All Features articles – Page 412
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FeaturesSustainability: Managing water consumption
Water conservation is often given a low priority in sustainability strategies, but in areas where the water supply is under pressure from development, it may provide relief. Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon examines the options and their costs
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FeaturesDirector’s cut
When Sydney Pollack first saw the Bilbao Guggenheim, it moved him to tears. The great director tells Martin Spring how it also inspired him to make his first documentary – a journey into the mind of its creator, Frank Gehry
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FeaturesDo you dig?
In the fourth of our series examining renewable energy technologies, Alistair King talks us through ground-source heat pumps, which provide developers with a Part L-friendly way of keeping buildings warm or cool using the ground beneath our feet
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FeaturesThe enchanted forest: Vallecas-Pau in Madrid
While Madrid’s new Vallecas-Pau suburb waits for its trees to grow, it has been fitted with portable tower parks. They look like this …
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FeaturesMaxximum Zaha
Almost 10 years after Zaha Hadid’s design for Rome’s MAXXI museum won an international competition, it’s still only two-thirds built. Martin Spring looks at how the architect’s ideas have survived years of stop-start funding and delay.
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FeaturesSustainability glossary - any suggestions?
Don't know your PVs from your EPCs? If no send in your suggestions for Building's new sustainabilty glossary
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FeaturesSafer Skyline is now backed by 20 of Britain’s top 30 contractors and housebuilders
This is in addition to the 65MPs who support us …
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FeaturesMight as well try and catch the wind
Micro-turbines may be the height of fashion, but are they any good? In the third part of our series on renewable energy sources, Alistair King finds out more
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FeaturesCost model: Visitor centres
Visitor centres give clients and their designers a great opportunity to make an architectural statement. At the same time, a lot of functions need to be squeezed into compact buildings. Neal Kalita of Davis Langdon examines how style and function can be reconciled
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Features… and cut!
The politicians may want to reduce domestic carbon emissions to zero, but it’s the physicists and engineers that will decide whether it can be done. Thomas Lane took a trip to Watford to look the latest technology in the latest prototypes
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FeaturesThe ultimate networking event
More than 200 attend Building’s reception for decision-makers in government and industry
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FeaturesIn times of famine
In the second part of our shortages series Katie Puckett examines how the ever-increasing demand from Asia and Europe is pushing the price of raw materials sky high
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FeaturesGoodbye Mr prescott, hello…
On Sunday Labour will elect its new deputy leader. Of the six candidates, only two have garnered the support of the three major construction unions: Peter Hain and Jon Cruddas. Cruddas tells Mark Leftly why he is still the outsider and Hain talks tough to Dan Stewart. Portraits by ...
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FeaturesIs the business of recruitment corrupt?
Some construction companies are accusing the recruitment industry of holding them to ransom, but is it simply doing the best for employees?
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FeaturesShould English Partnerships clamp down on buy-to-let?
EP decided to curb buy-to-let sales on some of its sites recently. Should it be trying to buck the market?
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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.