All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 253
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UK engineers set to benefit from Sino-British agreement
The Engineering Council UK (ECUK) and the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) have signed a memorandum of understanding that could open up new areas of work for UK engineers and engineering companies.
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Livingstone launches radical green plan for London
London mayor, Ken Livingstone, is to target developers of new buildings, and landlords and tenants of existing buildings, in a bid to make London the green capital of the world.
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RW Gregory promotes Ian Turner to director
Also: Peter Gair and Steve Smith made partners at Gleeds
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What’s working — mixed schemes
Today’s new housing has to be mixed tenure, with private and affordable homes looking the same on the outside. That’s easy to achieve compared with the challenges behind the scenes.
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Loyd on Liverpool
Liverpool, one of the leading cities setting up store at Mipim, did culture-led regeneration long before Bilbao, says Loyd Grossman. Slavery, the Beatles and the Three Graces are all capital for the city’s renaissance.
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The player king
Hunter by name, hunter by instinct, Sir Tom Hunter’s decision to back away from a bid for Wilson Bowden this month was a rare set-back. But why is Scotland’s richest man going into housebuilding in the first place
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Grow money grow
Jessica is a model – no, not that kind of model. It’s the name for a new way of funding regeneration in the EU, using the cash as an investment. It’s certain to be a hot topic at Mipim, so here’s your chance to swot up.
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Local models — Goodbye grant-dependency
If you don’t get the finances right, nothing will happen in regeneration. But new mechanisms are needed, and localism and place-based solutions seem to be the way forward, says PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Ray Mills
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Housebuilders to be rewarded for going green in the Gateway
Competition to boost greener homes Zero-carbon homes could cost just £2,000 extra
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Fruits of the forest
If you want FSC approval for your scheme, you have to prove that at least half your timber comes from sustainable sources. Westside Apartments upped its eco-cred by using 100% FSC-certified timber. Stuart Macdonald finds out how it was done
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Products — doors, windows and flooring
Doors that look frameless Glass UK’s Sheerglaze door technology gives designers the potential to create a glass facade that appears frameless. Sheerglaze doors have an aluminium frame sandwiched between two sheets of toughened glass. This both gives a high degree of rigidity to the door construction and ensures that no ...
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Digest
This month’s news round-up takes in takeover fever, thermal comfort, and horrid homes
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Markets — What price the city?
Our annual snapshot of the housing market in England’s core cities shows widening diversity in affordability