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FeaturesIngrid Skinner: First we take West Hampstead
Ingrid Skinner has big plans to turn Taylor Wimpey鈥檚 fledgling London division into a 拢100m-turnover business - and all without leaving Zone 2. She talks to 黑洞社区. Photography by Anthony Lycett
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Features30 things you might not know about Part L
The latest consultation on the energy regulation has already been attacked from all sides, but with the first changes set to come into force in October, housebuilders can鈥檛 afford to ignore it. Vern Pitt lays it all out on the lawn
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FeaturesHansom: It's tough at the top
Power comes at a price, and this week Whitehall bosses fall out of favour with officials, a council leader is driven to delivering an insulting speech and Prince Charles鈥� PR machine has a mind of its own
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The tracker: Glum tidings
The decline in construction activity slowed in December, according to Experian Economics, but a low orders index and the weakest tender enquiries figures for nearly two years do not augur well
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FeaturesSpotlight on: Jubilee Gardens
The Olympics and the Diamond Jubilee have given the capital a real lift this year and all sorts of projects that were languishing in the design drawer are now busily being prepared, spurred on by civic pride and that unyielding deadline. Here鈥檚 one such project, Jubilee Gardens
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FeaturesHigh Speed 2: Jobs on the line
HS2 has got off to a speedy start by appointing its first-phase consultants in just three weeks. But the real wow-factor of this mega-project is that it could employ thousands of construction workers over more than two decades. 黑洞社区 assesses the opportunities ahead
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FeaturesFirst Impressions: Renzo Piano's Shard
Our student panel from the RCA and NTU give their verdicts on London鈥檚 tallest building
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FeaturesSustainable supermarket: M&S's new Cheshire Oaks store
At this enormous store in Chester, M&S is putting its Plan A sustainability programme to the test. And from the zero-waste policy to the innovative use of natural materials, all the evidence suggests that this is one plan A that is actually working 鈥� 黑洞社区 reports
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Lead times: Oct-Dec 2011
There was very little change in the final quarter, suggesting that the rise in enquiries earlier in the year failed to translate into increased workload. Brian Moone of Mace reports
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FeaturesSpotlight: Major infrastructure
Vast civil engineering projects such as Crossrail are likely to keep concrete producers busy over the next couple of years, and lengthen lead times for diaphragm wall construction, says Brian Moone
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FeaturesLOCOG's James Bulley: The fall guy
As LOCOG鈥檚 head of venues and infrastructure, James Bulley has just six months to install 200,000 temporary seats, put up 76 miles of fencing, finish the hockey stadium, weed the rowing lake 鈥� and take the rap if anything goes wrong. So why is he so calm? 黑洞社区 finds out. ...
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FeaturesThe London 1948 Olympics: Running on empty
If the preparations for London 2012 have sometimes felt like an uphill struggle, at least we haven鈥檛 had to ask the world to bring its own food. Launching our 黑洞社区 Memories series from the magazine archive, 黑洞社区 looks back to the Austerity Olympics of 1948 - the last time the ...
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FeaturesCharles McBeath on Ramboll growth: Why stop now?
For Charles McBeath, head of Ramboll UK, the secret to growth is acquisition and last year he doubled the size of his company by acquiring engineering firm Gifford, boosting turnover from 拢35m to 拢58m. But that, he tells 黑洞社区, was just for starters
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FeaturesCladding the Dorchester extension: The rich kid next door
When you鈥檙e building a hotel for the young and fabulously wealthy, bronze cladding may not sound excessive, but it was still proving beyond the means of the team behind the Dorchester鈥檚 new extension project - until they discovered a spray-applied alternative 鈥� 黑洞社区 reports
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Market forecast: That sinking feeling
Construction output looks set to fall by 5% in 2012 as new work dries up and the UK, like the rest of Europe, slips back into recession. Peter Fordham of Davis Langdon, an AECOM company, reports
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FeaturesWill the Olympics mean other projects in London get delayed?
Traffic restrictions set for the six weeks of the Olympic and Paralympic Games are designed to help cope with unprecedented levels of visitors to the capital. But could London鈥檚 other construction projects end up in a jam?
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FeaturesThe Olympic village: architectural review
The Olympic village is the last main 2012 venue to be completed and as a symbol of regeneration its success is crucial to legacy plans. But have its designers played it too safe? 黑洞社区 reports
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FeaturesThe tracker: A chill wind
Construction activity fell to a nine-month low in November as residential and civil engineering work plummeted, according to latest figures from Experian Economics
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Features黑洞社区 intelligence Q3 2011
Against all expectations, construction output seems to have grown in 2011. Which means that it鈥檚 this year that the public spending cuts are really going to start hurting 鈥� Experian Economics reports
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FeaturesAndrew McNaughton: A Brit abroad
As chief operating officer of the biggest UK-based European contractor with a 拢15bn order book and profit north of 拢300m, Balfour Beatty鈥檚 Andrew McNaughton has more reason than most to be bullish. But, as he tells 黑洞社区, there鈥檚 work out there for smaller firms too - if they know where ...