All Features articles – Page 389
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Terracotta rainscreen cladding
TI Dynamic Facades has launched a single-skin terracotta rainscreen system that is suitable for both domestic and commercial applications.
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FeaturesCost model update: Small projects
Max Wilkes of Davis Langdon revisits industrial units, primary schools extensions and primary health care centres to investigate how recent changes to legislation, specifications and general price increases have affected building costs
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life At the sharp end
Cladding In an explosion, every fragment of glass in a building becomes a potentially lethal missile. Stephen Kennett looks at the best ways to protect ourselves
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Minimalist fittings
DR Services is to market Sadev’s range of point fittings and spiders for facades and glass canopies in the UK.
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FeaturesGlazing over
Fendor manufactures and installs performance glazing ranging from standard commercial curtain walls and windows to specialist fire and security glazing systems.
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FeaturesGood vibrations
How VJ Technologies turned the troublesome vibration regs into a really good business opportunity.
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Insulated roof and wall panels
Arcelor Construction has added the Fidelite insulated roof and wall system to its Arval range of systems.
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FeaturesMellow yellow
The striking shell of the Le Safron festival hall, south-east of Paris, has been clad in the new copper aluminium alloy Tecu Gold.
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FeaturesWhat a mesh!
A Japanese architect and a UK cladding specialist came together to develop the shimmering expanded aluminium veil that has been used to clad the New Museum of Contemporary Art.
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FeaturesRichard Steer on Mipim
Two years ago Richard Steer wrote in these pages that Mipim was a waste of time, energy and perfectly good booze. This year, he’s quite looking forward to it, thanks for asking. So, what changed?
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FeaturesA scientific monster
This computer centre in Santiago, Chile, may have two heads but then it’s got two skins, too – altogether a bit of a freak
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FeaturesIconic pavements and aiming high
Wayne Hemingway fears that we’re making the Thames Gateway too difficult to love and warns against designing houses “from the bottom up”
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FeaturesA framework and a focus
Simon Thurley, chief executive of English Heritage, believes that only a small part of the potential of the Thames Gateway’s historic environment has been tapped; much remains that could be used to create distinctive, successful and ultimately sustainable communities
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FeaturesNo more nods to Noddy
Stephen Bayley explains how a “Marks & Spencer’s food” approach to architecture could help restore Britain’s lost reputation as a builder of great communities, ensuring that the Thames Gateway becomes a place to stay in, rather than to escape from – and why Noddy needs to leave his car at ...
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International costs: 2008
As inflation cools in western Europe and the US, it’s roaring away in eastern Europe. Gardiner & Theobald surveys the world and tells us what it sees
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Top 45 surveyors websites: Measuring up
In the third of his series on construction industry websites, Martin Hornagold turns his attention to surveyors and again finds that they are failing basic tests
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FeaturesLife behind bars
Few things are more certain to cause public and political panic than the idea that our prisons are full. Trouble is, they are. So the Ministry of Justice is set on building another 20,000 places by 2014, which is great news for contractors that can work at lightning speed. Here, ...