All Features articles – Page 313
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The right formula: Abu Dhabi's Yas Hotel
With its dramatic architecture, precise engineering and top-speed construction, the Formula One-themed Yas Hotel has outlapped most of Abu Dhabi’s other buildings
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Global infrastrucure financing: Where to find $35,000,000,000,000
That’s one prediction for the amount that will be spent on global infrastructure over the next 20 years. But with bank financing having fallen by up to 85% in the UK alone, where is the money going to come from?
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First impressions: Make's brass-clad luxury London scheme
Two architecture students from Nottingham Trent comment on the new £7.5m London scheme
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Sharon Gordon: how to survive as a woman in construction
Sharon Gordon has spent 23 years in the industry and has gained the respect of her male colleagues. But, as she tells Sarah Richardson, it ain’t been easy …
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Spotlight: on cladding
With demand at a low ebb because of the recession, it’s no surprise that the trend for lead times across cladding systems is downward. Brian Moone looks at the risks of driving lead times too low
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Status updated: Facebook’s California HQ
This former laboratory in Palo Alto, California has been transformed into Facebook’s new corporate HQ
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The gatekeeper: Bob Lane on regenerating the Thames Gateway
Bob Lane’s mission to regenerate a huge area of the Thames Gateway was always going to be a tough one – and then the recession and a new political climate kicked in
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Ropemaker or Watermark Place: The big square off
Two big hitters have emerged on the streets of the City: Ropemaker in the red corner (above left), Watermark Place in the blue (above right). But which will take the sustainability title and be crowned ultimate speculative office champ?
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Lead times: April-June 2009
Another quarter goes by without a single increase in any works package, and this time seven have fallen. There are also reports of a reduction in secured workloads, says Brian Moone of Mace
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First impressions: BIG's Chinese sustainable skyscraper
An RCA graduate architect and two architecture students from Nottingham Trent give their views on the Danish architect’s origami-inspired scheme
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Sustainability: The future of offices
We’re going to have to make some important changes in the way we use offices in the future. Here Cyril Sweett director Hugh Mulcahey looks at what the options are – and which is better
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Does your job ever get on top of you?
Each construction profession requires different skills and personalities, so it’s easy to fit the person with the job, right? Well, actually it’s harder than that, and the consequences of failure can be very unhappy workers
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Thames Gateway Forum: Eastern promise
Billions of pounds worth of projects in the east of the Thames Gateway are staying on track despite the shortage of private funding. Here, one of the key players in the area explains how
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Defence Technical College: building a Welsh town from scratch
A £700m military college the size of a small town, to be built in the next four years. Not so clever now, are we? Capita, you take the training facilities, Brownrigg the living quarters. HLM, you’re with me. Now ’op to it!
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Hot this season: are air source heat pumps here to stay?
The government is expecting sales of air source heat pumps to go through the roof. But are they really worth getting excited about or just a passing fad?
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First aid kit: rebuilding after natural disasters
As eastern Asia counts the cost of yet another natural disaster, Roxane McMeeken reports on a British-designed housing system that needs no training to put together and could prove invaluable to the rebuilding process
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How lions and lambs can live happily ever after…
… after a takeover, that is, when two groups of staff, and two cultures have to be integrated. And as an economic uplift will trigger a round of corporate activity, it’s a problem that employers may be facing soon
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Double vision: Bill Hanway of Aecom UK on expansion plans
In five years’ time, Bill Hanway expects Aecom’s British business to be twice as big as it is now. The consultancy giant’s new UK boss tells Emily Wright how he plans to do it