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FeaturesGrenfell Tower: Heated debate
The Grenfell Tower fire has led to calls for fire safety regulations to be examined. But this was not the first warning sign that the current rules are not fit for purpose. What can be done to make sure a tragedy on this scale doesn’t happen again?
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FeaturesNational Gallery of Ireland: Windows of opportunity
Heneghan Peng’s £25m refurbishment of the National Gallery of Ireland is a sensitive and sometimes almost invisible intervention into an idiosyncratic building
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FeaturesMarket review: Crawling along
Macroeconomic signals have been mixed over the past month and the economy had the slowest rate of growth of any G7 economy in Q1
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FeaturesHow Brexit got personal
The focus of Brexit so far has been the possible impact on construction’s growing skills shortage. But how is the UK’s vote to leave affecting the EU nationals themselves and what can employers do to ensure that they stay?
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FeaturesHow six women saved the 'heart' of a £120m project
On International Women in Engineering Day, a female project team from LSE’s Centre Buildings Redevelopment tell their story
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FeaturesBrexit and construction law: Changing times
One year on from the EU referendum, nobody knows how a post-Brexit world will look
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FeaturesWhat to specify: Commercial/offices
A range of solutions for the fit-out of offices and commercial premises have been released by companies including Armstrong Ceilings, Mitsubishi Electric and Vent-Axia
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Features‘Projects won’t be delivered’
With the industry dependent on EU workers, major restrictions on immigration as part of a ‘hard Brexit’ could be disastrous
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FeaturesUnder a cloud
Commercial development in the City has had the shadow of Brexit looming over it for a year now
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FeaturesSustainability: Sustainable retail
Sustainable retail buildings present a major opportunity to provide improved quality and a better experience for employees, shoppers and communities
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FeaturesGrenfell Tower: Construction facts
Building’s technical editor considers what is known about the building and the recent upgrade
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FeaturesGeneral election in 1992
Another election kicked off by a Conservative prime minister to secure a solid mandate – but what a difference
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FeaturesClose to the edge
Kengo Kuma’s extraordinarily complex design for the V A’s outpost in Dundee would not have been possible without 3D modelling and analysis tools, not to mention complex construction techniques, that have left the city with a building of true grit
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FeaturesHow did construction’s candidates perform in the election?
Building spoke to three construction professionals who were standing in the general election, here is how they got on…
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FeaturesHow did construction vote in the election?
After the shock election result last week, we asked Building readers to tell us how they actually voted in an online poll
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FeaturesExecutive pay: Scrutiny on the bounty
Last month’s shareholder rebellion at Balfour Beatty’s AGM shows investors are now more willing to challenge large pay packets for the industry’s executives
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FeaturesWho’s who in government?
Who in Theresa May’s reshuffled team will have an effect on construction?
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FeaturesElection 2017: What’s what?
After last week’s shock election result, what does this hung parliament mean for some of the biggest issues facing construction?
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FeaturesCost update Q1 2017
Building, electrical and mechanical costs are rising at varying rates along with materials costs as sterling continues to fluctuate but wages have fallen slightly year-on-year
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FeaturesWhat happens in a hung parliament?
A guide to what a hung parliament means and what the impact could be for construction