All Features articles – Page 336
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FeaturesWhat is going on at structural steel specialist Panceltica?
The Qatar firm poised to take over the Middle East with its snap-together housing has just pulled its shares from AIM
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FeaturesExpat survival guide to Shanghai
A hoard of global and local developers have set up shop in Shanghai – so to be a hit in business, wear a sober suit and flash a gold-printed card
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So what do you think?
Nobody can ignore the green agenda any longer. But what do people in the industry really think about the environmental issues affecting their business? This Overbury study provides some absorbing answers
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FeaturesOn your marks
Both Chris Booth and Anthony Brown from Overbury have one aim in mind: to deliver in a fast and complex market. Here, they tell Pamela Buxton how they intend to do it
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FeaturesLet’s talk
We asked industry experts from across a number of disciplines to make sense of the new energy performance certificates. Here’s what they said…
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FeaturesPublic good
With the commercial world in turmoil, the public sector is drawing more and more attention – just as well then, that these days it can match private facilities for design flare and value.
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FeaturesFast movers
Developments in software technology are helping to make fit-out projects ever more efficient – a real boon in such a time-critical sector
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FeaturesA decade in design
Not so long ago, the term ‘office fit-out’ meant deciding where to put the rubber plant. But over the past 10 years, design trends have moved dramatically to meet the demands of today’s design-savvy workers.
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FeaturesIs Europe losing its nuclear construction skills?
Work has started on Europe’s third generation of nuclear power plants. Problem is, the firms building them are finding it much harder than expected – the Finnish plant in this picture is three years late. Thomas Lane finds out what this means for the UK’s own nuclear plans
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FeaturesHawkins\Brown¹s New Art Exchange: cubism reimagined
HawkinsBrown’s New Art Exchange for the deprived community of Hyson Green in Nottingham is a black box on the outside, a blank canvas for artists inside.
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FeaturesThe Building London 2012 team: an awfully big adventure
Meet the Building London 2012 team – seven young people who’ve been given the chance to help build one of the most high-profile and demanding projects the UK has ever seen
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FeaturesVideo: KPF hotels make their mark in Shanghai
RLB Shanghai director Iris Lee introduces two KPF hotels under construction in central Shanghai
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FeaturesVideo: Tour of the Shanghai Tower model
Shanghai Tower general manager Gu Jian Ping and RLB Asia MD Stephen Lai show off the model for China's tallest building
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FeaturesFeeling the chill in Shanghai
It's two degrees below zero and oddly quiet in China's second city – and that's not just because of a ban on honking car horns
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FeaturesMiddle East Q&A: Nick Clayson
Norton Rose's head of Middle East real estate explains why the Dubai property market has gone haywire
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FeaturesMood sours in once booming Dubai
Announcements of lay-offs and projects put on hold have left contractors in the emirate worried
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FeaturesReady for take-off? Heathrow expansion
Fasten your safety belts: the government is about to give the go-head for the £13bn expansion of Heathrow airport. Good news for the construction industry, of course, but, as Dan Stewart reports, the backers of the alternative options are not finished yet
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FeaturesNatural ventilation: Second wind
A Cambridge university research team decided traditional natural ventilation strategies were just not up to scratch and came up with a new approach. Stephen Kennett reports