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CommentTrailblazers: The Crystal Palace
What buildings from the last 175 years were futuristic in their time, or marked a change in how the industry built?
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Making Places, Waltham Forest
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Mo Wong, director at MOCT Studio
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CommentBuilding Your Future - mapping the challenges
This week, Building launches its “Your Future” campaign as we celebrate our 175th anniversary year
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CommentThought for Tomorrow: Cities
As part of Building’s 175th anniversary celebrations, we have launched a series in which readers share their visions of how construction could be in 25 years’ time. Here, Matt Goodwin argues that a nuanced approach to urbanisation could transform the capital
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CommentHansom: Not a good look
While the picture in the Carillion inquiries gets ever muddier – not helped by an excess of Watsons – over at Apple, employees are seeing too clearly for their own good and have the bruises to prove it
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NewsCampaigners want inquiry into footballers' Manchester tower
Communities secretary mulls whether to call in Manchester United stars’ 40-storey St Michael’s development
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FeaturesSpherical objects!
Spheres have always been seen as a rather fantastical form for a building. Yet the sphere is in a geometric sense the most efficient form there is – and new technical innovations are making it easier to exploit this potential in practice.
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CommentWhere construction goes from here
The time has come for customer service excellent to become far more widespread among established organisations – the survival of the construction industry depends upon it
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CommentCarillion - so, who knew?
It appears councils were tipped off about Carillion’s problems last summer. The message to suppliers was very different, says Dave Rogers
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NewsKier's construction margins hit as overseas closures bite
Final cost of shutting Caribbean and Hong Kong businesses hits interim profit
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NewsProducts supplier hit by Carillion fallout
Alumasc says contractor’s collapse has knocked confidence in sector
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NewsZaha Hadid lands its biggest Indian project yet
British architect beats four global practices to design Mumbai international airport
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NewsMinisters set to appear before Carillion inquiry
Greg Clark and Esther McVey will face MPs next week
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CommentLegal: Complications with termination
Hamish Lal unpacks Sir Robert McAlpine’s recent court defeat on payment over a terminated contract for work at Centre Point Tower
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NewsWeather continues to dog Aberdeen road, Balfour boss admits
Leo Quinn says he would never had signed deal had he been in charge at time
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CommentLegal: Does keeping it simple keep it safe?
Matthew Jones explains how design and build contracts should be structured to best manage risk
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