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ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Awards 2018: ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø magazine's Project of the Year shortlist part 1

2018-09-11T07:43:00Z

With this year’s ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Awards shortlist announced, we take a look at the nominees for ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø magazine’s Project of the Year

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Online poll: Is offsite the answer for the education sector?

2018-09-07T12:37:00Z

This week’s poll: Is offsite the answer to upgrading the country’s crumbling school estate?

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Roundtable: digitally inclined

2018-09-07T10:46:00Z Sponsored by Bluebeam

Technology has yet to fully filter through to many parts of the construction process. Debika Ray reports on a roundtable by Bluebeam discussing how to motivate companies to digitalise 

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Image of the week: A safe bet

2018-09-07T08:41:00Z

The historic art deco Littlewoods building in Liverpool suffered a huge fire

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Schools: Learning to love modular

2018-09-07T08:02:00Z

Offsite construction can offer an answer to England’s struggling school estate. But manufacturers are battling to banish dated perceptions of what modular means. Jordan Marshall reports

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School daze: What’s happening to the government’s building plan?

2018-09-07T06:56:00Z

Although the government has committed to spending £23bn on school building programmes up to 2021, many contractors and consultants are convinced the pipeline of work has slowed. Joey Gardiner asks how significant a recent fall in capital spending could be for construction

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Sketch of the week: Crossrail station, Paddington

2018-09-07T06:00:00Z

This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by senior architect Pablo Sanz Claramunt at Weston Williamson + Partners

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Tracker: July 2018

2018-09-07T06:00:00Z

Activity, employment prospects and demand are all showing slower growth, with the cost of labour, materials shortages and financial constraints on the rise. 

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From the archive: 2012

2018-09-07T06:00:00Z

Spending on schools, or lack of it, is once again making the headlines in ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø

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ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø utopia? How Dudley College was built using a new form of procurement

2018-09-06T06:00:00Z

When Dudley College wanted to build a £10m Centre for Advanced ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Technologies, it plumped for a new form of procurement – an insurance model that benefits the whole supply chain and covers cost overruns

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Tune in to the trends at this year’s UK Construction Week

2018-09-03T06:00:00Z

Source: UKCW Trends come and go but buildings stay put. That’s why construction professionals must stay ahead of the trends and build for the future – an easy task at this year’s UK Construction Week (UKCW) at Birmingham’s NEC between 9 – 11 October. ...

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Escape to the beach: building the perfect sandcastle

2018-09-03T06:00:00Z

Summer may feel like it has well and truly finished, but hopefully those across the sector managed to escape to the beach. Here, four professionals from across the sector detail how to build the perfect sandcastle

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Image of the week: What a wonderful serve

2018-08-31T06:00:00Z

Andy Murray wins his first match of the US Open tennis tournament

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History lessens

2018-08-31T06:00:00Z

After 30 years as a World Heritage Site, the Tower of London faces having its status withdrawn because of the skyscrapers looming over it. It’s not the only site recently threatened with delisting – but is there any consistency in Unesco’s approach, and does freezing a city at a moment ...

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Lindum Group: Family values

2018-08-31T06:00:00Z

We revisit the Chambers family, who run Lincolnshire-based Lindum Group, two decades after we last dropped in – and find a thriving, diverse company that despite its booming bottom line sees turnover as irrelevant and the security of its many stakeholders and staff as the top priority.

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Online poll: Can modular make a meaningful difference?

2018-08-31T06:00:00Z

This week’s poll: Can modular make a meaningful difference to the housing crisis?

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Cost model: Logistics

2018-08-31T06:00:00Z

A growing online population with evolving buying behaviours will require a dynamic and agile logistics network from UK retailers keen to maximise opportunities in this fast-moving market. Ian Brebner of Aecom looks at the key issues affecting the sector and assesses the costs for an air cargo hub ...

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Funny business: why construction staff are being sent on comedy workshops

2018-08-31T06:00:00Z

   

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Sketch of the week: Ransome’s wharf, Battersea

2018-08-31T06:00:00Z

This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by David Baggaley, associate at MSMR Architects.

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Modular construction: Along the right lines?

2018-08-31T06:00:00Z

While plenty of excitement is being generated by the push for modular construction – touted as the answer to the UK’s housing crisis – so far the sector has produced very few homes. Joey Gardiner asks if the industry can push past the setbacks