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Emerging market focus: Montenegro
Montenegro is keen to develop rapidly and is welcoming overseas developers, investors and consultants with open arms
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Emerging market focus: Argentina
Argentina is managing to escape the worse of the global credit crunch and has opportunities in the resdiential sector
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My Mipim Horizons: Andrzej Kowalewski
Benoy's associate director has come over from the UK to clinch some overseas deals
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My Mipim Horizons: Deanna Abuseda
Al-Ahly Real Estate's marketing executive reckons Egypt is still a good bet for investors in search of a bargain
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Pearl Dubai: crazy or true genius?
With most Dubai developers holding fire as the downturn hits, Al Fahim is starting a multibillion-dollar scheme – but if you think that's crazy, think again
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First Impressions: Projects by Chipperfield and Make
Another ’First Impression’ panellist, this time Tom Greenall postgraduate architecture student from the Royal College of Art comments on five schemes
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Cost model: Data centres
As IT power increases, so energy use has grown enormously. Simon Rawlinson and Nick Bending of Davis Langdon examine the design and cost implications of low-energy data centres
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Hot wheels: Abu Dhabi's Ferrari theme park
The Ferrari theme park in Abu Dhabi has all the sleek lines, smooth curves and visual impact of the Italian super car, just on a mind-boggling scale.
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Perfidious Weymouth: Portland's 2012 Olympic sailing story
It doesn’t bode well. The first venue to be completed for the 2012 Olympics should have been a regeneration triumph, but instead the sailing facilities on the Dorset island of Portland have sparked resentment among the locals and a grudge against a neighbouring town. Michael Willoughby headed to the south ...
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ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Sustainability Awards 2008: Who's the greenest of them all?
The 2008 Sustainability Awards reminded us that all the eco-problems we used to worry about are still there. As are the firms that are helping to solve them …
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Middle East Q&A: Dominic James
British Expertise's director of Middle East and Africa says it's no time to be heading for Dubai but overall the Gulf will weather the storm
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The debt tsunami hits the Gulf
Dubai's reliance on debt makes it vulnerable to the downturn
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Natural ventilation
Four Passivent Aircool window ventilators have been installed as part of the £1m upgrade of Hornchurch library in east London
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Formaldehyde-free insulation
Knauf Insulation has launched a new mineral wool insulation incorporating ECOSE Technology, which, it claims, has less embodied energy than existing mineral wool products
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Guide to winning work in… education
With a new primary school investment programme joining ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Schools for the Future and the academies scheme, education is still a rich source of work
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Procurement: Single-stage tendering
Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon sets out the pros and cons of the single-stage strategy and offers some guidance on how clients and contractors can use it successfully
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Gulf State ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø awards 2008
The first Gulf States ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Awards were held last week at a glittering evening ceremony in Dubai’s Madinat Jumeirah hotel, where the award-winners hobnobbed with top English rugby players
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Falling idol: Is there a downturn in Dubai?
If you thought the golden city of Dubai would be the saviour of the construction industry, think again
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Of a different stripe: Nottingham's new science park
The sub-industrial grey box we normally associate with science parks is nowhere to be seen in HawkinsBrown and Studio Egret West’s park, camouflaged as it is by floating bulrushes and giant timber lily pads.
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ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø pathology: Solar heating
Problem-free running of solar heating systems will enhance the sustainability credentials of this renewable energy technology. Peter Mayer of ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø LifePlans considers how to avoid problems