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FeaturesSustainability glossary - any suggestions?
Don't know your PVs from your EPCs? If no send in your suggestions for Building's new sustainabilty glossary
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FeaturesGoodbye Mr prescott, hello…
On Sunday Labour will elect its new deputy leader. Of the six candidates, only two have garnered the support of the three major construction unions: Peter Hain and Jon Cruddas. Cruddas tells Mark Leftly why he is still the outsider and Hain talks tough to Dan Stewart. Portraits by ...
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FeaturesCost model: Visitor centres
Visitor centres give clients and their designers a great opportunity to make an architectural statement. At the same time, a lot of functions need to be squeezed into compact buildings. Neal Kalita of Davis Langdon examines how style and function can be reconciled
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FeaturesIn times of famine
In the second part of our shortages series Katie Puckett examines how the ever-increasing demand from Asia and Europe is pushing the price of raw materials sky high
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Features… and cut!
The politicians may want to reduce domestic carbon emissions to zero, but it’s the physicists and engineers that will decide whether it can be done. Thomas Lane took a trip to Watford to look the latest technology in the latest prototypes
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FeaturesMight as well try and catch the wind
Micro-turbines may be the height of fashion, but are they any good? In the third part of our series on renewable energy sources, Alistair King finds out more
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FeaturesThe ultimate networking event
More than 200 attend Building’s reception for decision-makers in government and industry
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FeaturesSafer Skyline is now backed by 20 of Britain’s top 30 contractors and housebuilders
This is in addition to the 65MPs who support us …
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FeaturesIs the business of recruitment corrupt?
Some construction companies are accusing the recruitment industry of holding them to ransom, but is it simply doing the best for employees?
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FeaturesShould English Partnerships clamp down on buy-to-let?
EP decided to curb buy-to-let sales on some of its sites recently. Should it be trying to buck the market?
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FeaturesTile-effect cladding
Plastic building products manufacturer Stormking has launched a tile-effect cladding panel suitable for off-site housing applications.
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FeaturesWestfield at White City: Westway to the world
Need any more evidence of Westfield’s massive ambitions? How about these 14 cranes looming over west London, and the huge mall rising around them. Or the fact that it ditched its contractor to take on this monster of a project by itself.
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FeaturesReasons to be fearful
So, developers are racing to pour money into City offices and regeneration megaprojects, tender notices are flying out for vast school and social housing renewal programmes, work is threatening to start on the Olympic venues, the mighty Thames Gateway is looming … and everyone is getting worried.
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FeaturesThe mighty bouche
Janet Street-Porter is renowned for having an opinion on absolutely everything and it seems the construction industry is no exception.
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FeaturesWho’s getting their hooks into you?
As order books grow to unfeasible lengths, firms are increasingly desperate to recruit. Unfortunately, they’re all fishing in each other’s pond, with increasingly evil results.
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Country focus: Czech Republic
A thriving economy and the biggest residential boom since the Velvet Revolution are driving the Czech market, report Miroslav Vasko and Pavel Cermák of the Prague office of EC Harris
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FeaturesWestfield's Peter Miller: Would you like to work for us?
That chap over on the right is Peter Miller, and he’s a big cheese at developer Westfield. Peter has a lot of work on his hands, and so he’s cunningly turned a regular interview into a recruitment advert aimed at you, dear reader. Katie Puckett listened to the pitch. And ...
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FeaturesThe burning question
With coal and oil reserves running low, and the pressure on to reduce carbon emissions, you’d have thought the government would be eager to promote combined heat and power. So, why isn’t it? Alistair King reports, in the second article of a series on green energy
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FeaturesTime for some answers
Building’s inaugural webinar on the CDM regulations raised all manner of questions, not all of which were dealt with at the time. Here, Peter Caplehorn of Scott Brownrigg tackles some more
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FeaturesLesson plan
When Shropshire council decided to merge two primary schools in Shrewsbury into one new building, its key criteria were sustainability and speed. Having won beacon status for its work on sustainable energy, the council insisted that the £2.8m, 1,500m2 Bicton primary school reflect its environmental values.