government鈥檚 plans to cut disability benefits has meant that last week鈥檚 Budget has come in for intense public and political scrutiny and now the government needs to find 拢4.4bn to balance its books
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CommentProductivity: Upping our game
There has always been a gap between productivity levels in UK construction and those in most other sectors. Unless we focus on the reasons for this, we鈥檒l always be underperforming
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CommentSo what do you think of it so far?
Six months in and Build UK is already making a difference on illegal working, pre-qualification, payment issues, the skills shortage and apprenticeships. It鈥檚 also got different parts of the industry talking to each other
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CommentAu revoir, Mipim?
Will the UK property sector鈥檚 relationship to the annual event change if Britain leaves the EU?
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CommentBudget 2016: Cold comfort
Confirmation that the government is backing the NIC is welcome but their approach to infrastructure is still falling short of the mark
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CommentOlympic effort
With the Rio Olympics almost upon us, it鈥檚 worth remembering that the London Games were a shining example of British planning and development teams pulling together on a huge scale. It鈥檚 a spirit that needs to be rekindled on future projects
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好色先生TVCommercial shows strongest growth in four months
London and rest of the UK experience strongest commercial activity reports Savills commercial index
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CommentWhat makes good housing?
When creating homes you have to put people first, then work on the buildings and spaces. Placemaking simply doesn鈥檛 work unless you start with a vision for the community
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CommentMoney where the mouth is
The picture painted by the government of a fresh regeneration push as a fix to poverty ignores the complexity of the communities it is designed to help
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CommentWe hold the key
Michael Gove鈥檚 recent rhetoric about rehabilitation may open the door to designing the UK鈥檚 new generation of super-prisons as institutions of redemption, a million miles away from the high-tension, low-hope jails across the Atlantic
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CommentEU referendum: The great unknown
The noise from Westminster on the decision dubbed 鈥渙ne of the biggest in our lifetimes鈥� by Cameron has only built as the week has gone on
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CommentA client for London
TfL鈥檚 launch of a 300-acre development programme will promote a significant amount of investment in the built environment at a time when it is desperately needed
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CommentHinkley on hold
Will next Tuesday be the day EDF finally gives the go-ahead to a new nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point C?