All Features articles – Page 331
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FeaturesAluminium facade panels
This residential complex in London used almost 5,000 anodised aluminium rainscreen panels
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Infrastructure market overview: The road ahead
Sector overview Infrastructure has been one of the few bright spots in the construction market over the past year – but will it last? Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon makes some predictions for the next four years
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FeaturesNuclear programme: The age of proliferation
Programme update: Over the next two decades, the nuclear industry is set to provide 64,000 man-years of construction-related work – enough to keep a lot of companies very busy indeed. David Rogers and Thom Gibbs look at who’s best placed to make the most of the bonanza
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FeaturesDownsizing Dubai: Will the Middle East's golden child ever be the same again?
The UAE is waking up … but it has one hell of a hangover, and it’s going to take more than a couple of fizzy tablets to make it all better. So what sort of market is emerging? Well, the chances are it’s going to be good news for shed ...
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FeaturesThe 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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FeaturesGlobal 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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FeaturesFirst 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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FeaturesSharon 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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FeaturesSpotlight: 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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FeaturesStatus 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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FeaturesThe 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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FeaturesRopemaker 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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FeaturesFirst 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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FeaturesSustainability: 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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FeaturesDoes 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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FeaturesThames 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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FeaturesDefence 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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