All Features articles – Page 406
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FeaturesInside the project team
Now you’re all clued up on Manchester’s Civil Justice Centre, it’s time to meet the Aussies who designed it. Martin Spring got inside their mutual headspace. Portraits by Tim Foster
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FeaturesWater fight
The Nirah freshwater aquarium will provide vital scientific research and – at four times the size of the Eden Project – is set to be a huge tourism boost for Bedford. So why has it had to endure an almighty struggle to get planning consent?
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FeaturesTop drawer
Talk about a cabinet reshuffle – Denton Corker Marshall’s flamboyant design for Manchester’s Civil Justice Centre has brought dynamism to the heart of the legal establishment. Over the next eight pages Martin Spring praises the building’s clear, bold expression and on pages 48-50, we meet the Australian trio who designed ...
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FeaturesSpecialist cost update: Services
Gardiner & Theobald looks at recent changes in the rapidly evolving and increasingly high-tech world of services, from engineering services to lifts and IT systems
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The cosmic bungalow
Hydrogen is the basic building block of matter. When it fuses with itself, it releases enough energy to light the universe. When it combines with oxygen, it releases enough energy to heat a small house in the Black Country. Is it the answer to all our problems?
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FeaturesBouygues’ battle for Britain
As the 10th anniversary of the French company’s entry into the UK approaches, its managing director tells Mark Leftly about his plans to expand all over the country
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Features‘They all hate me!’
There are some things that the fledgling project manager can’t learn at university – such as how to deal with punch-ups or the nagging feeling that your team couldn’t care less. Debika Ray seeks some therapeutic advice
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FeaturesThe golden age of travel
Is right now, thanks to the bulging pay packets, cushy expat packages, sexed-up CVs and challenging jobs that are on offer to UK professionals willing to work abroad.
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Features‘I just feel the whole system is rather stupid’ — One man’s 14-year battle with the planning laws
Gerald Ringe had one of those classic dreams: buy an old wreck in the country and turn it into a rural retreat. But he hadn’t counted on the idiosyncrasies of our planning system. Fourteen years after his first planning application, he’s finally giving up. He tells Katie Puckett why…
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FeaturesIs Brown's plan for 3 million new homes by 2020 feasible?
The Prime minister this week announced plans to dramatically escalate housebuilding in England and Wales over the next 12 years.
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Metal panels used to make ‘sail’
The KS 1000 Optimo facade system from insulated metal panel specialist Kingspan was specified at Shire House, a £3m office development in Bradford.
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Wood veneers and metallic laminates
Formica has launched two ranges for internal vertical applications.
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FeaturesSlab happy
The inventors of SmartSlab describe it as an all-in-one, load-bearing, moving-image display slab. It’s also the only system that provides animated displays while retaining all the features associated with external cladding.
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FeaturesThe handover
When Mike Davies took over from James Wates as chair of the Strategic Forum earlier this week, the organisation got a quieter, more reserved leader. Mark Leftly spoke to both men to find out if this will also mean a change of direction
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FeaturesSkin grafting
Edward Whipp, preconstruction director at English Architectural Glazing, explains how his firm has coped with the high demand caused by a shortage of cladding specialists.
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FeaturesMetronet puts its future on the line
The consortium with the job of upgrading most of London Underground is struggling to cope with a £2bn cost overrun, potentially endless legal difficulties and increasingly nervous shareholders. Angela Monaghan looks at how it went so wrong, and what the stakeholders are doing to put it right
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Features‘Frameless’ glass panels
Hunter Douglas has developed an effectively frameless version of its QuadroClad ventilated rainscreen facade, called QuadroMeleon.
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Perforated facade
Kalzip has launched a lightweight facade system, the Kalzip Perforated Facade.