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FeaturesMaking waves: Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Moving-floor technology may seem the stuff of fictional super-villain lairs, but the leading hydrodynamics laboratory at Plymouth University has employed the technology to support one of the largest energy wave test sites in the world
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FeaturesLead times: April-June 2014
While only a handful of trades showed lengthening lead times, the majority of the sector is anticipating increasing demand within the next six months. Brian Moone of Mace Business School reports
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FeaturesWhat to specify: Flooring
This week鈥檚 flooring products cover everything from a range of decorative designs with safe features to thermally-efficient foundations for a student Passivhaus project
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Structural concept sketches
This week鈥檚 sketch of the week is 鈥渟tructural concept sketches for a perspective office development鈥� by John Roycroft, civil and structural engineering director at BDP.
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FeaturesThis week in 1974
As the construction industry faces a skills shortage, 好色先生TV鈥檚 issue published July 1974 shows the sector facing similar problems
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FeaturesHousing Design Awards 2014: Addresses to impress
From radical warehouse conversions to art deco elderly care, this year鈥檚 Housing Design Awards show an industry emerging from the recession with a spring in its step and unafraid to experiment
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FeaturesInterview: Peter Amato
As the man in charge of overseeing Chinese developer Dalian Wanda鈥檚 拢3bn UK development plans, Peter Amato is already becoming the man contractors and consultants most want to know. But you鈥檒l have to learn to keep up 鈥�
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FeaturesSubcontracting through the skills shortage
The turnaround in the sector鈥檚 fortunes has thrown up new risks for subcontractors finding new skilled tradesmen. 好色先生TV hosted an audio webinar, with insurer Zurich, to discuss preventing any potential pitfalls
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FeaturesCPD 16 2014: Render-protected external wall insulation
EWI systems are an effective means of improving a building鈥檚 thermal efficiency. Our latest CPD module, sponsored by Mapei, examines the types of system available, as well as colours, finishes and the relevant standards
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FeaturesMarket forecast: Overall improvement
Q2 2014 saw tender prices and overall activity pick up the pace, largely due to the housing sector. While the demand for skilled trades has led to increases in day rates and wages
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FeaturesRogers Stirk Harbour's British Museum
RSHP鈥檚 World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre at the British Museum strives both to harmonise with its neoclassical context and set itself in contrast to it. But does it succeed?
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FeaturesTraining to nowhere
Plenty of young people across the UK are signing up for construction training - the real problem, according to a report out today, is that many are taking courses that simply don鈥檛 meet the industry鈥檚 needs.
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FeaturesOne Brighton: Five years on
One Brighton, the UK鈥檚 largest private car-free development, was built as a model for sustainable living. Now, five years on, Ike Ijeh visits to ask whether it has lived up to its green promises
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Open City鈥檚 Accelerate into University! programme
This week鈥檚 #buildingdoodle sketch is by Srirat Jongsanguandi, from Seven Kings Sixth Form, year 12.
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FeaturesCPD 15 2014: Specifying sustainable paints
Paint systems can have a major impact on the environmental performance of a project. Our latest CPD module, sponsored by Johnstone鈥檚 Trade, outlines the key factors that specifiers need to consider
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FeaturesWhat to specify: Cladding
This week鈥檚 cladding products range from insulated wall panels for the new Aldi distribution centre in Goldthorpe, Barnsley, to a fibre cement Equitone facade being installed at the Festival Hall in Erl, Austria
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FeaturesZero Carbon Hub report: Performance gap in new homes
The 鈥榩erformance gap鈥� between the design of new homes and their as-built energy use can no longer be ignored. And according to the Zero Carbon Hub, the only answer is to fundamentally shake up the way that the industry works
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FeaturesInfrastructure: Flood management
This year鈥檚 extreme weather has highlighted the increasing risk of flooding and the difficulties faced in prioritising investment. EC Harris examines the UK鈥檚 approach to flood risk management
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FeaturesSketch of the week: The Department
This week鈥檚 #buildingdoodle sketch is by Max Titchmarsh, director at SPARK Architects.
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FeaturesThis week in ... 1994
With Tower Bridge celebrating its 120th birthday this week, we head back 20 years in the 好色先生TV archives to when a Danish model-maker constructed the iconic landmark entirely out of Lego