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Image of the week: Open house, but for offices

2017-11-09T06:05:00Z

Source: McLaren McLaren Technology Group’s Woking headquarters, home to McLaren Racing, is one of 20 offices in and around London to open its doors next week in aid of Children in Need. Workplace Week, now in its sixth year, is an Advanced Workplace Associates (AWA) initiative. ...

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Construction 4.0: where are we now?

2017-11-09T06:00:00Z

From drones that do site inspections, to exoskeletons that save construction workers from back injury, to algorithms that crunch building codes to churn out thousands of design variants, artificial intelligence is ushering in a fourth revolution in construction.

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Cost model: Office fit-out

2017-11-08T11:49:00Z

Office occupiers and their employees are demanding space that supports new, more efficient ways of working, with a range of environments within a building tailored to different activities. What are the implications for workplace design and fit-out? Martin Kellett and Nicola Gillen of Aecom explain

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Online poll: Clean Growth Strategy

2017-11-03T12:12:00Z

Should more construction companies follow Lendlease’s example and publish gender pay gap data before next April?

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CPD 24 2017: Automatic sprinkler systems and building design

This CPD, sponsored by the Business Sprinkler Alliance, assesses the impact of automatic sprinker systems on different building types

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Interserve counting the cost of energy-from-waste exit: where did it go wrong?

2017-11-03T06:00:00Z

Interserve has admitted that the cost of quitting the energy-from-waste sector would cost it close to £200m. How on earth did it get into this mess?

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Sketch of the week: Residential scheme, Birmingham

2017-11-03T06:00:00Z

This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Ewen Miller, managing director at Calderpeel Architects.

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This week in 2007

2017-11-03T06:00:00Z

In 2007, the Isle of Wight was considering a technologically advanced future

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A clean, green fighting machine?

2017-11-02T06:00:00Z

The government has revived its interest in green construction, which had been taken firmly off the agenda. But is this strategy a lot of hot air?

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Image of the week: Raising the Bar

2017-11-02T06:00:00Z

Preserving musical history in the St Giles Crossrail development

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Tracker: September 2017

2017-10-31T06:00:00Z

The total activity index stayed steady at its highest level since the referendum, with civil engineering growing especially fast

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CPD 23 2017: Specifying fire-resistant glass

Fire-resistant glass is an important requirement on many projects. This CPD, sponsored by Pyroguard, discusses the key considerations for specifiers

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Projects: Bloomberg HQ, London

2017-10-30T06:00:00Z

Foster + Partners’ HQ for Bloomberg breaks with tradition for City of London buildings by respecting the architectural context of its surroundings

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The Big Debate: Solving the innovation puzzle

2017-10-27T09:01:00Z

Construction is often unwilling to change the way it works, especially when it comes to integrating technology. David Blackman reports on a Big Debate where industry professionals try to work out how to get companies to embrace the benefits of new technology

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Online poll: Gender pay gap

2017-10-27T08:41:00Z

Should more construction companies follow Lendlease’s example and publish gender pay gap data before next April?

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Projects: Grenfell - how to build a school in nine weeks

2017-10-27T05:42:00Z

At the base of Grenfell Tower sits a state-of-the-art secondary school – now lying empty. The Education and Skills Funding Agency had a single summer to find 960 pupils a temporary new home

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Kensington Aldridge Academy - a time lapse

2017-10-27T05:41:00Z

Watch a time lapse video to get a glimpse of how Mace and Portakabin built a school for the Grenfell community in just nine weeks

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Image of the week: A new twist of lime

2017-10-27T05:40:00Z

Liverpool Lime Street station, all lines of which reopened on Monday following a 23-day upgrade as part of Phase One of its major transformation

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This week in 1972

2017-10-27T05:33:00Z

Education facilities were top of the agenda 45 years ago

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Sketch of the week: 8 Albert Embankment, London

2017-10-27T05:30:00Z

This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Fred Pilbrow, senior founding partner at Pilbrow Partners