All Features articles – Page 322

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    Sports flooring system

    2010-03-26T00:00:00Z

    An innovative high-performance sports floor system, developed through a partnership between Gerflor and InstaCoustic, has been installed for the first time in the UK at the Moat House leisure and neighbourhood centre in Coventry

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    Tiled floors

    2010-03-26T00:00:00Z

    The £3.7m renovation of the Marianne North Gallery at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew has included the recreation of a Victorian geometric tiled floor, complete with intricate border, by Craven Dunnill Jackfield

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    The hard stuff

    2010-03-26T00:00:00Z

    The world of flooring is coming up with cheaper, cleaner alternatives to traditional stone tiles

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    Charter 284: If we all pull together...

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    Building’s campaign to safeguard capital investment, competitiveness and the future of the construction industry has been greeted by overwhelming approval. Shouldn’t you add your name to the list?

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    Charter 284 Energy: The future

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    It is clear to all that the future of power generation in the UK cannot be coal-fired. So why has the government so far failed to set a clear strategy on renewable and nuclear energy? Roxane McMeeken presents the final part of our Charter 284 manifesto

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    Alsop’s new look: Chris Littlemore interview

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    Chris Littlemore, the boss of Archial, is planning to exploit the architectural group’s most famous brand for its relaunched international business

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    Low-paid architect jobs: An offer you can refuse

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    If you were an unemployed architect, would you take a job working 14-hour days for £6 an hour? Well, that’s exactly what one firm is offering

  • A huge road crane, normally used for erecting wind turbines, was used to lift the 36m-span bridge sections into place
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    Double crossing: Heneghan Peng’s Olympic bridge

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    Heneghan Peng’s 54m-wide central bridge at the Olympic park, which was lowered into place last week, has been ingeniously designed to form two narrower walkways after the Games have finished. Stephen Kennett explains how it all works

  • Studio E’s Sacred Heart primary school in Hammersmith, west London, was built in 2007 around two 120-year-old plane trees
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    Cost model update: Small projects

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    In this latest update, Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon reviews the capital costs of primary schools, social housing and small industrial buildings

  • How Paddington’s Crossrail station will eventually look
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    Dig in!

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    Crossrail will offer a feast of work for UK construction, with the three main tunnelling contracts up for starters. Andy Pearson finds out exactly what these entail

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    Down the line: Market report on transport

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    Transport investment is currently buoyant, but in the medium term, prospects could be affected both by political divisions and spending cuts. Simon Rawlinson and Steve Waltho of Davis Langdon provide a guide to what the next few years might hold in store

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    The London Library: Speaking volumes

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    The London Library has been extending in higgledy-piggledy fashion ever since it moved to its St James’s home in 1845. Now Haworth Tompkins has set out to rationalise its circulation so that readers may actually be able to find the books they’re looking for

  • Work on the existing East London line involved stripping out the railway to the tunnel inverts and replacing it along with new power and signalling systems to take up to 20 trains an hour
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    In the loop

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    The £1bn East London line extension, which opens in May, is the first part of a plan to give the capital an orbital railway. Stephen Kennett looks at the work done and how the circle will be completed

  • Singapore’s East Coast Parkway. The country is expected to represent 11% of South-east Asian transport expenditure in 2014
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    Nought to sixty

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    South-east Asia has big plans to ramp up its transport network, and must act fast to stop the economic growth of the past decade from going into reverse. But first it needs to find billions of dollars of private investment

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    Preventing a pile-up

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    Transport infrastructure spending seems to be one of construction’s good news stories. According to Davis Langdon, there has been 10% growth in real terms

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    Movers and makers: 12 March 2010

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Recent tests at BRE has confirmed that Hydropanel partition walls meet all the requirements of BS 5234-2: 1992 including criteria for stiffness, resistance to surface damage by a variety of objects and the effects of door slamming, as well as resistance to crowd pressure. It also underwent lightweight and heavyweight ...

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    Countdown to 2012: Our year on the Olympics

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Catching up on the past 12 months in the life of Building's young 2012 team

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    Deregulation: Fixing New Zealand’s £5bn leak

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Cutting red tape is one thing. But total deregulation is about as sensible as turning on your bathtaps and going on holiday – as thousands of soggy Kiwis now know

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    No more repeats: Episode two of BBC Broadcasting House

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    With a very public dressing down still ringing in its ears, Britain’s most venerable broadcaster has a point to prove on phase two of the £1bn redevelopment of Broadcasting House

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    Water controls

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Douglas Delabie, under its Chavonnet banner, has launched a range of water controls to help prevent hospital-acquired infections