More Focus – Page 55
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Cost model: Mental health facilities
With mental ill health rising and models of care evolving, we need new facilities that fulfil modern mental healthcare requirements
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ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV intelligence: Q4 2018
Output is slowing as the uncertainty around Brexit continues, especially in the commercial sector, but private and public housing are holding up well
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Tracker: February 2019
Tenders and employment prospects both fell for the first time in almost two years, but activity is still rising, if more slowly
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The face of diversity: construction’s hidden problem
Diversity and inclusion is the subject of our latest industry survey, conducted by Hays. Debika Ray looks at what the results say about the industry, and finds out what employers can do to improve the situation
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Roundtable: Striving for quality in construction
Standards in construction clearly need to be raised – so how can the industry go about improving quality, and how exactly do we define it? Hamish Champ reports on a roundtable by the STA
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Over the line: How 21 Moorfields was built above a station
Site constraints and client demands meant the columns supporting a new over-rail scheme would have to bear unusually heavy loads
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Spurs stadium: the £1bn building opening in London's fifth poorest ward
The stadium dominates the local skyline and dwarfs neighbouring homes Will Ing, reporter, ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Opposite a row of empty shops, jerk chicken joints, laundrettes and bookmakers, one of the most expensive buildings ever built on this island is about to open in ...
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Interserve prepack administration - unpacked
What does Interserve’s prepack administration actually mean – for suppliers, customers, employees and lenders?
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Brexit chaos: What's the impact on construction?
B-Day may have been dodged first time round but how can the industry best cope with the uncertainty?
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Projects: Smith's Dock, North Shields
Urban Splash and Places for People’s £140m regeneration of a North Shields dockyard at Smith’s Dock includes a high proportion of modular homes manufactured offsite
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Financial results: it's bad for Interserve, but how is construction faring in 2019?
The UK contractors’ financial results are in. We know it’s been a bad year for Interserve, but how have the rest of them done?
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Development update: residential
Changes to the planning system are designed to accelerate housebuilding by bringing new entrants into the market
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Projects: London Screen Academy, Islington, London
Turning a former radio factory into a sixth-form film and television school proved a structural challenge for the project team
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'Young people in construction' survey - £50 Amazon vouchers prize draw
ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV is calling on all readers under 30 to take part in an important piece of researchÂ
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Can contractors cope with payment practice reforms?
Main contractors are under pressure to reform their payment practices, but will speeding up payments push more of them to the brink?
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Life after Help to Buy
After six years of cheap loans for homebuyers, Help to Buy is being wound down. How will housebuilders cope with the change?Â
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London contractors market update
What impact is the uncertainty around Brexit having on main contractor and MEP contractors’ London workloads?Â
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At a crunch shareholder meeting two hours before Interserve went under, most seats were empty
Only three people asked questions and two of them were the same
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How India's construction sector is heating up
The Indian construction market is hot property right now, and foreign firms are keen to get a piece of it
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Projects: Cambridge Mosque
When Marks Barfield Architects was asked to design Cambridge’s first purpose-built mosque, it turned for inspiration to the Garden of Paradise