Debika Ray
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Rethinking Design: putting the fun back into the future
How will the hospitality and leisure sectors adapt to post-covid restrictions while satisfying our craving for excitement, wellbeing and social interaction? Debika Ray reports
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Rethinking Design: what’s the word on the street with retail?
With the impact of the pandemic expected to last for years, retailers and shoppers will be adjusting to changes long after covid has been contained. Sector experts talk about what we can expect
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Counting the human cost of late payment
Industry experts discuss the pain created by delayed payments, what causes the issue and how to eradicate the problem for good
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Using technology to fix construction's productivity crisis: 11 talking points
Industry experts met recently to debate the problems that technology can solve – and the headaches that will have to be cured first
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Higher salaries overseas set to tempt UK professionals, ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV survey finds
Shortages in Canada and New Zealand to test UK staff’s resolve
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International salary survey 2019
This year’s Hays International Salary Survey shows juicy opportunities in several regions – but UK professionals aren’t biting yet
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Digital transformation: What workers want
The industry may be showing faith in new technologies, but uptake isn’t automatically keeping up
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Digital: let’s do it better
Everyone says they’re going digital, but are construction firms and their clients really making the most of the opportunities the process offers to increase efficiency?
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Projects: Exploring ‘the third space’
Three new London commercial schemes explore the ‘in-between’ areas that are neither home nor workplace, neither public nor private
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BIM survey 2019: What's the problem?
As the government’s push for BIM eases and client expectations evolve, the latest NBS survey shows adoption is tailing off a little. So what is holding back those final few – and have the rest of us already moved on?
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Electric dreams: how construction is improving its use of clean technology
With the future of our planet at stake, construction urgently needs to prove its capacity for innovation through clean technology
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Outreach: what the industry should do to attract school leavers
The skills shortage continues to worsen, and while the government is taking action now with the apprenticeship levy, it’s not enough. Debika Ray reports on what the industry is doing to inspire young minds and win new recruits
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The face of diversity: construction’s hidden problem
Diversity and inclusion is the subject of our latest industry survey, conducted by Hays. Debika Ray looks at what the results say about the industry, and finds out what employers can do to improve the situation
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How India's construction sector is heating up
The Indian construction market is hot property right now, and foreign firms are keen to get a piece of it
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Plastic waste in construction - is the sector doing enough?
Oceans of plastic waste are created each year by the construction industry, and the public is calling for action. So what are construction firms doing to reduce their discarded plastic, and what more could be done?
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Break through: how AI and machine learning could transform construction
Advances in AI and machine learning could be about to transform the construction sector, using techniques such as image recognition and analysis to reduce risk, prevent schedule overruns, and improve cost-effectiveness.
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ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Good Employer Guide 2018: Taking the initiative
Our new Good Employer Guide Award is looking at five key areas in which companies are working to keep their staff happy and feeling valued, encouraging innovation, and finding new ways to attract fresh talent
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Roundtable: The way forward for fire safety
Industry professionals discuss their verdict on Hackitt’s fire safety recommendations, with tougher sanctions, responsibility and a potential Joint Combined Authority in the spotlight.
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Asian innovation
From on-site robots to bamboo construction, communal living and smart cities, here are some of the region’s most technologically impressive construction experiments
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Reinventing construction: how does the industry keep up?
At Ryder Architecture’s launch of the Reinvention for an Exceptional Construction Industry campaign, some of the industry’s key voices discussed the steps we need to take to transform the industry.