All Features articles – Page 48
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In business: Keepmoat’s Tim Beale
Chief executive of partnerships builder Keepmoat, says business is booming amid speculation on a sale or flotation
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CPD 8 2021: Passive fire protection for structural steel
This CPD, sponsored by ROCKWOOL, explains the options for fire protection on steel-framed buildings as well as the relevant product standards and building regulations. DEADLINE TO COMPLETE: 14 September 2021
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Liverpool defends its status as a city of sensitive regeneration – but Unesco begs to differ
A badge of honour or a certificate not worth the trouble? Liverpool’s loss of its world heritage status has opened a debate about the purpose and value of the designation
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William Sutton Prize invites entries from architects
Winners of Clarion Housing Group’s sustainability and placemaking prize will see their design concept trialled on a major development site
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Market forecast: Bouncing back
Rising demand and tightening supply are driving up both costs and tender prices. How much of this is just a spike rather than an underlying upward economic trend?
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Future forecast: June – August 2021
The latest quarterly sentiment survey by Building Boardroom shows office and retail on the verge of recovery, with those sectors showing the greatest rise in enquiries, while the specialism with the most optimism about future workload has switched now to engineers
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How to learn from your mistakes
Losing a bid is an opportunity to learn what went wrong and be better prepared next time
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CPD 7 2021: PVCu windows for medium-rise buildings
This CPD, sponsored by Eurocell, assesses the use of PVCu windows on medium- to high-rise buildings and outlines design, installation, ventilation and other aspects a developer would need to consider. DEADLINE TO COMPLETE: 10 September 2021
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The deal with CBRE has been lauded as a triumph but the difficult questions now start for T&T
Keeping staff happy and maintaining autonomy at listed US giant are the key challenges facing consultant’s UK bosses
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Market overview: Green travel infrastructure
The latest Building Boardroom market overview examines the move towards active travel infrastructure such as cycleways and pedestrianised thoroughfares, and the variety of funding streams in place to drive this. Josephine Smit reports
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NMCN faces crucial few weeks as bad news keeps on coming
The recent announcement the firm was yet again revising its losses upwards for last year felt eerily familiar, writes Dave Rogers
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In Business: Hill Group’s Andy Hill
Founder and chief executive of the UK’s third-biggest privately owned developer on why he aims to focus on value and quality, rather than making money
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5 minutes with … Olutayo Adebowale at Cirkadia and the Design Council
The director at consultant Cirkadia on the importance of social value, her love of dress design and why Nigerian food is the cuisine to watch
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Cost model: Data centres
Data centres have become vital infrastructure, but as their importance has grown, so too have their size, security threats and carbon output
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Kingston Cycle Hub: no ordinary bike shed
Kingston council has spent £32m upgrading the borough’s cycling facilities, including a stylish storage hub beside the railway station with secure space for 400 bicycles. Could this be the direction of travel across the country?
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What are we going to do about concrete?
One of the most versatile materials on the planet, concrete is also one of the most polluting. But pressure is growing on the cement industry to come up with ways to reduce its carbon footprint
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Your free ticket to the home of offsite technology innovation
The construction sector is at a critical crossroads - offsite technology is now recognised as providing the most important solution to overcome many of the challenges facing the industry today
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Interview: John Tonkiss of McCarthy Stone
Later living is an obvious growth area in housebuilding. Building Boardroom talks with the chief exec of one of the UK’s biggest players in the sector about its evolving strategy on tenure, MMC and the supply chain
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Planning reforms: the radical ideas that may now never happen
Last month’s by-election defeat saw Tory fears about the political impact of widespread planning reforms become a reality. The government now has little choice other than to water them down
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‘Freedom day’: what it means for construction employers
As the ‘work from home where possible’ guidance ends, firms look to bring staff back into the office – but they are not rushing to reset to 2019 ways of working