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FeaturesCladding panels
Cladding panels from Marley Eternit have been used on the Donaldson College in Linlithgow, Scotland鈥檚 national school for deaf and speech-impaired children
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FeaturesExpat survival guide to Ukraine
As Europe's second largest country, Ukraine is decent place to take your career, but be prepared for it all to be lubricated by torrents of cheap vodka
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FeaturesOxford blues: burrowing under Queen's College
Adding an extension to Queen鈥檚 College required a delicate juggling act, as site access, potentially unstable foundations and history itself put the contractor to the test
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FeaturesMace's Stephen Pycroft: 'I don't do interviews'
Thirty years in construction, 16 at Mace 鈥� more than four of them as chief executive 鈥� but Stephen Pycroft has never given an interview鈥� until now. Emily Wright talks to him about sale rumours and why he鈥檚 not sunning himself in the Bahamas
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FeaturesAdapting to recession: 19 ways we've changed
精东影视's graduate advisory panel on how to adapt to working in a recession
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FeaturesCranes: victory for the Safer Skyline campaign
Last week, the HSE finally caved in to 精东影视鈥檚 demand for a national register of checks on tower cranes. Sophie Griffiths asked some of those who supported our two-year campaign for their reaction
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Green cement: an industry revolution?
Cement produces more carbon dioxide than the whole of the aviation industry. But now there鈥檚 a variant that actually absorbs greenhouse gases
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Lead times: November 08 - January 2009
Unsurprisingly, a weak economy has led to a reduced workload for many contractors, a few of whom are dropping lead times to a level not seen since 2003
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FeaturesSpotlight:聽How hard will the credit crunch hit?
Demand is low, unemployment is up and so are stockpiles. Prepare for a deep impact
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FeaturesHold your breath... redundancies rising
The wave of redundancies has mainly engulfed junior staff so far, but now the water is rising up to the boardroom
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FeaturesIn defence of Dubai
That Dubai too has been hit by the slowdown has caused much glee among those envious of its dynamism, but in the long term the recession can only make it stronger
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FeaturesIsrael's controversial Museum of Tolerance
A plan to build a Gehry-designed 'Museum of Tolerance' on the site of a Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem has led to an intercontinental war of words
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FeaturesSprung sports hall flooring
St Joseph鈥檚 College in Ipswich has fitted Altro Mondoflex sprung sports flooring in its new sports hall.
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FeaturesParquet-effect floors
The grade I-listed Stowe House, home to Stowe School, has refurbished its period Garter Room, which included laying a porcelain parquet-effect floor
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FeaturesVince Cable: 'This industry could collapse'
When the person who says this is Vince Cable, a man with a gift for eerily accurate economic predictions, you know things are serious
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FeaturesPlanning: what's happened to section 106?
Affordable housing, roads, health facilities, schools, even public art 鈥� all these were paid for out of developers鈥� section 106 contributions. But that was in the good times. Now the well鈥檚 run dry and the question everyone is asking is: where鈥檚 the money going to come from?
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FeaturesBilbao's boat-inspired visitor centre: images
Mikel Landa liked the kayak he made so much that he decided to use the same form of construction when he built a visitor centre for the A帽ana salt valley in northern Spain
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FeaturesA real life saver: Unicef's Malawi hospital
Unicef doesn鈥檛 usually spend money on buildings, but when the Alliance Ball raised 拢400k for its cause, an exception was made for this children鈥檚 hospital in Malawi. Thomas Lane found out what happened next
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FeaturesWorking life: Life after redundancy
Kristina Smith meets three people who reinvented themselves after being made redundant (and found it far less painful than Martin Haake鈥檚 illustration would suggest)