All Features articles – Page 425
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International costs: 2007
It’s a suppliers’ market as delivery delays complicate schedules and demand pushes inflation up. Gardiner & Theobald examines global costs and forecasts in this yearly update
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FeaturesCan you read me? Dutch architect MVRDV
Dutch architect MVRDV has divided its modernism-influenced Barcode House into nine distinct strips, each with its own purpose
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FeaturesBetter than the real thing
Can a combination of virtual reality sites and actors playing stroppy carpenters prepare workers for a career in construction? Dan Stewart gives it a try
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A happy new year for Bovis as it tops the charts
Contractor takes the lead with £451m worth of projects in January
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Features‘My most obvious mistake? Taking out the dampers on the Millennium Bridge’
HOW THEY MADE IT - Despite that minor mishap, Chris Wise is proud of the 20 years’ work he did at Arup. He tells Dan Stewart what he learned – and why the best is yet to come
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FeaturesStop passing the buck
Making the news Sustainability needs to be a priority not a chore, says Sir Jonathon Porritt
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FeaturesDead Sea canal: And the dead shall live
Vikki Miller reports on how a canal became an obsession for architects and engineers around the world, including a chap at Foster + Partners
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FeaturesThe i-wasp generation
Reading University’s Colin Gray explains how construction best practice can be downloaded as easily as music
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FeaturesSuffering in silence
For the 25 years that he was a crane driver, Terry Duxbury endured the job’s unsafe conditions and culture of never speaking out. Here he tells Sarah Richardson about the terrible personal price he had to pay before he found his voice
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Lead times October-December 2006
Most lead times are holding steady in the latest quarterly update by Tony Gale of Mace. Overleaf, Gordon Malcolm from the Museum of London Archaeology Service and Paul Barker of Gardiner & Theobald examine archaeological digs on construction sites
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Smoke and heat alarm
Aico has launched a smoke and heat alarm system with a remote control switch.
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FeaturesSpotlight on archaeology
Gordon Malcolm from the Museum of London Archaeology Service and Paul Barker from Gardiner & Theobald examine the effect of archaeological digs on the construction programme
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FeaturesThe attainment of zero
Housing The industry clearly has a lot of work to do to achieve carbon-free homes by 2016. Jan-Carlos Kucharek looks at four projects that are working out how it can be done
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FeaturesFloor-standing condensing gas boiler
Boiler manufacturer Potterton has launched a floor-standing condensing gas boiler with an integrated hot water cylinder.
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FeaturesA guy called Gerald
A tycoon, a predator, a convict, a philanthropist, a philosopher, a doting father ... even among the outsized characters who make up the property developing fraternity, Gerald Ronson is remarkable. Emily Wright found out just how remarkable
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FeaturesDrainage channel for patios
Manthorpe has launched a drainage channel for patios and driveways.
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Circular extractor unit
Danish ventilation specialist XTP Design has brought out a motorised extractor unit for kitchens and bathrooms.
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Features‘Put this job on a CV and it'll set you up for life’
Being there There are some projects that every self-respecting graduate would do just about anything to work on. Dan Stewart meets nine tyros who had the chance to tackle Heathrow T5
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FeaturesIs Foster on the eve of dominance or decline?
Britain’s greatest architectural practice is planning a massive expansion. But what does it mean for the man who founded the business, the global brand and, of course, the buildings?
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FeaturesSorry, but these rules don’t work
Quantity surveyors are piling pressure on the Home Office to rethink the laws that are keeping foreign workers out of the UK – and sending some badly needed ones back home.