All Features articles – Page 389
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FeaturesChelsea’s magic sponge
The famous CFC hopes its marksmen will be kept fit and working by this luxurious training and physiotherapy complex in Surrey
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FeaturesPyromania for beginners
Look around you at all the things that you can set fire to. Now imagine you can do that instead of paying your gas and electricity bills. Interested? Better listen to what Thomas Lane has to say …
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FeaturesHow to attract students
Lots of construction companies do university milk rounds, but which come away with the cream? Katie Puckett asked six why they chose their employer – and if they were ever let out early to go the pub
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FeaturesMetal arithmetic
Phil Cook of Euroclad explains how his company is reacting to rapid changes in the market, and why metal cladding is on the up and up.
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Aluminium and timber glazing
Velfac has extended its range of aluminium and timber glazing systems with the Velfac Plus window system.
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Lead times January-June 2007
Increased lead times for eight construction packages have been counterbalanced by reductions in eight others, reports Brian Moone of Mace Business School.
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FeaturesMaxximum Zaha
Almost 10 years after Zaha Hadid’s design for Rome’s MAXXI museum won an international competition, it’s still only two-thirds built. Martin Spring looks at how the architect’s ideas have survived years of stop-start funding and delay.
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FeaturesThe enchanted forest: Vallecas-Pau in Madrid
While Madrid’s new Vallecas-Pau suburb waits for its trees to grow, it has been fitted with portable tower parks. They look like this …
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FeaturesDo you dig?
In the fourth of our series examining renewable energy technologies, Alistair King talks us through ground-source heat pumps, which provide developers with a Part L-friendly way of keeping buildings warm or cool using the ground beneath our feet
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FeaturesDirector’s cut
When Sydney Pollack first saw the Bilbao Guggenheim, it moved him to tears. The great director tells Martin Spring how it also inspired him to make his first documentary – a journey into the mind of its creator, Frank Gehry
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FeaturesSustainability: Managing water consumption
Water conservation is often given a low priority in sustainability strategies, but in areas where the water supply is under pressure from development, it may provide relief. Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon examines the options and their costs
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FeaturesWho’s going to build the olympics?
Just our luck. Right when we’re getting down to building the 2012 Games, all the big contractors get loads of other work and disappear into framework tie-ins. Angela Monaghan reports on the changing face of British building
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FeaturesGovernment backs crane campaign
Building’s campaign to make tower cranes safe has won the support of a key Whitehall figure: Lord McKenzie, the minister for health and safety, as Dan Stewart found out. Buoyed up by this ministerial backing, we’re taking our demands to the Strategic Forum …
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FeaturesDans army
These days the Territorial Army isn’t so much about playing at soldiers as training them for actual combat. Still, it finds time to run ‘executive stretch’ weekends, where future managers find out a little about leadership. Dan Stewart joined a group from the construction industry for two days of fake ...
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FeaturesSustainability glossary - any suggestions?
Don't know your PVs from your EPCs? If no send in your suggestions for Building's new sustainabilty glossary
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FeaturesGoodbye Mr prescott, hello…
On Sunday Labour will elect its new deputy leader. Of the six candidates, only two have garnered the support of the three major construction unions: Peter Hain and Jon Cruddas. Cruddas tells Mark Leftly why he is still the outsider and Hain talks tough to Dan Stewart. Portraits by ...
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FeaturesIn times of famine
In the second part of our shortages series Katie Puckett examines how the ever-increasing demand from Asia and Europe is pushing the price of raw materials sky high
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FeaturesThe ultimate networking event
More than 200 attend Building’s reception for decision-makers in government and industry
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Features… and cut!
The politicians may want to reduce domestic carbon emissions to zero, but it’s the physicists and engineers that will decide whether it can be done. Thomas Lane took a trip to Watford to look the latest technology in the latest prototypes
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FeaturesCost model: Visitor centres
Visitor centres give clients and their designers a great opportunity to make an architectural statement. At the same time, a lot of functions need to be squeezed into compact buildings. Neal Kalita of Davis Langdon examines how style and function can be reconciled