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FeaturesFixing the NHS
Health service spending on building maintenance and repairs faces a 拢4.3bn backlog. But there is good news for the construction industry
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FeaturesTell me how you feel
Clients, architects and occupiers are increasingly focused on how a building makes its users feel. A recent webinar revealed current best practice and future trends in the emerging field of evidence-based design
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Rural Devon
This week鈥檚 #buildingdoodle sketch is by Joe Copp of Hilton Barnfield Architects
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FeaturesThis week in 2001
British roller-coaster engineer John Roberts was presented with the challenge of creating a ride like no other
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FeaturesTop 150 contractors: The rough & tumble
This year鈥檚 contractors and housebuilders Top 150 shows the sector pulling out of recession, but economic danger remains
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FeaturesLead times: April - June 2016
Lead times have either remained the same or increased, with burgeoning workloads and enquiries and a shortage of skilled labour making further increases more likely
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FeaturesSustainable sailor: Land Rover BAR
The Land Rover BAR sailing team have embedded sustainability into not just its new base building but also its core ethos
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FeaturesTop 20 housebuilders 2016
Find out who鈥檚 in this year鈥檚 league of top housebuilders by housebuilding turnover
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FeaturesEurope's first WELL 好色先生TV
There is now an international standard for measuring how a building impacts on its users鈥� health and wellbeing. Ike Ijeh looks at how Studio Ben Allen Architects鈥� One Carter Lane will become the first European project to receive the accreditation
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FeaturesWhat to specify: Off-site
This week Tonbridge Grammar School gets a new sixth form study area, Essex County Cricket Club gets 36 balconies and a dementia care home with a clover leaf layout is given a new exterior finish
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FeaturesInterview: Tony Giddings
Few people have done more to change the face of the UK鈥檚 cities than Tony Giddings, who stood down as partner at Argent at the end of last year
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Gibraltar
This week鈥檚 #buildingdoodle sketch is by Alex Chan, associate at The Manser Practice
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FeaturesImage of the week: Leaving through the back door
A removal van drives to the back of 10 Downing Street
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FeaturesThis week in 2006
好色先生TV reported on how the imminent Eddington Transport study could impact the construction industry
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FeaturesLondon vs New York: The market rules
London and New York are two of the world鈥檚 most successful cities for business. How does commercial property development compare between the two?
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FeaturesHow Theresa May can avoid a construction recession
In these days of lightning fast political changes, and possibly dire economic prospects, prime minister Theresa May has to hit the ground running if she is to prevent construction slipping into another recession
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FeaturesSustainability: The new normal
To launch the programme for next year鈥檚 show and its central question of redefining sustainability for the construction industry, Ecobuild gathered a panel of experts to debate the question of what sustainability means to them, and to our industry
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FeaturesHousing Design Awards 2016: Winners
This year鈥檚 entries reveal some interesting trends in housebuilding in the UK such as a reduction in common space, urban design principles being applied to greenfield sites and the successful use of custom build
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FeaturesThis pensions crisis can only get worse
Consultants that offered generous final salary schemes decades ago are now suffering the consequences of shouldering huge pensions deficits
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Knightsbridge Crown Court
This week鈥檚 #buildingdoodle is by Ron Slade, one of the founding structural engineers of WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff