All Features articles – Page 335
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FeaturesBig ambitions: Defra's Alnwick HQ
When designers began working on Defra’s offices in Alnwick, they thought a BREEAM ‘excellent’ rating an exciting enough challenge. But then BRE went and introduced ‘outstanding’…
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FeaturesPRESS RELEASE: Tarmac to build 'blueprint' for affordable, volume zero-carbon housing
Tarmac Limited is set to build two concept homes at the University of Nottingham in order to provide housebuilders and Registered Social Landlords (RSLs) with a blueprint for low cost, scaleable zero-carbon housing which has the potential to be replicated across the UK
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FeaturesPrice war: How the retail crash is affecting construction
Misery loves company, and many of Britain’s largest retailers are sharing theirs with their supply chains. Olivia Boyd finds out which are and which aren’t
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Features2009: the sustainable year ahead
Michael Willoughby flicks through his diary to the key events that make 2009 such a critical 12 months for sustainability
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FeaturesJust landed: Mark Chamberlain moves to Azerbaijan
Mark Chamberlain – a member of Building's graduate advisory board – has just quit surveying for NG Bailey in London to head for a new adventure in oil exploration in Baku
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FeaturesMiddle East Q&A: Muhyiddin Itani
Davis Langdon's Beirut director explains why construction in Lebanon has been booming in recent years, and advises UK firms how to get involved
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FeaturesCountry focus: Poland
Poland has been enjoying a construction boom over the past three years, and although it’s not immune to the financial pandemic, it’s still going to record 6% growth. Marcin Klammer of EC Harris reports
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FeaturesIdentity crisis: Construction's corporate rebrander Steve Edge
He’s worked with George Lucas, Cartier and Dior, but is a corporate rebrand from Steve Edge really what construction companies need to survive the recession? Well, Wates, Kier and Skanska seem to think so
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FeaturesBSF schools: Why is it so difficult?
Alistair Darling might be accelerating spending on Building Schools for the Future, but that won’t necessarily mean more schools get built, as this exemplary story of a scheme in Greenwich demonstrates
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FeaturesThe hot seat: APC supervisor reviews
For first-year APC students, it’s almost time for the first formal sitdown with your supervisor. Jon Lever explains how it works
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FeaturesGlamorous address: Candy & Candy's One Hyde Park
Candy & Candy’s One Hyde Park is coming along quite nicely, thank you. Which is just as well, because when you’re spending £100m on an apartment, you do rather want the builders out of the way before you move in
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FeaturesChange of destination: job opportunities still abound in the Middle East
The downturn may have hit Dubai, but other Middle Eastern markets and the booming oil and gas sectors still provide plenty of escape routes
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FeaturesNew Year blues: Predictions for 2009
It doesn’t look like a whole lot of fun, but 2009 must be endured where necessary and enjoyed where possible. So, here’s our guide to what’s going to happen, complete with the big stories, the key dates and the people who are going to make the news
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FeaturesFirst Impressions: Projects by Will Alsop and Coney Island concept
Another ’First Impression’ panellist, this time Adam Smith postgraduate architecture student from the Royal College of Art comments on six schemes
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FeaturesMiddle East Q&A: David Yaw
Halcrow's Middle East managing director reveals the firm's strategies for Saudi and Syria
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FeaturesHow to move to Australia
Mike Cheeseman, 47, is a British surveyor who moved to Australia two-and-a-half years ago
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FeaturesStrictly Building: construction's finest dance contest
Passion, tragedy, triumph and dead fancy footwork – if you thought only Saturday night telly could bring you all these things, think again. Building’s answer to Strictly Come Dancing reveals the amazing grace of construction folk
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The tracker: Bleak midwinter
No tidings of comfort or joy here, especially for the shrinking residential sector, as employment prospects plummet and order books languish, says Experian’s Business Strategies division
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FeaturesNothing could be better
Empty sites and redundant buildings can be colonised for all kinds of creative purposes, says Amanda Levete. It just needs a little imagination on the part of government to get them going
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FeaturesBuilding's Review of the Year 2008
We know, we know, the year we’ve just had was about as enjoyable as the tooth-drilling scene from Marathon Man. But it was certainly dramatic, and if you look hard enough, you might even find one or two Frank Capra moments to celebrate. Building presses the rewind button