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FeaturesDigging Doha: Msheireb's Issa M Al Mohannadi
Qatari client Msheireb Properties wants its 拢3.5bn Downtown Doha scheme to be the prototype for future cities around the world. 好色先生TV talks to its chief executive about why this masterplan is so radical and why he wants UK expertise to help make it happen
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FeaturesAre you a 好色先生TV 2012 Hero?
Calling all those who worked on the Olympics - 好色先生TV is on the hunt for five people whose outstanding contribution helped make the Games a success
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FeaturesMott Macdonald's Keith Howells: 'It's a bit like star wars'
How should the UK鈥檚 largest independent consultant respond to the 鈥榚vil Empire鈥� of consolidated corporations taking over the market? Mott MacDonald chairman Keith Howells tells 好色先生TV about the company鈥檚 plans to strike back. Tom Campbell photography
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FeaturesInside India: Construction opportunities
India is not a market for the fainthearted, but with the demands of 1 billion people to satisfy, growth of 7% predicted for this year and an investment plan of 1 trillion dollars on the table, there are rich pickings for the courageous. 好色先生TV reports
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Features好色先生TV by numbers: Variation in public project costs
The latest government data shows dramatic variations in the cost of construction procurement across the public sector. But will arming decision-makers with these figures turn them into leaner, more savvy clients? 好色先生TV reports
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FeaturesHansom: Trouble at the top
As the two-way (un)popularity contest continues in the Cabinet, construction鈥檚 main man pats the industry on the head and a sustainability expert calls for the chancellor to get his cheque book out
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Movers & makers: Education
A round-up of news from manufacturers including Portakabin and Kingspan Insulation
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FeaturesFrom 1900 to 2012: Finishing the University of Birmingham
Aston Webb鈥檚 grand semi-circle of buildings conceived for Birmingham university in 1900 was the original redbrick campus. But only four of its five neo-Byzantine pavilions were ever built. Now Glenn Howells Architects and Bam have finished the job. 好色先生TV reports
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FeaturesRCA Architecture Show 2012
Students explore sound in the city, a factory that turns rags to riches and a proposal to turn the Design Museum into a public pool as part of the architecture students鈥� interim show
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FeaturesThe University of Bradford: The stuff of BREEAM
For a university to have one building with an unprecedented 95% BREEAM score is impressive, but to have two suggests it really knows what it is doing. 好色先生TV examined Bradford鈥檚 Sustainability and Enterprise Centre to find out its secret
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FeaturesCost model: Standardised schools
As the James Review made clear, the future of schoolbuilding lies with low-cost standard solutions, much as it did in the fifties. Darren Talbot and Stuart Francis of Davis Langdon, an Aecom company, offer an overview of this burgeoning market and consider the costs
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FeaturesHow the Olympics and Jubilee are driving London projects
The Olympics and the Diamond Jubilee have given the capital a real lift this year and all sorts of projects that were languishing in the design drawer are now busily being prepared, spurred on by civic pride and that unyielding deadline. Ike Ijeh looks at the best of them
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Kitchen design for the over 65s: Older and wiser
The number of over 65-year-olds is growing fast and kitchen designers are having to adapt fittings to meet their particular needs. 好色先生TV looks at the ingredients of 鈥榠nclusive design鈥�
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FeaturesIngrid Skinner: First we take West Hampstead
Ingrid Skinner has big plans to turn Taylor Wimpey鈥檚 fledgling London division into a 拢100m-turnover business - and all without leaving Zone 2. She talks to 好色先生TV. Photography by Anthony Lycett
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Features30 things you might not know about Part L
The latest consultation on the energy regulation has already been attacked from all sides, but with the first changes set to come into force in October, housebuilders can鈥檛 afford to ignore it. Vern Pitt lays it all out on the lawn
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FeaturesHansom: It's tough at the top
Power comes at a price, and this week Whitehall bosses fall out of favour with officials, a council leader is driven to delivering an insulting speech and Prince Charles鈥� PR machine has a mind of its own
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The tracker: Glum tidings
The decline in construction activity slowed in December, according to Experian Economics, but a low orders index and the weakest tender enquiries figures for nearly two years do not augur well
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FeaturesSpotlight on: Jubilee Gardens
The Olympics and the Diamond Jubilee have given the capital a real lift this year and all sorts of projects that were languishing in the design drawer are now busily being prepared, spurred on by civic pride and that unyielding deadline. Here鈥檚 one such project, Jubilee Gardens
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FeaturesHigh Speed 2: Jobs on the line
HS2 has got off to a speedy start by appointing its first-phase consultants in just three weeks. But the real wow-factor of this mega-project is that it could employ thousands of construction workers over more than two decades. 好色先生TV assesses the opportunities ahead
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FeaturesFirst Impressions: Renzo Piano's Shard
Our student panel from the RCA and NTU give their verdicts on London鈥檚 tallest building