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FeaturesFit-out update: Office fit-out
Phil Brown reports on one of the busiest markets for contractors
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Projects update: Sustainability
Amec may have been first out of the blocks to sign up to Envirowise, but there's no need to get left behind. You can contribute to several initiatives without leaving your desk …
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FeaturesWhy not work in ... Belfast
Investors and confidence are coming back to Belfast. Robert Smith of Hays Construction & Property can help you get in on the action
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FeaturesShrewd Operator
The winner of this year's Building Award for Chief Executive of the Year is John White, boss of Persimmon, the UK's biggest housebuilder.
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FeaturesForget T5, here's T-Rex
Beijing is about to get an airport that is large enough to handle the entire population of Britain in a single year, thanks to yet another collaboration between Arup and Foster and Partners
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FeaturesPaul's problems with women
In April 2001, Simons Group boss Paul Hodgkinson used the pages of Building to make a bold pledge: that 50% of his staff would be female by 2011. It's five years on, but is he halfway there? Photographs by Julian Anderson
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FeaturesThe nightmare has begun
The industry is in a state of blind panic over Part L, the revised energy regulations implemented yesterday. Thomas Lane explains what we now can and can't build - and why we should all keep panicking …
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Enough hot air
In the first of a new series of fortnightly columns, Robert Webb asks if the drive towards sustainability leaves the industry poised for a quiet revolution
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FeaturesLike father, like daughter
It takes a certain type of woman to follow in her father's footsteps, particularly if his job involves working 100-hour weeks on a building site or being paid to dress up in a wig. Emily Wright meets an architect, a lawyer, a small contractor and two very similar looking facilities ...
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FeaturesThe carbon factor
First it was Coldplay, then David Cameron, now even parts of the gas-guzzling construction industry are trying to go ‘carbon neutral'. Katie Puckett reports on how mounting pressure from clients, the government, investors and consumers is forcing the industry to face up to its eco sins. Illustration by Michelle Thompson
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FeaturesHow to survive … a CV overhaul
Amaya Lopez offers five points to consider before tackling that most painful of chores, compiling your CV
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FeaturesSustainability: Drainage systems
With global warming increasing flood risk, projects are turning to sustainable urban drainage systems for solutions. Here, Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon considers the options and costs.
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FeaturesIs this a joke?
Architectural practice FAT has a reputation for taking the mick. But its new social housing scheme in Manchester is at once playful and perfectly serious.
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FeaturesThe missionaries
Stepping down after seven years as a CABE commissioner, Sunand Prasad has plenty of advice about how to make a success of the job.
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FeaturesA Dagenham Wonderland
Shiny pixelated bricks, mirrored blocks, multi-height openings and sliding doors that give surprising views from all angles - DSDHA's John Perry Children's Centre would delight Alice, herself
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PFI: how the changes effect you
When Gordon Brown unveiled a paper on the future of the PFI alongside his tenth Budget, the procurement method's supporters breathed a sigh of relief. But the document is not a love letter: it sets out a raft of measures to update and improve the process. Mark Leftly translates the ...