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ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Awards 2012 Chief Executive of the year: Pete Redern
Taylor Wimpey’s Peter Redfern has navigated his firm through lean times, succeeding in his drive to return the housebuilder to a robust state of health
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ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Awards 2012 ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Magazine Project of the year: AirW1, London
It was Crown Estate’s renewal of Regent Street that turned the judges’ heads this year, with its contemporary neo-baroque design of AirW1
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ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Awards 2012 Architectural Practice of the Year: Astudio
Practice expands fivefold in as many years, making it one to watch
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Helping the Bamboo Village grow
Visitors to this year’s Ecobuild team up with Ken Shuttleworth
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GCS conference programme
Find out the highlights at the Government Construction Summit organised by ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV
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Whitehall on building and construction
The government talks about building and its renewed commitment to infrastructure and investment
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Paul Morrell: ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV bridges
The government construction advisor outlines the major aims of his communications strategy
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Insights from the top
Policy makers and industry leaders on the key issues facing construction this year
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Ken Shuttleworth on the Bamboo Village
Architect tells how ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV writer inspired Lego project
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Feature: Colombia is open for business
Poor, dangerous and corrupt is the image many of us have of Colombia, so why would anyone want to go and work there? Because the country is changing fast and needs UK firms as badly as UK firms need the work it can offer.
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ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV intelligence Q4 2011
The private sector is showing tentative improvements and infrastructure is going strong, but with little public money available the outlook for the sector still looks downbeat. Experian Economics reports
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Bob Pell: Aecom's interrogator faces the questions
In his first interview since taking charge of Davis Langdon, Bob Pell explains why it pays to be direct
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The Titanic Belfast: The ship comes home
The Titanic museum in Belfast is a striking and poignant memorial to a vessel whose history is intrisically intertwined with that of the city. Ike Ijeh reports
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First Impressions: BTA's Vancouver library
Student panel on the pioneering Surrey City Centre Library that takes directly from social media
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The 2012 consultants' salary survey: The measure of things
The ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV/Hays Construction salary survey shows that infrastructure work has provided one of the few escapes in another sobering year for consultants, but the adoption of BIM technology is hitting technical experts hard. ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV reports
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The modern reader: Worcester's library of the future
Feilden Clegg Bradley’s Hive library in Worcester is a bold reinterpretation of the area’s pottery heritage while leaving no one in any doubt that it’s ready for the age of the Kindle
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Lead times: January-March 2012
Lead times remain extremely low across all trades, with any bottlenecks being absorbed by the pre-construction programmes of contractors eager to win work. Brian Moone of Mace reports
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Spotlight: Impact of archaelogical work
The prospect of finding historic artefacts beneath a site is more likely to strike a developer with fear than excitement. But the real danger arises when it isn’t planned for, says Brian Moone
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The ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Awards shortlist 2012
Sixteen buildings - including laboratories, galleries, banks, the UK’s second tallest building and a space-shuttle-strength storage facility - are vying for two top prizes at this year’s ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Awards. Ike Ijeh runs down the shortlist
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Interview with James Pellatt, Great Portland Estates
Great Portland Estates has a £1bn development pipeline over the next five years, so naturally head of projects James Pellatt is on the hunt for companies of all sizes - just so long as they have a sense of humour. He talks to Emily Wright