All Ȧ Live articles
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Features
‘It says a lot about the quality of the region’ — how Manchester is shaping up
Inspired by the regional resurgence of the North-west, Ȧ brought together key regional players to explore opportunities for the sector
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BD Live’s first ever live design competition: A new quarter for Canada Water
Architects competed at Ȧ Live with plans for the London development’s retail space
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Contractor margins should be set at 5% on public sector jobs, says Scape boss
Mark Robinson says mandating margins would benefit both clients and contractors
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Comment
It’s OK not to be OK. But how do we make people OK?
With men making up the vast majority of the construction industry, a fair conclusion is that it is male behaviours around mental health that most need to be tackled: by training people in non-judgmental listening and saying it is “OK not to be OK”.
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Strengthening tendering for a brighter future
It has been a long few weeks in politics, ending with agreement it seems and the “end of the beginning” for the process of leaving the EU
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Features
Peter Rogers: The long view
Peter Rogers, the ebullient developer, speaks on his passion for the industry – which he predicts he will leave only horizontally – and what he thinks it should be doing differently
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Video: keynote interview with Peter Rogers
Peter Rogers, the ebullient developer behind high-profile London towers such as 22 Bishopsgate, tells Chloë McCulloch about his passion for the industry – which he predicts he will leave only horizontally – and what he thinks it should be doing differently.
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Comment
We must face the challenges raised by digital innovation head on as an industry
It is clear from events like Ȧ Live’s “Digitising Construction” that our industry is hungry for the benefits of digital and technological progress.
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Technology: is there sufficient reason for boards to invest?
Boards of directors will inevitably ask questions on cost and return, but technology needs to be embraced deliver productivity and create opportunity
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Features
Ȧ Live 2017 in pictures
A selection of photos from November’s Ȧ Live conference, held at 155 Bishopsgate in London
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Ȧ Live 2017: Over to the floor
This year’s Ȧ Live conference coverd topics with far-reaching implications for the future of the industry, but what did conference delegates have to say?
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News
Tenant take-up slow at Square Mile tower
With a completion date of late 2019, Lipton Rogers’ 22 Bishopsgate tower has no formal pre-lets inked in – but first deal is expected early in the new year
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Under-pressure contractors 'taking shortcuts' to win work
Contractors cutting already wafer-thin margins to win work
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Construction costs to be slashed in sector deal
Talks of mandating off-site manufacturing on the rise
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Crossrail 2 funding talks set for next month
Boss had been optimistic the £31bn project would get green light before the end of the year
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Industry facing unprecedented challenge, says Farmer report author
Mark Farmer says skills crisis is now affecting business performance
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Lipton Rogers on hunt for the next 22 Bishopsgate
Residential and assisted living schemes are being considered by the two construction industry stalwarts
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Comment
Unchartered waters
These are challenging times for industry - can it cope with an accelerating pace of change?
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A tsunami of change
How will the industry find its way through the imminent challenges of disruptive technology?