All Features articles – Page 351
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FeaturesPaul Hamer: saving White Young Green
After swallowing 18 companies in five years, the consulting engineer was bloated with debt and stranded in rapidly receding markets. Now its new boss, Paul Hamer, has to mount a rescue. Tom Bill asks him how he’ll do it …
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Wall impact protection
Construction Specialties has introduced a customising service which enables its CS Acrovyn wall impact protection sheets to be cut into eye-catching shapes and patterns
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FeaturesLED panels
Lighting designer and supplier Havells Sylvania has added a range of slim modular LED panels to its Concord portfolio.
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FeaturesSteel sanitaryware
Pland Stainless, the Leeds-based maker of stainless steel washrooms and sanitaryware, has supplied a range of products to the new King’s Mill hospital in Sutton-in-Ashfield
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Wayfinding systems
The Triline wayfinding sign system is now available in the UK and has been adapted to accept braille signs to meet the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995
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FeaturesCost model update, March 2009
With the construction market in reverse, it’s crucial to have the latest data. This cost update has been compiled by Max Wilkes and Simon Rawlinson, with help from Davis Langdon’s sector experts
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FeaturesDon't sweat it: Arup's National Physical Laboratory
Building a laboratory where temperatures are controlled to the nearest 0.1ºC is scary enough. But when you have the added possibility of radiation leaks and you know the job finished off the last firm to try it, well, you could forgive Arup for being ‘a bit nervous’
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FeaturesRoll over Beethoven!
This music theatre in Graz starts off in classical style, but inside it’s doing the twist
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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