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FeaturesMiddle East: A new day dawns
The 2008 liquidity crisis in the Middle East and then the Arab Spring did much to scare off UK firms. Now, a faster than expected recovery is drawing them back to Abu Dhabi, Qatar and particularly Dubai - which is seen as the business hub for the region
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FeaturesInfrastructure: Water companies
Water companies are changing their business models and the way in which they work with their construction partners. Simon Rawlinson and Mike Nugent of EC Harris examine the water industry鈥檚 growing focus on whole life performance
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FeaturesThe airport debate
Heathrow, Stanstead, Estuary? Today, Sir Terry Farrell reveals his preferred airport option
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FeaturesThe benefits creating the most buzz
Tough times have meant a shift in what employees value from their jobs. Debika Ray examines which benefits have emerged as the most sought-after in the altered landscape and what employers are doing to provide them
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FeaturesStaff benefits: What's it worth?
黑洞社区 reports on the key trends in staff benefits among the most forward-thinking firms in construction
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FeaturesHorrific Halloween architecture
Forget pumpkins and witches鈥� hats - for a real fright this Halloween nothing beats the worst excesses of modern architecture
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FeaturesSiemen's Abu Dhabi HQ
Technology giant Siemens developed one LEED Platinum-rated office in London, and is now trying to replicate this success - in the Abu Dhabi desert
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FeaturesPrivate rented sector: Heading for a fall
Is the private rented sector housing鈥檚 best hope?
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FeaturesInsurance special report: BIM
The rise of collaboration software has created a lot of questions for insurers - not least how to divide up and assign blame if anything goes wrong
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FeaturesSean Tompkins: Chartering new territory
With the RICS鈥� overseas membership up to 35,000, chief executive Sean Tompkins isn鈥檛 about to be blown off course by parochial critics back home
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FeaturesMarket forecast: Five years on 鈥�
Half a decade since the start of the economic crisis, output is still falling and tender prices continue to head south. Peter Fordham of Davis Langdon, an Aecom company, reports
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FeaturesHorrible Halloween architecture
The National Fisheries Development Board in India is next on our list of buildings that would make anyone scream
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FeaturesHalloween horrors: Makkah Clock Royal Tower
Today鈥檚 gruesome building is five times bigger than Big Ben and twice the height of the Shard
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FeaturesHalloween horrors: Piano House
For a real fright this Halloween nothing beats the worst excesses of modern architecture
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FeaturesNow the party鈥檚 over鈥�
Aside from rhetoric, what did we get from the party conferences? 黑洞社区 looks at the prospects for action on key funding areas
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FeaturesThe Global Clients Group
黑洞社区 and Ecobuild seek to capture the knowledge of the world鈥檚 most sustainable clients
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FeaturesView from my office: Kevin Williams
The Faithful+Gould regional director can hear Jazz every Thursday evening in the summer months
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FeaturesInterview: Renzo Piano
The Shard鈥檚 architect is back in town and raring to go on his latest project
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FeaturesIt's not easy being globally green
Roxane McMeeken examines the problems facing multinational clients trying to employ the same tough sustainability standards from Brazil to Bangalore
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FeaturesPost-Olympic projects outside London
Two weeks ago 黑洞社区 looked at London鈥檚 post-Olympic construction projects and now it鈥檚 the turn of the rest of the country. Here we highlight some of the major regional projects coming up over the next few years and the construction trends they herald