Digging into the archives – Page 16
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Image of the week: The heat is on
The European Championships sprang into life this week, with Germany and Scotland co-hosting the inaugural multi-sport event.
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Sketch of the week: Sixth form centre, St Teresa’s school, Surrey
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Thomas Bryans, director at IF_DO
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From the archive: 2001
When Manchester began to prepare for 2002’s Commonwealth Games, it had to start from scratch
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Online poll: Brexit risk assessment
This week’s poll: Has your business done a risk assessment on the impact of Brexit?
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Image of the week: Wall eyed
In central St Petersburg, artist Ulyana Poloz has been reproducing sections of famous masterpieces on the broken walls of old buildings
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Sketch of the week: High View in Hatfield, Hertfordshire
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Martin Williams, managing director at Saunders.
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From the archive: 2008
Been moaning about the heat? We may have found the job for you. Back in 2008, an intrepid team of contractors experienced summer in the snow.
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Online poll: Can the sector deal deliver?
This week’s poll: Will the new sector deal deliver what the industry needs?
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Image of the week: Too darn hot
Parched yellow grass covers Greenwich Park in south-east London as the heatwave continues
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Sketch of the week: adapted Victorian post office, Bury St Edmunds
This #buildingdoodle sketch is by Tanvir Hasan, deputy chair of Donald Insall Associates.
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From the archive: 2005
Low margins, as highlighted in our Top 150 Contractors table this week, are nothing new. Back in 2005 we reported on how difficult things were in the sector.
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Online poll: Net migration
This week’s poll: Should net migration, which is at its highest rate since 2011, be cut to the government’s target of tens of thousands?
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Image of the week: On top of the world
The World Cup winning team parades down the Champs-Élysées in Paris in front of hundreds of thousands of adoring fans
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Sketch of the week: Residential care community, Oxfordshire
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by illustrator Tony Simmonds for Colwyn Foulkes Partners
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From the archive: 2012
We look back at how Singapore does gardening. As you would expect from the city-state, it’s not on a small scale
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From the archive: 2005
This week, we interviewed James Lidgate, chief executive of Legal & General Homes, who is on a mission to produce 15,000 homes a year with the help of modular design. However, long before the 2017 government white paper called for offsite strategies, and the current rallying cry for modular, there ...
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Sketch of the week: Affordable housing project, Ladywell, south-east London
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by project architect Sarah Ernst at Architype
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Image of the week: A flying visit
Thousands of onlookers lined the Mall and the royals watched from a Buckingham Palace balcony as “up to 100” aircraft took part in the centenary celebrations of the Royal Air Force
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Online poll: Modular housing take-off
This week’s poll: Are we finally about to see modular techniques take off and solve the UK’s much-publicised housing crisis?