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FeaturesPrivate rented sector: Heading for a fall
Is the private rented sector housing鈥檚 best hope?
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FeaturesInsurance special report: BIM
The rise of collaboration software has created a lot of questions for insurers - not least how to divide up and assign blame if anything goes wrong
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FeaturesSean Tompkins: Chartering new territory
With the RICS鈥� overseas membership up to 35,000, chief executive Sean Tompkins isn鈥檛 about to be blown off course by parochial critics back home
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FeaturesMarket forecast: Five years on 鈥�
Half a decade since the start of the economic crisis, output is still falling and tender prices continue to head south. Peter Fordham of Davis Langdon, an Aecom company, reports
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FeaturesHorrible Halloween architecture
The National Fisheries Development Board in India is next on our list of buildings that would make anyone scream
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FeaturesHalloween horrors: Makkah Clock Royal Tower
Today鈥檚 gruesome building is five times bigger than Big Ben and twice the height of the Shard
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FeaturesHalloween horrors: Piano House
For a real fright this Halloween nothing beats the worst excesses of modern architecture
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FeaturesNow the party鈥檚 over鈥�
Aside from rhetoric, what did we get from the party conferences? 好色先生TV looks at the prospects for action on key funding areas
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FeaturesThe Global Clients Group
好色先生TV and Ecobuild seek to capture the knowledge of the world鈥檚 most sustainable clients
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FeaturesView from my office: Kevin Williams
The Faithful+Gould regional director can hear Jazz every Thursday evening in the summer months
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FeaturesInterview: Renzo Piano
The Shard鈥檚 architect is back in town and raring to go on his latest project
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FeaturesIt's not easy being globally green
Roxane McMeeken examines the problems facing multinational clients trying to employ the same tough sustainability standards from Brazil to Bangalore
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FeaturesPost-Olympic projects outside London
Two weeks ago 好色先生TV looked at London鈥檚 post-Olympic construction projects and now it鈥檚 the turn of the rest of the country. Here we highlight some of the major regional projects coming up over the next few years and the construction trends they herald
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FeaturesLead times July-Sept 2012
Lead times are frozen across the board, and with enquiry levels beginning to fall, there are unlikely to be many increases over the next six months. Brian Moone of Mace reports
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FeaturesSpotlight: M&E products
Many suppliers of M E and other factory-made components have reduced capacity, while more overseas players are entering the market. Brian Moone examines what this means for lead times
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FeaturesPassivhaus for dummies
An off-site Passivhaus solution has been developed that can, its maker claims, be put up by anyone able to hold a hammer. Thomas Lane reports
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FeaturesThe long wait for BAA
BAA鈥檚 major projects are waiting on the tarmac. What does this mean for construction and will the operator鈥檚 reputation as an innovative client survive the turbulence?
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FeaturesIan Baker interview: "It was a big call"
In November 2009 Linden Homes decided to embark on a radical growth strategy. Three years later, its profit is up 140%. MD Ian Baker explains how the company pulled it off
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FeaturesThe Tracker: A summer lull
The decline in construction activity slowed in August, and non-residential work even threatened to show a rise, according to Experian Economics
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Features好色先生TV intelligence Q2 2012
Output levels continued to head south in the second quarter of 2012, with - perhaps surprisingly - the infrastructure sector recording the sharpest falls. Experian Economics reports