TOP STORIES
Carillion hails game-changing Battersea win
Carillion’s construction boss says focus on “lean technologies and off-site construction” helped firm to beat rivals to £400m Battersea job
FM Conway leapfrogs rivals with £272m in highways work
Two highways jobs shake up contractors league table in April as sector springs back into action
Zaha Hadid wins Saudi metro station job
Architect’s design chosen for major Riyadh metro station on world’s largest urban transport project
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WATCH
Revealed: Grimshaw's Wimbledon tennis masterplan
Architect releases fly-through of sweeping changes to historic tennis club site
How's your head for heights?
A dizzying view travelling up the spire of the 1776ft Freedom Tower in New York, filmed on a GoPro
Revealed: Fly-through of Herzog's Oxford uni project
Herzog & de Meuron and Laing O’Rourke’s £30m Blavatnik School of Government wins planning permission
PROJECTS
Zaha Hadid wins Saudi metro station job
Architect’s design chosen for major Riyadh metro station on world’s largest urban transport project
Stonehenge visitor centre: A lot of history
Stonehenge’s first building work in many years is nearly complete. All it’s taken is 20 years, several design competitions and nearly £40m in planning costs
READER COMPETITIONS
Find Hansom and win a Kindle Fire
Hansom is hiding on Building.co.uk. Get clicking, find him and get your hands on a tablet or one of two other prizes
Reader competition: Spot the Building
In this photo montage we have five schemes, can you identify them?
FROM THE ARCHIVE
CHINA
Slouching tiger: Construction in China
With regional government debt spiralling into trillions of pounds, there are growing fears that China’s rise might not be quite so irresistible after all
ECOBUILD HIGHLIGHTS
Video: Is there a future for nuclear?
Former government chief scientific advisor Professor King explains what we need to do if we want to keep the lights on
LATEST DATA
Country focus: Burma
YK Ang from Langdon & Seah Thailand reports on the construction opportunities as Burma emerges from the international wilderness
PROFESSIONAL
CPD 10: Specifying steel lintels
The latest in our series of CPD modules focuses on the types of steel lintel that can be used over doors and windows and the most important considerations for specifiers. This module is sponsored by Catnic
CONSULTANTS
Life after Davis Langdon
Building profiles the many new start-ups launched by former Davis Langdon partners
FREE WHITE PAPERS
Free Building White Papers available now
We’re offering four White Papers for free for the next week. Download them now
A CLIENT'S VIEW
A client's view: Land Securities
Building caught up with Land Secs’ head of project management on procurement, selecting contractors and upcoming work
CONTRACTOR FOCUS
In focus: Laing O'Rourke
The fourth of our quick fire guides to recent changes at major contractors looks at Laing O’Rourke
REFURBISHMENT
The realities of green refurbishment
Some lessons learnt after the exhausting task of making a clapped out Victorian house energy efficient
COMMENT
My digital life … Angela Brady
The RIBA president on Tweeting in taxis, never learning how to use a PC, and why we should support our local high street
READER POLL
Vote for the greatest UK construction achievement in 170 years
Here are six contenders, vote for the one that deserves the accolade - or nominate a project of your choice
CONSULTANT SALARY SURVEY
The 2013 consultant salary survey
This year’s Building/Hays Construction consultants’ salary survey shows there are at last a few signs of an economic thaw
BCO
A taste of Madrid
Lord Lamont’s green shoots, oven-ready transport policy and Simon Allford’s recipe for a ‘universal building’ were all on the menu at the BCO conference
ANALYSIS
EDITOR'S VIEW
Sponsored feature
Dulux Trade Awards 2012
Contractor painters that go the extra mile have been rewarded by Dulux Trade


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