All Features articles – Page 342
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International costs 2009
No country has been safe from the effects of the global recession and even China’s legendary growth is at its slowest rate for a decade
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FeaturesGetting through Christmas: Hays contractors' salary survey 2009
There may be the odd sign of spring in some sectors, but the labour market is stuck in the bleak midwinter – as this year’s contractors’ salary guide makes clear
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Acoustic panels
CMS Acoustic Solutions has launched SuperPhon Hi-Impact, an acoustically absorbent wall panel for use in high-impact areas such as gymnasiums, sports halls and classrooms
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Air-tightness adhesives
Responding to the demand for increased air-tightness, Natural Building Technologies has introduced a series of Siga adhesive tapes and membranes
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FeaturesMedia City, Salford: This is the BBC
Developer Peel Holdings and Bovis Lend Lease enjoy a high level of trust – which is just as well, because when they took on the Beeb’s new studios at MediaCity in Salford, there was a fair degree of risk involved – and getting the project in before the pips was ...
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FeaturesDigital mixer taps
Rada has launched Acu, a range of digital thermostatic mixing valves designed for washbasins in healthcare buildings
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FeaturesEnhanced security
Schüco International has become a member of Secured by Design, offering a range of police preferred specification doors and windows
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Exit signs
Cooper Lighting has expanded its Safe Edge range of exit signs, adding two models that incorporate LED light sources to increase energy efficiency
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Foot troughs
Pland Stainless, a manufacturer of stainless steel washroom products, has launched the Piedmont foot trough for environments such as hospitals and leisure centres where high levels of foot hygiene are required
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FeaturesFirst impressions: HOK's Californian transport hub
Two RCA postgraduate architects gives their verdict on HOK’s design for a Californian transport hub
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FeaturesHow's the view?
The director of Exacta Consulting send us some photos he took from his window in Old Town, Dubai
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Cost update: September 2009
Peter Fordham of Davis Langdon makes his quarterly analysis of changes to costs and prices. And, to cut a long story very short, tender prices are heading south in a hurry …
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FeaturesTaming the beast: Winchester’s green office refurb
This is the story of how a sixties brutalist eyesore was turned into a building more becoming to the genteel town of Winchester – and made into one of the UK’s greenest offices in the process
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The tracker: Emerging markets
Most indicators are finally recovering, with residential activity at 50, tender enquiries at an impressive 69 and all regions showing signs of improvement
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FeaturesUnemployed graduates: We were promised jobs
But these three, like so many other construction graduates, have not found them in the industry. Building’s first annual survey of university leavers reveals just how grim things are
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FeaturesJust landed: Raj Achan moves to Abu Dhabi
After relocating to grow consulting engineer Hilson Moran's Middle East business, Achan is finding schools a problem but his rooftop pool some consolation
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FeaturesMixed ability: assessing the BSF programme
How has the Building Schools for the Future programme been doing since we last assessed it one year ago?
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FeaturesIn my day: Industry greats reminisce about their schooldays
These tykes grew up to become pillars of the construction community – despite the overheated classrooms and endless dark corridors. So how would they redesign those grim sixties cellblocks they called ‘school’?
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FeaturesSchools funding: adding up for politicians
Once the UK’s borrowing hits 12% of GDP, how much money will be available to build schools? Well, that depends on how the next government does its sums