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FeaturesRCA Show 2010: Architecture
Highlights includes a public kitchen infrastructure in King’s Cross and a Gothic horror inspired exploration of the contrasting processes of dissection and cultivation of bodily tissues
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FeaturesTerry Farrell's Regent's Place: Regent’s spark
Sir Terry Farrell’s Regent’s Place is the fruition of a vision that should kick-start the regeneration of one of London’s more grisly thoroughfares. Ike Ijeh reports
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FeaturesInternational costs 2010
Now that the great global roller-coaster seems to be slowing down, where has it left tender prices? Paul Moore of EC Harris looks at how economies around the world have fared …
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Features101 under 28: They’re the young generation and they’ve got something to say
101 Under 28: This week, Building launches a project to find out what construction’s younger generation really think about the industry they’ve chosen to spend their careers in. Roxane McMeeken conducted an initial survey of our sample group, then took three of them to the pub to grill them further ...
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FeaturesInsulation retrofit: Sealing the house
So how do you get a leaky Edwardian building to be so airtight that it can be heated with a single towel rail? Robert Prewett, the architect behind the retrofit, takes us through the project’s first steps …
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FeaturesIs it time to leave the Middle East?
You would forgive UK firms for clambering over each other to escape from Dubai at the moment, yet Hopkins and WSP have vowed to keep their offices open. So do they know something other companies don’t?
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FeaturesIan Tyler: Life moves on
It’s not that Balfour Beatty is taking the recession in its stride exactly, but when the contractor ranked No 1 in the Building Top 150 greets deep government cuts with equanimity, you know it must be doing something right. Emily Wright asks chief executive Ian Tyler what it is
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FeaturesCost model: Part L
The upcoming changes to Part L will crank up the low-carbon agenda. The authors consider the costs and their influence on design
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FeaturesUnder floor building services: ground control
An M&E contractor on a south London civic centre project has come up with a neat way of packaging all the services together at floor level. Stephen Kennett gets down to the detail
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FeaturesChatham Dockyard's salvage operation
Returning a wrecked building to public use is tough enough at the best of times, but when your main contractor goes under, the pressure piles on. Stephen Kennett hears how Chatham Dockyard overcame adversity to open its new cultural hub for the summer tourist season
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FeaturesGraham Shennan on Morgan Sindall's merger
It’s been a month since Morgan Sindall’s building and civils arms became one, and MD Graham Shennan is still explaining that it’s all part of a planned bid for market share. Is Joey Gardiner persuaded?
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FeaturesMarket forecast: On the level
The brief rise in tender prices is over but so, it seems, are the sharp falls that characterised last year.
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The SAP affair: Part L compliance software
Forget house prices, where you’re going on holiday and the benefits of cosmetic surgery - SAP is what everyone’s talking about at parties right now. This crash course in sustainability software explains why
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FeaturesOn the horizon: Global careers
Instead of rushing to join a construction boom, the smart move is to spot one before it starts. With the Global Construction 2020 report in hand, Emily Wright checks out the next four big things. Illustration by Astrid Kogler
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FeaturesJunk Jellyfish theatre emerges on Bankside
Theatre designer Martin Kaltwasser struggles with buiding bureaucrats to deliver this pop-up recycled theatre in Southwark
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FeaturesBSF debate: experts predict future of school building
This morning readers put their questions to an expert panel, and this is what they said…
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FeaturesFirst Impressions: Jean Nouvel's Serpentine summer pavilion
Our latest student is not too impressed with the 10th Serpentine pavilion in Hyde Park
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The tracker: Back to reality
Hopes that increased activity at the start of the year would continue into the summer were dashed as the activity index fell to a six-month low
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FeaturesBAA client profile: Join the crew
In the first of a new series on key clients, Emily Wright meets the men to know at BAA to find out where the opportunities are and what the airport operator is like to work for in the post-framework era
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