All Features articles – Page 97
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Image of the week: Heaven on earth
For Nuremberg’s annual Blue night celebration of culture, the artwork Heavenly Journey by Korean artist couple Eun Hui and Chang Min Lee, who live in the city, was projected onto its imperial castle
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Lead times: January - March 2019
Lead times have remained static, but widespread reports of labour shortages mean firms are starting to predict increases soon
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Remaking London’s Skyline: Ballymore uses digital building solutions on Wardian London
Irish developer Ballymore Group is building two towers near London’s Canary Wharf featuring wraparound balconies that create a vertical sky garden
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ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV podcast: Kier loses another director, Royal Papworth hospital, and the House of Commons moves
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Are permitted development rights a stroke of genius, or have they created a new generation of slums?
The government’s scheme to allow developers to bypass the planning system has been a roaring success, but why do so many want to ditch it?
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Projects: How the Royal Papworth Hospital has health at heart
The Royal Papworth hospital has moved into a brand-new building that places health outcomes at its centre
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Not a good look: assessing construction's image problem
A recent brace of surveys show that while construction is few youngsters’ first choice of career, once working inside the sector most find it fulfilling
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Tracker: March 2019
Overall activity slipped to its lowest point in almost three years, with contraction in every sector, while tenders continued to fall
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ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV podcast: Crossrail latest, construction's climate change action, and solving the competency problem
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Projects: Guédelon Castle, France
It may resemble a restoration project, but this 13th-century castle in France is being built from scratch entirely by hand
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From the archive: 2005 - And you think YOU’VE got project delays…
It’s not easy to build a castle, but some seem to have even more than the usual trouble…
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Sketch of the week: 1930s factory in Greenwich, London
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Tom Lea, project architect at Coffey Architects
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Interview: Charles O'Neil - solving construction's competency problem
Construction expert Charles O’Neil reckons the industry’s core problem is competency. So he’s doing something about it
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Online poll: How well is construction doing at going green?
This week’s poll: Is construction taking things seriously to mitigate the impact climate change has on construction?
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Image of the week: Don't paint it black
A supposed Banksy mural near the former location of the Extinction Rebellion climate change activist camp in Marble Arch, London
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Electric dreams: how construction is improving its use of clean technology
With the future of our planet at stake, construction urgently needs to prove its capacity for innovation through clean technology
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Inspirations: architecture admired by the next generation
Architecture that delights the upcoming generation of construction professionals: four of our guest editors pick buildings that either inspired them to waork in construction or have impressed on them the importance of design quality early in their careers
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Build-to-rent: a sleepover at a Wembley scheme
Quintain’s 5,000-home build-to-rent development in Wembley seeks to create a sense of community living through wine tastings, tutored events and supper clubs – a place where residents can return from work to a concierge-serviced, hassle-free oasis. How does it score? Hamish Champ slept the night there to find out
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ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV podcast special: Next Generation Takeover
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