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FeaturesInterserve counting the cost of energy-from-waste exit: where did it go wrong?
Interserve has admitted that the cost of quitting the energy-from-waste sector would cost it close to £200m. How on earth did it get into this mess?
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FeaturesA clean, green fighting machine?
The government has revived its interest in green construction, which had been taken firmly off the agenda. But is this strategy a lot of hot air?
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FeaturesTracker: September 2017
The total activity index stayed steady at its highest level since the referendum, with civil engineering growing especially fast
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FeaturesProjects: Bloomberg HQ, London
Foster + Partners’ HQ for Bloomberg breaks with tradition for City of London buildings by respecting the architectural context of its surroundings
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FeaturesProjects: Grenfell - how to build a school in nine weeks
At the base of Grenfell Tower sits a state-of-the-art secondary school – now lying empty. The Education and Skills Funding Agency had a single summer to find 960 pupils a temporary new home
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FeaturesKensington Aldridge Academy - a time lapse
Watch a time lapse video to get a glimpse of how Mace and Portakabin built a school for the Grenfell community in just nine weeks
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FeaturesHousebuilders' Salary Survey 2017: On the up and up
With fears of a housebuilding downturn in abeyance, skills shortages are helping drive up salaries, especially outside London
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FeaturesMarket review: On the rails
In construction, activity is holding up, partly thanks to a big boost from HS2 contract awards in September
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FeaturesLara Poloni: Steady as she goes
As the new boss of Aecom’s EMIA operations, Lara Poloni intends to steer a course through uncertain waters by focusing on the firm’s development role and infrastructure opportunities
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FeaturesWhat to specify: Sustainability
An automated waste collection system, circadian lighting to keep body rhythms in summer mode, and a range of solar collectors that harness the absorption properties of slate, are among this week’s products
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FeaturesCarillion: back to black?
Haemorrhaging both money and management, Carillion’s position evokes that of now-healthy Balfour Beatty three years back. What lessons can it learn from Balfour’s recovery?
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FeaturesProject: Designer dome - the O2's recreation transformation
The original Millennium Dome’s latest incarnation is as a destination for recreation. Andy Pearson finds out how to build a retail outlet village in a tent
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FeaturesLead times: July-September 2017
Companies report being busier, and the lead times of several packages have changed but most have remained level, while little alteration is expected in the next six months
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FeaturesFarmer Review one year on - how has the industry responded?
A year on from Mark Farmer’s dramatic warning that construction must modernise or die, how has the industry responded to the challenge?
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FeaturesParty conferences 2017 round-up: home truths
Did last week’s Conservative Party conference do enough to persuade the industry that the government has what it takes to solve the housing crisis?
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FeaturesProject: North West Cambridge Development
This £1bn development is Cambridge university’s answer to its critical housing shortage. Unusually, the university has taken on the role of developer
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FeaturesCity focus: Kuala Lumpur
Elisabeth Selk and Girish Ramachandran of Arcadis consider the growth of Kuala Lumpur as an attractive FDI destination and its rapid transformation as Asia’s next major regional hub
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FeaturesHousing: the backlash begins
A proposal to bring in an objective calculation of how many homes each council must build is ruffling feathers in Tory heartlands and traditional Labour councils alike. But will a politically fragile government risk pushing through a policy that’s unlikely to do much to boost housing growth?
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FeaturesBirmingham-Manchester corridor: our trends in the North
As work on HS2 gathers pace, one regional venture aims to capitalise on the potential to build in the Birmingham-Manchester corridor
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FeaturesBuilding Awards Project of the Year 2017 shortlist: Part 2
The shortlisted entries for this year’s Building Awards Project of the Year aspire to the very highest functionality and aesthetics