All Features articles – Page 423

  • 99% campaign
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    The 99% campaign - Incentives for action

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Your suggestions on improving the energy performance of existing building stock including carbon trading, stamp duty and tax relief.

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    Skanska enjoys £1bn month as Barts gets go-ahead

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Swedish firm tops monthly league thanks to £1.2bn PFI hospital scheme

  • Olkiluoto 3 under construction. It will join two existing plants and a wind turbine.
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    Nuclear power station in Olkiluoto, Finland: The 1.6 billion watt baby

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    320,000 m³ of granite blasted away, 12,000 m³ of concrete poured in one go: the team building Europe's first nuclear reactor in a decade aren't messing around. Still, the most complicated thing is the paperwork. Thomas Lane reports from Finland

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    Property and transport in Moscow

    2006-06-28T10:00:00Z

    Looking for a home in the land that minimalism forgot?

  • Photo by Libi Pedder
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    No regrets

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    The chairman of Wembley National Stadium Limited has broken his silence on the project, but don't ask him to take the blame for its troubles.

  • Machiavelli
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    The office

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Do you have a tricky problem in the workplace? Let our office politics strategist show you how to turn it to your advantage …

  • Hearst’s six-storey headquarters has been scooped out to leave a vast entry hall, where raking columns support a new 42-storey tower
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    A midtown Xanadu

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Foster and Partners has turned a Manhattan office into a 48-storey tower. Here's an exclusive look at the arrestingly cinematic interior

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    Help!

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    By 2010, the average graduate will owe the banks £33,700. There's only one way to pay it back: get a job with a decent salary. So Katie Puckett asked 20 top construction employers how much they're offering

  • Visualisations of the double-decker lifts. Users enter the double-deck car simultaneously from two adjacent floors, having prebooked their journey using their ID card or a touchscreen terminal
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    Express elevation

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Double-deck lifts - Office workers at Broadgate Tower won't be hanging around waiting in the lobby. They'll be speeding up its 34 storeys in the latest lift innovation.

  • Instead of stone ashlar, a lush vertical garden cloaks the wing facing the riverfront.
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    Jean de florette

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Jean Nouvel's museum of ethnic art in Paris, which opens today, tries to find a flowery architectural language to talk of ‘death and oblivion, visions of haunted places and the consciousness of the sacred'. Martin Spring explains how he set about this somewhat unusual task - and assesses his success.

  • Integrated steel 3
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    Whole-life costs: Concrete vs steel

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    What are the environmental, capital cost and lifetime cost differences between a building with a steel frame and one built using concrete? David Weight of cost consultant Currie & Brown applies the firm’s Live Options modelling system to find out

  • Tony Wilson, the BBC’s head of workspace solutions, standing on the central staircase of the White City development in west London
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    An ideal client for firms with a taste for perversity

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Frightening, stimulating, argumentative, bewildered by its own bureaucracy but still willing to take chances (don't believe everything the media tells you), the BBC is the best client in Britain for firms who don't just want an easy life.

  • Hall of Fame
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    The Building Hall of Fame

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    To celebrate the 40th anniversary of its name change from The Builder, Building has launched a Hall of Fame. Today we've inaugurated 40 people who have made the greatest impact on the built environment over that period.

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    Impress your boss - Building Schools for the Future

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    A bluffer's guide to … BSF

  • Tim Stone
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    A bitter pill

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    The PFI is not responsible for the NHS' headline-grabbing deficits - the NHS is

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    Appointments

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Career movers this week ...

  • Lord Rogers and Renzo Piano
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    Herd the one about the two architects and the sheep?

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Making the news An exclusive joint interview with Renzo Piano and Lord Richard Rogers, moments after they successfully conveyed a flock of sheep across the Millennium Bridge

  • 99% Campaign
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    The 99% campaign - greening the stock we're stuck with

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Almost all our energy efficiency regulations apply only to new buildings, which add a mere 1% to the built environment a year. Today Building opens a campaign to persuade the government to improve the performance of the other 99%. At the moment they're allowed to leak energy like there's no ...

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    Where in the world?

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    From the salmon runs of British Columbia to the golf courses of Hong Kong, the white rum of Antigua to the jade green pastis of southern France … there's a whole world waiting for you. Hays Construction & Property and Building's international salary guide helps you take off the blindfold ...

  • Geothermal energy
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    Products

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    A range of items to bring out the interior designer in everyone, including belle époque bathrooms and pool lighting. Plus, the more pressing matters of efficient boilers and greywater recycling