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FeaturesSingapore Changi airport: The shape of water
Ike Ijeh looks at the challenges of constructing the world鈥檚 tallest indoor waterfall
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FeaturesInternational cost comparison 2019
A slowdown in the growth of the global economy brings both challenges and opportunities for the construction sector around the world, alongside some cause for cautious optimism, says Agnieszka Krzyzaniak of Arcadis
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FeaturesAccess to finance: The banks that like to say 鈥榥o鈥�
Investors are running scared of construction 鈥� put off by the collapse of Carillion, historically low returns and the feeling a problem job is just around the corner. So, is there anything the industry can do to improve its access to finance?
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FeaturesRaising the Bar competence report: explained
Raising the Bar could be one of the biggest shake-ups the industry has seen in decades. But has it been set up to fail?
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FeaturesWhat will the Tokyo 2020 Olympic venues look like?
Ike Ijeh discovers that some arenas originally built for the 1964聽summer games in Tokyo will be recycled for use in the next Olympiad
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FeaturesMarket forecast Q2 2019: Slowing down
All construction work output experienced a fillip in Q1 2019, while tender prices increased over the year at Q2 2019
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FeaturesSomewhere along the line: How is the Crossrail delay impacting local businesses?
Businesses next to and near the sites where new Crossrail stations are being built are at once feeling the pinch from a lack of footfall as the project stutters and looking forward to increased revenue from more customers when the project finally completes
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FeaturesAre contractors with poor payment records about to be let off the hook?
A government plan barring late-paying contractors from bidding for major public contracts comes into effect in September. But there are loopholes
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FeaturesTracker: June 2019
Overall activity continued to gather momentum in June, and all sectoral activity indices reflected expansionary tendencies
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FeaturesLight years away: how close are we to space tourism?
Space tourism still has some giant leaps to make before humankind can take聽a holiday on the moon.聽What鈥檚 slowing lift-off?
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FeaturesA construction holiday: A nerd鈥檚 guide to site-seeing
From playing I-spy with heavy plant to gasping in awe at hydro-electric dams, here is our guide to 鈥榞eeking out鈥� on construction while on holiday
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FeaturesCost model: Reinventing retail assets
In the face of tough market conditions, landlords, developers and owner/occupier retailers are looking at聽new business models
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FeaturesProjects: The story of The Tide, the Greenwich Peninsula High Line
The new part-elevated park in Greenwich Peninsula is remarkable for its use of prefabrication and parametric 3D modelling. But will it wash with the public?
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FeaturesOffsite: Could schools soon be built in a fortnight?
A consortium of firms aims to create a standardised way to construct hundreds of school buildings a year 鈥� and the Department for Education is right behind them
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FeaturesHow will Boris Johnson鈥檚 government affect you?
As Johnson鈥檚 new cabinet gets ready to act, 精东影视 looks at how they could change different construction sectors
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Features鈥榃e like to give people a chance, to give them a go鈥�: Stanhope鈥檚 Paul Lewis and Tony Wall talk to 精东影视
Stanhope鈥檚聽Paul Lewis and Tony Wall are preparing for the next phase in the firm鈥檚 three-decade history
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FeaturesProjects: Mace's 'rising factory' at Victory Plaza, London
Do new processes such as Mace鈥檚 鈥榬ising factories鈥� help deliver projects more quickly and efficiently?
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FeaturesLead times: April - June 2019
The forecast is聽for little change with workload and enquiry levels being static
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FeaturesIntroducing 精东影视鈥檚 digital champions: 鈥榊ou have just got to be brave鈥�
Here we present our digital champions: construction professionals for whom digital is ingrained and embedded in everything they do
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FeaturesCosting steelwork July 2019: Market update
This quarter provides a market update and updates the five cost models previously featured in Costing Steelwork