All Features articles – Page 216
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FeaturesSustainability: Thinner insulation
High-performance insulation materials enable much thinner profiIes to be used than their counterpart products. Sweett Group investigates if the benefits from the use of these thinner insulation materials outweigh the costs
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FeaturesBritish pavilion, Milan: Get the buzz
Much of the site of this year’s British pavilion in Milan will evoke the spirit of British landscapes. But its crowning achievement will be a gigantic recreation of a beehive
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FeaturesCPD 1 2015: Best practice for building waterproof concrete basements
To ensure new basements are waterproof, it is essential that a suitable methodology is followed on site. This module, sponsored by Waterproof Concrete with Site Supervision, explains how designers can specify good workmanship
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FeaturesWhat to specify: Roofing
This week’s roofing products include roof boards at the new Woburn Forest Village Center Parcs leisure facility in Bedfordshire, and a green roof system at the Buchanan Street retail development in Glasgow
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FeaturesInterview: Stef Stefanou
The former John Doyle chairman unpicks the events that led to the firm’s closure in 2012, and reveals how the industry exposed a darker side in his hour of need
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Kruisplein Housing Scheme, Rotterdam
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is the competition entry that founded Mecanoo in 1984
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FeaturesThis week in 2008
Building visits Constructionarium course, an education scheme founded by Stef Stefanou
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FeaturesNo man’s land: Unwanted supermarket sites
Supermarkets are responding to the UK’s shift in shopping habits by massively cutting back their development programmes, leaving the construction industry and affected communities wondering what will happen to the unwanted sites
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FeaturesImage of the week: Nous sommes tous Charlie
London’s tributes after the Charlie Hebdo attack and subsequent violence
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FeaturesNot on the money: Over budget projects
When finally completed last autumn, New York’s One World Trade Center clocked in at a total expense of £2.5bn, making it not only the most expensive skyscraper of all time, but also costing eight times its original budget. But is it the most over budget project ever to be built? ...
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FeaturesBuilding intelligence: Q3 2014
Experian Economics shows that construction activity increased 2% on the previous quarter, taking it 6% above the level taken for the same period in 2013
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FeaturesTracker: November 2014
The construction activity index holds its position at 60 points, while the regional composite indices show that the majority of regions saw a decrease in activity
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FeaturesAgenda 15 manifesto
Building’s manifesto for construction for the next parliament is now online here - and we want you to register your support
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Leeds Kirkgate Market
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is of Leeds Kirkgate Market, drawn by architect Tono Rodriguez at NPS Leeds
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Infographic: How important is construction to the UK economy?
What part does the sector play in the wider UK economic recovery?
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FeaturesA manifesto for construction
Our Agenda 15 campaign aims to influence the next government by telling politicians what construction needs to thrive. Here, we explain the manifesto aims and how you can support them
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FeaturesWhat to specify: BIM
This week, we celebrate BIM champions from around the world, as well as all manner of innovative BIM products coming to a construction site near you
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FeaturesDefinitely maybe: Predictions for 2015
May’s general election is a dead certainty to happen but what are the other key developments, challenges and government priorities that will shape construction’s year?
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FeaturesBIM: Visualisation technology
Software used in the gaming industry is being integrated within a BIM platform to give enhanced architectural visualisation - offering designers a mind-bending simulation capacity