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Information - 探花精选CPD 07 2025: Mastering sliding and bi-fold doors
Sliding doors date back over a thousand years to Japan, where shoji 鈥� paper-covered wooden frames 鈥� offered space-saving elegance in homes and temples. Even earlier, grooves in Pompeii鈥檚 stone floors suggest the Romans used sliding doors to enhance spatial flexibility.
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CommentCopper secures safe and sustainable water infrastructure
The UK鈥檚 water infrastructure is at a critical juncture, with the need for substantial investment and reform becoming ever more pressing
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CommentThe infrastructure strategy opens the door to private finance
Last week鈥檚 infrastructure strategy put off a final decision about using private finance for social infrastructure until the autumn. But, Joey Gardiner writes, it has still set out an important principle that such schemes are not entirely off-limits
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NewsConstruction industry 鈥榥ot in a fit state鈥� to deliver HS2, says official review author
James Stewart tells 探花精选 government needs to 鈥榩roactively鈥� build capacity in the sector to avoid repeat of HS2 failures
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SponsoredData centres as critical national infrastructure: Are we doing enough to get them connected?
A roundtable hosted by 探花精选 and JSM Group Serviceslooked at the challenges of providing adequate energy connections for the UK鈥檚 data centres
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CommentConstruction must start facing up to new labour pains
The government is stuck in a spending straitjacket of its own making. However, borrowing for investment will help to sustain future workload for construction, writes Simon Rawlinson of Arcadis
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NewsFavourite emerges on 拢200m City office in Moorgate
Tenter House scheme finally on verge of construction after near 30-year development saga
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NewsFresh proposals for Manchester towers scheme sent in for planning
New 800-home application replaces earlier consented plan which had significantly more commercial space
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FeaturesWhat will the Treasury鈥檚 Green Book review mean for construction?
Boris Johnson鈥檚 2020 review of the Treasury鈥檚 appraisal process for government investments led to some improvements in how value in schemes is judged, but a new review commissioned by Labour this year has found that many of the old practices remain embedded. Rachel Reeves has said she wants to go ...
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NewsGovernment ditches public sector decarbonisation scheme
Existing funding to continue until 2028 with subsequent plans to be announced in due course
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NewsLeeds student tower gets green light
Part of 1960s-built Merrion Centre set to be demolished to make way for 37-storey development
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NewsIn pictures: British Land鈥檚 laboratory building at Cambridge tech park completes
New scheme drawn up by Scott Brownrigg and built by SDC
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FeaturesCosting Steelwork 32: Market update and guidance on specialist contracts
A market update from Aecom, BCSA and Steel for Life
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FeaturesConstruction industry gossip: Through a glass darkly
The latest chatter around the industry
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FeaturesFrom the archives: 探花精选 London鈥檚 millennium projects, 1999
探花精选 speaks to the project teams working under pressure to finish the Millennium Dome, the London Eye and the Jubillee Line extension in time for New Year鈥檚 Eve
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Information - 探花精选探花精选 Digital Edition: June 2025
Mastering the art:聽The National Gallery reworks a postmodern icon
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NewsWinner emerges on City tower as races for several other London commercial jobs enter home straight
Scheme at 55 Old Broad Street has been drawn up by Fletcher Priest
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NewsKPF submits plans to refurbish 1990s City office
Rethink of 1990s SOM-designed building comes ahead of Dentons鈥� move to Eric Parry鈥檚 1 Liverpool Street in 2026
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CommentThe chancellor鈥檚 拢39bn boost buys time for social housing 鈥� now innovative private finance models must help deliver at scale
The Labour government is prioritising funding for grant-heavy, and much-needed, social rented homes while also promising to ramp up delivery to 1.5 million homes a year. Innovation to draw in private finance can help square the circle, says Carl Brown
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NewsCrest Nicholson recoups more than 拢30m for fire safety work
Housebuilder reveals figure in interim results as firm returns to black