All Features articles – Page 98
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How Liverpool One is bucking the trend in the retail sector
With the British high street in the doldrums, Ike Ijeh revisits Liverpool One which, 10 years after it first opened, is attracting 30 million visitors each year
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From the archive: 1999 - The beginning of Brexit?
What could the institutions of the European Union have done to so thoroughly distress and disgust the good folk of Britain that they called for the divorce lawyers?
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The Construction Industry Dragon Boat Challenge is back!
Entries are now open for the Construction Industry Dragon Boat Challenge, in aid of CRASH charity
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Lead times: October - December 2018
The past quarter has again shown little movement, however, growing uncertainty over Brexit means this steadiness could soon change
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Image of the week: Kingmaker
Beasts are stalking Surrey this week as finishing touches are put to more than 40 life-size animals and plants at RHS Garden Wisley.
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Sketch of the week: Inn Bloom installation, Mexico City
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Graham Burn, co-founder of Studio MUTT
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Costing steelwork January 2019: Market update
This quarter provides a market update and updates the five cost models previously featured in Costing Steelwork
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Tracker: December 2018
Total activity continued to strengthen, with R M showing a big recovery after last month’s fall. Orders rose in all sectors if more slowly in civils, while housing led the rise in tender enquiries
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CLT: One minute briefing
What is CLT? Why use it? How is CLT different to standard timber frames?
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How is the CLT industry responding to the combustibles ban?
Proponents of cross-laminated timber were up in arms when the government announced its plans to ban combustible materials from the external walls of high-rise buildings
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From the archive: 2006 - A Vic-torious restaging
The Young Vic, known for its gritty, experimental approach, was built as a temporary space in 1970 and was never meant to last more than five years, so was beginning to fall apart by the 1990s
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Kier debt: how can a new boss restore its fortunes?
In six years, most of it under chief executive Haydn Mursell who found himself pushed out last week, Kier moved from a company with a £95m cash surplus, to one that owed £410m. So what went wrong? And who can haul it back up?
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Online poll: Would a no-deal Brexit be disastrous for construction?
This week’s poll: Do you think a no-deal Brexit be disastrous for construction?
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Projects: Peter Hall Performing Arts Centre, Cambridge
Haworth Tompkins’ new project for the Perse School, Cambridge, is part of a trend towards increasingly professional theatre facilities in schools
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Building podcast: Brexit special
What would happen in a no-deal scenario? Listen to interviews with Mace’s Mark Reynolds, the CPA’s Noble Francis and Richard Steer of Gleeds
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CPD 1 2019: Welsh slate
This CPD, sponsored by Welsh SlateTM, will look at how slate can be used in construction, how it should be installed for different purposes and the regulatory standards that need to be followed by those working with the material
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Break through: how AI and machine learning could transform construction
Advances in AI and machine learning could be about to transform the construction sector, using techniques such as image recognition and analysis to reduce risk, prevent schedule overruns, and improve cost-effectiveness.
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Sketch of the week: Science Gallery, London
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Rob Haworth, associate director at LTS Architects
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From the archive: 1999 - Tomorrow's world
Ten years before this week’s exploration of machine learning and artificial intelligence, Building offered readers a “cornucopia” of 99 things to look out for in 1999
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Image of the week: Once in a red moon
During the terrifying-sounding ‘super blood wolf moon’ eclipse event earlier this week, the moon rose over a statue of a mythical Kelpie water spirit near Falkirk