All Features articles – Page 215

  • Recovery position
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    How vital is government as a construction client?

    2014-07-04T00:00:00Z

    Public sector work has kept much of the construction industry off the critical list for the past six years but with the private sector now in increasingly robust health, how much is government really needed as a client?

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    Bricks and mortar boards

    2014-07-04T00:00:00Z

    With a constant need to attract the best students, the development of universities has remained a strong sector for the construction industry. But are universities making the most of the connections with the cities they are in? Our roundtable of industry experts gathered to discuss the issues faced by our ...

  • Visualistation of Wenlock Road, which will be the tallest CLT residential building in the UK
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    The rise of cross-laminated timber

    2014-07-03T06:00:00Z

    The first wall of Cambourne College, Cambridge is erected. Initial construction of Wenlock Road.

  • M2 Collapse
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    Time to act: Debating UK infrastructure policy

    2014-07-03T06:00:00Z

    As the Institution of Civil Engineers delivers a worrying State of the Nation report on UK infrastructure, ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV charts the changes that the sector believes should be prioritised by the next government

  • BI index pic q1 2014
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    ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV intelligence: Q1 2014

    2014-07-02T09:04:00Z

    Experian Economics shows that construction activity has seen its fourth consecutive quarter of growth, reaching an overall figure that is now at its highest point since the final quarter of 2011

  • Tracker 4 July 2014
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    Tracker: May 2014

    2014-07-01T09:06:00Z

    Despite dipping below its three-month average, construction activity numbers remained positive in May with strong output and orders figures for most sectors. Experian Economics reports

  • St Marks Sq index
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    Sketch of the week: Sansovino’s Library, Venice

    2014-06-27T06:00:00Z

    This week’s #buildingdoodle is by Francis Terry, partner in Quinlan Francis Terry Architects.

  • John Brash Shingle cladding
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    What to specify: Housing

    2014-06-27T06:00:00Z

    This week’s housing products include aircrete blocks used in five luxury apartments in Kent and the transformation of shipping containers into student accommodation in Norway

  • Archive Latham
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    From the archive in ... 1994

    2014-06-27T06:00:00Z

    This week we look back to the initial rumblings of the Construction Industry Board, later chaired by Sir Michael Latham, as this ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV news story reveals

  • Did it change us?
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    Latham's report: Did it change us?

    2014-06-27T00:00:00Z

    Twenty years after the publication of Sir Michael Latham’s Constructing the Team, Joey Gardiner looks back at the report’s impact, whether it changed construction for the better and if its grand ambitions survived the financial meltdown

  • Neptunus apartment block
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    The recyclable house

    2014-06-26T06:00:00Z

    Technology used to build the world’s largest McDonald’s is being adapted to build temporary, highly flexible, 100% recyclable housing in Holland. Could the model be brought here to solve the UK’s affordable housing crisis?

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    Sustainability: Minimum energy performance standards for commercial buildings

    2014-06-26T06:00:00Z

    From April 2018, all rented properties must meet a prescribed minimum energy performance standard. Adam Mactavish of Sweett Group, Charles Woollam of SIAM and Sarah Sayce, emeritus professor of Kingston University, discuss the implications

  • SG2
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    Review of 2014's Serpentine Pavilion

    2014-06-25T06:00:00Z

    Architect Smiljan Radić’s design is perhaps one of the most whimsical Serpentine Pavilion ever commissioned

  • ECMR June 2014 map
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    On the up

    2014-06-24T09:01:00Z

    The residential sector continued to drive construction’s growth in May. Here are highlights from Barbour ABI’s latest monthly Economic Construction Market Review, plus a focus on the commercial and retail sector

  • Jantar Mantar at Jaipur, India
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    Sketch of the week: Jantar Mantar

    2014-06-20T11:00:00Z

    This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by architect Owen O’Carroll at urbanX

  • Getting down to grassroots
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    This week in ... 1994

    2014-06-20T11:00:00Z

    This week we take a look back at a ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV feature investigating the science behind playing surfaces in the mid 90s, when grass specialists was a relatively new concept

  • Clients feature 20 June 2014
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    What clients want

    2014-06-20T06:00:00Z

    A resurgent commercial market means contractors now more able to pick and choose their projects. But this is making clients keener than ever to develop relationships, build a team and engage earlier with specialists

  • Green Construction Board
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    What's been the impact of the Green Construction Board?

    2014-06-20T06:00:00Z

    As the Green Construction Board marks its second birthday, not everyone has found reasons to celebrate. But the board’s defenders point to impressive delivery of a 162-point action plan. Now it needs to convince others it can make a difference

  • careers headshot crop
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    Why be a distance learner?

    2014-06-19T07:37:00Z

    More and more construction professionals who want to gain a competitive edge to progress their careers are turning to distance learning. Just don’t think of it as the easy option

  • Southmead Hospital
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    Southmead: The UK's greenest hospital

    2014-06-19T06:00:00Z

    Carillion’s new £430m super-hospital in Bristol can lay claim to being the greenest hospital in the UK - and it’s all thanks to some fresh thinking on ventilation.