All Features articles – Page 368
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FeaturesRugged laptops
Panasonic has launched a range of lightweight, portable laptops specifically designed for the construction industry.
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FeaturesThe incredible hull
Ralph Erskine’s Ark is one of London’s most striking landmarks, but it has lain dormant for most of its short existence. Now developer Landid and an architect called DN-A have enacted an extraordinary genetic mutation. Martin Spring saw the result
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Online guidance
The RICS has teamed up with content management system provider, Jadu, to relaunch isurv.
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FeaturesFace recognition
The world's largest casino, the Venetian in Macao, has installed 13 Vision Access 3D face readers to authenticate up to 12,000 employees as they come through the building’s main entrance at the start of a shift.
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FeaturesIntegrated Environmental Solutions: Get with the program
Integrated Environmental Solutions was set up in 1994 but its roots go back to the seventies energy crisis when Don McLean, its founder and current managing director, started his PhD in the detailed computer simulation of renewable energy devices.
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FeaturesInterview with Jon Emery of Hammerson
Hammerson doesn’t like cosy relationships and obliging suppliers. It wants designers and builders who will kick back, come up with alternative suggestions and generally keep its creative juices flowing.
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Tracking devices
Wavetrend Technologies has launched Global Eyes, a tracking system that monitors people and assets using a range of communication technologies to give real-time visibility and intelligence on their location, condition and status.
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Structural design software
Bentley has released version 11.3 of the RAM Structural System – its modelling, analysis and design software for structural engineers.
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FeaturesCost model: Laboratories
Laboratories are probably the most demanding buildings that it is possible to build. Here, Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon examines the factors that their designers have to take into account, from the need to attract world-class talent to energy efficiency
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FeaturesZaha's challenge
The abandonment of Zaha Hadid’s Architecture Foundation HQ in London was a disappointment for design connoisseurs, but what does it tell us about the ambition of the British construction industry?
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FeaturesSports quiz: Return of the Six Nations rugby shirt challenge
Can the English bring the reigning French champions to their Waterloo? Predict the results of that and the weekend's other matches and you could win a rugby shirt of the team of your choice.France v EnglandFrance's team, the reigning champions, have been on fine form this tournament. Even Jonny Wilkinson ...
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FeaturesCalculating housing lifecycle costs
Q: How do you work out the total cost of a house over a 100-year lifetime without spending hours poring over every single element? Stephen Kennett finds out the answer
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Structured cabling
Structured cabling specialist Connectix Cabling Systems has added a compact wall-mounted cabinet to its range of networking cabinets.
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Network cable
Emitex has launched a double-sheathed UTP Cat 5E cable, which it says can be used outdoors or in underground ducting, even in partially flooded areas.
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Server cabinets
Panduit is to launch the Net Access server cabinet, which it claims has enhanced thermal management features.
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Lifecycle costs: The basics
Peter Mayer from BLP to explain just how many separate calculations are usually required to work out the whole life costs for a house
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FeaturesThe squeeze
They are culling their supply chains and demanding cash from those that are left, but are main contractors really as bad as the big bad wolf? Roxane McMeeken listens to both sides of the argument
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FeaturesThe house with four gardens
Each window of David Mikhail’s latest house overlooks a landscape with its own unique character
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FeaturesThe evolving QS
With flotation looking distinctly iffy – as Turner & Townsend realised last week – cost consultants are looking for other ways to expand and survive.