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FeaturesSustainability laid bare
Sarah Wigglesworth鈥檚 Wakefield primary school invites its pupils to learn about architecture by putting its impressive sustainability features on open display
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FeaturesDesigning utopia: Architects on top
Architects looking for bigger projects and a more powerful role (yes, that鈥檚 you) should be talking to clients in emerging markets where they may well be put at the top of the tree. But they can鈥檛 climb there all by themselves
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FeaturesInfrastructure - The big picture
The UK infrastructure sector is expected to grow by 42% by 2014, but where is the money going to come from? Two speakers from last week鈥檚 Infrastructure Now online conference, Richard Threlfall and Steve Waltho, take a peek at the future of this potentially lucrative area
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FeaturesCost model: Part L for residential
Housing developers face some interesting choices when complying with the new Part L. Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon and Tom Lelyveld of Aecom consider some of the options
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FeaturesAfter Kieron: Campaigning for better site safety
Monday 9 August 2004 is a date Jennifer Deeney will never forget. It was when her husband Kieron died in an accident on a construction site - 13 weeks after they were married. Since then she鈥檚 been campaigning for better site safety - and a calendar of naked women ...
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FeaturesThe master strategy: Can a QS be a management consultants
Davis Langdon wants to compete with McKinsey. But can it really find a place at the top table of global management consultancies? And will the rest of the quantity surveying industry follow it
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FeaturesMarathon effort: piling on the complex Glasgow sports arena site
How the team tackled difficult conditions on the site of the 2014 Commonwealth Games centrepiece
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FeaturesAPC extras: T062 - Procurement and Tendering
This is a core competency for a range of different pathways and is used by many candidates for their critical analysis
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FeaturesMarket overview: waste and water sectors
With regulation driving investment and resource efficiency in the waste and water sectors, Matthew Hicks and Andrew Wheeler of Davis Langdon examine how the UK鈥檚 obligations are going to be met, and what the opportunities are for consultants and contractors
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FeaturesDark Victory: 2010 Part L update
The new version of Part L kicks in next week, and its tough energy rules are going to make lighting a building altogether more problematic than ever before
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FeaturesKeep Taking The Tablets
Construction folk can barely contain their excitement at how Apple鈥檚 iPad is changing the way they build - and being able to show your mum the project you鈥檙e working on is only the start
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FeaturesHanif Kara: They said 鈥榮tay weird鈥�, so he did
Hanif Kara has a reputation for inventiveness and eccentricity, but he has soberly steered his engineering firm through a merger with White Young Green and a recession. He tells Emily Wright about the need to make difficult decisions.
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FeaturesMadrid health centre: If Gucci did factories
鈥� they might look a little like this Madrid clinic, by local practice Estudio Entresitio
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FeaturesCountry focus: Germany
Overall the outlook for Germany is reasonably bright, but construction will feel the pain as the effect of the economic stimulus measures wears off
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FeaturesHays 2010 salary guide: Do we have to fight about it?
There鈥檚 no way to sugarcoat this: contractors鈥� pay is down and benefits are under threat, too. Roxane McMeeken looks at the figures in the Hays 2010 salary survey and asks how employers and employees can stick together through the hard times
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FeaturesFive best countries for water infrastructure work
Over the next 10 years, mankind will spend 拢500bn on water works. Chloe Stothart picks the five best countries to look for your share of it
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FeaturesDavid Penfold on Sainsbury鈥檚 waste strategy
David Penfold is a driven man: he has to cut Sainsbury鈥檚 waste to as close to zero as possible. And given the amount of activity that the store engages in, he needs good ideas and even better suppliers.
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FeaturesChalbury McCouat vs PG Foils: failure to choose location for arbitration
These parties agreed the dispute resolution mechanism but failed to say in which country the arbitral tribunal should be held
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FeaturesFirst Impressions: Coca-Cola's Madrid HQ
Nottingham Trent students comment on the Puerta+Asensio Architects designed building in Spain
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FeaturesBack for seconds: David Nurser
David Nurser has a voracious appetite for risk-taking. First he set up the surveying firm CNP in a recession. And now he鈥檚 a year into his second venture, Paragon (more great timing)