All Features articles – Page 248

  • Review
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    Review of the year: Acquisitions, restructures and collapses

    2012-12-14T00:00:00Z

    A look back at the reshuffles of Balfour Beatty, Davis Langdon and in government; plus the major collapses and acquisitions of the year

  • Review of the year
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    Triumph and disaster: The 2012 review

    2012-12-14T00:00:00Z

    In 2012, the UK construction industry faced up to an onslaught of cuts, U-turns, stalled projects and financial collapses, while also demonstrating how to put on the greatest show on Earth. ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV looks back on an extraordinary year

  • QuotesIndex
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    Quotes of the year 2012

    2012-12-14T00:00:00Z

    The year’s best quotes from ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV, including Berkeley MD Rob Perrins on working with Tony Pidgley, Mott MacDonald’s Keith Howells on Star Wars, and Ray O’Rourke on UK work culture

  • bim
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    BIM special report: The clouds roll in

    2012-12-13T00:00:00Z

    Autodesk reckons that cloud-based products are ‘the biggest thing to happen in computing since the PC’ and could transform the use of BIM. Ike Ijeh went to the software company’s recent conference in Las Vegas to find out more

  • Zaha Hadid's Pierresvives council building, Montpellier
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    Joie de vives

    2012-12-07T00:01:00Z

    Zaha Hadid’s Pierresvives council building in the French city of Montpellier relies on concrete to solve a range of structural and environmental challenges, as well as providing a spectacular geometric facade

  • India
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    Sustainability in India: Growing pains

    2012-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Construction is booming in India, but what chance is there the country can build sustainably?

  • Tracker
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    The tracker: Delicate recovery

    2012-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Activity is increasing at its highest rate since May 2010, but bad weather and labour shortages are taking their toll, according to the latest figures from Experian Economics

  • housebuilders
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    Housebuilders' pay: Quite a bonus

    2012-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Housebuilders are bucking the trend and doing rather well - in fact, they’re even getting bonuses

  • Ramboll
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    Ramboll interview: Back to black

    2012-12-07T00:00:00Z

    For a man who has a one million pound hole to fill, Steve Canadine, boss of Ramboll’s UK arm, doesn’t seem particularly worried

  • housebuilders tables
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    Housebuilders Salary Survey 2012: The results

    2012-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Check your salary against the national average, compare bonuses with previous years and discover the market sentiment

  • GCG
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    Global Clients Group: Now we're 10

    2012-12-07T00:00:00Z

    The Global Clients Group now has four prestigious new members. So who are they, and how are they addressing sustainability?

  • Construction site
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    Desperately seeking funding

    2012-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Will the promising romance between pension funds and infrastructure projects work out?

  • Cost model London prime residential graph
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    Cost model: London prime residential

    2012-11-30T00:00:00Z

    The top end of the capital’s residential market is booming. Joseph Blythe of Davis Langdon, an Aecom company, with contributions from CBRE and Darling Associates, looks at the factors that are driving the market and the key financial considerations for future developments

  • Battersea Power Station
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    Interview: Rob Tincknell, Battersea Power Station

    2012-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Rob Tincknell is the man tasked with bringing an end to decades of disappointment at Battersea Power Station

  • specialists
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    Top Specialists 2012

    2012-11-29T18:00:00Z

    Are things getting better for specialists or are there just fewer firms around to compete? Our tables reveal who’s won what this year

  • Stanton Williams
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    Stanton Williams: There’s nothing wrong with buildings that just do their jobs

    2012-11-29T00:00:00Z

    Fresh from their victory, the Stirling prize winners talk us through 27 years of non-shouty architecture

  • Careers
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    Is learning getting harder?

    2012-11-23T00:00:00Z

    Are employers still willing to support staff who want to gain more qualifications? James Clegg looks at the impact of the recession on opportunities for part-time study

  • Philip Youell
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    Interview: Philip Youell, EC Harris

    2012-11-23T00:00:00Z

    EC Harris tied the knot with Arcadis a year ago and since then its chief executive has used their combined strength to win work worth £40m. Philip Youell tells Iain Withers the secrets to a successful takeover and where he intends to pitch for work in the future

  • Specifier
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    Milan's canal network: Hidden depths

    2012-11-23T00:00:00Z

    Milan has ambitious plans to deliver a zero carbon mixed-use scheme in which no home will need a domestic boiler - all by harnessing the geothermal potential of its underground network of canals

  • Co-op Manchester
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    The Co-op's HQ: Have you heard the buzz?

    2012-11-23T00:00:00Z

    3D Reid’s beehive-inspired HQ for the Co-op in Manchester is not simply another new office block with a slightly unusual form. It is the top BREEAM-rated office in the UK and might just have redefined the corporate atrium