All Features articles – Page 478
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2711 blocks, 6 million deaths
Berlin’s Jewish memorial uses abstract art on a monumental scale to commemorate the victims of the Nazi Holocaust
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Just about holding up
Last year, construction output grew more than the UK economy as a whole, but the outlook over the next few years is flatter than Patagonia. Experian Business Strategies crunches the numbers
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FeaturesBao Guangjian: man of steel
Bao Guangjian is China’s most innovative steel specialist and the driving force behind Beijing’s impossible-to-build television centre – and even he is a little concerned about whether it’ll stay up … we went to meet him in Shenzhen
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FeaturesThe China trip
China is in the process of building the biggest economy in the world at a pace that is hard to bend your head around – this is a country where planning approval can take a few hours and a town containing 11 universities can be built in a couple of ...
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FeaturesDaniel Libeskind
As rumours circulate of year-long delays and complete redesigns at Ground Zero, we talk to the man responsible about why his long, bitter struggle with rival architects, the New York press and the site owner (among others) is a sign that things are going pretty well …
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Market forecast: Steady on up
In this quarter’s overview of the construction market, Davis Langdon reports a continued growth in output, orders, tender prices and material costs. Plus, this month’s hot topic is public spending
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Local lowdown: Scottish Highlands
Robert Smith of Hays Construction & Property reports on the Scottish Highlands
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FeaturesHot topic: Public sector spending
Davis Langdon focuses on public sector spending, and finds government targets for hospitals, schools and housing will keep the industry busy over the next three years
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FeaturesTurn us loose
The main problem faced by the government, the economy and the construction industry is over-regulation. Tackling it should be the main task of Labour’s third term
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Costs: Moisture damage in timber floorings
How much does it cost to ensure your timber flooring complies with regulations on preventing moisture damage? Peter Mayer of Building LifePlans compares various specification options
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Regulations roundup
A brief guide to what’s changed, what’s about to change and what’s under discussion in the fast-moving world of construction regulations, as compiled by Scott Brownrigg
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Regulations
Getting new homes to comply with the Part E acoustic regulations is fairly straightforward. If housebuilders follow a set of prescribed standard construction details the homes are exempt from post-completion testing.
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FeaturesThe £6.5bn men
Every year these 10 men greenlight more than 18,000 projects worth north of £6bn. Katie Puckett got them together to find out what impresses and depresses them about construction firms, and on pages 58-59 we list the top 100 clients in the UK
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Features‘If our neighbours have people around for a dinner party we go out – I would rather sleep on a friend’s floor for the night’
A block of flats in the Greenwich Millennium Village is at the centre of a bitter dispute about noise transmission. Although the building originally passed an acoustic test, the residents claim the problem is so bad they cannot sleep.
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FeaturesBuilding’s gold winners
In an Olympic bid-themed awards ceremony at the Grosvenor House Hotel last Tuesday night, the construction industry celebrated its many triumphs with 19 trophies being presented to the best in the business …
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Changing track
Elaine Knutt reports on a new diploma that is luring frustrated graduates into construction …
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FeaturesSustainability costs
It is commonly assumed that going green will rack up the costs of a building project, but a unique study contradicts that view. In this cost model, Cyril Sweett details sustainable solutions for four building types indicating how improvements can be made at little or no extra cost