All Features articles – Page 270
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FeaturesScots on the rocks: Construction in Scotland
Construction activity north of the border is expected to fall 7% this year, but does the Scottish government have better plans than Westminster for digging itself out of trouble?
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FeaturesStephen Pycroft: The man who scaled the Shard
With no more Shards on the horizon, how will Mace keep moving upwards? The firm’s chief executive explains
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FeaturesM&E firms: The heat is on
Why have M&Es been hit so hard this year and can anything be done to stop more of them going under?
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FeaturesThe 12 key moments that made the Olympics
As the gaze of the world fixes on London for tonight’s opening ceremony, Building looks back over the major events, turning points and chance encounters that helped to create the most extraordinary construction project the capital has ever seen
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FeaturesTop 150 Contractors and Housebuilders 2012
Who’s thriving and who’s merely surviving this year? Our interactive tables reveal all …
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FeaturesGardens by the Bay, Singapore
How Wilkinson Eyre found a sustainable way of cooling two vast glass conservatories in one of the hottest climates on Earth
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FeaturesInvesting in infrastructure: Safe bet
Questions remain over how the government’s £40bn infrastructure initiative will work - and whether it will unlock the pension funds’ billions
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FeaturesSteel insight: Cost planning steel-framed multi-storey buildings
The fourth article in the Steel Insight series focuses on the various factors to consider when cost planning a steel-framed multi-storey building
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FeaturesMarket forecast: Further to fall
With the economic outlook worsening, construction activity is expected to keep slowing until the end of 2013, with prices rising slightly
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FeaturesExperimental flooring: 62 Buckingham Gate
Pell Frischmann’s experimental approach resulted in this unique post-tensioned floor slab system
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FeaturesShould we work all hours?
Ray O’Rourke has said a 35-hour week would make the industry more attractive to recruits. How realistic is a shorter working week is - and does anyone really want it?
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FeaturesBIM: The inside story one year on
Building caught up with the team on the Manchester library refurb project to see if BIM was everything they hoped it would be
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FeaturesCost model: Out-of-town retail
As the needs of shoppers change, so too do those of retail developers. Paul Zuccherelli, Ben Agyekum and Marco Ielpi of Davis Langdon, an Aecom Company, consider the kinds of shopping centre that we will need in a click-and-collect world
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FeaturesSteve Hindley: Mr Happy
The chair of contractor Midas and the CBI’s Construction Council has a smile on his face. What does he know that we don’t?
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FeaturesKisho Kurokawa's Maggie's Centre
Before he died in 2007, the legendary Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa sketched out a swirling, ‘dragon-tailed’ cancer care centre in Swansea. Now the UK’s 13th Maggie’s Centre has been completed in titanium-studded concrete by Garbers & James
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FeaturesThe ‘cosmic whirlpool’ and other Maggie’s Centres
When writer and garden designer Maggie Keswick Jencks was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1993, together with her husband, the architectural writer Charles Jencks, she set about her creating a charity project to provide cancer sufferers with expert support within a more sympathetic built environment.
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FeaturesSolving the panel puzzle
The Maggie’s Centre certainly provided a stern test of the capabilities of precast concrete supplier Thorp Precast. The job involved creating 56 precast panels, and although many of these were similar, very few were identical.
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FeaturesThe tracker: One direction
Construction activity has been in continuous decline for 18 months now, and the dearth of residential orders offers little hope of respite any time soon. Experian Economics reports
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FeaturesBuilding intelligence Q1 2012
A 28% quarterly rise in commercial orders can’t disguise the general downward trend, with output falling in most sectors - even in the safe haven of infrastructure. Experian Economics reports
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FeaturesWuxi Grand Theatre: Wings of desire
Chinese symbolism and glacial Finnish design work in glorious harmony at PES Architects’ butterfly-roofed opera house in China