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Projects: Mace's 'rising factory' at Victory Plaza, London
Do new processes such as Mace’s ‘rising factories’ help deliver projects more quickly and efficiently?
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Lead times: April - June 2019
The forecast is for little change with workload and enquiry levels being static
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Introducing Ð԰ɵç̨’s digital champions: ‘You have just got to be brave’
Here we present our digital champions: construction professionals for whom digital is ingrained and embedded in everything they do
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Costing steelwork July 2019: Market update
This quarter provides a market update and updates the five cost models previously featured in Costing Steelwork
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Top 150 Contractors and Housebuilders 2019: Treading a tightrope
How will the current top players ensure they survive to earn a place on next year’s table?
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Top 150 Contractors and Housebuilders 2019: The tables
Ð԰ɵç̨ reveals its exclusive Top 150 contractors and housebuilders league tables
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Housing Design Awards 2019: The winners
This year’s completed scheme winners and the Housing Design Awards 2019 overall winner
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Housing Design Awards 2019: Uncompleted scheme winners
This year’s winners take a smart approach to densification that shows how to provide quality living space in constrained sites
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International salary survey 2019
This year’s Hays International Salary Survey shows juicy opportunities in several regions – but UK professionals aren’t biting yet
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Roundtable: Gathering speed - the future of infrastructure
As Londoners’ views on the city’s infrastucture were revealed in a new report, industry experts gathered to discuss the future of infrastructure
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Was moving into support services to blame for the recent troubles at Carillion, Interserve and Kier?
These major contractors blended their traditional work with support services and all recently got into big financial trouble. Coincidence?
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Tracker: May 2019
Total activity decreased for the third consecutive month, though orders remained in positive territory
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Ð԰ɵç̨ intelligence: Q1 2019
Uncertainty continued to subdue growth across most sectors, although large infrastructure projects provided a bright spot
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Changing the DNA: how building using a cement substitute is reducing global carbon emissions
Imperial College London’s £90m biomedical engineering research centre is built from an unusual material. Thomas Lane reports on how the challenges of working with GGBS have been overcome to imposing effect
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‘We can’t continue as we are’: Philip Hoare, Atkins, talks to Ð԰ɵç̨
Atkins’ new president talks about embracing digital, his plans to grow the firm outside the UK and his determination to transform construction’s broken models
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Shaylor Group: What went wrong?
Jonathan Owen  reports on how the firm became one of an increasing number of companies to crash into insolvency
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Digital brilliance in 5 easy steps
What are top companies looking for when they hire new recruits in this increasingly digitalised industry?Â
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What is automation good for?
Automation tends to polarise opinions: either it’s the great saviour of construction or the rise of the machines threatens to de-skill professionals
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Growth market: Serviced apartments
The blurring of the lines between residential and hospitality in the emerging serviced apartments segment and examine the design considerations and cost factors that developers should take into account
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Offsite, on trend - why volumetric modular construction is the future
There’s huge pressure for construction to find offsite solutions to boost its productivity and meet the housing and infrastructure needs of the country