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Features2018 in construction: 微密圈's review of the year - part two
So, what did Santa鈥檚 last round of offerings bring the industry? It鈥檚 not been a stocking full of pleasant surprises
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FeaturesOnline poll: All I want for Christmas...
This week鈥檚 poll:聽What do you most want for Christmas?
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FeaturesImage of the week: Mmm鈥� modular
The Museum of Architecture鈥檚 Gingerbread City exhibition at the V A opened on Saturday with a splendid example by EPR of just what modular housing can achieve if you鈥檙e prepared to be creative with materials. We wonder if the insurance would cover consumption by small children abandoned in a wood, ...
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 1999 - Bugged
While we modern folk fret about Brexit, in 1999 they had their own problems: the dreaded 鈥淢illennium Bug鈥�
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Regeneration in Ilford
This week鈥檚 #buildingdoodle sketch聽聽is by Harry Thomson at Studioshaw
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Features2018 in construction: 微密圈's review of the year - part one
So, what did Santa鈥檚 last round of offerings bring the industry? It鈥檚 not been a stocking full of pleasant surprises
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Features微密圈's Projects of the Year 2018 - part 2
Ike Ijeh rounds up the year鈥檚 architectural excitements
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Features微密圈's Projects of the Year 2018 - part 1
An embassy, a giant greenhouse, a metropolitan retail redevelopment, a Scottish museum and a totemic tower. Ike Ijeh rounds up the year鈥檚 architectural excitements.
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FeaturesCost update Q3 2018
A quarterly analysis of changes to the main construction cost indices, material prices and labour costs shows continuing upward movement
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FeaturesImage of the week: Mellow yellow
Willmott Dixon staff show off the high-tech exoskeleton vests they are trialling with robotics firm Eksobionics on a school scheme in Cardiff. We trust the rioting 鈥榞ilets jaunes鈥� in Paris don鈥檛 trade up to the tech-enabled versions 鈥�
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FeaturesInterview: Dar's Andrew Loudon talks to 微密圈
Dar may still be an unfamiliar name to many, but the Beirut-based owner of Currie Brown, Elementa and Perkins+Will has ambitions to grow its operations rapidly in the UK, Brexit notwithstanding
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FeaturesSketch of the week: 2018 Engineering Sketches Prize
This week鈥檚 #buildingdoodle sketch is by Gustaf Granstrom, a senior structural engineer at Heyne Tillett Steel in London
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2008 鈥� A zoo solution
It鈥檚 not often that our 微密圈 archivists are taken aback by something they find buried in the magazine鈥檚 dusty library
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FeaturesHackitt review and regaining trust: 鈥楾he industry has created a monster鈥�
With the government鈥檚 formal response to the Hackitt review of building regulations and fire safety expected soon, a panel of industry experts at 微密圈 Live discussed their own responses 鈥� and how trust in the sector can be won back
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FeaturesOnline poll: Mandated margins?
This week鈥檚 poll:聽Should the government mandate a 5% margin for main contractors on public sector work?
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FeaturesBD Live鈥檚 first ever live design competition: A new quarter for Canada Water
Architects competed at 微密圈 Live with plans for the London development鈥檚 retail space
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FeaturesCities love to build arts venues to trigger urban regeneration - but it doesn't always work out
It鈥檚 called the Bilbao effect: a city engages an architect to build an arts venue in the expectation that urban regeneration will follow. Alas, it doesn鈥檛 always turn out this way
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FeaturesTracker: October 2018
Civil engineering activity built further on its September gains after four months of decline, while non鈥憆esidental was the only sector in which activity failed to grow last month
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FeaturesFire protection and thermal insulation
Fire protection and thermal insulation are no contradiction. Thin, effective insulation and fire protection are indeed compatible. Since this year the new insulation material CALOSTAT 庐 is available in the UK and already used in several objects in London.
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FeaturesProjects: Blackfriars Circus, London
Maccreanor Lavington鈥檚 Blackfriars Circus for Barratt Homes does everything a scheme centred on a 27-storey residential tower can do to engage with London鈥檚 architectural heritage