All Features articles – Page 205
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Projects 2014 review: part 3
ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV takes a look back at the completed projects that impressed in 2014
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Projects 2014 review: part 2
Two more completed projects that impressed in 2014 - the British Museum and Heathrow’s T2
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Projects 2014 review: part 1
ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV takes a look back at the completed projects that impressed in 2014
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Market review: A slight dip
The value of construction contracts awarded in the UK dropped to £5.8bn in November, with residential accounting for the highest proportion of contracts awarded by value. Here are highlights of Barbour ABI’s latest monthly Economic Construction Market Review
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Calling time on the coalition
From the Green Deal to Crossrail, the government made a number of pledges back in 2010 to keep the industry afloat during the grim five years ahead. But how well has it stuck to them?
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From the archives: 2010
ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV analyses what the new coalition government could mean for the sector
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Image of the week: Concrete Arteries
CIOB’s Art of ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV competition entry shows the construction of a new metro line in Amsterdam, Holland
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Interview: Paul King
Outgoing head of the UK Green ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Council Paul King sees an industry in large part willing to deliver the government’s green agenda. Unfortunately, the government itself has so badly undermined its own policies, the sector is no longer sure what that agenda is any more
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What to specify: Housing
The housing products in this issue’s Specifier include timber windows and doors, plant support systems for roofs, and external wall insulation. Plus there’s info on CPD, training viedeos and guides to Part L
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Infrastructure: The water industry
With a challenging regulatory settlement due out this month, water companies are in the final stages of preparing for big changes in their markets. Simon Bimpson and Simon Rawlinson of EC Harris examine how these changes will affect project investment and delivery
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Slackwood Farmhouse: Ahead of the curve
Adjoining a 17th-century Lancastrian farmhouse, Paul Archer Design’s curved-glass pavilion is both strikingly modern and a discreet addition to the landscape
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The rising: World Trade Center
The completion of the £2.4bn One World Trader Center is a milestone in the painstaking redevelopment of the former Ground Zero site in New York. But with two towers and Santiago Calatrava’s vast station still under construction, there’s plenty of work yet to be done.
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Image of the week: Here come the boys
George Osborne and Danny Alexander leave the Treasury on Wednesday
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Sketch of the week: Almaty, Kazakhstan
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Derek Draper, co-director at Atomik Architecture
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This week in 2004
Three years after the attacks on the Twin Towers, three construction experts tell of their involvement in the clean-up and rebuilding
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The Class of 2014: Three months on
Back in September we introduced you to our Class of 2014: 14 young recruits embarking on their careers in construction. Three months later, we ask them how they’re getting on - and if the industry is living up to their expectations