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Features50 sustainability stars
In the expanding universe of sustainability, many stars shine out in the firmament. Building celebrates the sector’s top 50 brightest talents
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FeaturesCRASH: The worst is far from over
Despite signs of economic recovery, the scale of homelessness in the UK is undiminished. In fact, a combination of changes to the benefits system and funding cuts to charities means the outlook for the most excluded in society looks even more uncertain
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FeaturesCRASH: The Pilsden Community
The Pilsdon Community is a working farm in Dorset, which provides a refuge for people in crisis and intermittent respite for homeless people. But when they engaged a contractor to renovate a dilapidated barn and stables to create extra space they got their fingers burned. Here’s how working with CRASH ...
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FeaturesCRASH: Let's take things up a gear
The construction industry continued to support CRASH even through the worst years of the downturn. But now that the economy is picking up, the charity is more ambitious than ever
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FeaturesLondon's concrete quarter
The transformation of King’s Cross includes some of the UK’s most sustainable office buildings - and concrete is key to all of them
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FeaturesSketch of the week: It wouldn't happen in Rome
In the first of a new series Ike Ijeh takes a satirical look at London’s incoherent approach to tall buildings
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FeaturesCRASH: Team Effort
Meet two charities CRASH supports: one for people in inner London recovering from addiction, the other supporting a community living in a former convent in Brighton
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FeaturesOnwards and upwards
As Barbour ABI launches its latest monthly Economic Construction Market Reviews, Michael Dall presents highlights, including sector and regional statistics with a focus on the residential sector
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FeaturesYou can have a say in how CRASH is run
As a long-standing patron of CRASH, the managing director at British Gypsum Mike Chaldecott believes he’s found an efficient form of charitable giving for his company
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FeaturesBrush up on your BREEAM
There’s little time left to comment on the draft BREEAM UK New Construction 2014. Yetunde Abdul, BREEAM scheme development manager, takes you on a whistlestop tour of the main changes
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FeaturesEcobuild 2014 programme: Into the zone
Here’s your visitors’ guide to the content zones and speakers at Ecobuild, along with some highlights of the talks to come
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FeaturesCustom build: Give us the tools
Once trumpeted as a way of raising housing output by as many as 50,000 homes a year, custom build was responsible for barely a fifth of that figure last year. So what’s the hold-up and can anything be done to reinvigorate the market?
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FeaturesEcobuild 2014 preview: Now you’re talking…
The pressures on today’s environment are many and Ecobuild is the stimulating forum in which to explore, exchange and debate the possible solutions. Ike Ijeh picks out some of the key themes at this year’s event
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FeaturesEcobuild products: Tour the stands
Manufacturers are being challenged to develop a range of products that meet the more stringent demands of today’s built environment. Happily, they seem to be more than up to it, as these companies, exhibiting at Ecobuild, demonstrate
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FeaturesAgenda 15: Quite a climb
A recovery of sorts is under way, but large parts of the industry are still struggling to grow. As part of Building’s Agenda 15 campaign, we want to hear your views on what the obstacles to growth are and how can we overcome them. To prompt your thinking, we asked ...
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FeaturesWhat to specify: Healthcare products
Healthcare is a sector with very specific needs, but there are innovative building products to suit all projects, from hygienic flooring to security management systems
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FeaturesBuilding Sweden's New Karolinska Solna hospital
Sweden’s first ever PPP project is a £1.3bn hospital that is also Europe’s greenest
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FeaturesCost update Q4 2013
Construction output has a way to go to get back to pre-recession levels; materials prices aren’t going anywhere fast and steel is in free fall.
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FeaturesBehind the scenes at Heathrow Terminal 2
Heathrow’s rebuilt Terminal 2 is six times bigger than the original, yet the design team reckons the layout has been so well thought through that passengers will be able to go from plane to terminal exit in just five minutes. Well, not counting the one hour hold-up at customs, of ...
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FeaturesSkills shortages: Let the right ones in
With the upturn in work has come predictions of a skills shortage. But the CIC’s Jack Pringle thinks the need for architects, QSs and engineers is already so critical that we should be sourcing them from outside the UK and Europe