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FeaturesAsian 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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CommentHansom: 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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CommentThought 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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FeaturesOnline 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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FeaturesCosting 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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NewsWork finally restarts on stalled Carillion scheme
The Vaux development has been stopped for the past six months
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CommentLegal: 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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NewsGraham Construction to build new Edinburgh eye hospital
The new building will replace the existing Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion, built in 1969
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FeaturesImage 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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NewsPlanners green-light Liverpool factory conversion
Once transformed, the disused factory will house 35 loft-style apartments
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NewsBrum’s Calthorpe Estate commissions new masterplan
Broadway Malyan appointed to create ‘long-term vision’ for 640ha swathe of city
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FeaturesSketch 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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FeaturesFrom 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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NewsLast chance to enter survey: How is Brexit uncertainty affecting you?
With “no deal” now a real possibility, tell us what’s at stake for construction. Complete the survey by Friday 3 August and win £60 in retail vouchers.
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NewsFosters’ 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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CommentLegal: 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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NewsPeers call on industry to get its act together over off-site manufacturing
House of Lords Science Technology committee report calls for ‘strong leadership’ from the Construction Leadership Council
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NewsMPs 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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NewsArcadis names new boss for Asia Pacific
Greg Steele has been the firm’s Australia Pacific chief exec for eight years
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NewsHighways England to consult again on £1.6bn Stonehenge road job
Turner Townsend are providing a host of services on the scheme