All Features articles – Page 163

  • Top 150 contractors 2016
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    Top 150 contractors: The rough & tumble

    2016-07-21T07:00:00Z

    This year’s contractors and housebuilders Top 150 shows the sector pulling out of recession, but economic danger remains

  • Lead times
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    Lead times: April - June 2016

    2016-07-21T06:00:00Z

    Lead times have either remained the same or increased, with burgeoning workloads and enquiries and a shortage of skilled labour making further increases more likely

  • BREEAM
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    Sustainable sailor: Land Rover BAR

    2016-07-20T11:05:00Z

    The Land Rover BAR sailing team have embedded sustainability into not just its new base building but also its core ethos

  • Housebuilding
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    Top 20 housebuilders 2016

    2016-07-20T10:28:00Z

    Find out who’s in this year’s league of top housebuilders by housebuilding turnover

  • One Carter Lane
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    Europe's first WELL Building

    2016-07-19T09:39:00Z

    There is now an international standard for measuring how a building impacts on its users’ health and wellbeing. Ike Ijeh looks at how Studio Ben Allen Architects’ One Carter Lane will become the first European project to receive the accreditation

  • Prods
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    What to specify: Off-site

    2016-07-19T06:00:00Z

    This week Tonbridge Grammar School gets a new sixth form study area, Essex County Cricket Club gets 36 balconies and a dementia care home with a clover leaf layout is given a new exterior finish

  • Tony Giddings
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    Interview: Tony Giddings

    2016-07-15T06:00:00Z

    Few people have done more to change the face of the UK’s cities than Tony Giddings, who stood down as partner at Argent at the end of last year

  • Sketch
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    Sketch of the week: Gibraltar

    2016-07-15T06:00:00Z

    This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Alex Chan, associate at The Manser Practice

  • Image of the week
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    Image of the week: Leaving through the back door

    2016-07-15T06:00:00Z

    A removal van drives to the back of 10 Downing Street

  • This week in 2006
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    This week in 2006

    2016-07-15T06:00:00Z

    Building reported on how the imminent Eddington Transport study could impact the construction industry

  • London and New York
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    London vs New York: The market rules

    2016-07-14T06:00:00Z

    London and New York are two of the world’s most successful cities for business. How does commercial property development compare between the two?

  • Theresa May
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    How Theresa May can avoid a construction recession

    2016-07-13T06:00:00Z

    In these days of lightning fast political changes, and possibly dire economic prospects, prime minister Theresa May has to hit the ground running if she is to prevent construction slipping into another recession

  • Ecobuild roundtable
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    Sustainability: The new normal

    2016-07-12T11:33:00Z

    To launch the programme for next year’s show and its central question of redefining sustainability for the construction industry, Ecobuild gathered a panel of experts to debate the question of what sustainability means to them, and to our industry

  • hoUSe
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    Housing Design Awards 2016: Winners

    2016-07-12T06:00:00Z

    This year’s entries reveal some interesting trends in housebuilding in the UK such as a reduction in common space, urban design principles being applied to greenfield sites and the successful use of custom build

  • Egg
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    This pensions crisis can only get worse

    2016-07-08T06:00:00Z

    Consultants that offered generous final salary schemes decades ago are now suffering the consequences of shouldering huge pensions deficits

  • Sketch
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    Sketch of the week: Knightsbridge Crown Court

    2016-07-08T06:00:00Z

    This week’s #buildingdoodle is by Ron Slade, one of the founding structural engineers of WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff

  • badge of honour
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    Image of the week: Badges of honour

    2016-07-08T06:00:00Z

    A giant poppy is carved into the hillside at the Fovant Badges memorial near Salisbury in Wiltshire

  • This week in 1991
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    This week in 1991

    2016-07-08T06:00:00Z

    British developers didn’t take advantage of investment opportunities in the newly dissolved Eastern Bloc

  • Economics
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    Infrastructure update: Land regeneration for housing

    2016-07-07T06:00:00Z

    We consider the complex, multidisciplinary nature of land regeneration and how housing need and government policy are driving increased demand

  • The site of Bristol Arena, due to open in 2018, which is being built by Bouygues
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    Resurgent regional cities

    2016-07-06T06:00:00Z

    Developers and employers are looking outside the capital’s overheated market for opportunities in regional cities. Joey Gardiner goes beyond the northern powerhouse and looks at the prospects for Bristol, Birmingham and Glasgow