All Building articles in 20 July 2018
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Features
Costing steelwork: Cost models update
Costing Steelwork is a series from Aecom, BCSA and Steel for Life that provides guidance on costing structural steelwork. This quarter provides a market update, focuses on long-span and column-free design and updates the five cost models previously featured in Costing Steelwork
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Comment
Have we reached collaboration nirvana?
After years of talk about how important collaboration is in the engineering industry, the team working on Crossrail’s Farringdon station believe they’ve reached the summit. Ken Davis, project director at SNC-Lavalin’s Atkins business, talks about how they got there
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Comment
Legal: A different kind of model approach
Daniel Garton and Ralph Goodchild on using system dynamics as evidence in delay and disruption claims
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Features
Online poll: Net migration
This week’s poll: Should net migration, which is at its highest rate since 2011, be cut to the government’s target of tens of thousands?
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Features
Asian innovation
From on-site robots to bamboo construction, communal living and smart cities, here are some of the region’s most technologically impressive construction experiments
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News
After designing LG’s South Korean superlab, HOK touts for more
18,000 researchers are already using the LG facility
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Hive mind: Inside LG’s new campus
Spread over a million square metres in Seoul, the HOK-designed complex of laboratories, offices, atriums, parks and social spaces will host 25,000 researchers and engineers
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Comment
Leader: South-eastern promise
Consumer products giant LG’s new super laboratory on the edge of South Korean capital Seoul has to be seen to be believed.
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Features
Image of the week: On top of the world
The World Cup winning team parades down the Champs-Élysées in Paris in front of hundreds of thousands of adoring fans
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Comment
Thought for tomorrow: An end to fixed-price contracting
We ask readers to share their visions of the construction industry in 25 years’ time
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Comment
Hansom: What a coincidence
England hung on in the World Cup for just long enough to inconvenience consultants’ party planning – and is it Big Ben’s lack of hands that has removed parliamentarians’ sense of urgency about Brexit?
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Features
Sketch of the week: Residential care community, Oxfordshire
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by illustrator Tony Simmonds for Colwyn Foulkes Partners
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Features
From the archive: 2012
We look back at how Singapore does gardening. As you would expect from the city-state, it’s not on a small scale
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Comment
Legal: operating under-covered
Steven Carey looks at problems in obtaining professional indemnity insurance for cladding-related work in the wake of the Grenfell fire
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News
MPs tell prime minister to move more quickly on Parliament revamp
Theresa May hears concerns that slow progress on legislation needed for works is taking too long
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Fosters’ Bloomberg building makes Stirling prize shortlist
Final six also includes Oxford uni teaching block by Niall McLaughlin and Jamie Fobert’s Tate St Ives extension
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Comment
Look east to export
We need to sell our brands abroad in new ways if UK businesses are to take advantage of emerging opportunities in fast-growing South-east Asia
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Comment
The importance of emotional intelligence in construction
In the hard-nosed construction environment, terms like emotional intelligence can be easily misunderstood or misinterpreted. It’s not a soft skill. It’s about helping teams perform at their collective best
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News
HQ move will cause CITB ‘meltdown’, says MP
Sir Henry Bellingham says organisation has “an absolute absence of strong leadership at the upper level”