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Top 200 Consultants 2011: Are you positive?

2011-10-07T00:00:00Z

This year’s Top 200 consultants survey shows that staff numbers and salaries are finally climbing. But it also warns not to let the optimism go to your head

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Gartnavel Maggie's Centre: Moment of calm

2011-10-05T11:18:00Z

Rem Koolhaas shows unusual restraint and impeccable bedside manners at Glasgow’s second Maggie’s Centre, where a subdued and informal space uses the natural world around it to promote healing

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First Impressions: Zaha’s Riverside Transport Museum

2011-10-03T15:20:00Z

Two Nottingham Trent University students give their verdicts on the dramatic building in Glasgow

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M&E special report: Android smart home

2011-09-30T00:00:00Z

What would it mean to be able to control every electrical device in your home from your phone? Wireless home automation is nothing new, but Google hopes to bring it to the masses with its latest project. Andy Pearson glimpses the future

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M&E special report: LED lighting at the National Gallery

2011-09-30T00:00:00Z

Displaying some of the most famous - and delicate - paintings in the world is a tricky business, particularly when you have to decide between quality of light and energy conservation. The National Gallery thinks it has found the answer: LEDs. Andy Pearson reports

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ESCOs: Off the grid

2011-09-30T00:00:00Z

As the pressure to achieve low-carbon developments intensifies, decentralised, privately-funded energy solutions are in increasingly high demand. Andy Pearson examines the rapidly expanding market for Energy Services Companies, or ESCos

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Education White Paper

Following the government’s response to the James Review, ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV is offering a comprehensive 60 page guide to the education market in the UK over the next four years.

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CEO White Paper

This report, specially tailored for decision makers, provides expert intelligence and insight into the state of the nation for the construction industry.

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The ArcelorMittal Orbit: Twist and shout

2011-09-30T00:00:00Z

The ArcelorMittal Orbit in the Olympic park is being built to ‘arouse the curiosity and wonder of Londoners’. And the most curious thing of all is how this spiralling confusion of red steel actually stands up

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Deptford: Mixed to the max

2011-09-30T00:00:00Z

On a single 7,000m2 site in Deptford, architect Pollard Thomas Edwards has managed to fit a community centre, artists’ studios, flats, a school and two playgrounds. ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV finds out how

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Being Benny Kelly

2011-09-30T00:00:00Z

To pay tribute to one of construction’s biggest names we re-publish a rare interview given by the ex-Sir Robert McAlpine London boss in 2011

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Country focus: Russia

2011-09-30T00:00:00Z

As host to the 2014 Winter Olympics and 2018 World Cup, and with a strong demand for offices, residential and retail, Russia is experiencing an uplift in construction activity. Tim Robb from EC Harris reports

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My working day: EC Harris QS Rachel Titley

2011-09-23T14:45:00Z

The chartered QS at EC Harris in Birmingham keeps her team of trainees and associates busy whilst juggling her family and working life

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Cormac MacCrann: Above and beyond

2011-09-23T00:00:00Z

With new transport links to the area and the Olympics up the road, Canary Wharf Group is fast expanding its Docklands home. But Cormac MacCrann, who heads the firm’s contractor business, isn’t just sticking to east London.

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Rafael Viñoly's Firstsite centre: show time

2011-09-23T00:00:00Z

Rafael Viñoly’s latest UK building finally takes centre stage, but why was it nearly undone by delays, overspends and legal spats? Thomas Lane reports, while below Ike Ijeh asks if it was worth all the pain

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Office to residential conversions: New direction

2011-09-23T00:00:00Z

As the value of prime residential soars and the office sector wobbles, commercial developers are hoping to cash in by converting offices to homes. ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV looks at the strategies of some of the key players

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The state we’re in: CEO White Paper preview

2011-09-23T00:00:00Z

With the party conference upon us, how do industry leaders really feel about the government’s economic policies? Sarah Richardson and Will Hurst unravel the data compiled in ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV’s first CEO State of the Nation White Paper

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Cost model: Residential

2011-09-23T00:00:00Z

Office-to-residential conversions may become increasingly popular, so what does it cost to turn a commercial space into a home? Ben de Waal and Chris Amesbury of Davis Langdon, an Aecom company, look at the conditions needed for success and the key financial considerations

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David Lawther: The long haul

2011-09-16T00:00:00Z

The young-at-heart chairman of ISG says the spectre of retirement is a long way off yet - first he needs to grow the firm, starting with increasing overseas revenue to 50% of the business. Emily Wright probes David Lawther on his plan for the future

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The 2011 contractors' salary guide

2011-09-16T00:00:00Z

Frozen salaries have got many looking to change jobs, according to this year’s contractor salary survey compiled by Hays Construction. So what’s the outlook for those who have forgotten what a pay rise is? ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV peers into the distance for a glimmer of hope