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FeaturesOn the menu
With the private sector still subsisting on scraps and the non-infrastructure public sector just grateful that its provisions weren鈥檛 cut any further in the emergency Budget, the infrastructure market represents a veritable feast at the moment. So welcome to the latest in our infrastructure market reports
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FeaturesInfrastructure markets: saving grace
If there was one sliver of comfort in the Budget, it was that there were no further cuts to infrastructure spending. Victoria Jackson of Davis Langdon surveys the work that will be on offer in the years ahead
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Features2012 countdown: Infrastructure
The Olympics isn鈥檛 just about show-stopping stadiums. In fact, the budget for venues is 拢700m less than the cost of the no-frills enabling works, roads and utilities
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FeaturesCracking Brazil
It鈥檚 hosting the 2014 World Cup, and the 2016 Olympics, and has emerged from the credit crunch with barely a scratch. So why aren鈥檛 more UK firms working there?
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China: Infrastructure opportunities
China is the world鈥檚 largest infrastructure market, so it鈥檚 worth finding out how to do business there. To mark 精东影视鈥檚 Global Infrastructure Forum in London this week, Roxane McMeeken reports on opportunities in China and how to win them
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FeaturesDouble crossing: Heneghan Peng鈥檚 Olympic bridge
Heneghan Peng鈥檚 54m-wide central bridge at the Olympic park, which was lowered into place last week, has been ingeniously designed to form two narrower walkways after the Games have finished. Stephen Kennett explains how it all works
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FeaturesA time for action?: Energy policy consulation
Consultation Man will be going back in his box if the Tories have their way, to be replaced by a more 鈥榙ynamic鈥� approach to energy policy. But is there more to the consulting process than just a lengthy exercise in delaying decisions?
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FeaturesPsychic power: The future of nuclear
In one way, the future for nuclear energy looks assured. In another, it鈥檚 at the mercy of all sorts of possible problems. Olivia Boyd shuffles the cards and identifies five of the biggest
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FeaturesThe right formula: Abu Dhabi's Yas Hotel
With its dramatic architecture, precise engineering and top-speed construction, the Formula One-themed Yas Hotel has outlapped most of Abu Dhabi鈥檚 other buildings
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FeaturesGlobal infrastrucure financing: Where to find $35,000,000,000,000
That鈥檚 one prediction for the amount that will be spent on global infrastructure over the next 20 years. But with bank financing having fallen by up to 85% in the UK alone, where is the money going to come from?
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FeaturesCrossrail: Seats still available
Programme update: Roxane McMeeken finds out where the 拢16bn Crossrail project is at
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Infrastructure market overview: The road ahead
Sector overview聽Infrastructure has been one of the few bright spots in the construction market over the past year 鈥� but will it last? Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon makes some predictions for the next four years
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FeaturesNuclear programme: The age of proliferation
Programme update: Over the next two decades, the nuclear industry is set to provide 64,000 man-years of construction-related work 鈥� enough to keep a lot of companies very busy indeed. David Rogers and Thom Gibbs look at who鈥檚 best placed to make the most of the bonanza
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FeaturesWhat we lose if we lose Crossrail?
With the government rumoured to be looking to cut 拢30bn of transport investment, Crossrail is looking increasingly vulnerable. Sarah Richardson looks at what would happen if the project were scrapped now
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FeaturesCaptain Uranium: how to get into nuclear
Billions are going to be spent on nuclear power stations in the next 10 years, assuming, that is, we can find 33,000 recruits in a hurry. Which is where you come in...
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FeaturesThe big push: getting materials to the 2012 Olympic site
The Olympic team is using every means possible to get the vast amounts of materials it needs into its hemmed-in east London site: roads, railways, and now the River Thames. Thomas Lane reports on a grand offensive
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FeaturesSleeping beauty awakes: the St Pancras Midland Grand hotel
The fairy-tale castle that is the Midland Grand hotel has been asleep for a very long time. Now the arrival of the Eurostar has roused it, and it is once again to become the most stylish address in London
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FeaturesGotta get through it: Halcrow builds the UAE's longest tunnel
This mountain range stands between Dubai and one of the UAE鈥檚 most important ports. Which is why a team from Halcrow is holed up there right now, enduring the heat and hard rock on the country鈥檚 longest ever tunnel project
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FeaturesThe race to build Britain's nuclear reactors
Japanese-owned nuclear giant Westinghouse is in a race with France鈥檚 Areva for the UK鈥檚 拢20bn nuclear reactor market. And it looks like it鈥檚 falling behind. We asked the man spearheading the bid if he was worried...