All Features articles – Page 406
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FeaturesStewart McColl: I want my company back
When SMC Group shares dived from 196p to 16p in just eight months, chief executive Stewart McColl took the rap and left the company he’d founded. But as talks begin on a possible merger between SMC and Aukett, word is out that he could soon be making a comeback.
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FeaturesThe building that wasn’t there
LSI Architects’ visitor centre in Cley in the Norfolk marshes works hard not to be noticed
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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
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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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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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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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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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FeaturesShould new housing be built on green belt land?
The Social Market Foundation says the government will have to build on the green belt to meet its housing targets.
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FeaturesAnyone for Hopkins?
With the National Tennis Centre in south-west London, Hopkins Architects has taken a lumbering and guileless building type and instilled in it the grace and finesse of a Roger Federer. Martin Spring admires the architect’s all-round game
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FeaturesShould green planning applications be fast-tracked?
Is the government right to seek a rewrite of the renewable energy planning permission rules?
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FeaturesYvette Cooper
The government’s effort to get housebuilders to produce more homes has been like a man trying to herd cats by shouting into a megaphone. Now it’s looking for more effective tactics. In her first interview since joining the Cabinet, the housing minister tells Stuart Macdonald what they are.
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FeaturesMini cost model: Nursing homes
As people in the UK live longer, demand for residential care and nursing homes is growing – as are our expectations of the standard of living they will provide. Max Wilkes of Davis Langdon looks at how home developers and operators are rising to the challenge
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FeaturesTime for lunch
Lunch is for wimps, right? Who are you kidding? Lunch has come right back into fashion as companies realise that a well-fed workforce is a happy workforce.
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FeaturesNG Bailey: Let’s talk about M&E
Cal Bailey of NG Bailey talks us through his ideal M&E project, and then describes one that came pretty close – the Scottish Natural Heritage headquarters.
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FeaturesPretty bubbles in the air
The Water Cube, as the 2008 Olympic aquatics centre is known, is the largest ETFE-clad building in the world. And, as it nears completion, its vast bubble-wrap exterior is already the talk of Beijing.
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Air-source heat pumps
DEVI has released Danfoss, a range of air source heat pumps that supply heating and hot water simultaneously.
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FeaturesThe art of Deco
Ansell Lighting has launched Deco Highbay, a light designed for situations in which both illumination and visual impact are required, for example in offices, shops and restaurants.
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FeaturesBatten down the hatches
Hull council wants to make flood resistance a condition of planning permission, but is it possible to build a house capable of resisting the recent freakish weather? And would anybody buy one?
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FeaturesEasy-to-use building control system
Hager has launched Tebis TX, a building services control system that it says is the simplest on the market.