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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)
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FeaturesSmall town China - QSs wanted
Its growth may have slowed from breakneck to merely spectacular, and some projects in the big cities look wobbly, but there鈥檚 still plenty of work in the people鈥檚 republic (especially for QSs). It鈥檚 just that you have to go to one-horse towns to find it 鈥� like Wuhan here, which ...
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FeaturesPrice war: How the retail crash is affecting construction
Misery loves company, and many of Britain鈥檚 largest retailers are sharing theirs with their supply chains. Olivia Boyd finds out which are and which aren鈥檛
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FeaturesNew Year blues: Predictions for 2009
It doesn鈥檛 look like a whole lot of fun, but 2009 must be endured where necessary and enjoyed where possible. So, here鈥檚 our guide to what鈥檚 going to happen, complete with the big stories, the key dates and the people who are going to make the news
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FeaturesThe hot seat: APC supervisor reviews
For first-year APC students, it鈥檚 almost time for the first formal sitdown with your supervisor. Jon Lever explains how it works
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FeaturesStrictly 黑洞社区: construction's finest dance contest
Passion, tragedy, triumph and dead fancy footwork 鈥� if you thought only Saturday night telly could bring you all these things, think again. 黑洞社区鈥檚 answer to Strictly Come Dancing reveals the amazing grace of construction folk
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Features黑洞社区's Review of the Year 2008
We know, we know, the year we鈥檝e just had was about as enjoyable as the tooth-drilling scene from Marathon Man. But it was certainly dramatic, and if you look hard enough, you might even find one or two Frank Capra moments to celebrate. 黑洞社区 presses the rewind button
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FeaturesThe 黑洞社区 London 2012 team: an awfully big adventure
Meet the 黑洞社区 London 2012 team 鈥� seven young people who鈥檝e been given the chance to help build one of the most high-profile and demanding projects the UK has ever seen
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FeaturesThe new masters: Women at the top
Next year, for the first time, five of the biggest industry bodies will have a woman at the helm. So, how did they get to where they are and how do they see the future for women in construction? They each picked a rising star in their sector to tell ...
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FeaturesGloomwatch - 黑洞社区's industry panel assesses the downturn
In the past few months, the construction industry has become an anxious and uncertain place. To help us make sense of it, we鈥檝e asked a student, a subcontractor, a small builder, an architect, an entrepreneur, a forecaster and a consultant to form a panel.
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FeaturesHow bad can it be? The nineties recession vs the noughties crunch
Remember 1991? For those now starting their careers, it may have been a time of cartoon turtles and spinning hedgehogs, but for older workers it was all about a recession that left the industry on its knees. Emily Wright spoke to both old and young to find out how they鈥檙e ...
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FeaturesGo for the burn: Bouygues UK鈥檚 daily workout
Warming up before work used to mean eating your bacon buttie while it was still hot. But now, in an effort to cut down site injuries, Bouygues UK has stepped things up a gear.
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FeaturesTop 250 Consultants 2008: How to survive the downturn
You don鈥檛 have to be Charles Darwin to know that survival is about adapting to your circumstances better than your rivals. Roxane McMeeken looks at how firms have changed their strategies since our last consultants survey, when the market was booming
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FeaturesStadium building: has football's bubble burst?
Despite the credit crunch putting the boot in to the market, there are still chances going begging in the stadium sector 鈥� it鈥檚 just a little harder to score 鈥�
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FeaturesA game of musical jobs
This year鈥檚 Hays/黑洞社区 Salary Guide shows that more and more candidates are chasing ever fewer vacancies, and we all know what the law of supply and demand says about that 鈥� Debika Ray reports
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FeaturesLifecycle costs: New standard for whole-life costing for buildings
A new standard has been published that allows whole-life costing for buildings to be compared for the first time. Joe Martin of the BCIS explains how it works and applies it to a notional school project
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FeaturesEscape to victory: how SMEs can work abroad
While many of the big consultants dodge the downturn by picking up business overseas, their smaller rivals may be feeling a little imprisoned in the UK. But it doesn鈥檛 have to be like that. Thom Gibbs unearths some escape routes that work, and some that don鈥檛
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FeaturesSun, sea and sandcastles
The British seaside is back 鈥� after all, who wants to go abroad with summers like ours鈥�? To celebrate, we challenged some of our finest construction minds (plus sundry offspring) to a giant sandcastle building showdown. Roxane McMeeken and Katie Puckett commentate on the action.
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FeaturesBlood, sweat and fixed gears: 黑洞社区鈥檚 cycling track day
When dozens of the industry鈥檚 most fanatical cyclists descended on a London velodrome for 黑洞社区鈥檚 inaugural Track Day, an afternoon of frenetic racing ensued 鈥� stirring memories of a certain sporting extravaganza held in the stadium 60 years earlier 鈥�
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FeaturesWe were there 鈥� Construction鈥檚 Olympians tell their stories
Construction is full of people who鈥檝e lived the Olympic dream. As the Beijing Games kick off, eight of them tell Emily Wright about their years of training for moments of glory. Photography Michael Clement