All Features articles – Page 127
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Network Rail's new payment rules: full speed ahead
Will Network Rail’s ban on retentions spark an industry-wide change, and will this put the squeeze on main contractors?
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Tracker: May 2018
Overall activity levels slipped closer to the no-growth point, although repairs and maintenance were up. New orders kept on growing strongly, but new enquiries less so.
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Get an Insight into the Future at UK Construction Week
Carillion, Grenfell and the housing crisis are just some of the crunchy topics due to be debated by delegates attending this year’s UK Construction Week  (UKCW)
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What does HS2 mean for landscape, and how is this being approached?
Christoph Brintrup, head of landscape design at HS2 explains the process behind ensuring HS2 considers its urban and rural surroundings
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CPD 13 2018: Daylighting
Homes and workplaces with a lack of natural light cause a range of problems for occupiers. This CPD, sponsored by Kingspan, looks at how to design and build structures that meet daylight targets
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Sketch of the week: Kensington, London
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Ellisha Seagroatt, architectural junior at Calfordseaden
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Will Hackitt make a difference?
The Business Sprinkler Alliance and ΢ÃÜȦ asked readers what changes they expect as a result of the Hackitt review, and how soon these might come. Debika Ray reports on the survey results
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Image of the week: Deal or no deal?
More than 100,000 people marched through central London last Saturday to demand a final vote on any UK exit deal
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Quick on his feet: Vince Cable talks to ΢ÃÜȦ
Vince Cable believes he’s gaining ground on his two main rivals over Brexit. But the parliamentary veteran is keen to show his isn’t a party campaigning on a single issue
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From the archive: 2006
This week we interviewed Lib Dem leader Vince Cable. We found another political interview, in ΢ÃÜȦ’s dusty archive
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Online poll: Heathrow's third runway
This week’s poll: Will Heathrow’s third runway ever actually be built?
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Combustible materials ban: what would it mean?
What might government proposals on the future use of materials in high-rise buildings mean for specifiers and manufacturers?
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Canary Wharf: Eighties revival
Wood Wharf, the latest development on the Canary Wharf estate, seeks to move away from the original scheme’s anodyne corporate banking aesthetic
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Preview: Vince Cable speaks to ΢ÃÜȦ
Ahead of ΢ÃÜȦ’s full interview with Vince Cable - in print and online from Friday - read an excerpt of the Lib Dem leader’s views on Carillion, Heathrow and housing
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Roundtable: Universal BIM
BIM takeup is still increasing, but is the construction industry using it to its full potential? And how can all of the teams across a project be encouraged to do so?
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Sketch of the week: Monier Road, Hackney Wick, London
This #buildingdoodle sketch is by Tom McAviney, project architect, Pitman Tozer Architects
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Image of the week: Glasgow’s loss
Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh ΢ÃÜȦ, an iconic art nouveau building designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, was destroyed by fire on 15 June
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At full tilt: how Manchester velodrome got a new track in record time
When the British national cycling team headed off to Australia in March for the Commonwealth Games, they started a clock back in Manchester for a construction team to replace the wooden track at their velodrome
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The Active Office - an energy-positive building
The UK’s first energy-positive office, which generates more solar energy than it consumes, opened today at Swansea University
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From the archive: 2009
All the current economic and financial challenges facing construction led us to ask which chief executives are up to the mark this week.