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The tracker: That sinking feeling
Construction workload is expected to keep falling over the next three months, but the pace of decline should begin to ease, according to Experian Marketing Information Services
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FeaturesGovernment cuts: Find out where the money is currently spent
Here we show government spending by department, including capital funding, and where it’s expected they’ll be forced to make savings
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FeaturesComprehensive spending review: George's marvellous medicine
The construction industry will need more than a spoonful of sugar to help the chancellor’s medicine go down. Here we sum up where we are now and our panel of experts tell us what they’re expecting on Wednesday
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FeaturesEco co-housing schemes: Give it a spin
The UK has begun experimenting with co-housing schemes that aim to slash emissions while encouraging a more sustainable lifestyle - as you can imagine, communal washing machines that run on harvested rainwater are de rigueur
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FeaturesHow SMEs cut carbon: Best foot forward
SMEs have a vital role to play in helping the UK meet its carbon reduction targets. So they’d better be ready for the challenge, says Kristina Smith, because more and more clients are relying on these firms to help them shrink their carbon footprint
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FeaturesArena Stage, Washington by Bing Thom: Through a glass darkly
Peer closely and you’ll make out not one theatre behind that glass facade, but three. It’s Bing Thom Architects’ audacious response to the need to make artistic and architectural sense of two dysfunctional theatres in a deprived area of Washington DC. Ike Ijeh was wowed
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FeaturesBuilding Intelligence Q2 2010: Surprisingly buoyant
The gloomy forecast in the Tracker is in stark contrast to a surprisingly buoyant second quarter. Now, the good news, from Experian Marketing Information Services
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FeaturesThe QS apprentice
The trainee QS who joined consultant Cyril Sweett via CSTT discusses life as a apprentice
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FeaturesLime slice
The £35m Lime Street Gateway project in Liverpool opened this week. Balfour Beatty was the contractor on the Glen Howells designed scheme
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FeaturesSustainability: Tax incentives
The government wants to encourage energy-efficient investment. Steve Smith and Richard Quartermaine of Cyril Sweett look at what tax incentives are available
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FeaturesGilt trip: Refurbishing the Savoy hotel
The refurbished Savoy hotel looks a million dollars - which is just as well because it cost more than £200m to do up. Happily nobody was to blame for the cost and time overruns - except possibly the owner’s insatiably lavish tastes
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FeaturesHansom: Terms and conditions
CVs are solicited this week from anyone with a way with words, a lupine surname, a deep affinity with the heroes of trashy American cinema and waitering skills. Eyewatering dress sense desirable
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FeaturesInterview with WSP's Paul Dollin: Cheer leader
Paul Dollin, WSP’s enthusiastic new UK boss, has no intention of ’waking up American’. So the former Atkins man intends to grow the UK business by pushing even harder into infrastructure, particularly rail and nuclear. Just don’t expect to see any more Shards going up
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Wonders & blunders with Rob Ewen
Mace director Rob Ewen tips his hat to a sustainable skyscraper in Manhattan, but is less thrilled with the British tower blocks of the sixties and seventies
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FeaturesBack to front
We’re into month three of turning a leaky Edwardian house into a model of energy efficiency. Robert Prewett, the project architect, reports on the specification and installation of the front and rear windows
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FeaturesWho’s running Archial now?
This architect has been through many changes of name and ownership in its 14-year history, but who could have predicted that it would eventually go Canadian? Joey Gardiner finds out how the events came about
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FeaturesMark Prisk: He’s no guru, but Prisk aims to enlighten us anyway
New construction minister wants to simplify procurement, clarify planning and expand markets
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FeaturesTop 250 Consultants 2010: The Hungry Years
The year’s tables of the UK biggest consultants show that many of them have too many mouths to feed, which means they will face painful choices in the next 12 months. Roxane McMeeken looks at how they got into this position. To accompany the tables, which are will , we ...
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FeaturesFirst Impressions: The Iranian Embassy in London
Two Nottingham Trent University students on the controversial Daneshgar-designed marble and stone cube modernist scheme
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FeaturesSolar gains and the new Part L: unless your building is a glass box it’s great news
What impact will the new limits on solar gains have on office design?