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A new study of opioid-related overdose deaths in Massachusetts has found that the construction industry is the worst affected, while architecture and engineering are the only occupations to have a higher death rate among women than men. Published this month by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, the report follows a major opioid epidemic in

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Dubai’s first skyscraper, first library and a clock tower are all set to be heritage-listed, as the UAE’s largest city looks to preserve the early buildings that shaped its development. Dubai Municipality has launched a programme called Modern Heritage, which aims to protect some of the most significant buildings constructed when the city was first beginning its

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Northern Irish architect Alan Jones has been elected to become the next president of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Jones, who won 52 per cent of the vote, will replace the current president Ben Derbyshire on 1 September 2019 and hold the position for two years. The architect, founder of Alan Jones Architects, wants

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