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FeaturesSpecialist cost update: Envelopes
Roofing:聽In our latest round-up of works packages, Paul Wootton of Gardiner & Theobald says 20% growth is still expected over the next five years
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FeaturesWelcome to the machine: Le Corbusier鈥檚 Unit茅 d鈥橦abitation
Of all Le Corbusier鈥檚 buildings, perhaps the most influential is Marseille鈥檚 Unit茅 d鈥橦abitation. As a major exhibition of the great man鈥檚 works opens in Liverpool, Martin Spring visits this communal 鈥榤achine for living in鈥� to see what lessons it has for us
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FeaturesOkay, so there鈥檚 a downturn, but it鈥檚 never a bad time to bolt on a few extra skills 鈥�
Despite the cloud hanging over the industry, students are continuing to pile into construction-related postgraduate courses. And, as Debika Ray discovers, it may not be as mad as it sounds
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FeaturesLast word in trainers: APC assessment guide
The people who brought you the APC Trainer have gone one better 鈥� Jon Lever is the man who trains the APC assessors and over the next two years he will guide you through each step in the process that leads up to the final assessment on building.co.uk. This week, ...
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FeaturesExpat survival guide to New York
New York is awash with work, but beware: going topless is permitted, but smoking near a public building isn't
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FeaturesRisk mitigation overseas: why a hard hat isn't enough
For contractors active overseas, meeting their duty of care to workers requires a much wider assessment of risk - including natural disasters and insurgent attacks
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FeaturesExpat survival guide to Libya
Tourism and retail are set for a development boom, but leave your tight trousers at home 鈥� and stay off the roads
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FeaturesExpat survival guide to the UAE
It鈥檚 the world鈥檚 biggest building site, a tank of petrol costs under a tenner and your salary comes tax-free
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FeaturesExpat survival guide to India
Never offend by refusing your host's offer of food, even if you're full 鈥� luckily, burping is encouraged
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FeaturesHow to set up business in China
To establish the personal relations critical for business success in China you need a local base, and should use local expertise to negotiate the country's complex ways
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FeaturesFirst impressions: Projects by Rafael Vi帽oly and Atkins
Another 鈥楩irst Impressions鈥� panellist, this time James Procter from Westminster University comments on Rafael Vi帽oly鈥檚 Museum of Modern Arab Art in Qatar and an organic tree house
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Remote pictures
Red Zebra Mobile is a new mobile phone image management system that allows site managers, workers and subcontractors to take pictures and send them in real-time to an online gallery for office-based colleagues to look at.
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FeaturesMake has triplets
Make Architects has just unveiled three pavilions for the University of Nottingham 鈥� two in terracotta allude to the city鈥檚 geology, the third is even more heavyweight 鈥�
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FeaturesRugged laptops 鈥�
Rugged laptop manufacturer Getac has launched the V100, which features a sunlight-readable LCD screen that uses an active anti-reflective process to block reflected light, increasing visibility, even under the brightest conditions.
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More rugged laptops
Dell has launched the Latitude E-Family range of rugged laptops which includes the Latitude E6400 ATG, a 14.1-inch semi-rugged laptop, built and tested to meet military 810F standards for dust, vibration and humidity resistance.
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FeaturesGet with IT
ICT is at the heart of all schools built under the BSF programme, but so far architects and designers have yet to switch on to the bigger picture. Stephen Kennett looks at what it takes
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FeaturesGeneration gripe
Fed up with eager young pups at work who don鈥檛 know they鈥檙e born? Or had enough of hearing how it was back in the old days?
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FeaturesA game of musical jobs
This year鈥檚 Hays/好色先生TV Salary Guide shows that more and more candidates are chasing ever fewer vacancies, and we all know what the law of supply and demand says about that 鈥� Debika Ray reports
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Smart floor tiles
Tau Cermamica has collaborated with Pep Torres to develop a smart floor tile, which is equipped with a weight sensor and a microchip which can record the length of time a person stands on the tile.
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FeaturesPRI's energy metering
Energy management and smart metering specialist PRI has developed Carbon View, a system for carbon monitoring, which displays instant and accurate energy-consumption data