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FeaturesOnline poll: Low-bidding
This week鈥檚 poll:聽Have you noticed an increase in聽low bidding for construction work?
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FeaturesAre stressed contractors returning to suicide bidding to procure work?
The Brexit deadline is just seven weeks away 鈥� and still, nothing is any clearer. As tension rises, schemes are frozen and insolvencies increase, stressed contractors may turn to the bad old practice of bidding low just to keep things moving.聽
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Forton Services, near Lancaster, 1964
This week鈥檚 #buildingdoodle is by Wesley Baker, architectural assistant at tp bennett
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FeaturesIs the future of HS2 at risk?
This is a crucial year for HS2. As it waits for the government to give the signal to proceed in earnest, there are fears that rising costs could derail the project
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FeaturesImage of the week: If pigs had wings
Sydney鈥檚 Chinese New Year festivities are the largest outside Asia; its Opera House glowed red on Monday to celebrate the start of the Year of the Pig
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FeaturesHow Liverpool One is bucking the trend in the retail sector
With the British high street in the doldrums,聽Ike Ijeh聽revisits Liverpool One which, 10 years after it first opened, is attracting 30聽million visitors each year
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 1999 - The beginning of Brexit?
What could the institutions of the European Union have done to so thoroughly distress and disgust the good folk of Britain that they called for the divorce lawyers?聽
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FeaturesThe Construction Industry Dragon Boat Challenge is back!
Entries are now open for the Construction Industry Dragon Boat Challenge, in aid of CRASH charity
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FeaturesLead times: October - December 2018
The past quarter has again shown little movement, however, growing uncertainty over Brexit means this steadiness could soon change
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FeaturesImage of the week: Kingmaker
Beasts are stalking Surrey this week as finishing touches are put to more than 40 life-size animals and plants at RHS Garden Wisley.
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Inn Bloom installation, Mexico City
This week鈥檚 #buildingdoodle sketch is by Graham Burn, co-founder of Studio MUTT
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FeaturesCosting steelwork January 2019: Market update
This quarter provides a market update and updates the five cost models previously featured in Costing Steelwork
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FeaturesTracker: December 2018
Total activity continued to strengthen, with R M showing a big recovery after last month鈥檚 fall. Orders rose in all sectors if more slowly in civils, while housing led the rise in tender enquiries
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FeaturesCLT: One minute briefing
What is CLT? Why use it? How is CLT different to standard timber frames?
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FeaturesHow is the CLT industry responding to the combustibles ban?
Proponents of cross-laminated timber were up in arms when聽the government announced its plans to ban combustible materials from the external walls of high-rise buildings
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2006 - A Vic-torious restaging
The Young Vic, known for its gritty, experimental approach, was built as a temporary space in 1970 and was never meant to last more than five years, so was beginning to fall apart by the 1990s
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FeaturesKier debt: how can a new boss restore its fortunes?
In six years, most of it under chief executive Haydn Mursell who found himself pushed out last week, Kier moved from a company with a 拢95m cash surplus, to one that owed 拢410m. So what went wrong? And who can haul it back up?
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FeaturesOnline poll: Would a no-deal Brexit be disastrous for construction?
This week鈥檚 poll: Do you think a no-deal Brexit be disastrous for construction?
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FeaturesProjects: Peter Hall Performing Arts Centre, Cambridge
Haworth Tompkins鈥� new project for the Perse School, Cambridge, is part of a trend towards increasingly professional theatre facilities in schools
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Features好色先生TV podcast: Brexit special
What would happen in a no-deal scenario? Listen to interviews with Mace鈥檚 Mark Reynolds, the CPA鈥檚 Noble Francis and Richard Steer of Gleeds