All Building articles in 14 December 2018
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News
A timeline of Interserve’s woe
Contractor’s disastrous foray into energy-from-waste saw firm rack up crippling losses
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Features
Building podcast: Highlights from Building Live 2018
Listen to this Building podcast - highlights from Building Live 2018, including debates on the Hackitt review and the future of large contractors
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Features
Building podcast: What do Millennials want?
The skills crisis continues to grip construction - listen to highlights from Building Live and find out what makes the next generation tick
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Comment
VR: Is what you see what you get?
In the eighth part of our series on new technology, James Worthington considers the impact virtual and augmented reality could have on construction projects and some legal issues that may arise
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Comment
2018 in legal - the year of the agreement
While one particular agreement dominated this year’s headlines, there was plenty on offer from other agreements
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Archive Titles
Building Quiz answers...
This is the year that was… The first scheduled direct flight from Australia to the UK took place this year. Which city did it take off from? Perth Who resigned as Brexit Secretary on 8 July? David Davis On 3 July, 23.6 million viewers watched England ...
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News
Kier nabs first phase of £45m education campus
Contractor will deliver two schools in Cambridgeshire new town
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Features
Test yourself: Building Quiz 2018
Here are some of the questions from the Building Quiz - test your colleagues or just yourself to discover your quizzing prowess
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Features
A very Merry Quizmas - highlights from this year’s Building Quiz
Building’s inaugural Christmas quiz was a riot of bantz, brilliance, beer, and Beyoncé (though sadly not in person)
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Features
2018 in construction: Building's review of the year - part two
So, what did Santa’s last round of offerings bring the industry? It’s not been a stocking full of pleasant surprises
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Comment
Is the demise of some big retailers an opportunity to repair our high streets?
Not every town needs multiple department stores – they are a product of a homogeny that has characterised our retail spaces for too long
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Comment
Construction industry gossip: Bleak midwinter
Our business minister grapples with some paperwork, a Victorian refurb gets distressed (but in a good way), and, as it’s almost Christmas, we contemplate nuclear extinction
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Features
Online poll: All I want for Christmas...
This week’s poll: What do you most want for Christmas?
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Features
Image of the week: Mmm… modular
The Museum of Architecture’s Gingerbread City exhibition at the V A opened on Saturday with a splendid example by EPR of just what modular housing can achieve if you’re prepared to be creative with materials. We wonder if the insurance would cover consumption by small children abandoned in a wood, ...
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Features
From the archive: 1999 - Bugged
While we modern folk fret about Brexit, in 1999 they had their own problems: the dreaded “Millennium Bug”
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Features
Sketch of the week: Regeneration in Ilford
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Harry Thomson at Studioshaw
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Features
2018 in construction: Building's review of the year - part one
So, what did Santa’s last round of offerings bring the industry? It’s not been a stocking full of pleasant surprises
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News
In pictures: Probably the best? Møller shows off Carlsberg HQ
Practice says delivery of 23,200sq m brewery base is ‘well under way’
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Comment
2018 - never a dull moment in construction
It’s been a hell of a year - in short, things appear to be in a mess. One thing is sure, 2019 is not going to be boring
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Comment
Thought for tomorrow: Taking away the 'initiative'
Dawn Moore of Morgan Sindall calls for diversity to become part of the industry’s fabric