All Features articles – Page 89
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UK Construction Week: Modular solution to UK housing crisis
MMC is a very strong theme at UKCW this year, with the largest representation of MMC products of any event in the UK
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Sketch of the week: Private house proposal, north Kent
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Pasqualina Piccirillo at Calford Seaden
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‘Different doesn’t scare me’: Mary Pierre-Harvey has big plans for Oxford Brookes
The UK’s first black female director of estates at a large UK university talks to ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV
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From the archive: 1999 — The right education
Young quantity surveyors faced opportunities two decades ago that would make many graduates today jealous.
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This CPD, sponsored by dormakaba, looks at the requirements of hardware for fire doors alongside CE markings and regulations
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Roundtable: Sell the benefits
Convincing clients to use digital technology and implementing new ways of working can be complex — so how should we digitalise?
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Image of the week: Oodi-shaped building
Oodi, the new central library in Helsinki, Finland, is a striking glass and steel structure with a wooden facade
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Smart building: What makes UCL's Student Centre so special?
University College London’s new Student Centre is innovative, diverse, digitally enabled and focused on sustainability – just like its users.
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Tracker: July 2019
Among dramatic ups and downs in activity and orders, tender growth slowed across the board, with non-residential flatlining at 50
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From the archive: 2011 — Hell to pay
In 2011, ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV reported on SMEs’ battles to gain credit – it might strike a chord with businesses facing slowing investment in this week’s piece on financing
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Sketch of the week: Family home, Bahrain
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Félicie Krikler, director at Assael Architecture
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Image of the week: Awaiting departure
An information board for the new Crossrail station at Bond Street station in London, where 500 people are reported to be working 24 hours a day
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UK Construction Week flies the flag for careers in construction
UK Construction Week (UKCW) is pushing the boundaries once again to promoting construction as a career and helping established professionals to learn too
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Singapore Changi airport: The shape of water
Ike Ijeh looks at the challenges of constructing the world’s tallest indoor waterfall
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International cost comparison 2019
A slowdown in the growth of the global economy brings both challenges and opportunities for the construction sector around the world, alongside some cause for cautious optimism, says Agnieszka Krzyzaniak of Arcadis
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This CPD, sponsored by Siderise, outlines developments in cladding used in high-rise residential tower blocks and examines the testing involved prior to installation
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Access to finance: The banks that like to say ‘no’
Investors are running scared of construction – put off by the collapse of Carillion, historically low returns and the feeling a problem job is just around the corner. So, is there anything the industry can do to improve its access to finance?
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Raising the Bar competence report: explained
Raising the Bar could be one of the biggest shake-ups the industry has seen in decades. But has it been set up to fail?