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Projects: US Embassy - Safe house
Architect Kieran Timberlake’s new US Embassy is set to become the centrepiece of Battersea’s Nine Elms regeneration
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Barometer - November 2017 data now available
The latest Barometer statistics are now available to view. You’ll find interactive, sortable league tables of contract wins on our Barometer site:
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Review 2017: Sixpence in the pudding - mergers, takeovers and buyouts
The year saw a revival of the tradition of mergers and acquisitions in the construction sector, after the Brexit vote malaise marred 2016.
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Review 2017: Crackers to cheer the spirit - so, what’s the good news?
It hasn’t been all doom and gloom
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Review 2017: Speech! - the year’s aptest quotes
From George Osborne to Lord Stunell, some of the quotes from 2017 in construction
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Review 2017: Family rows - legal spats
It’s the season of goodwill, but that’s unlikely to bring an end to the rows that have blighted the construction industry family this year
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Review 2017: A toast to absent friends - in memorium
From Anna Stewart to Sir Michael Latham, the industry has lost some of its greats this year
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Review 2017: The overcooked sprouts - those who felt the economic heat
If there’s a list of big losers from 2017, then there’s not much doubt that £5.2bn-turnover contractor Carillion is at the top of it
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Review 2017: Did you forget the bread sauce again? - unfulfilled expectations
As well as outright failures there were a number of less dramatic setbacks, delays and disappointments on key projects in 2017
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Fire risk: are we asking the right questions?
Fire prevention in commercial buildings is crucial, but what is the most effective way to ensure risks are minimised? Experts at a round table discussion debated the question
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ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV's review of the year 2017
It wasn’t exactly the year that knocked the stuffing out of construction, but nor was it the grand feast many had hoped for. The ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV news desk reviews the year in construction
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Review 2017: Dry turkey - a year of disappointments
The big disappointment of the year was, without doubt, the story on the two big-picture issues that define the environment in which our industry works
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Review 2017: A painful topic nobody can avoid
Whatever else might have happened in 2017, the construction industry was never going to be able to look back with pleasure
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Sketch of the week: Outer London town centres
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Adriette Myburgh for New London Architecture.
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This week in 2007
The year everything changed Although our review of the year summarises that this has been a slightly disappointing time for construction, at least we haven’t taken to our beds like Ebenezer Scrooge of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, who was pictured in our review of the year ...
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Online poll: 2017 in construction
This week’s poll: How was construction for the construction industry: good, bad or indifferent?
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CPD 29 2017: BIM workflow for refurbishment projects
This CPD, sponsored by Vectorworks, explains how the organisational structure works for using BIM on existing architecture
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Projects of the year: 2017 in review
Source: Riverfilm / Martin Richardson PLP Architecture’s 22 Bishopsgate This year’s striking schemes include AL_A at the V A museum, Foster + Partners’ Bloomberg HQ, and Herzog de Meuron’s triumph over chaos in Hamburg