All Features articles – Page 438
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FeaturesBaxi and the Band A boilers
WHO MAKES IT - About 1.5 million people replace their heating systems every year, so business is good at boiler specialist Baxi. But what effect have the changes to Part L had on sales?
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FeaturesBest partnership with a client or housebuilder sponsored by Robust Details
Winner — Wandsworth council and Berkeley Homes
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FeaturesBest fire engineering innovation
Winner — Jeremy Gardner Associates - Chapelfield Regeneration Project
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FeaturesBest sustainability innovation sponsored by YBS Insulation
Winner — Therma and Solar buildings - East Midlands
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FeaturesBest housing or residential project sponsored by Wavin
Winner — Urban Splash - Lister Mills, Bradford
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FeaturesBest commercial project sponsored by Oval
Winner — E Bowman & Sons - The Burghley Brewhouse project
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FeaturesBest one-off house sponsored by Building Design
Winner — Lebberston Hall - Bramhall Blenkharn
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FeaturesBest public/community project sponsored by Calco
Winner — Snell Associates - Water activities centre, Whitlingham park
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FeaturesBuilding buys the popcorn
Yes, we’re branching out. Inspired by the success of ‘Building buys a pint’, we took a group from consultant WSP to see Al Gore’s eco-documentary An Inconvenient Truth. Lydia Stockdale forked out for the Butterkist …
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Features‘The more the OGC is decimated, the more celebration there will be’
The Office of Government Commerce spent the first six months of this year undergoing a review that questioned its very existence. Whether it lives or dies is unknown. What is certain is that it will never be the same again.
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FeaturesSpecialist cost update: Envelopes
Building envelopes account for up to £25bn a year in construction costs. In our latest specialist update, our expert team at Gardiner & Theobald examines the trends and costs in curtain walling, roofing and stone construction
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FeaturesThe firm that repackaged Ikea
M&E consultant GDM is transforming the furniture giant’s sustainability record
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FeaturesHow Hodge will help us
After five years of feeling sidelined by ministers, the construction industry seems to have found a genuine champion in Margaret Hodge. Mark Leftly went to meet one of life’s enthusiasts
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FeaturesA league of their own
Feeling excluded from all those testosterone-fuelled corporate football matches? Lorraine Cushnie pulled on a netball bib and met some women who have taken matters into their own hands
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FeaturesUnmasking Mr Morello
Remember that odd letter you got from an unknown Italian? This is who sent it