More Focus – Page 107
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Housing: Home delivery
While politicians wrangle over the number of homes they propose to build, housing stock is falling woefully behind the UK’s needs
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Market review: Balancing act
A buoyant infrastructure sector keeps construction stabilised despite housing seeing a significant drop in activity
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What to specify: Sustainability
In Goudhurst, Kent a new fascia and soffit system has been specified for the renovation of an old Methodist chapel, while the 16th century Tudor Kirtling Tower switches to a biomass heating system
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Los Angeles: That's sprawl, folks
The city is undergoing its biggest construction boom since the 1980s but regeneration has to battle suburban spread, and economic and racial segregation
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Los Angeles: Bloc party
The £117m redevelopment known as The Bloc is the largest scheme to tap into LA’s need for mixed-use spaces
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Construction leaders reception
¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ magazine’s publisher hosts an event for leading industry figures
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Housebuilders' salary survey 2015: Making hay…
This year’s housebuilders’ salary survey finds that wages and bonuses are both on the up. But how long will it last?
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Wellness: The ups and downs
Now that employers have cottoned on to the link between wellbeing and improved productivity, pressure is growing for clients to start taking the concept seriously
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Lead times: July - Sept 2015
Increases to lead times continue, albeit to a smaller number of trades than seen in previous quarters. The major issue forecast going forward is labour shortages
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Spotlight: Managing lead times
With the ripples of recession still being felt through the lead times of many specialist trades, Brian Moone discusses how clients of the supply chain can minimise disruption
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Global city focus: Jeddah
Jeddah, the Bride of the Red Sea, is a city steeped in history and culture, capitalising on its heritage as a regional hub to place itself as a leading city of the Middle East
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Infrastructure: Hitting home
In the first of a series of articles leading up to the ¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ Live conference, Joey Gardiner reports on the opportunities in infrastructure
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BES: Birmingham or bust
Birmingham council has scrapped its energy efficiency drive. We look at how the £1bn Birmingham Energy Savers scheme and the Green Deal’s fates were inextricably bound, and what the city’s options are now
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¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ hacking: Who's in control?
As building management systems become a greater part of our daily lives, their susceptibility to cyber attack is ever increasing. How would your building handle getting hacked?
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Victoria’s super Nova
The £2.2bn Nova Victoria scheme was always going to be a star project. But, on a hemmed in space, it needed some special solutions to make it shine
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Can Corbynomics get Britain building?
As the major influence on Jeremy Corbyn’s economic policy, Richard Murphy has had a lot to talk about over the last few months. But what might the much-trailed people’s QE mean for the construction industry?
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Not plane sailing
Labour conference showed the party is currently split into three significant factions
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Bringing it all back home
With some main contractors taking delivery expertise back in house in the hope it will reassure clients they can get the job done, Joey Gardiner asks if the subcontracting model has had its day
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What to specify: Healthcare
Hospitals and healthcare facilities make very particular demands of products specified in their buildings
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Sustainability: Energy performance contracts
Energy Performance Contracts are increasing in popularity as a way of delivering large-scale energy savings in existing buildings