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Roundtable: Striving for quality in construction
Standards in construction clearly need to be raised – so how can the industry go about improving quality, and how exactly do we define it? Hamish Champ reports on a roundtable by the STA
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Over the line: How 21 Moorfields was built above a station
Site constraints and client demands meant the columns supporting a new over-rail scheme would have to bear unusually heavy loads
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Spurs stadium: the £1bn building opening in London's fifth poorest ward
The stadium dominates the local skyline and dwarfs neighbouring homes Will Ing, reporter, ¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ Opposite a row of empty shops, jerk chicken joints, laundrettes and bookmakers, one of the most expensive buildings ever built on this island is about to open in ...
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Interserve prepack administration - unpacked
What does Interserve’s prepack administration actually mean – for suppliers, customers, employees and lenders?
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Brexit chaos: What's the impact on construction?
B-Day may have been dodged first time round but how can the industry best cope with the uncertainty?
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Projects: Smith's Dock, North Shields
Urban Splash and Places for People’s £140m regeneration of a North Shields dockyard at Smith’s Dock includes a high proportion of modular homes manufactured offsite
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Financial results: it's bad for Interserve, but how is construction faring in 2019?
The UK contractors’ financial results are in. We know it’s been a bad year for Interserve, but how have the rest of them done?
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Development update: residential
Changes to the planning system are designed to accelerate housebuilding by bringing new entrants into the market
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Projects: London Screen Academy, Islington, London
Turning a former radio factory into a sixth-form film and television school proved a structural challenge for the project team
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'Young people in construction' survey - £50 Amazon vouchers prize draw
¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ is calling on all readers under 30 to take part in an important piece of researchÂ
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Can contractors cope with payment practice reforms?
Main contractors are under pressure to reform their payment practices, but will speeding up payments push more of them to the brink?
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Life after Help to Buy
After six years of cheap loans for homebuyers, Help to Buy is being wound down. How will housebuilders cope with the change?Â
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London contractors market update
What impact is the uncertainty around Brexit having on main contractor and MEP contractors’ London workloads?Â
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At a crunch shareholder meeting two hours before Interserve went under, most seats were empty
Only three people asked questions and two of them were the same
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How India's construction sector is heating up
The Indian construction market is hot property right now, and foreign firms are keen to get a piece of it
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Projects: Cambridge Mosque
When Marks Barfield Architects was asked to design Cambridge’s first purpose-built mosque, it turned for inspiration to the Garden of Paradise
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Interserve crisis: ahead of Friday's crucial vote, will shareholders vote to rescue the contractor?
As Interserve’s financial woes start to undermine its ability to win work, the firm’s future hangs on a choice between two rival rescue plans
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SME Profile: Heritage practice sets sights on ‘John Lewis’ model
Purcell looks to safeguard future of the business with move into employee ownership
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Are rooftop developments the answer to London’s housing crisis?
Airspace developers tell us to imagine thousands of new homes atop existing buildings – but to make that happen they need planners to share their vision.
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Your guide to Mipim 2019
As we prepare to bid a tearful farewell to Europe, there’s time for one last knees-up as EU members with our international colleagues at the annual property fair in the south of France. But it won’t all be drowning our sorrows – there will also be much talk about our ...