All Features articles – Page 412
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FeaturesCamouflaged solar roofing: The power slate
Solar panels may be admirable, but they’re definitely ugly. Now two suppliers have launched products that look like simple roof slates.
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FeaturesMini cost model: Budget hotels
The budget hotel sector is expanding, moving into new locations and offering its customers new facilities. Max Wilkes of Davis Langdon looks at their design, procurement and costs
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FeaturesTake a breather
DuPont Tyvek, part of the DuPont global conglomerate, was founded in Luxembourg in 1962. Its headquarters is still in Luxembourg City. Its UK business, which has operated since the late eighties, employs more than 20 people and its main market is for breathable roof membranes. Tim Smith, the UK’s national ...
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FeaturesRoll over Beethoven
When it opened in 1951 the much-loved Royal Festival Hall was perfect in every way – save for the little matter of god-awful acoustics. Now, after a £91m, two-year refurbishment, the modernist masterpiece is rocking – and you can hear every note.
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Batten grading system
Timber importer John Brash has developed a quality control system that pre-grades roofing battens at the sawmill.
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FeaturesThe testing of Kenneth Shuttleworth
How they made it It wasn’t easy, but a combination of 21-hour days and a decent helping of luck combined to make the man we know today.
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FeaturesSaving St George
Purcell Miller Tritton’s lavish £22m restoration has returned Liverpool’s grade I-listed St George’s Hall to its glorious past – just with fewer prisoners and hopefully more tourists.
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FeaturesCountry focus: France
With President Sarkozy newly instated, Patrick Leniston, country manager for EC Harris in France, reports on the construction issues that may affect the country’s future leader
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FeaturesComing to a universe near you
The Peter Harrison Planetarium is about to bring the mysteries of the cosmos to Greenwich park
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Welsh wins keep Bovis on top of contractors table
Business barometer — Cardiff malls keep Australian firm clear of second-placed Laing O’Rourke
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Pootling along
Activity in March may have been less buoyant than a month earlier but it’s still running along quite nicely. Civil engineering continued to dominate, putting the residential and non-residential sectors in the shade. And, according to Experian Business Strategies, order books were healthy
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FeaturesShould RICS withdraw its threat of legal action against the government over HIPs?
Ruth Kelly’s embarrassing climbdown over HIPs hasn’t stopped RICS from threatening to take the government to court.
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FeaturesSplash out
Architect Feilden Clegg Bradley recently completed the £6m Formby pool in Lancashire. Part-funded by the Land Trust, the building had to reflect its woody surroundings, so sustainably sourced timber was used for large parts of the structure, including its roof and supporting columns.
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Spinning lights
Lighting designer iGuzzini has launched two products: Tecnica and Deep Surface.