All Features articles – Page 406
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FeaturesWords from the deep
How they made it When he’s not floating around with a snorkel in his mouth, Stephen Stone is chief executive at housebuilder Crest Nicholson. He tells Lucy Handley how he rose to the top
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Pocket door track-and-beam set
Royde & Tucker has added a white track-and-beam set to its Krona pocket door range.
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FeaturesOpen door policy
Door and window controls company Geze was founded in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1863. Since then, it has expanded and now has subsidiaries in 23 countries, including the UK, and more than 150 sales offices around the world.
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FeaturesEngland vs the World
Today’s construction offices are brimming with people from the world’s rugby-playing nations – which makes the ancient pastime of riling your workmate over a game so much more fun. With the Rugby World Cup kicking off tonight, England fan Tom Williams gives his tips on how to rib the opposition
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FeaturesWhat to remember: Flood proofing
As water levels and flood risks rise across the country, Peter Caplehorn of Scott Brownrigg offers some guidance to specifiers trying to protect doors and windows
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FeaturesA giant leap for Foster
Star architect prepares to boldly go where no man has gone before …
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FeaturesIn the frame
Doors and windows Until recently, relatively few specifiers chose wood over PVCu for their windows. But, as Eleanor Cochrane reports, the arguments are now going timber’s way
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FeaturesCan the Olympics save their jobs?
Furniture supplier Remploy needs to save £227m and is planning to shut 32 of its factories – a move that the TUC says would spell disaster for its largely disabled workforce. Now there’s hope that orders for seating for Olympic venues could provide a lifeline.
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Single-point mortice lock
Roto Frank has added a single-point mortice lock to its DoorSafe range.
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Security screen
CounterShield is a security screen that closes in one second to protect public-facing staff from verbal or physical assault.
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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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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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FeaturesDivine mystery
What’s the secret of this baffling monolith of raw concrete that stands in a field near Cologne?
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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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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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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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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?