All Features articles – Page 333
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FeaturesMarket forecast: Two years to go …
Building prices plummeted 7.5% in the last quarter of 2008, and aren’t set to bottom out until 2011. Peter Fordham and Maren Baldauf-Cunnington of Davis Langdon deliver the latest grim predictions
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Pre-installed floors
Yorkon Off-site Building Systems has launched a high-performance floor for high traffic areas and heavy, variable loads
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FeaturesParquet-effect floors
The grade I-listed Stowe House, home to Stowe School, has refurbished its period Garter Room, which included laying a porcelain parquet-effect floor
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FeaturesSprung sports hall flooring
St Joseph’s College in Ipswich has fitted Altro Mondoflex sprung sports flooring in its new sports hall.
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Linoleum flooring
Forbo Flooring Systems has launched the Touch range of linoleum floor coverings. The renewable coverings are made from a blend of linoleum and cork and are claimed to have good acoustic properties.
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White rubber flooring
The Rubber Flooring Company has launched the Grid flooring range designed by Wayne and Geraldine Hemingway.
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What it costs: Synthetic resin floors
These hardwearing floors come in a baffling array of types, but fear not: Peter Mayer of Building LifePlans is here to simplify matters
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Stone-effect carpeting
Addagrip has launched Addatex Stone Carpet, an internal flooring finish made from a mix of natural or synthetic aggregates and bound in a clear epoxy resin. The Stone Carpet provides a smooth, decorative floor finish
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FeaturesVince Cable: 'This industry could collapse'
When the person who says this is Vince Cable, a man with a gift for eerily accurate economic predictions, you know things are serious
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FeaturesBilbao's boat-inspired visitor centre: images
Mikel Landa liked the kayak he made so much that he decided to use the same form of construction when he built a visitor centre for the Añana salt valley in northern Spain
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FeaturesFloor performance: 'the difference between a surgeon’s knife hitting the right or wrong spot'
You know how it is: you’re just about to cut out some tissue around the jugular vein when the floorboard moves under your feet. Oops… Stephen Kennett reports on what designers are doing to stop floors vibrating
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Gas and damp barrier
Z-Led has developed Protect GDB10 Gas and Damp Barrier which both stops methane, carbon dioxide and radon from entering a building and also provides a damp-proof membrane
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FeaturesWorking life: Life after redundancy
Kristina Smith meets three people who reinvented themselves after being made redundant (and found it far less painful than Martin Haake’s illustration would suggest)
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FeaturesPlanning: what's happened to section 106?
Affordable housing, roads, health facilities, schools, even public art – all these were paid for out of developers’ section 106 contributions. But that was in the good times. Now the well’s run dry and the question everyone is asking is: where’s the money going to come from?
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FeaturesMeet Your New Neighbour: Leviton opens in Dubai
US electrical products supplier Leviton opened a new office in the UAE on Sunday. Ramzi Nassif is the branch managing director
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The tracker: A very slight improvement
The good news is that the industry’s activity index grew by two points in November. The bad news is that this only took it to 35. Experian Business Strategies reports on continued industrial decline
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FeaturesSmall town China - QSs wanted
Its growth may have slowed from breakneck to merely spectacular, and some projects in the big cities look wobbly, but there’s still plenty of work in the people’s republic (especially for QSs). It’s just that you have to go to one-horse towns to find it – like Wuhan here, which ...
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FeaturesMission: impermanent - Atkins' Olympics
Good afternoon Mr Atkins. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to design, procure and build 98 competition venues, operation centres, drug testing clinics, flag storage areas and training grounds complete with power, water and security … Airport and station extensions must be added as and when required. ...