All Features articles – Page 43
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Building Awards 2021: CEO of the Year
Read about the winner and shortlisted entries for this year’s CEO of the Year award
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Costing Steelwork 18: Market update
Costing Steelwork is a series from Aecom, BCSA and Steel for Life that provides guidance on costing structural steelwork. This quarter provides a market update and updates the five cost models previously featured in Costing Steelwork
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CPD 14 2021: Bridging the performance gap
This Kingspan Insulation sponsored CPD looks at the need to reduce heat loss through thermal bridges in the light of coming changes in statutory energy performance requirements. DEADLINE TO COMPLETE: 7 January 2022
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CPD 13 2021: Fire-resistant expansion movement joints
This CPD, sponsored by NCC (Movement Joint Systems), looks at the key criteria and considerations for selecting, specifiying and installing fire-resistant expansion movement joints and compares the options. DEADLINE TO COMPLETE: 7 January 2022
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Building Awards 2021: Construction/Consultant Surveyor of the Year (fewer than 100 staff)
Read about the winner and shortlisted entries for this year’s Construction/Consultant Surveyor of the Year (fewer than 100 staff) category
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Building Awards 2021: Construction/Consultant Surveyor of the Year (100 staff or over)
Read about the winner and shortlisted entries for this year’s Construction/Consultant Surveyor of the Year (100 staff or over) category
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CPD 12 2021: Window refurbishment in social housing
This Eurocell sponsored CPD examines the specification options for refurbishing or replacing window units in local authority owned homes or other social housing. DEADLINE TO COMPLETE: 24 December 2021
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Client contract award and planning data - October 2021
Glenigan’s sector by sector monthly round up of top spending clients and planning wins
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Infrastructure update: Carbon capture and storage
Carbon capture and storage will play a vital role in meeting the UK’s emissions reduction targets. Agnieszka Krzyzaniak and Tim Cooper of Arcadis consider how close the UK is to large-scale application of this technology
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Planning approvals by value - October 2021
October saw an increase in the value of planning approvals from September’s £8.04bn to £8.7bn according to Glenigan’s sector by sector league table of top spending clients
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Top client contract awards - October 2021
New contract awards recovered slightly from September’s £4.74bn to £5.28bn in October according to Glenigan’s sector by sector league table of top spending clients
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Annual planning approvals by value to October 2021
Annual planning approvals were worth £116bn in the year to October according to Glenigan’s sector by sector league table
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5 minutes with … Pedro Gil at Studio Gil
The founder and director Studio Gil is particularly proud of the work he has done for the Latin American community in London. He is also slightly obsessed with mince pies
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CPD 11: How to avoid brick stains and efflorescence
This Vandersanden sponsored CPD explains how salt, lime and gypsum efflorescence can stain brick facades and the options for prevention and correction. DEADLINE TO COMPLETE: 10 December 2021
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Market forecast: On the up and up
Acute inflation in the sector is pushing up tender prices, and with no end in sight to the pressures, this could continue well beyond 2022
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5 minutes with … Matt Keen at Autodesk
The industry strategist at Autodesk has been running large-scale construction projects since his mid-20s – but he is still scared of heights. He wishes the industry would do more to appeal to the next generation
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Survey results: What benefits and incentives are firms offering to attract and retain staff?
The third in our series of staff management surveys looks at what construction firms are doing to find and keep staff
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Energy-saving renovation of an apartment building: Easy, safe and clean installation
A case study of the retrofit of a Swiss apartment block
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5 minutes with … Rebecca Thomas at Fathom Architects
The director at Fathom Architects is a champion of craftspeople and wants to see a wider appreciation for creative processes. She is also an advocate of the Friday night margarita/margherita combination
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Interview: Andrew Dickman and Kevin Theobold of Tritax Symmetry
Building Boardroom talks to the director and construction head at one of the UK’s biggest deliverers of logistics facilities about the changing demands of the market and how Tritax Symmetry plans to meet them. Josephine Smit reports