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Honing your board game technique
Making the leap from middle to senior management needn’t be daunting – if you’ve already honed your skills for the boardroom
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The world of construction is always changing. Our blogs uncover the latest developments in the industry and provide insight into the work CIOB and our members are doing for the built environment.
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Building Team Construction
Watching England beat Italy in the Six Nations on Sunday, I was struck by the similarities between rugby and the construction industry.
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Apprenticeships are front and centre
This happens to be National Apprenticeship Week (6-10 March 2017), but apprenticeships are front and centre in people’s attentions for plenty of other reasons as well.
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Why 17 Schools in Edinburgh should make us all stop and consider our reputation
Last week Professor John Coles published his report into the building defects that led to emergency closure of seventeen schools in Edinburgh in 2016. It makes sobering reading for anyone who cares about our industry and the reputation of those who work in it.
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Social Mobility: how do we drive real change in our industry?
As we go about our professional work, we are wise to keep an eye on broader issues facing society. One such issue is that of ‘Social Mobility’, which is helpfully explored in the recent CIOB report, Social Mobility and Construction: Building routes to opportunity.
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Training that gets to the heart of the industry
As members know, CIOB has been setting educational standards and working with professional training providers for years. So you might be wondering why we’ve suddenly decided to do our own thing?
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The man who shoots Battersea
Kilian O’Sullivan is one of a select group of photographers chosen to document the evolution of Battersea Power Station. He tells Art of Building what it’s like getting inside the guts of one of London’s most prominent landmarks
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3 Square Metres - an everyday story of modern slavery
Nick Ng’s haunting images of Bangladeshi labourers working and sleeping on a Malaysian building site capture the everyday mundanity of modern day slavery
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Nick Ng tells the stories of forgotten communities through photography
We talked to Nick Ng of Malaysia, whose captivating pictures tell the stories of forgotten communities across Asia
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I'm not a typical architectural photographer. I break a few of the rules
As Art of Building gears up for another exciting year, we hear the stories of inspirational photographers working in the built environment today
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Preparation for a Board Appointment
Are you an aspiring Director? Do you feel that you have sufficient senior experience working in the Construction and Built Environment industry to enable you to make a difference on a Board as a Director or Non-Executive Director?
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Arming the construction Industry for the future
The British Armed Forces consist of over 150,000 regular personnel and over 80,000 employed as reservists.