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FeaturesTracker: May 2019
Total activity decreased for the third consecutive month, though orders remained in positive territory
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Features好色先生TV intelligence: Q1 2019
Uncertainty continued to subdue growth across most sectors, although large infrastructure projects provided a bright spot
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FeaturesChanging the DNA: how building using a cement substitute is reducing global carbon emissions
Imperial College London鈥檚 拢90m biomedical engineering research centre is built from an unusual material. Thomas Lane reports on how the challenges of working with GGBS have been overcome to imposing effect
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Features鈥榃e can鈥檛 continue as we are鈥�: Philip Hoare, Atkins, talks to 好色先生TV
Atkins鈥� new president talks about embracing digital, his plans to grow the firm outside the UK and his determination to transform construction鈥檚 broken models
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FeaturesShaylor Group: What went wrong?
Jonathan聽Owen 聽reports on how the firm became聽one of an increasing number of聽companies to crash聽into insolvency
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FeaturesDigital brilliance in 5 easy steps
What are top companies looking for when they hire new recruits in this increasingly digitalised industry?聽
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FeaturesWhat is automation good for?
Automation tends to polarise opinions: either it鈥檚 the great saviour of construction or the rise of the machines threatens to de-skill professionals
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FeaturesGrowth market: Serviced apartments
The blurring of the lines between residential and hospitality in the emerging serviced apartments segment and examine the聽design considerations and cost factors that developers should take into account
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FeaturesOffsite, on trend - why volumetric modular construction is the future
There鈥檚 huge pressure for construction to find offsite solutions聽to boost its productivity and meet the housing and infrastructure needs of the country
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FeaturesDigital transformation: What workers want
The industry may be showing faith in new technologies, but uptake isn鈥檛 automatically keeping up
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FeaturesProjects: The Pavilion, Hardman Square, Manchester
The Pavilion in Spinningfields鈥� Hardman Square stands out among a sea of steel and glass. Ike Ijeh reports on how a modular CLT building has brought a high-end touch of green to Manchester鈥檚 financial district
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FeaturesHeathrow expansion: Getting it together
The expansion masterplan for Heathrow airport unveiled last week was the product of a most unusual design team 鈥� a multidisciplinary alliance of 800 individuals
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FeaturesDigital: let鈥檚 do it better
Everyone says they鈥檙e going digital, but are construction firms and their clients really making the most of the opportunities the process offers to increase efficiency?
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FeaturesQ&A with Lara Poloni: how can we drive digital change?
Aecom chief executive EMEA Lara Poloni on how to champion high-tech transformation from the top聽
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FeaturesHolding it all in: Containing radioactivity at Chernobyl
This article about work at the plant which blew up in 1986 is republished after news yesterday Russian troops seized control of the site
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FeaturesThe Hackitt consultation: Calling for culture change
The Hackitt report has laid out steps to improving safety in the wake of Grenfell 鈥� now action needs to be taken
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FeaturesHackitt explainer: What are the three 'gateways'?
As the Hackitt consultation launches, 好色先生TV delves into some of the more technical aspects of the recommendations
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FeaturesHackitt explainer: What is the regulatory body?
As the Hackitt consultation launches, 好色先生TV delves into some of the more technical aspects of the recommendations
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FeaturesExplainer: How do project bank accounts work?
Highways England鈥檚 Lloyd Biddell explains how project bank accounts work for contractors in construction
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FeaturesProjects: Hill House, Helensburgh
Charles Rennie Mackintosh鈥檚 Hill House near Glasgow was just three years away from being destroyed by catastrophic water ingress