All Features articles – Page 105
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From the archive: 2005 - And you think YOU’VE got project delays…
It’s not easy to build a castle, but some seem to have even more than the usual trouble…
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Sketch of the week: 1930s factory in Greenwich, London
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Tom Lea, project architect at Coffey Architects
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Interview: Charles O'Neil - solving construction's competency problem
Construction expert Charles O’Neil reckons the industry’s core problem is competency. So he’s doing something about it
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Online poll: How well is construction doing at going green?
This week’s poll: Is construction taking things seriously to mitigate the impact climate change has on construction?
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Image of the week: Don't paint it black
A supposed Banksy mural near the former location of the Extinction Rebellion climate change activist camp in Marble Arch, London
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Electric dreams: how construction is improving its use of clean technology
With the future of our planet at stake, construction urgently needs to prove its capacity for innovation through clean technology
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Inspirations: architecture admired by the next generation
Architecture that delights the upcoming generation of construction professionals: four of our guest editors pick buildings that either inspired them to waork in construction or have impressed on them the importance of design quality early in their careers
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Build-to-rent: a sleepover at a Wembley scheme
Quintain’s 5,000-home build-to-rent development in Wembley seeks to create a sense of community living through wine tastings, tutored events and supper clubs – a place where residents can return from work to a concierge-serviced, hassle-free oasis. How does it score? Hamish Champ slept the night there to find out
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΢ÃÜȦ podcast special: Next Generation Takeover
Listen on our website here or on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher or your preferred podcast app
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Outreach: what the industry should do to attract school leavers
The skills shortage continues to worsen, and while the government is taking action now with the apprenticeship levy, it’s not enough. Debika Ray reports on what the industry is doing to inspire young minds and win new recruitsÂ
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Sketch of the week: Next generation takeover
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by graduate panel member Emily Scoones of Ramboll
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From the archive: 2003 - Tom Daley in the deep end
΢ÃÜȦ is reminded of an interview we once did with a certain young person whose career would surely have belly-flopped without the backing of this sector
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Reverse mentoring - how to give the next generation a voice
What do young people really think? What will make them join a company, and stay? Reverse mentoring might be the answer
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We want change! What young people in construction really think
΢ÃÜȦ’s first survey of the perceptions of young people working and studying in construction reveals its future leaders to be made up of optimists who are happy in their work. But dig deeper and they also voice many criticisms of an industry that too often seems to overlook fresh talent. ...
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΢ÃÜȦ's Next Generation takeover: what’s the story?
Read on for a fresh perspective on some familiar issues as ΢ÃÜȦ’s advisory panel of recent graduates guest edits this week’s magazine
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Is image everything?
Mike Petter, Director of the Considerate Constructors Scheme explains why every organisation across the construction industry should embrace considerate construction
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Wish you were here? How to get into construction in Australia
Australia offers a strong infrastructure pipeline and a host of opportunities, which explains the growing number of UK players heading there
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Image of the week: Easter rising
Dozens of people gathered at the top of Otley Chevin in West Yorkshire this week to install a 36ft-high cross ahead of Easter
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Sketch of the week: Key plant design, Circle Reading hospital
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Martin Wood, of Bryden Wood
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Boulevard Theatre: turning tricks in Soho
How Charcoalblue and Soda Studio fit a theatre into a tiny space so it could be financially viable