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CommentFive - the magic number
The ultimate goal for achieving minimum energy performance standards is a 鈥榝actor five鈥� improvement, while maintaining current growth projections
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CommentHansom: Fantasia
Create your own unique buildings using Lego bricks, see your dreams of a replica Eiffel Tower come true, watch as a dead monarch鈥檚 head comes back to life, be amazed as Battersea鈥檚 crumbling towers are resurrected 鈥�
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CommentBeware the wrong acquisition
What can we learn from the month-long Balfour Beatty-Carillion kerfuffle?
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CommentSeizing the middle gap in housing
Speller Metcalfe鈥檚 Matt Brown responds to one of our blogs on housebuilding
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CommentHow do we get GB to move from G to B?
If property investors are to improve the energy performance of their assets they need clarity on the government鈥檚 long-term aims
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CommentTentative times
The CPA/Barbour ABI Construction Index was 128 in July, slightly lower (4%) than in June
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CommentReaching pre-recession levels
One could be forgiven for not knowing whether to celebrate the banishing of the recession or worry about an unbalanced recovery
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CommentWhat eighteenth century Rome can teach us about making places
Why generating 鈥榮treet life鈥� - in all its senses - is the key to building successful cities
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CommentA suitable case for treatment
Medical advances, improved technology and increasing outpatient numbers have transformed the construction challenge - so the decade-old NHS estate guidance needs some radical updating
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CommentHousing's on the up 鈥� but can we meet demand?
Planning, skills and finance barriers remain before we can meet the UK鈥檚 housing needs
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CommentPassivhaus' power as a quality standard for buildings
The Passivhaus standard can improve all sizes and types of projects - I鈥檝e seen the evidence
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CommentWhat are you reading this summer?
Holiday season is the perfect chance to catch up on some great 好色先生TV articles you may have missed this year - as selected by our industry contributors
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CommentOccupier demand still outstrips construction
If we are to meet growing demand for commercial space, we need to turn our attention to untapped existing building stock
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CommentGovernment has finally brought out the green sticks
Minimum Energy Performance Standards have the ability to succeed in greening our buildings where incentives have failed
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CommentRichard Bailey picks 'A leaner, keener kind of BIM'
Frank McLeod鈥檚 blog reasons that BIM can only be as innovative as the people using it
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CommentPaul King picks 'Davey pledges to fix 'disappointing' and 'clunky' Green Deal'
It was refreshing to see Ed Davey speak so candidly about the Green Deal at this year鈥檚 Ecobuild
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CommentDavid Bownass picks 'Minister outlines limit for zero carbon exemption'
A must read news article on the zero carbon exemption debate
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CommentRichard Steer picks 'Streets fit for people and not just for cars'
Ken Shuttleworth鈥檚 blog highlights the need for long-term infrastructure to help protect London鈥檚 cyclists
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CommentWhy it's time to go green, and how BIM can help
BIM can help us embed sustainable principles into building design