All Features articles – Page 384
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Bay window
LB Plastics has added to its Sheerframe range with a bay window that comes in 90°, 135°, 150° and 180° joint options.
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A-rated window
Eurocell Profiles and Haven Home Improvements have launched what they claim is one of the most cost-effective windows on the market with an A-rating for energy efficiency.
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Jamb anchor
Height safety and rescue specialist Capital Safety has added a door and window jamb anchor to its DBI-SALA range, which it says gives users freedom of movement while they work safely at height during construction or maintenance.
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Features‘Imagine that you are on level 80 and you want a sandwich. How long will that take you?’
… and other logistical nightmares that might arise when you start building the tallest skyscraper in western Europe between a train station, a bus station, several busy roads and a hospital. Thomas Lane watches work finally get started on the Shard
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Cost update: September 2007
In this quarter’s analysis, Peter Fordham of Davis Langdon reports on the continuing rise in construction materials prices, driven by demand from the Far and Middle East
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FeaturesDoors that can withstand a 100kg bomb
Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies has developed a range of bomb-rated automatic doors that have been tested with a 100kg TNT explosion at 25m and 45m ranges.
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FeaturesShould councils be able to set their own sustainability targets?
Council planners are currently slugging it out with builders and developers over the right to set their own carbon emission targets for new developments.
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FeaturesPump up the volume
Martin Spring takes a look at the latest advances in volumetric construction, from novel uses for shipping containers to designs for modules that are – whisper it – less boxy. But will any of this increase its popularity among housebuilders?
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FeaturesSunand Prasad
Politician and academic – not to mention architect – the new RIBA president certainly has the CV to tackle the top post in British architecture. But does he have the policies?
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FeaturesHousebuilders or planners - who should set sustainability targets?
An almighty row has been brewing between local authorities, who want to set their own sustainability targets, and developers who claim this is causing chaos. The two met last Tuesday to thrash out their differences...
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FeaturesEat your heart out, Jamie
One part the Naked Chef, two parts Ready, Steady, Cook, Bovis Lend Lease’s away day at a cookery school might have been a recipe for disaster – but turned out dead pukka. Eleanor Harding put her apron on …
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FeaturesDivine mystery
What’s the secret of this baffling monolith of raw concrete that stands in a field near Cologne?
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FeaturesDigs with a difference
Students won’t live in grotty bedsits any more. And with 1 million of them needing somewhere to live, it’s a market you’d be wise to swot up on – just leave the kids to add their own personal touches …
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FeaturesAre company fines for construction site deaths strong enough?
Amid the recent spate of on-site deaths, we ask: do you think fines for negligence are strong enough?
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FeaturesWould you object to a neighbour's wind turbine overlooking your garden?
An independent think tank says local people should be allowed to approve the installation of domestic renewables. What about if it was your backyard?
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FeaturesUncharted territory
The UK Green Building Council wants to create a road map towards a sustainable environment. Paul King, its chief executive and a man of impeccable green credentials, will be in the driving seat – or should that be bike saddle?
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Features‘People shouldn’t be scared of doing what they like at university’
Don’t have a BSc in construction? Don’t worry. Roma Agrawal’s first degree is in physics, but that hasn’t stopped her becoming one of the main engineers on a £4m project at the tender age of 23. She tells Jo Donnelly how it happened
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An irresistible rise
The unprecedented run of industry growth is unlikely to come to an end any time soon, with orders high and employment prospects healthy. Experian Business Strategies reports
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FeaturesGus takes the scenic route
The Formica hell of a service station can ruin a bank holiday jaunt. But fear not: dotted around the motorway exits of Britain are some architectural gems to lift the spirits of even the most jaded driver. Gus Alexander enjoys some truly welcome breaks
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FeaturesCountry focus: Romania
Romania is booming after its recent accession to the EU, with a rapidly growing construction industry and the world’s ‘third most promising’ economy, writes Stuart Powls of EC Harris