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CommentLondon 2012: What did the industry really learn about sustainability?
The major contractors and the major projects are setting high standards, the problem is with those working on a smaller scale
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CommentRecovery is a dangerous time
At last there are glimmers of hope for the economy but many pitfalls lie ahead for building firms
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CommentWhat do TMT clients want from their offices?
The requirements of technology, media and telecommunications clients should be shaping the way we think about work space
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CommentUniversity departments need our help with research
Funding cuts mean construction companies should reach out to their local university
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CommentIt's time to end housing standards outside of regulations
Developing a set of national housing standards outside of the Building Regulations would cause confusion
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CommentThe new state schools
Publicly funded academies and free schools offer new opportunities for the construction sector. But make sure you know who the decision makers are
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CommentWonders & blunders with Phil Brumby
A Parisian museum is revered for its historic exterior and sensitive interior. But London’s Hayward Gallery is accused of being hideous, inside and out
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CommentHansom: All very wearing
A diplomatic spat puts building work on hold and delays to online national planning guidance bemuse eager developers; Lara Croft is bundled into Farringdon - plus, (surely?) the last ever red trousers story
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CommentCounter-cyclical investments: strategic or stupid?
Markets such as Greece are challenging but could prove very beneficial to SMEs in the long term
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CommentMy digital life … Eddie Murphy
The Mott MacDonald technical director on his family’s views of his digital habits, and why the Android Motorola Defy seems to have been built for the building services engineer market
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CommentThe new Asian tigers: Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines
Asian economies will form the world’s most dominant construction market by 2025
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FeaturesAre free schools too cheap by half?
Michael Gove may want free schools to succeed but his department won’t be throwing much money their way. So are these cut-price schools up to the job or doomed to become places for kids to fail in?
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NewsFury at regulator’s plan to wrap retrofit work in red tape
Industry figures slam Ofgem’s plan to require two surveyors to sign off some retrofit work
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NewsLighting specialist enlists ex-Barclays boss
Former head of property for banking giant looks forward to “hands on” role as non-executive director of London-based firm
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NewsConstruction appointmnets: 6 September 2013
Macro, Lovell and Gerry Lytle Associates are among the companies announcing appointments and promotions
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NewsFit-out delays push Shard hotel launch back ‘to 2014’
Exclusive: Luxury hotel ‘unlikely’ to open fully this year as contractor after Sisk is replaced on £40m fit-out project
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NewsEssential Berkshire: Berkshire House
Developer Essential Living unveils plans for its first office-to-residential rented housing scheme
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NewsFears of further delays to £600m framework
Concern comes as management of a repeatedly delayed £600m government framework for consultants is transferred to a private sector company
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NewsPlanning stats: residential projects and approvals in August 2013
Persimmon Homes is back in the top spot, while the South-east boasts the most projects in planning
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CommentChanging how we deliver healthcare
A new, community-based model of healthcare could create the equivalent of 40 extra beds per hospital