All Features articles – Page 309
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Movers and makers
Alumasc has published a new technical manual providing full details of its aluminium rainwater systems. The guide sets out product selection tables, technical data and NBS specification advice as well as installation guidance for the Heritage, Aqualine and GX gutter ranges and the Heritage, Flushjoint and Guardian downpipe systems.Concrete, resin ...
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FeaturesQatar's zero carbon stadium: 96 degrees in the shade
Qatar wants to host the 2022 World Cup. But first it has to convince FIFA that the game can even be played in a Qatari summer. So it got Arup Associates to create a micro-climate inside a 500-seat test stadium. Cool.
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FeaturesAmazing ONS Specs! Makes the economy look much better than it is!
According to the Office for National Statistics, 2010 was the year that construction became a powerhouse of national growth and regained all the ground it lost last year. Oh yeah? Building checks out its story, with the help of a few economists …
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FeaturesWhat next for Laing O'Rourke? Britain's most secretive contractor
It’s been 10 years since Ray O’Rourke bought Laing, the grand old man of UK construction. The intensely private boss won’t talk about it, but Laing O’Rourke is regrouping after the downturn: eyeing new sectors and infrastructure mega-schemes
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FeaturesCost model update: small projects
The recent changes to Part L could add up to 8% to the capital cost of building, says David Holmes of Davis Langdon. This is what that will mean for primary schools, social housing and small industrial units
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FeaturesDave Sheridan: His friends in the north
A year ago Dave Sheridan suddenly found himself thrust to the top of property services group, Apollo. Once he’d got over the shock he set out on a high-risk strategy of shifting the business away from London to the northern regions
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FeaturesFirst Impressions: Zaha’s Maxxi Museum of 21st Century Art
Three architecture students comment on Zaha Hadid’s 2010 Stirling Prize winning building in Rome
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FeaturesSikh place of worship: The gurus of Gravesend
A cash-strapped project to build a Sikh place of worship in Gravesend procured the large marble domes, arched windows and highly ornate stonework from India - and saved more than £2m along the way
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Features40 under 40: John Williams 10 years on
John Williams, 46, EC Harris’ managing director for the Middle East
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Features40 under 40: Steve McGuckin 10 years on
Turner & Townsend’s UK managing director has made “quite a leap” over the past decade
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Features40 under 40: Ivan Harbour 10 years on
Ivan Harbour, 48, director, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
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Features40 under 40: Vince Clancy 10 years on
Vince Clancy, 46, chief executive of Turner & Townsend
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The original 40 under 40: 10 years on
Some have prospered as predicted, others have fled the industry, and one even married the person she named as her hero. Emily Wright catches up with Building’s 40 under 40 of 2000
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Features40 under 40 2010: Pascale Scheurer
Pascale Scheurer, 36, founding director of Surface to Air architects and Wired architects
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Features40 under 40 2010: Peter Millett
Peter Millett, 39, managing director of Shepherd Construction’s west division
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