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FeaturesEconomics: Market forecast
Revised figures for Q1 2015 saw market pricing volatility increase, with a project鈥檚 attractiveness playing a crucial role in this current trend. Michael Hubbard of Aecom reports
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FeaturesWho鈥檚 running Balfour Beatty?
New Balfour Beatty chief executive Leo Quinn has wasted no time making his mark on the contracting giant. But so far his actions haven鈥檛 managed to stem the flow of senior figures departing the troubled firm
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FeaturesInfrastructure: Offshore wind
Reduced costs and the ability to attract finance are critical to the viability of the UK wind industry, and with the government recently withdrawing onshore subsidies, the focus on offshore has never been greater
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FeaturesDavies report: Will it fly?
Howard Davies鈥� Airports Commission has come down emphatically in favour of a third runway at Heathrow, but the politics are so fraught and planning issues so labyrinthine that a final decision still looks a long way off
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FeaturesCrossrail: Service update
As Crossrail celebrates a trio of significant milestones, Ike Ijeh takes a look at the current state of play
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FeaturesWhat to specify: Roofing
Green roofs, clay roofs and even BIM-ready roofs. Whatever you鈥檝e currently got in mind for roofing solutions, these manufacturers can top it
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FeaturesBAR yachting HQ: At the rate of knots
Ben Ainslie Racing鈥檚 Portsmouth HQ embodies the bold spirit of the yacht teams it will house
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FeaturesRetrofit: Low expectations
David Blackman looks at the vanishing chances of making green retrofit a national infrastructure priority
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FeaturesBudget preview: Ace up Osborne's sleeve?
Freed from the shackles of coalition government, chancellor George Osborne will be outlining some quite different policies and priorities when he presents his emergency Budget next week
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Features好色先生TV intelligence: Q1 2015
The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show that total construction output hit its highest year-on-year level since 2008. Experian Economics reports
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FeaturesTracker: May 2015
The construction activity index picked up again following a fallow April, while the number of respondents posting no construction activity constraints reached an all-time high
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FeaturesInterview: Steve Elliott
Steve Elliott took Morgan Sindall鈥檚 fit-out business to an industry-leading position. After taking a year out he鈥檚 鈥榞ot the band back together鈥� at BW Interiors and is thinking big again
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FeaturesWhole-life carbon: Retrofit vs EnerPHit
Assessments show retrofit to EnerPHit level, the Passivhaus retrofit standard, can reduce whole-life carbon emissions by 40% compared to typical Part L
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FeaturesAre QSs fit for purpose? Your views
Readers react to our recent feature on QSs failure to price projects accurately
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FeaturesGraveney School: Shining example
Tooting鈥檚 Graveney School teaches architecture to its schoolchildren, invites architects to lecture, and counts architects among its alumni
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FeaturesWomen in engineering: The only way is up
With women making up fewer than 10% of engineers in the UK, what can be done to encourage more to join the profession?
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FeaturesMarket review: Mixed signals
The construction sector is still thriving but according to economic indicators there was a fall in activity in services and manufacturing
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FeaturesWhat to specify: Commercial
This week鈥檚 commercial products include bespoke ceiling panels for the 47 floors of The Leadenhall 好色先生TV
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FeaturesFrom the archives in 1992
Back in 1992 好色先生TV paid a visit to site of Waterloo train station鈥檚 international terminal, which opened in 1994
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FeaturesAction station: Bond street tube station
A cramped site 20m underground, below a busy street is not an easy place to conduct the 拢320m upgrade of Bond Street tube station. Especially when the only access is via two 9m-wide shafts.