All Features articles – Page 209
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FeaturesThis week in 2009
Sustainability experts list their five worst green ideas for construction
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FeaturesPrepare to be boarded
With the recession over, rising turnover and damaged valuations have left construction firms in a climate perfect for acquisition deals. Are you in a position to grow your business or is it time to sell up?
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FeaturesMarket forecast: Speed shift
The recovery rolls on with expectations of tender price increases still firm. But a change of pace in activity is expected to emerge this year. Michael Hubbard and John O’Neill of Aecom report
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FeaturesBIM: World’s your oyster
The use of BIM is becoming more widespread throughout the globe. So what opportunities does this offer those with BIM skills who want a job abroad?
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FeaturesMarket review: Slowly does it
Growth continues throughout the UK economy and construction sectors, but the gains being made are slowing down significantly. Here are highlights of Barbour ABI’s latest monthly Economic Construction Market Review
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FeaturesBristol Life Sciences: Split personality
Sheppard Robson’s Bristol Life Sciences building comprises a sober street facade that apes Georgian townhouse vernacular; and a dramatic, industrial laboratory elevation that ripples like a giant metallic wave
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FeaturesCPD 2 2015: Revisions to BS 5534
The latest in our CPD series explains why BS 5534 has been revised and outlines the key changes that designers and contractors need to understand. This module is sponsored by Marley Eternit
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FeaturesImage of the week: On the right track?
Double Travel, the winning entry from the inaugural RICS photography competition
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FeaturesTop European contractors: Plus ca change
Deflation has darkened the mood across the eurozone’s construction markets, putting the long-awaited recovery on hold once more. Building examines what continued stagnation means for firms on both sides of the Channel
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Bethnal Green Mission Church concept
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Stefanie Rhodes of Gatti Rhodes Architects
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FeaturesWhy we're backing Agenda 15
Our Agenda 15 campaign manifesto sets to influence the next government by setting out what construction needs to thrive. Here’s why some of those who have signed up to support it think this initiative is so important
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FeaturesSustainability: Thinner insulation
High-performance insulation materials enable much thinner profiIes to be used than their counterpart products. Sweett Group investigates if the benefits from the use of these thinner insulation materials outweigh the costs
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FeaturesBritish pavilion, Milan: Get the buzz
Much of the site of this year’s British pavilion in Milan will evoke the spirit of British landscapes. But its crowning achievement will be a gigantic recreation of a beehive
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FeaturesCPD 1 2015: Best practice for building waterproof concrete basements
To ensure new basements are waterproof, it is essential that a suitable methodology is followed on site. This module, sponsored by Waterproof Concrete with Site Supervision, explains how designers can specify good workmanship
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FeaturesWhat to specify: Roofing
This week’s roofing products include roof boards at the new Woburn Forest Village Center Parcs leisure facility in Bedfordshire, and a green roof system at the Buchanan Street retail development in Glasgow
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FeaturesInterview: Stef Stefanou
The former John Doyle chairman unpicks the events that led to the firm’s closure in 2012, and reveals how the industry exposed a darker side in his hour of need
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Kruisplein Housing Scheme, Rotterdam
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is the competition entry that founded Mecanoo in 1984
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FeaturesThis week in 2008
Building visits Constructionarium course, an education scheme founded by Stef Stefanou
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FeaturesNo man’s land: Unwanted supermarket sites
Supermarkets are responding to the UK’s shift in shopping habits by massively cutting back their development programmes, leaving the construction industry and affected communities wondering what will happen to the unwanted sites