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FeaturesThe strange case of the overdue library
Alright, so it might not win the Man Booker Prize, but the tale of how Birmingham council spent 10 years trying to get its new central library off the drawing board has got the critics gasping.
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FeaturesIconic pavements and aiming high
Wayne Hemingway fears that we鈥檙e making the Thames Gateway too difficult to love and warns against designing houses 鈥渇rom the bottom up鈥�
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FeaturesNo more nods to Noddy
Stephen Bayley explains how a 鈥淢arks & Spencer鈥檚 food鈥� approach to architecture could help restore Britain鈥檚 lost reputation as a builder of great communities, ensuring that the Thames Gateway becomes a place to stay in, rather than to escape from 鈥� and why Noddy needs to leave his car at ...
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FeaturesA framework and a focus
Simon Thurley, chief executive of English Heritage, believes that only a small part of the potential of the Thames Gateway鈥檚 historic environment has been tapped; much remains that could be used to create distinctive, successful and ultimately sustainable communities
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FeaturesThe Middle East green building challenge
Special report: Now that the ruler of Dubai wants the city to be at the forefront of sustainable design, how will developers respond? Katie Puckett went to the United Arab Emirates to find out if the region really can have it all. With sustainable case studies.
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FeaturesThe stage is set 鈥�
鈥� and come 1 April, if you're on the shortlist for the 好色先生TV Awards 2008, you could be stepping up at the Grosvenor House hotel with applause ringing in your ears
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FeaturesLife behind bars
Few things are more certain to cause public and political panic than the idea that our prisons are full. Trouble is, they are. So the Ministry of Justice is set on building another 20,000 places by 2014, which is great news for contractors that can work at lightning speed. Here, ...
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FeaturesWhite cab man
Brendan Kerr is not your typical demolition contractor. Instead, on the way to becoming one of the UK鈥檚 top entrepreneurs, he has turned the 鈥榙econstruction鈥� business into a respectable profession 鈥� and one that鈥檚 central to the City鈥檚 most glamorous developments.
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FeaturesThe best online content
好色先生TV.co.uk鈥檚 mix of breaking news, probing views, expert analysis and dedicated web channels has made it the most popular construction website in the country. Here鈥檚 why 鈥�
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FeaturesThe inside job
It was like the Great Escape in reverse. How do you get inside a prison to double prisoner capacity without giving your captive audience any funny ideas about all that scaffolding? Using a panelised system was one solution 鈥� though not half as much fun as smashing a hole in ...
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International costs: 2008
As inflation cools in western Europe and the US, it鈥檚 roaring away in eastern Europe. Gardiner & Theobald surveys the world and tells us what it sees
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FeaturesPhase One fever
Katie Puckett went to 好色先生TV鈥檚 Birmingham bash last week and survived to tell the tale.
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FeaturesWhy did the lights go out on Hills electrical?
Earlier this month, one of the best known and best respected subcontractors in Britain was sold for the price of a cup of coffee. Eleanor Goodman and Sarah Richardson report on what went wrong
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Top 45 surveyors websites: Measuring up
In the third of his series on construction industry websites, Martin Hornagold turns his attention to surveyors and again finds that they are failing basic tests
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FeaturesCalculating housing lifecycle costs
Q: How do you work out the total cost of a house over a 100-year lifetime without spending hours poring over every single element? Stephen Kennett finds out the answer
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FeaturesInterview with Jon Emery of Hammerson
Hammerson doesn鈥檛 like cosy relationships and obliging suppliers. It wants designers and builders who will kick back, come up with alternative suggestions and generally keep its creative juices flowing.
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Lifecycle costs: The basics
Peter Mayer from BLP to explain just how many separate calculations are usually required to work out the whole life costs for a house
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FeaturesFace recognition
The world's largest casino, the Venetian in Macao, has installed 13 Vision Access 3D face readers to authenticate up to 12,000 employees as they come through the building鈥檚 main entrance at the start of a shift.
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FeaturesRugged laptops
Panasonic has launched a range of lightweight, portable laptops specifically designed for the construction industry.
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Server cabinets
Panduit is to launch the Net Access server cabinet, which it claims has enhanced thermal management features.