All Features articles – Page 431
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FeaturesThe bicycle diaries
London mayor Ken Livingstone is trying to persuade people to undertake more cycle journeys, but how viable is it to rely on your bike in the capital? We challenged four readers to find out
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Features‘Start your day by making the call you don't want to make’
HOW THEY MADE IT - This month’s words of wisdom come from David Bucknall, one of the best known QSs in the industry and a man with nearly half a century’s experience
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FeaturesWhat to specify: cladding
From PVCu panels to frameless glass and stone rainscreen, we have all your cladding options here, plus the aluminium that won the race for the Qatar sports academy
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FeaturesLakesmere: We've got it covered
Lakesmere is your one-stop shop for wall cladding, roofs and glazed building envelopes. Here, director Chris Horsfall tells Sonia Soltani how it designs, installs and maintains its systems, and explains the trouble with architects …
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FeaturesExplosive growth
Demolition contractor Coleman & Co has grown rapidly to offer a variety of services
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Features‘It’s a marvellous thing to do, but it’s a stupid way of doing it‘
So says the assistant headteacher of this school in Bradford, which was meant to show what the government’s flagship school building programme will do for Britain’s children. Instead, it’s more evidence of how it’s failing them.
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FeaturesA living legacy
Frank Gehry’s Maggie’s centre has been open for three years. Martin Spring paid a visit to find out how well it has served the cancer patients that use it. And on page 60, he reviews the latest centre, which also happens to be Zaha Hadid’s first completed project in the ...
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FeaturesLet the sun shine in
WHO MAKES IT - Self-cleaning glass is the big seller for Pilkington, purveyor of cladding products since 1826. And it has teams of researchers busy making its ranges more energy efficient and better at transmitting light.
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FeaturesThis season’s must-have
Sonia Soltani on the glamorous cladding transforming shopping centre car parks
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FeaturesCost model: Hotels
A hotel lives and dies on the quality of its service, but that relies on constructing the right kind of environment in the first place. Neal Kalita of Davis Langdon breaks down the costs
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Work in progress rules for accounts
How rules have changed regarding how work in progress is shown in company accounts
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Expiring CIS cards
What to do under new CIS rules if a subcontractor is employed with a CIS card which is due to expire in 2007
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Market forecast: Gearing up for 2012
Last year’s slight downturn in workload has reversed in 2006. But, says Peter Fordham of Davis Langdon, construction inflation can only keep growing as we gear up for the Olympics
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FeaturesHome from home
Squashed and sweating in protective clothing for 10 hours at the scene of an emergency was the final straw for Bob Jones. He demanded a refuge – a van he could call his own
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FeaturesThis is madness
On the average job, contractors happily chuck away enough recyclable material to triple their profit. But not for much longer, if the DTI, environmental responsibility and economic sanity have any bearing on the matter.
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FeaturesA man of principle
Broadcaster Jon Snow may be better known for his loud ties than his knowledge of architecture and sustainability, but that is what he will be speaking about at the RIBA conference in Venice this weekend. Vikki Miller met the man who had a say in the commissioning of the Tate ...