All Features articles – Page 127
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Review 2017: Speech! - the year’s aptest quotes
From George Osborne to Lord Stunell, some of the quotes from 2017 in construction
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Review 2017: Family rows - legal spats
It’s the season of goodwill, but that’s unlikely to bring an end to the rows that have blighted the construction industry family this year
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Review 2017: A toast to absent friends - in memorium
From Anna Stewart to Sir Michael Latham, the industry has lost some of its greats this year
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Review 2017: The overcooked sprouts - those who felt the economic heat
If there’s a list of big losers from 2017, then there’s not much doubt that £5.2bn-turnover contractor Carillion is at the top of it
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Review 2017: Did you forget the bread sauce again? - unfulfilled expectations
As well as outright failures there were a number of less dramatic setbacks, delays and disappointments on key projects in 2017
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Fire risk: are we asking the right questions?
Fire prevention in commercial buildings is crucial, but what is the most effective way to ensure risks are minimised? Experts at a round table discussion debated the question
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Building's review of the year 2017
It wasn’t exactly the year that knocked the stuffing out of construction, but nor was it the grand feast many had hoped for. The Building news desk reviews the year in construction
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Review 2017: Dry turkey - a year of disappointments
The big disappointment of the year was, without doubt, the story on the two big-picture issues that define the environment in which our industry works
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Review 2017: A painful topic nobody can avoid
Whatever else might have happened in 2017, the construction industry was never going to be able to look back with pleasure
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Sketch of the week: Outer London town centres
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Adriette Myburgh for New London Architecture.
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This week in 2007
The year everything changed Although our review of the year summarises that this has been a slightly disappointing time for construction, at least we haven’t taken to our beds like Ebenezer Scrooge of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, who was pictured in our review of the year ...
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Online poll: 2017 in construction
This week’s poll: How was construction for the construction industry: good, bad or indifferent?
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CPD 29 2017: BIM workflow for refurbishment projects
This CPD, sponsored by Vectorworks, explains how the organisational structure works for using BIM on existing architecture
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Projects of the year: 2017 in review
Source: Riverfilm / Martin Richardson PLP Architecture’s 22 Bishopsgate This year’s striking schemes include AL_A at the V A museum, Foster + Partners’ Bloomberg HQ, and Herzog de Meuron’s triumph over chaos in Hamburg
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Christmas charity challenge: Piece of cake?
Construction skills, design flair and collaborative teamwork: we are talking, of course, about cake decorating. Three brave teams came to compete in Building’s very sweet Christmas challenge
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Costing Steelwork - coming soon: Retail Buildings
Coming soon: Costing Steelwork: Retail Buildings, January 2018
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Innovation debate - in association with Clearbox
Are you looking to implement innovation or technology in your organisation?