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FeaturesInterview: Mark Naysmith
Since becoming UK chief of WSP Parsons Brinckerhoff following last year鈥檚 merger, Mark Naysmith has been busy integrating the two firms into one combined company
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FeaturesSustainability: Energy standards
The new energy efficiency regulations for private rented property may have major repercussions for landlords. Here we examine the key changes made since last year鈥檚 public consultation
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Features119 Ebury Street: Cleaning up the neighbourhood
Belgravia is one of London鈥檚 most genteel quarters, but its Georgian homes are among the UK鈥檚 least energy efficient. Now, David Morley鈥檚 BREEAM 鈥榦utstanding鈥� renovation of a grade II property has shown that heritage doesn鈥檛 have to mean high emissions
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FeaturesThe Farrell Review: Into the long grass?
One year on from the publication of Terry Farrell鈥檚 review of architecture and the built environment, it鈥檚 time to see whether the government is prepared to support good design - or whether it will favour continued procrastination
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FeaturesBodleian library: The new edition
As custodian of millions of precious books and manuscripts, Oxford鈥檚 Bodleian library needed a much bigger - and safer - building to house its collection. With the new Weston Library, Wilkinson Eyre provided this and much more
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FeaturesDo priority schools add up?
The picture emerging from some of the few completed priority schools is one of cut-price, smaller buildings with potentially higher long-term maintenance costs
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FeaturesTracker: February 2015
Orders and tender enquiries are looking healthy, and reporting of constraints is down. But employment prospects are a worry for some
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Features精东影视 intelligence: Q4 2014
Experian Economics shows that 2014鈥檚 construction output increased 7% on the previous year鈥檚 total, with the housing sector performing particularly well
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FeaturesInterview: Haydn Mursell
Haydn Mursell, Kier鈥檚 third chief executive in five years, is keen to maintain the firm鈥檚 traditional financial disciplines, while using his background in corporate mergers and acquisitions to push for future growth. Will he manage it?
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FeaturesMarket review: Ebb and flow
Construction takes an unexpected drop - its first year-on-year fall since May 2013 - but the wider UK economy makes a strong start to 2015. Michael Dall presents highlights of Barbour ABI鈥檚 latest monthly Economic Construction Market Review
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FeaturesWhole-life carbon: Wellbeing
Improving the energy efficiency of a building may be good for the planet, but occupiers may only be prepared to foot the bill if they can directly feel the benefit. Gareth Roberts of Sturgis Carbon Profiling analyses the latest research
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FeaturesPreview: 精东影视 Awards Small Project of the Year shortlist
From swimming pool to school, court to chapel, the architectural gems up for this year鈥檚 精东影视 Awards Small Project of the Year prove that size isn鈥檛 everything
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FeaturesWhat to specify: Flooring
A range of flooring styles is demonstrated this week, from a resin floor used to direct passengers at a refurbished bus terminal to the striking design feature made from rubber floor tiling at SAP鈥檚 office reception
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FeaturesInside Westminster: One for the road
Continuing our series looking at construction from inside the corridors of power in the run-up to the election, Mark Leftly asks if the coalition鈥檚 track record on infrastructure is anything to celebrate
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FeaturesInterview: Nick Taylor
Nick Taylor closed the Russian office of his company, Waterman Group, one month before Putin annexed the Crimea. He explains why pulling back from developing markets and focusing on the UK is right for the engineer
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FeaturesPreview: 精东影视 Awards Project of the Year shortlist
The schemes in the running to be 精东影视鈥檚 Project of the Year are as varied as the purposes for which they were designed. But whether a hockey centre or a special needs school, the teams behind these buildings went the extra mile
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FeaturesInfrastructure: Energy transmission
The UK鈥檚 energy transmission networks need to attract large volumes of investment to respond to a rapidly changing energy market.聽David Porter and Simon Rawlinson of EC Harris review progress as new regulatory systems bed down
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FeaturesInterview: Peter Rogers
Despite a career spent working on London鈥檚 skyline, Peter Rogers has never lost his hunger for a challenge. Which is just as well, as he鈥檚 taking on the Pinnacle, possibly the capital鈥檚 most troubled project
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FeaturesUKIP: The vocal minority
Control immigration and large areas of British countryside will not need to be destroyed by housebuilding, says UKIP. Nationalist populism at its most simplistic, perhaps, but the party鈥檚 anti-development stance is bearing down on politics at a local level
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FeaturesBethlem Hospital: Altered states
Fraser Brown MacKenna鈥檚 renovation of Bethlem Hospital鈥檚 Museum of the Mind may look from the outside much as it did, but the interior spaces now house art galleries, exhibition spaces and an incomparable archive