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FeaturesThe five hundred million pound woman: Colette O'Shea
Last week, we looked at what life on site was like for the industry鈥檚 female minority. This week, Emily Wright heads to the boardroom to meet Land Securities鈥� Colette O鈥橲hea, the most powerful woman in London development
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FeaturesBeware of killer clients: the insurance threat to fit-out providers
Fit-out firms are suddenly finding that their clients are making them take out insurance to cover the entire job 鈥� and as they may not be able to, they鈥檙e risking commercial death
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FeaturesThe right formula: Abu Dhabi's Yas Hotel
With its dramatic architecture, precise engineering and top-speed construction, the Formula One-themed Yas Hotel has outlapped most of Abu Dhabi鈥檚 other buildings
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FeaturesDownsizing Dubai: Will the Middle East's golden child ever be the same again?
The UAE is waking up 鈥� but it has one hell of a hangover, and it鈥檚 going to take more than a couple of fizzy tablets to make it all better. So what sort of market is emerging? Well, the chances are it鈥檚 going to be good news for shed ...
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FeaturesZaha's Museum of Transport: The battle of the oil can
Zaha Hadid鈥檚 Museum of Transport in Glasgow was designed with gothic zinc-clad ridges and 100m-plus roof spans. They looked great on a computer screen, but led to memorable rows with the project team
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好色先生TV pathology: Water ingress
Water penetration can be a problem for brick walls 鈥� even if a cavity is included to prevent moisture reaching the building interior
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FeaturesBaby, do you like my curves?
Great news for fans of blobby architecture 鈥� a technology that creates curvaceous structures with such speed and precision that it could change the way we build
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Market forecast: Still a way to go
Despite signs of recession abating in some quarters, 2010 will remain tough for the building industry, particularly with public sector work likely to shrink
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FeaturesAluminium facade panels
This residential complex in London used almost 5,000 anodised aluminium rainscreen panels
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Integrated solar thermal panels
Luvata has developed Nordic Solar, which discreetly incorporates renewables into a building by integrating a patinated copper facade with a solar thermal system
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Terracotta-look solar shading
Sotech has supplied a bespoke extruded aluminium baguette sunscreen system that replicates the appearance of traditional terracotta for a multistorey car park at the Almondvale shopping centre near Edinburgh
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FeaturesSteel cladding
SAS International鈥檚 bespoke cladding system was installed at the lower areas of Waterloo station, where they cover 3.5m thick Victorian brick arches
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FeaturesGlobal infrastrucure financing: Where to find $35,000,000,000,000
That鈥檚 one prediction for the amount that will be spent on global infrastructure over the next 20 years. But with bank financing having fallen by up to 85% in the UK alone, where is the money going to come from?
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FeaturesCrossrail: Seats still available
Programme update: Roxane McMeeken finds out where the 拢16bn Crossrail project is at
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Infrastructure market overview: The road ahead
Sector overview聽Infrastructure has been one of the few bright spots in the construction market over the past year 鈥� but will it last? Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon makes some predictions for the next four years
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FeaturesCostain's Andrew Wyllie: Who wants to be glamorous anyway?
With 拢2.5bn of orders on its books, Costain鈥檚 move towards sectors such as waste, oil and roads seems like an inspired decision. Andrew Wyllie, the man who made it, tells Sarah Richardson where the contractor is heading next
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FeaturesNuclear programme: The age of proliferation
Programme update: Over the next two decades, the nuclear industry is set to provide 64,000 man-years of construction-related work 鈥� enough to keep a lot of companies very busy indeed. David Rogers and Thom Gibbs look at who鈥檚 best placed to make the most of the bonanza
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FeaturesFirst impressions: Make's brass-clad luxury London scheme
Two architecture students from Nottingham Trent comment on the new 拢7.5m London scheme