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FeaturesUkraine: a tragedy and crisis beyond belief with an impact felt all over the world
Everybody is worried about events in Ukraine, from a humanitarian viewpoint to the detail of firms navigating the impact on their cost base
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FeaturesSmart buildings: the digital workplace
The focus of office fit-out is increasingly on using digital systems to optimise the user experience. How best can one realise the opportunities of smart technology?
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FeaturesThe scheme now approaching the finish is Crossrail: All aboard the Elizabeth line
We take the 10-minute journey from Paddington to Liverpool Street with the railway鈥檚 boss Mark Wild
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FeaturesWhere have all the workers gone? Construction鈥檚 shrinking talent pool
The pandemic has deepened problems with availability of labour, putting at risk firms鈥� backed-up workloads
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FeaturesMentoring Circle: 好色先生TV up women in the built environment
How a mentoring scheme for women has grown beyond all expectations in only a year
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FeaturesLessons of the Nightingales: how covid changed construction
A range of pandemic-prompted innovations have changed industry practice for good. Josephine Smit talks to those who led the way
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FeaturesA deep green retrofit crafts a sustainability HQ
The Institute for Sustainability Leadership needed an HQ that reflected its values. Here鈥檚 what it did next to a Cambridge telephone exchange
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FeaturesExplainer: Gove鈥檚 threats to shut down housebuilders over building safety
Housebuilders are locked in negotiations with Michael Gove over paying another 拢4bn to repair housing blocks affected by the fire safety crisis
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FeaturesCost model: Low carbon frames
Structural frames are one of the biggest contributors to embodied carbon, but issues with data quality have made tackling this difficult 鈥� until now
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FeaturesThis is my home: Gleeds鈥� man in Ukraine on staying put in Kyiv
好色先生TV speaks to Colin Ross,聽the firm鈥檚 country director, who is not planning on going anywhere
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FeaturesTake a dive into the UK鈥檚 first Passivhaus leisure centre
Exeter council trailblazes a radical alternative to the energy-guzzling swimming pool
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FeaturesIn business: on the road with Keltbray
After 30 years at Costain, Darren James was unable to resist the call from Keltbray wanting to help to diversify and tighten up governance聽
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FeaturesMidas is the latest in a long line of regional contractors to feel cash pinch
Devon builder entering administration this week is a reminder of the perils smaller firms face
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FeaturesMarket forecast: Inflation bites
As output rebounds, building costs are soaring at double-digit rates thanks to a variety of inflationary pressures, sending tender prices upwards聽
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FeaturesConstruction seizes chance to make it in the movies
The UK鈥檚 film and TV studios have struggled to meet booming demand for production space, triggering a wave of interest from investors and developers聽
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FeaturesConstruction faces new certification crisis
Lack of testing facilities means industry may not have time to prepare for the introduction of the UKCA mark in less than a year
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FeaturesHempcrete: a natural solution in the quest for better materials
聽The insulation and low carbon credentials of bio-based materials such as hempcrete are winning over some serious players
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FeaturesIs construction ready for a full-blown energy costs crisis?
Materials shortages are easing but the construction sector is about to be hit by a second wave of inflation due to soaring energy costs
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FeaturesHow to escape the groundhog day of dodgy frameworks
Construction has long been plagued by a procurement process that is inefficient, fragmented and costly. All that is about to change.
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FeaturesContractors salary survey 2022: The tables
Compare your pay with averages from across the industry