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FeaturesPublic sector cuts: Client feedback
Public sector clients slashed projects in response to the chancellor鈥檚 swingeing cuts. But as the results of the Constructionline 好色先生TV Index show, the pain is by no means over
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FeaturesQ&A with the RICS: The new qualification
The RICS鈥� new AssocRICS qualification has been met with scepticism and accusations of devaluing the profession. 好色先生TV talks to executive director Mark Walley about why a creating a new path into the institution is a good thing for everyone
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FeaturesFlood-proof house: Home and dry
Would you build a house on the Norfolk Broads, one of the most flood-prone areas of the UK? LSI Architects did and its sophisticated design meant getting the project through planning was plain sailing.
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FeaturesQ&A with a roofing specialist: To top it all
锘縃ow has roofing design been affected by the pressure to reduce costs while providing environmentally-friendly solutions? Brent Tyrrell, business development manager at Lakesmere, talks about the latest developments in the sector
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FeaturesTurner & Townsend interview: Vince Clancy and Steve McGuckin
As more UK consultancies are snapped up by international giants, 好色先生TV hears from global boss Vince Clancy and UK MD Steve McGuckin about why Turner & Townsend isn鈥檛 budging on its independence
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FeaturesRetail market report: the impact of online shopping
Forget shopping trolleys. You鈥檒l soon be able to buy something by pointing your mobile phone at it. But what impact is this, and the inexorable rise of online shopping, going to have on retail construction? 好色先生TV looks at this fast-changing sector
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FeaturesThe tracker: Autumn wipe out
September offered little cause for cheer as activity declined across all three sectors: residential, non-residential and civil engineering. Experian Economics reveals the extent of the bad news
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FeaturesFirst Impressions: Kapoor's ArcelorMittal Orbit
The student panel is not too impressed with Anish Kapoor鈥檚 controversial spiralling Olympic ArcelorMittal Orbit
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FeaturesThe rise of the BIM consultant
With its clear government backing and success stories in the press, construction firms realise that BIM is a Very Important Thing. The question is, how to do it? Thomas Lane meets the new wave of BIM consultants who may have the answer
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FeaturesAre we experiencing the second great depression? Into the vortex
Reports out this week warn of five more years of economic decline, soaring unemployment and the threat of widespread social unrest. Could we be experiencing a second Great Depression? 好色先生TV travels back in time to predict construction鈥檚 future
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FeaturesThe consultancy sector: Little and large
Consolidation is now the name of the consultancy sector game - except some clients still like a more individual touch. Joey Gardiner asks if uneasiness over the new giants is spawning small startups
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FeaturesThe Tom Bloxham interview
For 20 years, renowned regeneration company Urban Splash grew and grew. Then in 2008 the bottom fell out of the market and soon after the firm found itself on the 鈥榖rink of collapse鈥�. Its founder tells Emily Wright how it changed everything - and nothing
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FeaturesCost model: Small projects
With low availability of space and pressure to reduce costs, more small projects are being built - especially with high demand for affordable housing, care homes and office fit-out. Peter Fordham, Simon Hughes and Paul Donlen of Davis Langdon, an Aecom company, cost it up
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FeaturesThe North/South housing divide: A tale of two markets
With so many firms focusing their efforts on London and the South-east - Crest Nicholson and Linden Homes are just the latest - you might be tempted to write off the North. But it鈥檚 not that simple.
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FeaturesHousebuilders Salary Survey: Trick or treat?
Some housebuilders this year will find a nice bonus in their paypacket, and that鈥檚 on top of a decent salary. But for others, something altogether less welcome is in store. 好色先生TV knocks on a few doors 鈥�
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FeaturesTim Byles' 拢1bn development pipeline: What are the opportunities?
好色先生TV questions the former Partnerships for Schools chief on Cornerstone鈥檚 upcoming work
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FeaturesMy working day: JFA ecologist Adam Earl
The ecologist at JFA Environmental Planning doesn鈥檛 have a regular working day but they all start early with feeding his three chickens
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FeaturesFree school conversions: Making the switch
The government went out of its way to make it easier for free schools to be formed in non-school buildings by easing planning laws. So now that they鈥檝e opened their doors, do they actually work? Take a look at two very different conversions鈥�
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FeaturesCladding: Facing the future
The cladding market is being tested by the influx of new regulations and cost pressures. The good news is that facades can now be designed on a more human scale, says Stephen Ledbetter, director of the Centre for Window and Cladding Technology
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FeaturesMarket forecast: Stuck in the mud
Prices have continued to stagnate in 2011, says Peter Fordham of Davis Langdon, an Aecom company. And with the eurozone crisis and global unease, construction isn鈥檛 going anywhere fast