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FeaturesGraham Shennan on Morgan Sindall's merger
It鈥檚 been a month since Morgan Sindall鈥檚 building and civils arms became one, and MD Graham Shennan is still explaining that it鈥檚 all part of a planned bid for market share. Is Joey Gardiner persuaded?
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FeaturesMarket forecast: On the level
The brief rise in tender prices is over but so, it seems, are the sharp falls that characterised last year.
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FeaturesChatham Dockyard's salvage operation
Returning a wrecked building to public use is tough enough at the best of times, but when your main contractor goes under, the pressure piles on. Stephen Kennett hears how Chatham Dockyard overcame adversity to open its new cultural hub for the summer tourist season
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FeaturesOn the horizon: Global careers
Instead of rushing to join a construction boom, the smart move is to spot one before it starts. With the Global Construction 2020 report in hand, Emily Wright checks out the next four big things. Illustration by Astrid Kogler
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The SAP affair: Part L compliance software
Forget house prices, where you鈥檙e going on holiday and the benefits of cosmetic surgery - SAP is what everyone鈥檚 talking about at parties right now. This crash course in sustainability software explains why
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FeaturesInternational salary survey 2010: Foreign office
As the UAE continues to struggle, other areas are emerging as career hotspots for workers who want to see the world
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FeaturesJunk Jellyfish theatre emerges on Bankside
Theatre designer Martin Kaltwasser struggles with buiding bureaucrats to deliver this pop-up recycled theatre in Southwark
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FeaturesBSF debate: experts predict future of school building
This morning readers put their questions to an expert panel, and this is what they said鈥�
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FeaturesFirst Impressions: Jean Nouvel's Serpentine summer pavilion
Our latest student is not too impressed with the 10th Serpentine pavilion in Hyde Park
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FeaturesKazakhstan: 好色先生TV the world's largest tent
In the capital of Kazakhstan, Buro Happold, Foster + Partners and developer Sembol have built the world鈥檚 largest tent. And their heroic attempts to heave that 90m mast upright are enough to make fair-weather campers weep
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The tracker: Back to reality
Hopes that increased activity at the start of the year would continue into the summer were dashed as the activity index fell to a six-month low
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FeaturesBAA client profile: Join the crew
In the first of a new series on key clients, Emily Wright meets the men to know at BAA to find out where the opportunities are and what the airport operator is like to work for in the post-framework era
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FeaturesBSF was not just about schools
The axing of 735 projects has wreaked havoc on 735 communities, 26 in one city alone. That city is Liverpool, which stands to be 拢410m poorer as a result of the cancellation. So where does that leave deprived areas such as Croxteth?
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FeaturesOn the menu
With the private sector still subsisting on scraps and the non-infrastructure public sector just grateful that its provisions weren鈥檛 cut any further in the emergency Budget, the infrastructure market represents a veritable feast at the moment. So welcome to the latest in our infrastructure market reports
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FeaturesInfrastructure markets: saving grace
If there was one sliver of comfort in the Budget, it was that there were no further cuts to infrastructure spending. Victoria Jackson of Davis Langdon surveys the work that will be on offer in the years ahead
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FeaturesEnergy from waste: 'A wonderful place to be'
There鈥檚 going to be a 拢2bn-a-year building boom in energy-from-waste plants, like this one, over the next 15 years. Kristina Smith finds out how to turn base matter into gold
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FeaturesIn at the sharp end
The 60,686 acrylic spikes on Heatherwick Studio鈥檚 British pavilion have been the talk of the Shanghai Expo, as Stephen Kennett found out when he paid a visit. But how on earth was it all put together?
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FeaturesSpotlight: Mass-produced components
We shouldn鈥檛 get too worked up about rising lead times in four contractor areas, says Brian Moone. It鈥檚 as much a reflection on raw materials in the supply chain as it is a sign of increasing work
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FeaturesHere be dragons: Construction Dragon Boat Challenge
Who says the age of heroes is over? At the construction industry鈥檚 annual charity boat race, Alex Smith watched wannabe dragonslayers vie to see who was the strongest, fastest (and silliest)