All Features articles – Page 441
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FeaturesWhat to specify: cladding and curtain walling
From banks to cinemas, and from theatres to homes, the latest cladding and curtain walling products can work wonders anywhere
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FeaturesThe gasman cometh …
Mark Clare, formerly of British Gas, is set to put Barratt on the acquisition trail
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FeaturesCosts: Curtain wallings
Curtain walling looks simple, but it’s a complex network of systems and components. Peter Mayer of Building LifePlans examines the whole-life costs and performance of all of them
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FeaturesWhat to remember: facades
Facades have got so intelligent these days, they can control your building’s airflow, heat transfer, lighting and acoustics. Barbour and Scott Brownrigg explore the options for specifiers
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FeaturesGetting well sooner
West London’s BECAD hospital takes traditional healthcare and repackages it into one seamless facility that offers more patients better services for a fraction of the usual effort, space and cost … Martin Spring explains how it was done
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FeaturesHow we work together
Or how an architect found its ideal supplier … This week Sonia Soltani tells the tale of Pascall + Watson and Belgian concrete firm Decomo
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FeaturesLife can be a picnic …
… if you set up your own architectural practice. But it’s not all brainstorming in the back garden, flexible hours and creative control. Emily Wright asked five young architects how to go it alone.
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FeaturesWhere are we now?
It’s been a year since London got the job of hosting the 2012 Olympics, and to the untrained eye, nothing much seems to have happened. Mark Leftly commentates on what’s been going on, and what’s planned for the next six years and three weeks
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FeaturesThere’s more than one way to skin an office
The latest products and whole-life costs, notes on intelligent facades and the special love between an architect and its concrete supplier. But first, Sonia Soltani on the teams defying skills shortages to install extraordinary facades
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FeaturesSupport the 99% campaign
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Skanska enjoys £1bn month as Barts gets go-ahead
Swedish firm tops monthly league thanks to £1.2bn PFI hospital scheme
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FeaturesNuclear power station in Olkiluoto, Finland: The 1.6 billion watt baby
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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FeaturesThe 99% campaign - Incentives for action
Your suggestions on improving the energy performance of existing building stock including carbon trading, stamp duty and tax relief.
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FeaturesBespoke Savill style
An elegant visitor centre with a timber gridshell roof cuts a swath through Windsor Great Park
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Places to be - July and beyond
Your monthly guide to all the best networking events, parties and essential industry seminars
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FeaturesGeoff Wright takes a bow
Hammerson boss retires today after 37 years and hints at future industry roles
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Carbon trading
Timber homes might have less embodied CO2 than than those buit from concrete. But new research shows that over their lifetime, concrete homes win the carbon battle hands down. By Jeff Dyson of The Concrete Centre
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Features‘Be careful what you say. If you claim to have done something, I'll check it'
Land Securities, aka the builder's developer, is spending £700m a year. But you won't win any of it if you're what development director Steve McGuckin delicately terms a bullshitter. Katie Puckett found out about his plans to take even tighter control.