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Brits on broadway
Next to the World Trade Centre site, Arup and Grimshaw have designed one of Manhattan's most dramatic projects. It may not alter the skyline, but the 拢500m subway interchange will transform the city's congested and confusing underground network.
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Sunny outlook
In this month's Tracker, Experian Business Strategies reports some of the highest construction activity levels for 10 years and forecasts steady growth for the rest of the summer
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FeaturesLaw report
A Court of Appeal case has just boosted the legal rights, and financial security, of disabled workers
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FeaturesJack Pringle
Reforming the PFI and tackling the brain-drain of newly qualified architects are the top priorities of the incoming RIBA president. We find out how Jack Pringle plans to navigate the choppy waters of the architecture business.
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FeaturesNormans Invasion
With the paint barely dry on the viaduct at Millau, Foster and Partners is set to add another iconic building to the southern French landscape
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Fast forward
Way back in 1994, 黑洞社区 asked Sir Michael Latham to explain his controversial Rethinking the Team report. Ten years after its publication, we can see that it marked a watershed in the industry鈥檚 culture 鈥� but how does its author feel about it?
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Features鈥榃hat happened to Pat cannot be allowed to happen to anybody ever again鈥�
On 15 January, Patrick O鈥橲ullivan was killed while working on the Wembley national stadium project. His family tells us that those responsible must be held to account
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FeaturesA giant leap for a brickie
Behrokh Khoshnevis has seen the future of construction, and it involves robotic arms, multiple nozzles and buildings that can be put up in hours in either Basildon or the Sea of Serenity. The University of Southern California professor tells us about the technology that he believes will be commonplace in ...
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FeaturesAscent 112
The astonishing arch that will support the new Wembley National Stadium had to be tilted through 112掳 to reach its present position. We find out how it was done
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FeaturesGet on board
When the architect of Walthamstow's bus station had to cut costs on the stunning roof, it needed the whole team to work together in order to reach the destination.
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FeaturesHow illuminating
In creating a landmark building for a West Midlands college, D5 Architects had to come up with problem-solving ideas to link the 1960s block next door.
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Just the job
Gordon Headley explains why, after a career as an oil engineer, he became Wilson Bowden's HR director
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FeaturesEuropean whole-life costs
Quantity surveyor Franklin + Andrews takes its annual look at labour, construction and running costs for a notional factory in 12 European lands. Greece and Portugal come out looking good 鈥� again
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FeaturesThe doorman's advice
Roy Wakeman, the new chairman of the Construction Confederation, has come from the bottom of the industry's supply chain 鈥� so he's had a good view of where it's failing, and how it can improve.
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FeaturesA 300-year facelift
How's this for cosmetic surgery? The latest whispers in the round are that a certain landmark cathedral is getting a nip-and-tuck. But then, it is approaching a rather significant birthday 鈥�