More Focus – Page 52
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FeaturesProjects: Smith's Dock, North Shields
Urban Splash and Places for People’s £140m regeneration of a North Shields dockyard at Smith’s Dock includes a high proportion of modular homes manufactured offsite
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FeaturesFinancial results: it's bad for Interserve, but how is construction faring in 2019?
The UK contractors’ financial results are in. We know it’s been a bad year for Interserve, but how have the rest of them done?
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FeaturesDevelopment update: residential
Changes to the planning system are designed to accelerate housebuilding by bringing new entrants into the market
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FeaturesProjects: London Screen Academy, Islington, London
Turning a former radio factory into a sixth-form film and television school proved a structural challenge for the project team
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Features'Young people in construction' survey - £50 Amazon vouchers prize draw
Building is calling on all readers under 30 to take part in an important piece of research
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FeaturesCan contractors cope with payment practice reforms?
Main contractors are under pressure to reform their payment practices, but will speeding up payments push more of them to the brink?
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FeaturesLife after Help to Buy
After six years of cheap loans for homebuyers, Help to Buy is being wound down. How will housebuilders cope with the change?
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FeaturesLondon contractors market update
What impact is the uncertainty around Brexit having on main contractor and MEP contractors’ London workloads?
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FeaturesAt a crunch shareholder meeting two hours before Interserve went under, most seats were empty
Only three people asked questions and two of them were the same
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FeaturesHow India's construction sector is heating up
The Indian construction market is hot property right now, and foreign firms are keen to get a piece of it
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FeaturesProjects: Cambridge Mosque
When Marks Barfield Architects was asked to design Cambridge’s first purpose-built mosque, it turned for inspiration to the Garden of Paradise
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FeaturesInterserve crisis: ahead of Friday's crucial vote, will shareholders vote to rescue the contractor?
As Interserve’s financial woes start to undermine its ability to win work, the firm’s future hangs on a choice between two rival rescue plans
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FeaturesSME Profile: Heritage practice sets sights on ‘John Lewis’ model
Purcell looks to safeguard future of the business with move into employee ownership
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FeaturesAre rooftop developments the answer to London’s housing crisis?
Airspace developers tell us to imagine thousands of new homes atop existing buildings – but to make that happen they need planners to share their vision.
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FeaturesYour guide to Mipim 2019
As we prepare to bid a tearful farewell to Europe, there’s time for one last knees-up as EU members with our international colleagues at the annual property fair in the south of France. But it won’t all be drowning our sorrows – there will also be much talk about our ...
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FeaturesProjects: Bloomsbury Theatre, London
Nicholas Hare Architects was faced with an unusual set of challenges in its refurbishment of UCL’s Bloomsbury Theatre, which is wrapped around by a variety of other university facilities that had to remain open during works.
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FeaturesSustainability: Emissions regulations
The regulations around greenhouse gas emissions come from a variety of international, European and UK sources and are constantly changing
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FeaturesPlastic waste in construction - is the sector doing enough?
Oceans of plastic waste are created each year by the construction industry, and the public is calling for action. So what are construction firms doing to reduce their discarded plastic, and what more could be done?
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FeaturesA tale of two hospitals: how Carillion's unfinished jobs are shaping up
Among the casualties of Carillion’s collapse were two major new hospital schemes, the Midland Metropolitan and the Royal Liverpool. After lying abandoned for months, work is at last restarting on site – but both are now years behind schedule.
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FeaturesThe Tulip: a point of contention
In the forest of tall and quirky structures that is the City of London, it’s beginning to seem that nothing is too bizarre to get built. So why has Fosters’ proposed Tulip prompted such a barrage of opposition? And will it nevertheless gain approval?