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FeaturesInterserve crisis: ahead of Friday's crucial vote, will shareholders vote to rescue the contractor?
As Interserve鈥檚 financial woes start to undermine its ability to win work, the firm鈥檚 future hangs on a choice between two rival rescue plans
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FeaturesSME Profile: Heritage practice sets sights on 鈥楯ohn Lewis鈥� model
Purcell looks to safeguard future of the business with move into employee ownership
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FeaturesAre rooftop developments the answer to London鈥檚 housing crisis?
Airspace developers tell us to imagine thousands of new homes atop existing buildings 鈥� but to make that happen they need planners to share their vision.
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FeaturesYour guide to Mipim 2019
As we prepare to bid a tearful farewell to Europe, there鈥檚 time for one last knees-up as EU members with our international colleagues at the annual property fair in the south of France. But it won鈥檛 all be drowning our sorrows 鈥� there will also be much talk about our ...
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FeaturesProjects: Bloomsbury Theatre, London
Nicholas Hare Architects was faced with an unusual set of challenges in its refurbishment of UCL鈥檚 Bloomsbury Theatre, which is wrapped around by a variety of other university facilities that had to remain open during works.
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FeaturesSustainability: Emissions regulations
The regulations around greenhouse gas emissions come from a variety of international, European and UK sources and are constantly changing
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FeaturesPlastic waste in construction - is the sector doing enough?
Oceans of plastic waste are created each year by the construction industry, and the public is calling for action. So what are construction firms doing to reduce their discarded plastic, and what more could be done?
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FeaturesA tale of two hospitals: how Carillion's unfinished jobs are shaping up
Among the casualties of Carillion鈥檚 collapse were two major new hospital schemes,聽the Midland Metropolitan and the Royal Liverpool. After lying abandoned for聽months, work is at last restarting on site 鈥� but both are now years behind schedule.
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FeaturesThe Tulip: a point of contention
In the forest of tall and quirky structures that is the City of London, it鈥檚 beginning to seem that nothing is too bizarre to get built. So why has Fosters鈥� proposed Tulip prompted such a barrage聽of opposition? And will it nevertheless gain approval?
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FeaturesIn pictures: Famous observation towers around the world
If the Tulip is ever built, it will enter the rarefied group of high-profile observation towers across the world
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FeaturesTracker: January 2019
Activity and new orders are losing momentum overall although the non-residential sector is holding up well
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FeaturesCost model: Life sciences buildings
Research methods in the life sciences are developing at an unprecedented rate, so how can our buildings keep up with these developments?
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FeaturesProjects: Xiqu Centre Opera House, Hong Kong
The Xiqu Centre for Chinese opera in Hong Kong soars above its constrained site with two theatres suspended above public space, by using some ingenious construction solutions
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FeaturesDoes construction need a national regulator?
Taming the industry鈥檚 out-of-control practices could benefit all聽levels of the supply chain 鈥� but who can make that happen?
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FeaturesCrossrail delay: what's gone wrong 鈥� and why
Already a year behind schedule and with no end in sight, Crossrail is burning 拢30m a week in cash as it struggles to reach completion 鈥� but as yet, no one can say when that might be. Why is the trans-London line causing such pain?
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FeaturesConsultants鈥� salary survey 2019: what is your role worth?
Skills shortages mean salaries in the sector are rising more rapidly than inflation, and more people are looking to move jobs
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FeaturesConsultants' salary survey 2019: full tables
See full survey results for salaries by region, profession and grade聽
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FeaturesMarket forecast Q4 2018: Losing confidence
Tender prices in the year to Q4 kept climbing in the wake of rising building costs, as construction output rebounded in Q3 鈥� but new orders dropped
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FeaturesProjects: London's new 拢288m Centre for Music
London is set to gain a new world-class symphony hall 鈥� but will the planned 拢288m Centre for Music face the battles and delays that dog so many major cultural projects?
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FeaturesInterserve: will its latest rescue plan save the struggling contractor?
With its largest shareholder planning to revolt against its latest rescue plan, what hope is there that Interserve will survive?