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FeaturesTime for timber: exclusive Q&A with Zac Goldsmith
International environment minister Lord Goldsmith answers 性吧电台鈥檚 questions about his plans to drive up the use of timber in construction
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FeaturesExplainer: how to increase the use of timber
Wood is an abundant, cost-effective and energy-efficient construction material. The government wants the industry to embrace it more extensively
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FeaturesWhy releasing gender pay gap reports may not be enough
Today is the deadline for firms to publish gender pay gap data, but can a system that has no teeth ever do more than track the problem?
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FeaturesEnd of the road for red diesel: what construction firms need to know
From today red diesel will no longer be allowed in construction plant and machinery. What does this change mean for the industry?
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FeaturesIn business with Exigere: Work is only hard when you鈥檙e not enjoying it
Founding partner Dan Fryer tells Dave Rogers about the challenges and opportunities of life as a QS in today鈥檚 turbulent market
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FeaturesIn pictures: how Align JV is building the UK鈥檚 longest rail bridge, one piece at a time
Massive infastructure projects at Colne Valley Viaduct and Chiltern Tunnel form first stretch of HS2 outside London
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FeaturesThe Forge: a platform for transforming office construction
Landsec and Bryden Wood have devised an office prototype that aims to be quicker, more sustainable and cheaper than conventional methods聽
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FeaturesCost model: High-rise residential
Residential towers are on the rise again as the industry addresses sustainability, fire and overheating issues
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FeaturesCalifornia dreamin鈥� brings a skatepark to Folkestone
Inspired by the bowl skating of 1970s America, Folkestone鈥檚 multistorey skatepark 鈥� a world first 鈥� is set to transform the UK鈥檚 skating scene forever聽
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FeaturesThe true cost of Gove鈥檚 new cladding policy on the housing sector
Michael Gove鈥檚 announcement that housebuilders will foot the 拢4bn cladding repair bill sparked a share price nosedive. Is the City overreacting?聽
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FeaturesHow Gleeds boss in Ukraine escaped from Kyiv
Scotsman in charge of firm鈥檚 office in the capital is back in Manchester with his wife having travelled for 80 hours to border with Slovakia聽
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FeaturesNet zero at risk as global energy concerns from Ukraine war send green goals back down the agenda
Agreements reached at COP26 were always going to be vulnerable to the unexpected, but the case for energy efficiency and alternative supply sources is now even more urgent
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FeaturesUkraine: a tragedy and crisis beyond belief with an impact felt all over the world
Everybody is worried about events in Ukraine, from a humanitarian viewpoint to the detail of firms navigating the impact on their cost base
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FeaturesSmart buildings: the digital workplace
The focus of office fit-out is increasingly on using digital systems to optimise the user experience. How best can one realise the opportunities of smart technology?
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FeaturesThe scheme now approaching the finish is Crossrail: All aboard the Elizabeth line
We take the 10-minute journey from Paddington to Liverpool Street with the railway鈥檚 boss Mark Wild
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FeaturesWhere have all the workers gone? Construction鈥檚 shrinking talent pool
The pandemic has deepened problems with availability of labour, putting at risk firms鈥� backed-up workloads
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FeaturesMentoring Circle: 性吧电台 up women in the built environment
How a mentoring scheme for women has grown beyond all expectations in only a year
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FeaturesLessons of the Nightingales: how covid changed construction
A range of pandemic-prompted innovations have changed industry practice for good. Josephine Smit talks to those who led the way
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FeaturesA deep green retrofit crafts a sustainability HQ
The Institute for Sustainability Leadership needed an HQ that reflected its values. Here鈥檚 what it did next to a Cambridge telephone exchange
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FeaturesExplainer: Gove鈥檚 threats to shut down housebuilders over building safety
Housebuilders are locked in negotiations with Michael Gove over paying another 拢4bn to repair housing blocks affected by the fire safety crisis