All Features articles – Page 410
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FeaturesTime for some answers
Building’s inaugural webinar on the CDM regulations raised all manner of questions, not all of which were dealt with at the time. Here, Peter Caplehorn of Scott Brownrigg tackles some more
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Belfast is booming
All sectors of the construction industry performed strongly in April, but what really catches the eye is the surge in activity in Northern Ireland, according to Experian Business Strategies’ survey
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FeaturesThe mighty bouche
Janet Street-Porter is renowned for having an opinion on absolutely everything and it seems the construction industry is no exception.
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FeaturesBoxing clever
Yorkon general manager David Johnson explains why the company’s building systems can be used for anything from airports to animal houses.
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FeaturesThe burning question
With coal and oil reserves running low, and the pressure on to reduce carbon emissions, you’d have thought the government would be eager to promote combined heat and power. So, why isn’t it? Alistair King reports, in the second article of a series on green energy
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FeaturesTemporary catering facilities: Fast food in tricky situations
Peter Caplehorn of Scott Brownrigg explores the options for specifiers organising temporary catering facilites.
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FeaturesWestfield at White City: Westway to the world
Need any more evidence of Westfield’s massive ambitions? How about these 14 cranes looming over west London, and the huge mall rising around them. Or the fact that it ditched its contractor to take on this monster of a project by itself.
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FeaturesTile-effect cladding
Plastic building products manufacturer Stormking has launched a tile-effect cladding panel suitable for off-site housing applications.
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Country focus: Czech Republic
A thriving economy and the biggest residential boom since the Velvet Revolution are driving the Czech market, report Miroslav Vasko and Pavel Cermák of the Prague office of EC Harris
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FeaturesExperimenting with friends
Although launched nearly three years ago, Facebook has in recent weeks overtaken Friends Reunited and MySpace as the UK’s biggest social website. Mark Leftly spent a day investigating this latest alternative to work vital tool for networking …
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FeaturesReasons to be fearful
So, developers are racing to pour money into City offices and regeneration megaprojects, tender notices are flying out for vast school and social housing renewal programmes, work is threatening to start on the Olympic venues, the mighty Thames Gateway is looming … and everyone is getting worried.
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Piled raft foundations
Ground engineering company Abbey Pynford has developed two piled raft foundation systems that it says provide a safer alternative to traditional piled foundations.
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FeaturesWho’s getting their hooks into you?
As order books grow to unfeasible lengths, firms are increasingly desperate to recruit. Unfortunately, they’re all fishing in each other’s pond, with increasingly evil results.
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FeaturesSustainable schoolrooms: Here’s one for the kids
Willmott Dixon’s classroom of the future may sound like something made in the Blue Peter studio – with its strips of waste wood off-cuts and glue – but it’s quick to build, affordable and carbon neutral. Alistair King looks at one they made earlier…
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Modular lecture theatre
Pre-owned modular buildings supplier Foremans Relocatable Building Systems has launched a standardised design for a lecture theatre. Developed in partnership with the University of East London, the lecture theatre will contain 300 tiered seats in a self-contained facility constructed from refurbished and recycled building modules.
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FeaturesLesson plan
When Shropshire council decided to merge two primary schools in Shrewsbury into one new building, its key criteria were sustainability and speed. Having won beacon status for its work on sustainable energy, the council insisted that the £2.8m, 1,500m2 Bicton primary school reflect its environmental values.
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Lightweight steel roof tile
Roofing maker Decra Roof Systems has launched a lightweight steel roof tile for the modular building industry, called the Elegance tile.
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FeaturesWestfield's Peter Miller: Would you like to work for us?
That chap over on the right is Peter Miller, and he’s a big cheese at developer Westfield. Peter has a lot of work on his hands, and so he’s cunningly turned a regular interview into a recruitment advert aimed at you, dear reader. Katie Puckett listened to the pitch. And ...