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FeaturesOn your marks
Both Chris Booth and Anthony Brown from Overbury have one aim in mind: to deliver in a fast and complex market. Here, they tell Pamela Buxton how they intend to do it
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FeaturesA decade in design
Not so long ago, the term 鈥榦ffice fit-out鈥� meant deciding where to put the rubber plant. But over the past 10 years, design trends have moved dramatically to meet the demands of today鈥檚 design-savvy workers.
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FeaturesLet鈥檚 talk
We asked industry experts from across a number of disciplines to make sense of the new energy performance certificates. Here鈥檚 what they said鈥�
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FeaturesPublic good
With the commercial world in turmoil, the public sector is drawing more and more attention 鈥� just as well then, that these days it can match private facilities for design flare and value.
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FeaturesFast movers
Developments in software technology are helping to make fit-out projects ever more efficient 鈥� a real boon in such a time-critical sector
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So what do you think?
Nobody can ignore the green agenda any longer. But what do people in the industry really think about the environmental issues affecting their business? This Overbury study provides some absorbing answers
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FeaturesIs Europe losing its nuclear construction skills?
Work has started on Europe鈥檚 third generation of nuclear power plants. Problem is, the firms building them are finding it much harder than expected 鈥� the Finnish plant in this picture is three years late. Thomas Lane finds out what this means for the UK鈥檚 own nuclear plans
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FeaturesThe 好色先生TV London 2012 team: an awfully big adventure
Meet the 好色先生TV London 2012 team 鈥� seven young people who鈥檝e been given the chance to help build one of the most high-profile and demanding projects the UK has ever seen
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FeaturesHawkins\Brown鹿s New Art Exchange: cubism reimagined
HawkinsBrown鈥檚 New Art Exchange for the deprived community of Hyson Green in Nottingham is a black box on the outside, a blank canvas for artists inside.
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FeaturesVideo: KPF hotels make their mark in Shanghai
RLB Shanghai director Iris Lee introduces two KPF hotels under construction in central Shanghai
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FeaturesFeeling the chill in Shanghai
It's two degrees below zero and oddly quiet in China's second city 鈥� and that's not just because of a ban on honking car horns
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FeaturesVideo: Tour of the Shanghai Tower model
Shanghai Tower general manager Gu Jian Ping and RLB Asia MD Stephen Lai show off the model for China's tallest building
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FeaturesMiddle East Q&A: Nick Clayson
Norton Rose's head of Middle East real estate explains why the Dubai property market has gone haywire
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FeaturesMood sours in once booming Dubai
Announcements of lay-offs and projects put on hold have left contractors in the emirate worried
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FeaturesMiddle East Q&A: Derek Johnson
Davis Langdon's Middle East head sees much potential in the region and reckons 'what's happening in Dubai will be beneficial in the long term'
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FeaturesModular schools
A new sixth-form centre at the Alperton Community school in Brent, north-west London, has been constructed entirely of pre-owned modular buildings
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FeaturesPerformance doorsets
Leaderflush Shapland鈥檚 Plasform Unique, Plasform Original and Plasform Extended Performance doorsets have been used on a new extension for the Gloucestershire Royal hospital
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FeaturesReady for take-off? Heathrow expansion
Fasten your safety belts: the government is about to give the go-head for the 拢13bn expansion of Heathrow airport. Good news for the construction industry, of course, but, as Dan Stewart reports, the backers of the alternative options are not finished yet
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Cost update: December 2008
After sharp inflation in the second quarter, consumer, input, output and materials prices all peaked and are now on a declining trajectory, says Peter Fordham of Davis Langdon