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FeaturesChatham Dockyard's salvage operation
Returning a wrecked building to public use is tough enough at the best of times, but when your main contractor goes under, the pressure piles on. Stephen Kennett hears how Chatham Dockyard overcame adversity to open its new cultural hub for the summer tourist season
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FeaturesGraham Shennan on Morgan Sindall's merger
It鈥檚 been a month since Morgan Sindall鈥檚 building and civils arms became one, and MD Graham Shennan is still explaining that it鈥檚 all part of a planned bid for market share. Is Joey Gardiner persuaded?
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FeaturesMarket forecast: On the level
The brief rise in tender prices is over but so, it seems, are the sharp falls that characterised last year.
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The SAP affair: Part L compliance software
Forget house prices, where you鈥檙e going on holiday and the benefits of cosmetic surgery - SAP is what everyone鈥檚 talking about at parties right now. This crash course in sustainability software explains why
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FeaturesOn the horizon: Global careers
Instead of rushing to join a construction boom, the smart move is to spot one before it starts. With the Global Construction 2020 report in hand, Emily Wright checks out the next four big things. Illustration by Astrid Kogler
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FeaturesJunk Jellyfish theatre emerges on Bankside
Theatre designer Martin Kaltwasser struggles with buiding bureaucrats to deliver this pop-up recycled theatre in Southwark
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FeaturesBSF debate: experts predict future of school building
This morning readers put their questions to an expert panel, and this is what they said鈥�
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FeaturesFirst Impressions: Jean Nouvel's Serpentine summer pavilion
Our latest student is not too impressed with the 10th Serpentine pavilion in Hyde Park
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FeaturesBSF was not just about schools
The axing of 735 projects has wreaked havoc on 735 communities, 26 in one city alone. That city is Liverpool, which stands to be 拢410m poorer as a result of the cancellation. So where does that leave deprived areas such as Croxteth?
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FeaturesKazakhstan: 黑洞社区 the world's largest tent
In the capital of Kazakhstan, Buro Happold, Foster + Partners and developer Sembol have built the world鈥檚 largest tent. And their heroic attempts to heave that 90m mast upright are enough to make fair-weather campers weep
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The tracker: Back to reality
Hopes that increased activity at the start of the year would continue into the summer were dashed as the activity index fell to a six-month low
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FeaturesBAA client profile: Join the crew
In the first of a new series on key clients, Emily Wright meets the men to know at BAA to find out where the opportunities are and what the airport operator is like to work for in the post-framework era
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FeaturesHousing Design Awards: Living proof
It takes more than a numbing recession, constrained sites and nimbyism to stifle creativity in housing design. Martin Spring reviews the winners of this year鈥檚 Housing Design Awards
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FeaturesWaiting for High Speed 2 to get here
The coalition has given its backing to a high-speed rail network in the UK, but there is a lot of uncertainty over how, when and in what form it will arrive
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FeaturesEDF nuclear boss talkin' about his generation
Alan Cumming wants your help building EDF鈥檚 third-generation nuclear power plants, which, if all goes to plan, means four multibillion-pound projects and more than 150 contracts up for grabs
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FeaturesEnergy from waste: 'A wonderful place to be'
There鈥檚 going to be a 拢2bn-a-year building boom in energy-from-waste plants, like this one, over the next 15 years. Kristina Smith finds out how to turn base matter into gold
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FeaturesHere be dragons: Construction Dragon Boat Challenge
Who says the age of heroes is over? At the construction industry鈥檚 annual charity boat race, Alex Smith watched wannabe dragonslayers vie to see who was the strongest, fastest (and silliest)
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FeaturesCasci on life after Hamiltons: Small beast
Architecture was in shock earlier this year when Hamiltons, the UK鈥檚 16th biggest practice, decided to split up. Former director Craig Casci talks to Emily Wright about the break-up, and about making sure his new company stays a manageable size
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Lead times - April to June 2010
An increase in reported enquiries in many trades has not yet been converted to orders, but lead times are already creeping up in four areas compared with only one last quarter