All Features articles – Page 364
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FeaturesStructures in an exhibition
An exhibition opens this week that celebrates one of the unsung heroes of 20th century design: the structural engineer. The show, titled Unseen Hands: 100 Years of Structural Engineering, will be at the V&A museum in London until September as part of the Institution of Structural Engineers’ 100th anniversary celebrations. ...
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Easy to install handrails
Timeless Tube has developed a new handrail selection which has been designed with ease of installation in mind.
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Fire detection system
Fire detection specialist Rafiki has launched the Quadnet fire-detection system.
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FeaturesDare to be different: Elm Park, Dublin
Bucholz McEvoy Architects’ Elm Park is a stunning £300m mixed-use, sustainable extension to Dublin, made all the more attractive by the charmless dross that surrounds it.
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FeaturesWhat news on the Croisette?
Cannes braced itself last week as the brogue and court shoe-clad feet of the property and construction industries pounded its streets for Mipim.
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FeaturesHowe Dell: Too cool for school?
Healthcare and education The Howe Dell school and children’s centre project was commissioned by Hertfordshire council in order to test the latest eco-friendly systems, and as Chloë Stothart discovers, its most intriguing feature is its temperature control
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Water conservation
Just Washroom has launched the Sensaflush, a water management system for conserving water used in washroom urinals.
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Childproof walls
The Building Schools for the Future programme has over £2bn earmarked for long-term investment in secondary schools. Guidance for their construction is contained in the government publication the Standard Specifications, Layouts and Dimensions (SSLD) for school buildings.
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Ceiling light fittings
Zumtobel Lighting has teamed up with ceiling specialist Armstrong to launch the TechZone range of light fittings.
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FeaturesNurse call system
Static Systems has provided Pok Oi Hospital in Hong Kong with a nurse call system that uses voice-over-internet protocol and wireless technology to enable calls to be routed to wireless handsets.
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Ash grill ceiling
A total of 80m2 of Hunter Douglas ash grill ceiling has been used in the £44m upgrade to the campus accommodation of Leicester college.
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FeaturesWhat is it with architects’ websites?
You’re in a hurry. All you need is the phone number of a business contact. So you go for the quickest, easiest source – the web. Only, when you arrive at the company’s homepage, instead of instant information, an egg timer symbol appears with the words “Loading … 20% … ...
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Anti-bacterial paint
Johnstone’s has developed Microbarr, an antibacterial surface coating that it says can eradicate 99.9% of surface bacteria in 18 hours.
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FeaturesSES: All wired up for M&E
SES was established over 40 years ago as part of the privately owned Shepherd Group. Today it provides the design, installation and maintenance of M&E services for multimillion-pound projects in the public and private sectors.
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Cost update: March 2008
Construction costs are rising twice as fast as consumer prices on the back of rising oil and import prices, but the annual rate of growth is slowing, reports Peter Fordham of Davis Langdon
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Features'You can’t have sex if you’re bored' – the sex in architecture debate
Will Alsop, Jonathan Meades, David Ubaka and Ben Addy debate the merits of eroticism in architecture - is there too much, too little and what exactly does sex have to do with buildings?
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FeaturesTen reasons to go to the Think Conference
There’s a bevy of events and noise around sustainability at the moment. Here’s ten reasons why the Think Conference offers something different
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FeaturesMoney and mortality
How would you feel if you knew you had a one in seven chance of developing terminal lung cancer owing to your work, and the highest court in the land thought you deserved no compensation? Eleanor Goodman spoke to two men who do, and followed their campaign for government action
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