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FeaturesWorking life: Life after redundancy
Kristina Smith meets three people who reinvented themselves after being made redundant (and found it far less painful than Martin Haake鈥檚 illustration would suggest)
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FeaturesPlanning: what's happened to section 106?
Affordable housing, roads, health facilities, schools, even public art 鈥� all these were paid for out of developers鈥� section 106 contributions. But that was in the good times. Now the well鈥檚 run dry and the question everyone is asking is: where鈥檚 the money going to come from?
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FeaturesMeet Your New Neighbour: Leviton opens in Dubai
US electrical products supplier Leviton opened a new office in the UAE on Sunday. Ramzi Nassif is the branch managing director
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The tracker: A very slight improvement
The good news is that the industry鈥檚 activity index grew by two points in November. The bad news is that this only took it to 35. Experian Business Strategies reports on continued industrial decline
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FeaturesSmall town China - QSs wanted
Its growth may have slowed from breakneck to merely spectacular, and some projects in the big cities look wobbly, but there鈥檚 still plenty of work in the people鈥檚 republic (especially for QSs). It鈥檚 just that you have to go to one-horse towns to find it 鈥� like Wuhan here, which ...
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FeaturesMission: impermanent - Atkins' Olympics
Good afternoon Mr Atkins. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to design, procure and build 98 competition venues, operation centres, drug testing clinics, flag storage areas and training grounds complete with power, water and security 鈥� Airport and station extensions must be added as and when required. ...
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FeaturesPlane geometry: Sheppard Robson's aeronautical university design
If you take a pre-war aircraft hangar, insert a large ziggurat and extend it with a glass tetrahedron, what does that create? The answer is Sheppard Robson鈥檚 spectacular academic building for Cranfield university.
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好色先生TV intelligence Q3 2008: Orders down 18%
New orders for the third quarter of last year fell 18% 鈥� just a flavour of the gloom to come, you might think. But actually, it鈥檚 not all bad news. Experian鈥檚 Business Strategies division sees mixed prospects
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FeaturesEurope's top 100 contractors and materials firms
It may be a global downturn but some countries are doing better than others. Our annual table of Europe鈥檚 top 300 contractors and materials firms begins with a look at the winners and losers.
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FeaturesMargaret Beckett: is 240,000 homes a year possible?
Housing minister Margaret Beckett answers this and eight other questions about the state of the sector
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FeaturesObama's infrastructure pledge falls flat
The US construction industry is already disappointed by the new president after his promised $825bn infrastructure programme is watered down
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FeaturesExpat survival guide to Mexico
To gain a share in the mass of infrastructure work, perfect your business lunching 鈥� but remember to have a snack first
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FeaturesJust landed: Barry Lowe moves to Abu Dhabi
After nine years at HOK Sport, helping win the London Olympic and Wembley stadiums, Barry Lowe joined the Middle East branch of US developer John Buck International. He landed in Abu Dhabi in early November
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FeaturesProfiled sheeting
Profiled sheeting from Marley Eternit has been used on this self-build timber frame house in Scotland
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Roof modules
A Corus Hi-Point off-site modular roofing system has been used for the fast-track construction of the Eastfields Station in south London
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FeaturesGreenpeace's John Sauven: can we be friends?
John Sauven, Greenpeace鈥檚 executive director is a suave, pragmatic, political insider. Which means he鈥檒l be happy to work with the industry on plans for more runways and reactors, right? Er, not exactly鈥�
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Gutter and fascia systems
Alumasc has supplied a bespoke coping, fascia and gutter system for a housing development at Waterstone Park, Kent
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FeaturesEco-terraces: Urban jungle
Eco-terraces are the next big thing in rooftop developments 鈥� but, says Stephen Kennett, it pays to have green fingers. Where鈥檚 Alan Titchmarsh when you need him?