All Features articles – Page 371
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FeaturesCost model: Airport terminals
UK airport operators need to make substantial investments in infrastructure to prepare for continuing long-term demand for domestic and international flights. Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon reports
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FeaturesAirport lighting
Sill Lighting luminaires have played a major role in the lighting of Heathrow’s Terminal 5
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FeaturesThe alternatives: Cooling and heating
Seasonal heat storeAt Beaufort Court (right), the headquarters for Renewable Energy Systems, environmental engineer Max Fordham created a seasonal heat store. This consists of about 1,000m3 of water held in a 5m deep hole, which tapers from 18m2 at the surface to 8m2 at the base – this shape does ...
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FeaturesAquifer thermal storage: DIG! A Dutch method of sorting out energy
M&E A Dutch method of storing all the energy required to heat and cool a building deep underground is coming to the UK. Stephen Kennett finds out how it works
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FeaturesAs bad as it gets: Building the UK embassy in Harare
With violence, poverty, hyperinflation and disease halting work at every turn, how is it even possible to operate in Zimbabwe? Martin Spring asked those building a new UK embassy in its capital
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Building pathology: Boilers
Boilers have a tendency to go wrong at the most inconvenient times. Peter Mayer of Building LifePlans discovers what the most common problems are, and how they can be avoided
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FeaturesGIA: Is this the UK’s grooviest building surveyor?
The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker – if they’re after second careers, they could do worse than apply to become building surveyors at GIA. Alex Smith talks to seven employees who all have wildly different backgrounds. Photography by Steve Schofield
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Lighting controls
Flex Connectors has launched Flex 7, a range of lighting control products built into Flex 7 plugs to create a range of plug-in switches, dimmer switches, occupancy and absence sensors, daylight dependent switches, daylight-linked dimmers and manual dimmers, which can be incorporated without extra M&E works.Flex Connectorswww.flexconnectors.co.ukwww.building.co.uk/enquiries (305)
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Energy saving lighting sensors
MK Electric has introduced a range of lighting controls, designed to deliver energy savings, for a range of commercial situations
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Heat pumps: GaeaTherm ground-source heat pump
Potterton Commercial has launched the GaeaTherm ground-source heat pump which it says can help reduce the carbon footprint of commercial buildings.
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Wall heaters
DRU Verwarming has launched a new range of commercial powered flue wall heaters to complement its existing balanced flue and conventional flue products
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FeaturesUnderfloor heating
Raychem’s electric underfloor heating system has been installed in the recently opened spa at the Gleneagles Hotel in Perthshire, Scotland.
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School lighting
Concord Lighting has provided the lighting for the Treetops special needs school in Essex.
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FeaturesTop 150 Contractors and Housebuilders 2008
It looks like we’re in for nasty weather. Problem is, most of the the industry has only known bright, bright sunshiny days. So what can the people who went through the misery of the early nineties teach them?
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FeaturesBattersea Power Station: the story continues
Yes, it’s on again, folks – the rescue and renovation of one of London’s most famous landmarks, that is. This time it’s Treasury Holdings’ turn to make what it can of the art deco power station. Thomas Lane looks at the scale of the job and the chances that this ...
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FeaturesLearning through play: the Constructionarium
The philosophy behind Constructionarium is that taking notes in a stuffy classroom can never compare to real on-site experience. Emily Wright went along to find out if this was true
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FeaturesMarket forecast: Cut-throat times
Soaring materials costs have driven up building costs and tender prices, but the economic slowdown is set to apply the brakes. Peter Fordham of Davis Langdon reports
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FeaturesSweett smell of success: Cyril Sweett interview
Dean Webster and Francis Ives were the men who took Cyril Sweett public. Now they have their first set of results, and they make happy reading. Portrait by Wilde Fry