All Features articles – Page 368
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FeaturesLast word in trainers: APC assessment guide
The people who brought you the APC Trainer have gone one better … Jon Lever is the man who trains the APC assessors and over the next two years he will guide you through each step in the process that leads up to the final assessment on building.co.uk. This week, ...
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FeaturesOkay, so there’s a downturn, but it’s never a bad time to bolt on a few extra skills …
Despite the cloud hanging over the industry, students are continuing to pile into construction-related postgraduate courses. And, as Debika Ray discovers, it may not be as mad as it sounds
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FeaturesWelcome to the machine: Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation
Of all Le Corbusier’s buildings, perhaps the most influential is Marseille’s Unité d’Habitation. As a major exhibition of the great man’s works opens in Liverpool, Martin Spring visits this communal ‘machine for living in’ to see what lessons it has for us
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FeaturesSpecialist cost update: Envelopes
Roofing: In our latest round-up of works packages, Paul Wootton of Gardiner & Theobald says 20% growth is still expected over the next five years
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FeaturesInterview: Tessa Jowell
Olympics minister Tessa Jowell may be catching much of the flak being fired at the preparations for the 2012 London Games, but it’ll take a lot more than that to faze her. Dan Stewart reports
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FeaturesExpat survival guide to New York
New York is awash with work, but beware: going topless is permitted, but smoking near a public building isn't
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FeaturesRisk mitigation overseas: why a hard hat isn't enough
For contractors active overseas, meeting their duty of care to workers requires a much wider assessment of risk - including natural disasters and insurgent attacks
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FeaturesExpat survival guide to Libya
Tourism and retail are set for a development boom, but leave your tight trousers at home – and stay off the roads
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FeaturesExpat survival guide to the UAE
It’s the world’s biggest building site, a tank of petrol costs under a tenner and your salary comes tax-free
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FeaturesExpat survival guide to India
Never offend by refusing your host's offer of food, even if you're full – luckily, burping is encouraged
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FeaturesHow to set up business in China
To establish the personal relations critical for business success in China you need a local base, and should use local expertise to negotiate the country's complex ways
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FeaturesFirst impressions: Projects by Rafael Viñoly and Atkins
Another ‘First Impressions’ panellist, this time James Procter from Westminster University comments on Rafael Viñoly’s Museum of Modern Arab Art in Qatar and an organic tree house
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FeaturesHappily ever after
The Gus Report: Newhall in Harlow set out to marry quality design with quality of life. So how has it done? Continuing his series of visits to important housing developments, Gus Alexander celebrates something approximating nuptial bliss
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FeaturesThe alternatives: Secure schools
Schools have to provide secure access systems, both to keep unwanted visitors out and to keep pupils in. Stephen Kennett looks at three ideas – from the simple to the really clever
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FeaturesBailey’s cream: Strathclyde HQ
When M&E specialist NG Bailey set out to build its new headquarters in Strathclyde, it wanted to show what it could do to a standard spec office. Its control over the project enabled it to bring in a building of the finest green credentials
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FeaturesBuilding pathology: BMS systems
Building management systems give occupants control of M&E equipment at the touch of a button, but their complexity can cause problems
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FeaturesThe tracker: Bottoming out?
The indications are that there’s still a way to go before we’re out of the woods, but there are small signs of improvement, reports Experian Business Strategies
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FeaturesServer cabinets
Panduit has launched the Net Access server cabinet (pictured). The cabinet is the result of a collaboration with IBM, and the company claims it provides improved performance in terms of cable management, cooling efficiency and grounding over previous generation server cabinets.
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FeaturesData cabling conduit
Mita has launched the Cableline Prima 60 three-compartment, moulded PVC trunking system which has been designed for use with power cables and high-density category 5E, category 6 shielded cabling and 10Gb structured cabling.