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CPD 17 2024: Flat roofs and fire testing standards
Sponsored by Soprema, this CPD module delves into the rise of flat roofs, their evolving nature, and the crucial fire testing standards that must be met in order to achieve compliance with current building regulations
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Picking up Carillion’s pieces: how Balfour Beatty finally finished the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital
West Birmingham’s new super hospital has just opened, six years later than planned following the failure of Carillion in 2018. Thomas Lane visits the new building to find out how the team overcame multiple problems, and to see what the finished project is like
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What more can investors and regulators do to help project teams decarbonise buildings?
As part of last month’s Climate Week NYC, Ӱ hosted a roundtable with the support of Gleeds and in partnership with the Climate Group. Our discussion with leading construction experts identified the blockers to greener buildings and key drivers for change
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CPD 16 2024: Embedding excellence in carbon management
Sponsored by BSI, this module will explore PAS 2080 and how the standard’s requirements enable professionals to embed carbon management excellence throughout the built environment supply chain
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Green light for AHMM’s 27-storey City fringe office tower
Progress for Shoreditch site which has been vacant and hoarded for five years
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Sheppard Robson unveils plans for 44-storey Manchester tower
Latest addition to city’s high-rise cluster would include 364 homes
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Procurement update: data centre development challenges
Data centre clients are scaling up to deliver ever bigger programmes – so, what are the main client types and the specific procurement challenges in this sector?
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Market forecast: Demand is set to rise as the economy stabilises
Demand is set to strengthen as economic stability stimulates a recovery in private sector investment, but contractor capacity is depleted and risk aversion elevated
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Technical ventilation louvres for any project
Family-owned business Renson develops wall, surface-mounted, window, door, and floor louvres, in every possible size, shape, and colour
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Here we go again… if the industry won’t change, we must change the way we operate within it
The collapse of ISG is the latest illustration of a trading model still stuck in ‘inexorable decline’. The industry’s survival requires wise leadership, better decision-making and a focus on what is working rather than what is not, says Mark Farmer
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Relief for Wimbledon as City Hall overturns local council’s rejection of £200m expansion plans
Allies & Morrison’s plans to treble the size of grand slam tournament’s grounds finally approved after year-long planning saga
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CPD 15 2024: Digital workflow technology
Sponsored by Topcon Positioning GB, this module will explore the benefits of digital workflow technology, alongside the issues that may arise during integration and how they can be overcome
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Navigating specification decisions in higher-risk building design
Specification decisions have acquired new complexity in the era of the Ӱ Safety Act. Industry professionals shard their insights at a roundtable
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Fosters to lead on Old Trafford masterplan for Manchester United
Project will draw up proposals for club-owned land around stadium
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London towers – does it make more sense to build new or renew?
The twin currencies of carbon and cost have encouraged the adaptive reuse of towers, bringing the additional complexity of working within an existing building
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Hawkins Brown plans for £100m Cambridge research campus set for approval
Scheme to include nine buildings up to eight storeys in height
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Hinkley Point C: Ӱ Britain’s first nuclear reactor in 30 years
Like its Finnish and French twins, Hinkley Point C has suffered from cost overuns and delays. What are the team doing to claw back the losses and what does this mean for Sizewell C?
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Revised 1 Undershaft plans to be submitted in coming weeks but controversial viewing platform to stay
Changes relate almost entirely to street level public realm after plans were criticsed for “robbing” City of open space