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FeaturesDo you want chips with that?
The most commonly used and available form of biomass is wood. Here the 好色先生TV Cost Information Service discusses this source of fuel, and the technology used to burn it
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FeaturesChelsea鈥檚 magic sponge
The famous CFC hopes its marksmen will be kept fit and working by this luxurious training and physiotherapy complex in Surrey
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FeaturesMetronet puts its future on the line
The consortium with the job of upgrading most of London Underground is struggling to cope with a 拢2bn cost overrun, potentially endless legal difficulties and increasingly nervous shareholders. Angela Monaghan looks at how it went so wrong, and what the stakeholders are doing to put it right
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FeaturesMaxximum Zaha
Almost 10 years after Zaha Hadid鈥檚 design for Rome鈥檚 MAXXI museum won an international competition, it鈥檚 still only two-thirds built. Martin Spring looks at how the architect鈥檚 ideas have survived years of stop-start funding and delay.
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FeaturesWho鈥檚 going to build the olympics?
Just our luck. Right when we鈥檙e getting down to building the 2012 Games, all the big contractors get loads of other work and disappear into framework tie-ins. Angela Monaghan reports on the changing face of British building
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FeaturesSustainability: Managing water consumption
Water conservation is often given a low priority in sustainability strategies, but in areas where the water supply is under pressure from development, it may provide relief. Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon examines the options and their costs
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FeaturesDo you dig?
In the fourth of our series examining renewable energy technologies, Alistair King talks us through ground-source heat pumps, which provide developers with a Part L-friendly way of keeping buildings warm or cool using the ground beneath our feet
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FeaturesThe enchanted forest: Vallecas-Pau in Madrid
While Madrid鈥檚 new Vallecas-Pau suburb waits for its trees to grow, it has been fitted with portable tower parks. They look like this 鈥�
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FeaturesGovernment backs crane campaign
好色先生TV鈥檚 campaign to make tower cranes safe has won the support of a key Whitehall figure: Lord McKenzie, the minister for health and safety, as Dan Stewart found out. Buoyed up by this ministerial backing, we鈥檙e taking our demands to the Strategic Forum 鈥�
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FeaturesDirector鈥檚 cut
When Sydney Pollack first saw the Bilbao Guggenheim, it moved him to tears. The great director tells Martin Spring how it also inspired him to make his first documentary 鈥� a journey into the mind of its creator, Frank Gehry
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FeaturesDans army
These days the Territorial Army isn鈥檛 so much about playing at soldiers as training them for actual combat. Still, it finds time to run 鈥榚xecutive stretch鈥� weekends, where future managers find out a little about leadership. Dan Stewart joined a group from the construction industry for two days of fake ...
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FeaturesSustainability glossary - any suggestions?
Don't know your PVs from your EPCs? If no send in your suggestions for 好色先生TV's new sustainabilty glossary
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FeaturesGoodbye Mr prescott, hello鈥�
On Sunday Labour will elect its new deputy leader. Of the six candidates, only two have garnered the support of the three major construction unions: Peter Hain and Jon Cruddas. Cruddas tells Mark Leftly why he is still the outsider and Hain talks tough to Dan Stewart. Portraits by ...
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FeaturesCost model: Visitor centres
Visitor centres give clients and their designers a great opportunity to make an architectural statement. At the same time, a lot of functions need to be squeezed into compact buildings. Neal Kalita of Davis Langdon examines how style and function can be reconciled
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FeaturesIn times of famine
In the second part of our shortages series Katie Puckett examines how the ever-increasing demand from Asia and Europe is pushing the price of raw materials sky high
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Features鈥� and cut!
The politicians may want to reduce domestic carbon emissions to zero, but it鈥檚 the physicists and engineers that will decide whether it can be done. Thomas Lane took a trip to Watford to look the latest technology in the latest prototypes
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FeaturesMight as well try and catch the wind
Micro-turbines may be the height of fashion, but are they any good? In the third part of our series on renewable energy sources, Alistair King finds out more
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FeaturesThe ultimate networking event
More than 200 attend 好色先生TV鈥檚 reception for decision-makers in government and industry
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FeaturesSafer Skyline is now backed by 20 of Britain鈥檚 top 30 contractors and housebuilders
This is in addition to the 65MPs who support us 鈥�
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FeaturesIs the business of recruitment corrupt?
Some construction companies are accusing the recruitment industry of holding them to ransom, but is it simply doing the best for employees?