All Features articles – Page 437

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    Building intelligence Q3 2005: Is the party over?

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    Experian Business Strategies reports on the first fall in construction industry output in 2005 since 1994, bringing to an end the longest continuous period of growth since the 1960s

  • Mathew Jaycock
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    Flight path to Perth

    2006-01-25T17:16:00Z

    Mathew Jaycock wanted more than a backpacking experience to Australia so asked Davis Langdon for a transfer to Perth

  • Royal Insurance Buildings
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    How it used to be

    2006-01-25T07:01:00Z

    We reveal the stories behind seven images of Manchseter unearthed in the Building photo library.

  • Illuminated tiles
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    Products

    2006-01-20T10:04:00Z

    This week, we introduce you to the latest designer floors, as well as the gear you'll need to heat, repair, cover, edge and suspend them. Plus, all the up-to-the-minute industry news in Movers and Makers

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    Costs: Floor coverings

    2006-01-20T10:01:00Z

    The cost of floor coverings can be a significant factor in a fit-out and the subsequent cleaning and maintenance regimes. Anthony Waterman of BRE looks at the whole-life costs

  • The primal forms of jagged, striated concrete walls and smooth-flowing metal roofs were inspired by Tenerife’s volcanic mountains and surrounding Atlantic ocean
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    Into the volcano

    2006-01-20T00:00:00Z

    In the Spanish resort of Tenerife, local architect Fernando Menis has created an arts centre that brilliantly evokes the island's mountains, cliffs, beaches and ocean

  • Fish illustration
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    It's feeding time

    2006-01-20T00:00:00Z

    Mergermania hit construction in 2005. Now the predators are circling again in contracting, consulting, housebuilding and building materials. Angela Monaghan and Mark Leftly ask who'll get snapped up next - and who'll do the snapping

  • Steel diagrid frames, like this one on London’s Swiss Re, are becomingly increasingly popular because larger clear-span spaces can be created
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    Specialist costs: Structural steelwork

    2006-01-20T00:00:00Z

    The Chinese construction market and the Eurocrats in Brussels are having an effect on the steelwork sector, reports David Cane

  • Insitu piles under construction. Once the auger piling rig has finished creating the hole, steel reinforcement is put in followed by concrete
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    Specialist cost update: Structures

    2006-01-20T00:00:00Z

    In the first of our specialist updates, the expert team at Gardiner & Theobald take a look at current trends and costs in the piling, concrete frame and structural steelwork markets

  • Car manufacturer Mercedes’ showcase building at Brooklands in Surrey has a highly architectural concrete frame. The £3.5m frame was cast in situ using the latest technology
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    Specialist costs: Concrete frames

    2006-01-20T00:00:00Z

    Ian Purton reports on the impact of the new Eurocodes, the increase in post-tensioned flooring and recent cost changes in the sector

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    Just the job: Malcolm Clulow on Ski Dubai

    2006-01-20T00:00:00Z

    Malcolm Clulow tells Emily Wright how he found himself filling a building with 7000 tonnes of snow

  • Building’s new map of Europe …
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    Balance of power

    2006-01-20T00:00:00Z

    Building’s annual rundown of Europe’s top 300 contractors confirms the continued dominance of the French - Vinci and Bouygues remain in the top two positions. Mark Leftly and Emily Wright reveal the secrets of the superpowers’ success and split the continent into six regions to analyse how fast the PPP ...

  • David Bailey
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    Appointments

    2006-01-20T00:00:00Z

    Movers and shakers this week...

  • Christophe Egret
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    Life after alsop

    2006-01-20T00:00:00Z

    A year ago Christophe Egret caused a huge stir when he quit Alsop to start his own practice with fellow escapee David West. Vikki Miller found out what's happened to him since then, where he's planning to go next - and what's in his little black books.

  • Many leading football clubs, from Real Madrid to Wolves, have installed some kind of artificial grass at their training grounds
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    Flooring

    2006-01-17T17:15:00Z

    This month's specifier takes a look at the world below our feet, including the best products, essential points to remember and whole-life costs. But first, the latest in sporting surfaces …

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    Checklist

    2006-01-17T17:05:00Z

    Joints in flooring, to link coverings and minimise movement, are often overlooked by specifiers. Barbour Index and Scott Brownrigg explain why this isn't a terribly good idea

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    Sir Steve Redgrave

    2006-01-13T00:00:00Z

    Britain’s leading Olympian has retired from the soul-bending agony of international athletics and has begun a number of jobs in construction, the industry he left 20-odd years ago. Tom Broughton found out what they are, and why he’s returned.

  • The OpTIC office in Denbighshire, north Wales, has a large array of photovoltaic panels
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    Sustainability: On-site renewables

    2006-01-13T00:00:00Z

    In the first of our spotlights on sustainability, Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon examines the increasingly prevalent issue of on-site renewable energy, including the options available and costs

  • Wembley stadium
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    Extra time and penalties

    2006-01-13T00:00:00Z

    Football fans, government officials and construction experts alike are obsessed with the struggle to get Wembley finished in time for the FA Cup Final in May.

  • City of London Academy, Southwark
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    Class struggle

    2006-01-13T00:00:00Z

    The government has £5bn to spend on its city academies programme over the next four years, but it’s finding it strangely difficult to get the construction industry to take its money … Eleanor Cochrane looks at what’s going wrong while Martin Spring considers the architecture