All Features articles – Page 254
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FeaturesFoster + Partners' Queen Alia airport
Foster + Partners’ new airport in Jordan uses a mix of in-situ and precast concrete techniques to create a mesmerising pattern of shallow domes, curving beams and tapering columns
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FeaturesEco policy: No sense of direction
Building’s latest White Paper suggests that public and private sector clients are as frustrated as the rest of the industry with government eco policy
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FeaturesThe tracker: April 2013
Construction activity increased in April as did orders, employment and tender prices. However, Experian Economics reports that financial constraints remain a drag on growth
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FeaturesInternational Salary Survey 2013
Many UK professionals are looking abroad to sell their skills. Building consults Hays’ International Salary Survey 2013 to pick out promising destinations
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FeaturesCaptains of industry
This year construction is higher up the political agenda than ever, with calls for fresh investment. The government has responded and is shortly expected to unveil its Industrial Strategy for Construction
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FeaturesThe industry has had its say ...
Five hundred people responded to our questionnaire in the run-up to the Government Construction Summit next month. Here’s a flavour of what they said …
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FeaturesSerpentine Pavilion: A snake in the grass
Sou Fujimoto’s Serpentine Pavilion is a geometric structure, but also organic and cloud-like. It’s an impressive deception. So how did the team pull it off?
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FeaturesInterview: Glenn Howells
Glenn Howells tells Building why we need to abandon our fifties sense of order and totally rethink how we use the built environment
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FeaturesWhat London's new office clients want
Future tenants of the City’s major office buildings are increasingly likely to hail from the Far East - and their requirements may come as a bit of a surprise
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FeaturesBlacklisting: Human impact
Many of the people allegedly involved in the blacklisting scandal still work in construction. Should we be worried?
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FeaturesCost update Q1 2013
Building costs rose in the first quarter, but consumer inflation is falling, metal prices are sliding and manufactured goods are slowing down. Peter Fordham of Davis Langdon, an Aecom company reports
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FeaturesThe Mary Rose museum
Portsmouth now has an ingenious modern building that pays fitting tribute to an archaeological treasure
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FeaturesInterview with Dean Clegg, Sainsbury's
The development director for Sainsbury’s on why there’s still a future in building big supermarkets
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FeaturesHow advertising has changed ...
Two adverts from the 1970s of a type you definitely wouldn’t see in Building’s pages today
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FeaturesIn focus: Kier
In the final of our quick fire guides to recent changes at major contractors, we look at Kier
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FeaturesDanger: recovery in sight
There may be hints of a modest recovery for construction, but is it prepared for the risks that brings?
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FeaturesHarry Handelsman: The Pearly King
Manhattan Loft Corporation’s chief executive on transforming the East End and keeping overseas buyers at bay
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FeaturesLatest roofing products
No matter the pitch or degree, there are innovative roofing products on the market, from replacements tiles for a listed church to rooflights you can walk all over
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