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FeaturesEuro contractors: Is the UK market in their grip?
Even the big guns in this year’s Top 200 European contractors league tables will feel the pain as public spending shrinks everywhere. But they could find good hunting among the UK’s large projects. Dave Lowery examines what lies behind the rankings listed over the next nine pages
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FeaturesA hard man to lose: Rob Holden on leaving Crossrail
When Rob Holden, chief executive of Crossrail, resigned last week, the company was quick to try to reassure its partners. But questions remain as to why he quit and where his departure leaves the £14.5bn project in its most critical year so far
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FeaturesHow paternity rights and abolition of retirement age will hit construction
The Coalition government’s new paternity rights will cause major headache for employers in the male-dominated building industry
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FeaturesHow Balfour Beatty drained its site using state-of-the-art 'blotting paper'
The contractor used 55,000 strips of permeable polyseter to enable work on a saturated site to start in months rather than years
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Three of a kind: Dublin airport's Terminal 2
Dublin airport’s new Terminal 2 consists of three different elements, straddling a road. What unites the building is the curving roof form - made up of more than 300 flat panel shapes. Stephen Kennett meets the designers
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FeaturesHeat, Dust and opportunity in Iraq: Back to Basra
Improved security and oil-funded mega projects make Iraq a land of rising opportunity for British companies starved of contracts at home. That’s not to say working there is a picnic … Building reports from the country’s biggest construction site
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Clay roof tiles
Tile maker Redland’s Rosemary clay tiles have been used to reroof a house in Perth, Western Australia
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FeaturesA VAT gift to cowboys?
The government’s VAT hike to 20% this month has been met with dismay throughout construction. But while some sectors will be exempt, small builders are bound to be hit as cash-strapped homeowners turn to the black market
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FeaturesRobert Deatker: High flyer
Turner & Townsend’s Robert Deatker is the man responsible for ensuring the smooth delivery of one of the UK’s most mind-bogglingly complex schemes - the 2 million ft2 London Bridge Quarter, which includes the 310m Shard. And he’s determined to pull it off
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FeaturesNew industrialists: Waste and power station design
Dark satanic mills were once, in fact, exuberant celebrations of technology and design. Now Cabe’s new guidelines on power stations and waste facilities will try to put the architecture back into industry
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Mototrised roof hatches
Stoke sixthform college fittted with Bilco D-50T hatches that double as smoke vents
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Heat reflective roofing membrane
BriggsAmasco installs UltraPly TPO membrane on John Fernley College
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FeaturesSustainability: Zeroing In
Cyril Sweett reviews the recommendations from the Zero Carbon Hub’s Carbon Compliance Task Group and considers the implications for the definition of a zero-carbon home from 2016
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FeaturesFuturistic suite in Sweden's Ice Hotel
Graduate architect and designer create a temporary ice suite inspired by Disney’s Tron: Legacy
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Five projects in 2011 worth getting excited about
The public sector fairy tale is well and truly over - but that doesn’t mean that work in 2011 will completely dry up. Here are five of the most exciting projects of the year ahead.
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FeaturesCasualties and survival tactics for 2011
If 2010 was the year of the wreckage, then 2011 has to be the year of crawling out of it