All Features articles – Page 104
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FeaturesInternational cost comparison 2019
A slowdown in the growth of the global economy brings both challenges and opportunities for the construction sector around the world, alongside some cause for cautious optimism, says Agnieszka Krzyzaniak of Arcadis
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FeaturesCPD 12 2019: Facade design – safety, aesthetics and practicalities
This CPD, sponsored by Siderise, outlines developments in cladding used in high-rise residential tower blocks and examines the testing involved prior to installation
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FeaturesAccess to finance: The banks that like to say ‘no’
Investors are running scared of construction – put off by the collapse of Carillion, historically low returns and the feeling a problem job is just around the corner. So, is there anything the industry can do to improve its access to finance?
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FeaturesRaising the Bar competence report: explained
Raising the Bar could be one of the biggest shake-ups the industry has seen in decades. But has it been set up to fail?
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FeaturesWhat will the Tokyo 2020 Olympic venues look like?
Ike Ijeh discovers that some arenas originally built for the 1964 summer games in Tokyo will be recycled for use in the next Olympiad
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2016 — Let the games begin
As the venues being constructed for the Tokyo 2020 near completion, we look back on the problems that hit the Rio Olympiad in 2016
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FeaturesMarket forecast Q2 2019: Slowing down
All construction work output experienced a fillip in Q1 2019, while tender prices increased over the year at Q2 2019
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Kersfield Estate, Wandsworth, London
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Mae architects
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FeaturesSomewhere along the line: How is the Crossrail delay impacting local businesses?
Businesses next to and near the sites where new Crossrail stations are being built are at once feeling the pinch from a lack of footfall as the project stutters and looking forward to increased revenue from more customers when the project finally completes
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FeaturesImage of the week: Didcot power station
The cooling towers at the disused coal-fired Didcot power station in Oxfordshire are demolished
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FeaturesAre contractors with poor payment records about to be let off the hook?
A government plan barring late-paying contractors from bidding for major public contracts comes into effect in September. But there are loopholes
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FeaturesTracker: June 2019
Overall activity continued to gather momentum in June, and all sectoral activity indices reflected expansionary tendencies
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FeaturesLight years away: how close are we to space tourism?
Space tourism still has some giant leaps to make before humankind can take a holiday on the moon. What’s slowing lift-off?
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2013 — In a hotel far, far away
As we look at the progress of space tourism, the archive revealed what lunar holiday resorts could look like – don’t expect any Jacuzzis or all-inclusive cocktails
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FeaturesImage of the week: Into the wood
A visitor poses by the White Gates at the 2019 Archstoyanie annual festival of landscape objects in the Nikola-Lenivets art park in Russia’s Kaluga region
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FeaturesA construction holiday: A nerd’s guide to site-seeing
From playing I-spy with heavy plant to gasping in awe at hydro-electric dams, here is our guide to ‘geeking out’ on construction while on holiday
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Mixed-use modular scheme, central London
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Dominic Eaton, director at Stride Treglown
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FeaturesCPD 11 2019: Lighting, wellbeing and productivity
This CPD, sponsored by Helvar, will look at the issues around the effectiveness of good lighting systems
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