More Focus – Page 10
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FeaturesCost model: A guide to life sciences lab fit-out
Life science labs are in high demand. Identifying the right spaces to nurture innovation – and fitting them out flexibly and sustainably – offers opportunities
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Features‘The design team has gone from 500 to six.’ What HS2 Euston is doing now
What happens when you are told that the job you have been working on is put on hold? Dave Rogers went to find out
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FeaturesSandbach saga: meet the housebuilder standing up to Michael Gove
In the latest example of the housing secretary intervening in planning on design grounds, we talk to Colin Muller of Muller Property Group, about the Sandbach development in Cheshire East which has been called in
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FeaturesKey takeaways from the BCO’s conference in Dublin
Developers, architects and occupiers gathered in Dublin last week to discuss the prospects for office building in a time of high inflation and low occupancy
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FeaturesCost comparison: Pros and cons of volumetric construction in housing
Pros and cons of volumetric construction, the barriers to widespread adoption, and a cost comparison between a traditional and modular residential tower
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FeaturesStepping back: the story of 8 Bishopsgate
Like its neighbour the Cheesegrater, the latest addition to the City skyline – Wilkinson Eyre’s 8 Bishopsgate – had to avoid impinging on views of St Paul’s
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FeaturesCan architects restore faith in their technical expertise?
With major changes to architectural education under way, the Building the Future Commission speaks to professionals from across property, architecture and education about the potential for a reinvigorated profession
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FeaturesExpansion plans and adding value: Currie & Brown boss Alan Manuel points the way ahead
Currie & Brown is now owned by multi-national giant Dar Group and has ambitions to expand its turnover 50% by 2027 - here’s how
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FeaturesHow big a blow is the closure of L&G’s flagship factory to the prospects of MMC?
Industry players from Mark Farmer to Mike Leonard reflect on the end of production at L&G’s factory in Yorkshire
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FeaturesBuilding the Future Commission: review of May
The Building the Future Commission has been hard at work, find out what’s happened over the past month
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FeaturesIn business with Rapleys’ Justin Tuckwell
In the past few years Rapleys’ income from building consultancy has increased 300%, catapulting the man behind it to managing partner of the whole firm
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FeaturesHolbein Gardens: A positive step on the net zero office refurbishment journey
Armed with new net zero carbon targets, developer Grosvenor tested these out on a tired 1980s office building near Sloane Square
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FeaturesInternational cost comparison 2023
The latest trends in international construction markets amid a global economic environment of rising inflation and a strengthening of the US dollar
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FeaturesHow can we tackle the skills crisis? The next generation reports
The Building the Future Commission young persons’ advisory panel has made a series of recommendations to help the industry attract a better and more diverse range of recruits
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FeaturesWhy partnerships are key to fixing the housing crisis: an interview with Sir Michael Lyons
The one-time New Labour fixer tells Joey Gardiner about his plans to expand the English Cities Fund, the ‘shameful’ state of English planning - and what the next government needs to do to get more homes built
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FeaturesWhat we know so far about the New Hospital Programme relaunch
Contract notice for delivery partner to oversee ‘fundamental shift’ in healthcare schemes to be posted by September
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FeaturesTackling short termism: we hear from the Building the Future Commissioners
Building gathers a group of Building the Future commissioners together for the first time to take soundings on ideas to improve the built environment
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FeaturesUKREIIF round-up: Councils announce new investments as industry vents frustration with government
The UK’s big new real estate event returned to Leeds for its second outing this year. Daniel Gayne was there to talk to government and industry about trends in development, the year ahead in politics and the future of UKREIIF itself
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FeaturesIs AI coming for your job?
In the fourth part of our series on AI in construction, Thomas Lane asks if AI is a silver bullet to address industry inefficiencies and skills shortages
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FeaturesWay to go – still scratching the surface of AI
Continuing our series looking at artificial intelligence in construction, Thomas Lane asks how machine learning might evolve to benefit the industry