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FeaturesGlobal city focus: Jeddah
Jeddah, the Bride of the Red Sea, is a city steeped in history and culture, capitalising on its heritage as a regional hub to place itself as a leading city of the Middle East
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FeaturesInfrastructure: Hitting home
In the first of a series of articles leading up to the 黑洞社区 Live conference, Joey Gardiner reports on the opportunities in infrastructure
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FeaturesBES: Birmingham or bust
Birmingham council has scrapped its energy efficiency drive. We look at how the 拢1bn Birmingham Energy Savers scheme and the Green Deal鈥檚 fates were inextricably bound, and what the city鈥檚 options are now
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Features黑洞社区 hacking: Who's in control?
As building management systems become a greater part of our daily lives, their susceptibility to cyber attack is ever increasing. How would your building handle getting hacked?
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FeaturesVictoria鈥檚 super Nova
The 拢2.2bn Nova Victoria scheme was always going to be a star project. But, on a hemmed in space, it needed some special solutions to make it shine
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FeaturesCan Corbynomics get Britain building?
As the major influence on Jeremy Corbyn鈥檚 economic policy, Richard Murphy has had a lot to talk about over the last few months. But what might the much-trailed people鈥檚 QE mean for the construction industry?
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FeaturesNot plane sailing
Labour conference showed the party is currently split into three significant factions
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FeaturesBringing it all back home
With some main contractors taking delivery expertise back in house in the hope it will reassure clients they can get the job done, Joey Gardiner asks if the subcontracting model has had its day
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FeaturesWhat to specify: Healthcare
Hospitals and healthcare facilities make very particular demands of products specified in their buildings
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FeaturesSustainability: Energy performance contracts
Energy Performance Contracts are increasing in popularity as a way of delivering large-scale energy savings in existing buildings
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FeaturesNuclear haste
The Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant is edging closer to reality, with backing from China. But the nearer it gets to going ahead, the greater the opposition gathering against it. Can the industry finally start believing it will happen?
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Features1 million homes: Hitting the mark
Housing minister Brandon Lewis has publicly stated that he wants to see over one million homes built in the next five years. But can the sector meet this challenge?
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黑洞社区 intelligence: Q2 2015
The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show that total construction output remained flat over the quarter, but registered above levels recorded for the same period last year. Experian Economics reports
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FeaturesTracker: August 2015
After last month鈥檚 positive movement, the construction activity indicator falls into negative territory for the month, while employment prospects take a nervy dip
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FeaturesBirmingham: New Street cred
It was never going to take a lot to improve on the squalid eyesore of the 1960s incarnation of Birmingham New Street Station. Shame though about the whiff of fakery
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FeaturesCorporate rebrands: Name dropping
In the week the EC Harris name is dropped as part of Arcadis鈥� global rebrand, Joey Gardiner asks why the historic names are disappearing from construction 鈥� and if the benefits of rebranding outweigh the risks
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FeaturesFrom the Archives in 1990
We take a look back to 1990 when a Labour government was a real possibility
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FeaturesMarket review: Hold steady
Despite wobbles in the global economy and a dip in private commercial construction, overall activity in the industry remains strong
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FeaturesCost model: London offices
Strong growth in central London鈥檚 office market is now driving developers to look to locations they may not previously have considered