All Features articles – Page 351
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FeaturesThe race to build Britain's nuclear reactors
Japanese-owned nuclear giant Westinghouse is in a race with France’s Areva for the UK’s £20bn nuclear reactor market. And it looks like it’s falling behind. We asked the man spearheading the bid if he was worried...
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FeaturesSurviving Mipim without champagne
Mipim looks set to a frugal affair this year, with fewer big boats, less free champagne and virtually no Russian oligarchs. Building gets some tips on doing Cannes on the cheap
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FeaturesI've started so I'll finish: David Tuffin of Tuffin Ferraby Taylor
David Tuffin started Tuffin Ferraby Taylor when people wore loon pants and voluntarily listened to the Bay City Rollers. Several recessions later, he’s handing it over to a new generation. But isn’t that going to be a bit tricky right now?
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Decorative aggregates
Long Rake Spar, suppliers of decorative aggregate, has launched a new coloured natural dashing aggregate, free from iron sulphide, the usual cause of long-term discolouration on rendered walls
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FeaturesUnderground, overground: the ICE award winners
From tunnels under the Thames to tree-top walks in Kew, London was the scene of some impressive feats of civil engineering in 2008. Yesterday, the ICE celebrated the best of them
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FeaturesGovernment spending: what Gordon Brown won't be doing for you
Delays to parts of the Learning and Skills Council’s £5bn college building programme could stretch for up to a year
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FeaturesProfiled cladding
Euroclad‘s Elite Systems have been used on the £6.4m redevelopment of the historic market site in Minehead, Somerset
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PV rainscreen cladding
SFS Intec has introduced the ALW fixing system to the UK. Used widely across Europe to construct glazed rainscreens, the system is now compatible with photovoltaic panels to enable the creation of a facade that generates electricity
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FeaturesComposite panels
Kingspan Insulated Panels has added the KS1000 LV Louvre and KS1000 CW CurveWall to its architectural wall panel range
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FeaturesThe world construction outlook
In the old days, before the world banking meltdown, firms looked abroad for expansion opportunities. These days they are economic migrants. Davis Langdon looks at the best places to flee
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FeaturesSerbia: Construction's new hope?
Alright, it hasn’t got the shops, the offices, the hotels or the gleaming infrastructure – but then, that’s precisely why the so-called ‘Balkan Tiger’ is such a find for UK construction
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FeaturesThe return of the glazed terracotta tile
Like an old punk band that reunites for one last gig, glazed terracotta tiles – famous for their early appearances on Victorian pubs and tube stations – are making a comeback. Stephen Kennett gives a big hand to two completed schemes that are shaking up the streets of London
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FeaturesRivington Street Studio's York St John University: New York, New York
Rivington Street Studio’s flamboyant design for York St John University’s new quadrangle in England’s most complete medieval city provoked predictable outrage. Now that it’s built, its youthful verve frees it from the heritage vice
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Louvred panels
Arcelor Mittal has introduced its Recif range of louvred metal cladding for facades in the UK
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FeaturesRainscreen panels
Eurobond’s Rainspan rainscreen support panels have been used on the refurbishment and extension of the Emersons Green Sainsbury’s store in Bristol
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Standing seam profiles
Rigidal’s Ziplok standing-seam profile has been used for cladding on a car park in County Durham
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FeaturesChilling and chilli in Mexico City
The relaxed attitude of Mexico's business community belies the huge opportunities here – and the dangers of the local delicacy
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FeaturesMove over Dubai, here comes Mexico
With Mexico predicted to become a global economic leader by 2040, the Latin American nation is definitely one to watch for construction firms
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FeaturesFirst Impressions: Projects by Zaha and Coop Himmelb(l)au
Another ’First Impression’ panellist, this time Michelle Sweeney, graduate from the School of Architecture at the University of Manchester, on five new schemes