All Features articles – Page 218
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FeaturesEcobuild Building Performance and BIM highlights: Thursday 6 March
Robert Cohen previews his talk at Ecobuild
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FeaturesEcobuild Green Energy Zone highlights: Thursday 6 March
Dr Tim Fox previews his talk at Ecobuild
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FeaturesTracker: January 2014
At the start of the year the construction activity index is up six points on last month. This represents seventeen months of continuous positive activity. Experian Economics reports
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FeaturesEcobuild Building Performance and BIM Zone highlights: Wednesday 5 March
Munish Datta previews his talk in the Building Perfomance and BIM content zone
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FeaturesEcobuild Future Cities Zone highlights: Wednesday 5 March
Dr Tristan Kershaw and Tony Barrett preview their talks
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FeaturesEcobuild Green Energy Zone highlights: Wednesday 5 March
Rachel Coxcoon previews her talk at Ecobuild
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FeaturesEcobuild Retrofit and Refurbishment Zone highlights: Wednesday 5 March
Stephen Passmore of the Energy Saving Trust previews his talk
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FeaturesEcobuild Water, Waste and Materials Zone highlights: Wednesday 5 March
Peter Wilder of Wilder Associates previews his talk at Ecobuild
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FeaturesThames Barrier: The day after tomorrow
With much of the Thames Valley looking like something out of a disaster movie this winter, arguments are raging over whether the Thames Barrier can cope with the consequences of climate change - or whether it’s time to start thinking about building a new one
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FeaturesEcobuild Design Zone highlights: Tuesday 4 March
Ecobuild speakers highlight design talks at Ecobuild today
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FeaturesEcobuild Retrofit and Refurbishment Zone highlights: Tuesday 4 March
Ecobuild speakers highlight retrofit and refurbishment talks at Ecobuild today
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FeaturesEcobuild Water, Waste and Materials Zone highlights: Tuesday 4 March
Water, Waste and Materials content zone highlights at Ecobuild
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FeaturesVideo interview with Jane Henley of the World Green Building Council
Building interviews CEO of the World Green Building Council ahead of Ecobuild this week
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FeaturesLondon's concrete quarter
The transformation of King’s Cross includes some of the UK’s most sustainable office buildings - and concrete is key to all of them
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FeaturesCRASH: The worst is far from over
Despite signs of economic recovery, the scale of homelessness in the UK is undiminished. In fact, a combination of changes to the benefits system and funding cuts to charities means the outlook for the most excluded in society looks even more uncertain
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FeaturesSketch of the week: It wouldn't happen in Rome
In the first of a new series Ike Ijeh takes a satirical look at London’s incoherent approach to tall buildings
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FeaturesCRASH: Team Effort
Meet two charities CRASH supports: one for people in inner London recovering from addiction, the other supporting a community living in a former convent in Brighton
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FeaturesCRASH: The Pilsden Community
The Pilsdon Community is a working farm in Dorset, which provides a refuge for people in crisis and intermittent respite for homeless people. But when they engaged a contractor to renovate a dilapidated barn and stables to create extra space they got their fingers burned. Here’s how working with CRASH ...
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FeaturesCRASH: Let's take things up a gear
The construction industry continued to support CRASH even through the worst years of the downturn. But now that the economy is picking up, the charity is more ambitious than ever