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FeaturesJohn Moore: Looking for Moore
What do you do when your main revenue stream is reduced? If you鈥檙e John Moore and the head of Balfour Beatty Engineering Services, you turn to your other divisions - and boost them with acquisitions
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FeaturesThe tracker: August showers
Construction employment and activity remained downbeat in August, with orders below normal. However, the residential sector provided a chink in the clouds. Experian Economics reports
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Features黑洞社区 intelligence Q2 2011
Experian Economics鈥� analysis of the second quarter of 2011 shows that output was slightly down on the same period last year, and the full impact of spending cuts has not even filtered through yet
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FeaturesFirst Impressions: Liverpool National Museum
Our student panel give their impression on the futuristic waterfront museum by Danish architect 3XD
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FeaturesSustainability: 黑洞社区 structures
In-use energy consumption is well regulated, so should we now consider embodied carbon? Isabel McAllister and Anthony Mitchell of Cyril Sweett, Steve Webb and Anna Beckett of Webb Yates report
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FeaturesWinning work in the healthcare sector
The healthcare industry is changing. The new Health and Social Care Bill is decentralising power, and construction firms are going to have to take the initiative if they want to win work. Emily Wright looks at the data compiled in 黑洞社区鈥檚 first Health White Paper
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FeaturesHold very tight, please: Mike Carroll interview
How do you put a consultancy firm in prime position for growth in the next few years? Mike Carroll, chief executive of Arcadis, tells Emily Wright why flexibility and change are essential to future success
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FeaturesTop 200 Consultants 2011: Are you positive?
This year鈥檚 Top 200 consultants survey shows that staff numbers and salaries are finally climbing. But it also warns not to let the optimism go to your head
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FeaturesGartnavel Maggie's Centre: Moment of calm
Rem Koolhaas shows unusual restraint and impeccable bedside manners at Glasgow鈥檚 second Maggie鈥檚 Centre, where a subdued and informal space uses the natural world around it to promote healing
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FeaturesFirst Impressions: Zaha鈥檚 Riverside Transport Museum
Two Nottingham Trent University students give their verdicts on the dramatic building in Glasgow
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FeaturesM&E special report: Android smart home
What would it mean to be able to control every electrical device in your home from your phone? Wireless home automation is nothing new, but Google hopes to bring it to the masses with its latest project. Andy Pearson glimpses the future
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FeaturesM&E special report: LED lighting at the National Gallery
Displaying some of the most famous - and delicate - paintings in the world is a tricky business, particularly when you have to decide between quality of light and energy conservation. The National Gallery thinks it has found the answer: LEDs. Andy Pearson reports
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FeaturesESCOs: Off the grid
As the pressure to achieve low-carbon developments intensifies, decentralised, privately-funded energy solutions are in increasingly high demand. Andy Pearson examines the rapidly expanding market for Energy Services Companies, or ESCos
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FeaturesEducation White Paper
Following the government鈥檚 response to the James Review, 黑洞社区 is offering a comprehensive 60 page guide to the education market in the UK over the next four years.
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FeaturesCEO White Paper
This report, specially tailored for decision makers, provides expert intelligence and insight into the state of the nation for the construction industry.
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FeaturesThe ArcelorMittal Orbit: Twist and shout
The ArcelorMittal Orbit in the Olympic park is being built to 鈥榓rouse the curiosity and wonder of Londoners鈥�. And the most curious thing of all is how this spiralling confusion of red steel actually stands up
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FeaturesDeptford: Mixed to the max
On a single 7,000m2 site in Deptford, architect Pollard Thomas Edwards has managed to fit a community centre, artists鈥� studios, flats, a school and two playgrounds. 黑洞社区 finds out how
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FeaturesBeing Benny Kelly
To pay tribute to one of construction鈥檚 biggest names we re-publish a rare interview given by the ex-Sir Robert McAlpine London boss in 2011
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FeaturesCountry focus: Russia
As host to the 2014 Winter Olympics and 2018 World Cup, and with a strong demand for offices, residential and retail, Russia is experiencing an uplift in construction activity. Tim Robb from EC Harris reports
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FeaturesMy working day: EC Harris QS Rachel Titley
The chartered QS at EC Harris in Birmingham keeps her team of trainees and associates busy whilst juggling her family and working life