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FeaturesDown to the wire: Cranes around Spurs' stadium drops from five to three
Mace’s late-running scheme to build Tottenham Hotspur’s new stadium has seen the number of tower cranes operating drop by two over the last week
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FeaturesPass master: Bouygues completes work on £120m Cambridge Assessment scheme
The Triangle Building, designed by Eric Parry Architects, is the new headquarters for Cambridge Assessment, the University of Cambridge’s exams group
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FeaturesWord on the street: Westfield architect announces second project in Hong Kong
The architect behind London’s Westfield shopping centre in White City has announced its second project with Hong Kong China Travel Service, a mall in the coastal province of Ningbo. Benoy has unveiled plans for a retail and commercial centre, which will be known as the Ningbo If ...
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FeaturesBuilding's graduate panel: the next generation of construction professionals - part 1
We bring together a dozen young professionals who’ve recently started out in the built environment sector, to ask about their hopes and dreams for the future of construction
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FeaturesCapital punishment: London to take brunt of Brexit
London looks likely to be hardest hit by the ill effects of Brexit, especially if we end up leaving the EU without a deal
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FeaturesInternational cost comparison 2018
Arcadis’ Will Waller analyses the 2018 Arcadis annual survey of global construction costs
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FeaturesWhy aren't we building more zero-bills homes?
Building caught up with Bill Dunster to chat about the ideas in his new book, Zed Life: How to Build a Low-Carbon Society Today
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FeaturesProjects: V&A Dundee
Kengo Kuma’s V A Dundee, inspired by the cliffs of the north-east Scotland coast, is the museum’s first venue outside of London
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FeaturesBrexit: Is anyone listening?
The construction industry feels sidelined by the government in its vision for Brexit, complaining that ministers just aren’t listening. But is the sector itself partly to blame for failing to present a clear and unified voice?
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FeaturesCrossrail: The long wait
As Crossrail’s opening date is pushed further and further into the future and costs spiral over budget, Joey Gardiner asks why the biggest construction project in Europe has swerved so far off track and how this could impact the rest of the industry
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FeaturesBuilding Awards 2018: Building magazine's Project of the Year shortlist part 2
With this year’s Building Awards shortlist announced, we take a look at the nominees for Building magazine’s Project of the Year
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FeaturesCost update Q2 2018
Material and labour prices are continuing to rise, but global economic uncertainty may affect the numbers in future
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FeaturesBuilding Awards 2018: Building magazine's Project of the Year shortlist part 1
With this year’s Building Awards shortlist announced, we take a look at the nominees for Building magazine’s Project of the Year
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FeaturesSchool daze: What’s happening to the government’s building plan?
Although the government has committed to spending £23bn on school building programmes up to 2021, many contractors and consultants are convinced the pipeline of work has slowed. Joey Gardiner asks how significant a recent fall in capital spending could be for construction
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FeaturesSchools: Learning to love modular
Offsite construction can offer an answer to England’s struggling school estate. But manufacturers are battling to banish dated perceptions of what modular means. Jordan Marshall reports
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FeaturesTracker: July 2018
Activity, employment prospects and demand are all showing slower growth, with the cost of labour, materials shortages and financial constraints on the rise.
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FeaturesBuilding utopia? How Dudley College was built using a new form of procurement
When Dudley College wanted to build a £10m Centre for Advanced Building Technologies, it plumped for a new form of procurement – an insurance model that benefits the whole supply chain and covers cost overruns
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FeaturesEscape to the beach: building the perfect sandcastle
Summer may feel like it has well and truly finished, but hopefully those across the sector managed to escape to the beach. Here, four professionals from across the sector detail how to build the perfect sandcastle
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FeaturesTune in to the trends at this year’s UK Construction Week
Source: UKCW Trends come and go but buildings stay put. That’s why construction professionals must stay ahead of the trends and build for the future – an easy task at this year’s UK Construction Week (UKCW) at Birmingham’s NEC between 9 – 11 October. ...
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FeaturesModular construction: Along the right lines?
While plenty of excitement is being generated by the push for modular construction – touted as the answer to the UK’s housing crisis – so far the sector has produced very few homes. Joey Gardiner asks if the industry can push past the setbacks