All Features articles – Page 490
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Ready for take off
As a client, it’s easy to see how far the industry has come, but there is still a long way to go
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FeaturesSecond thoughts
Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson’s very funny, very charming and highly critical account of Britain in the 1990s, made Britons look at themselves slightly differently. But what would he write if he took the same journey today?
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Specifier Products
Just about everything you need to build the kind of copper-clad, circular, streamlined, siphonically drained, airtight roof that will make you envied by your competitors and adored by your clients
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Costs: Metal roofing claddings
Metal self-supporting roofing is becoming ever more popular, and not just in the commercial and industrial sectors. Peter Mayer of Building Performance Group considers the options and costs
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FeaturesMIPIM in miniature
Capita Symonds has squeezed everything you need to survive MIPIM into a 1x4in box.
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The sustainable communities summit 2005
Prescott and three other Cabinet colleagues are to convene with 2000 housebuilders, architects and public sector experts in Manchester next week to take stock of how the £22bn sustainable communities plan is faring.
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The race to build the £60k houses
The government has come up with a startling solution to the barriers to home ownership: to use public land and industrial production to build 60,000 £60,000 houses. Housebuilders are currently competing to design the prototype. We find out how it’s supposed to work.
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FeaturesA pain in the back pocket
Want to protect your cement workers from a nasty form of dermatitis? Well, now you can, with the launch of the European chromium VI directive. But where it stops itching the sector’s collective skin, it’ll start hurting pretty badly elsewhere …
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Cherry wins battle for Country
Alan Cherry, the chairman of Countryside Properties, was this week poised to take the company private after rival shareholder Rock Pacific agreed to support his improved £222m offer for the firm.
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Bond patterns in brickwork
In his first article on brick bonds, Mike Hammett discusses the characteristics of basic configurations
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FeaturesLe Corbusier’s fling with brick
Le Corbusier’s Maisons Jaoul project in Paris was completed in 1955, just two years after the Chapel at Ronchamp.
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FeaturesHighly commendable
These are a few of the stunning brick buildings that just missed out on a prize at the 2004 Brick Awards – all of which deserve a showing in these pages …Angel WatersideAngel Waterside is the result of a winning entry in a 1998 design competition by Pollard Thomas Edwards ...
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FeaturesA learning curve
Hopkins’ horseshoe-shaped knowledge and media centre – otherwise known as the Forum in Norwich – is a resounding success that overcame an irregular-shaped site and an imposing neighbour …
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FeaturesToxteth’s technicolour dreamboat
Forget the Beatles and the Fourth Grace – Liverpool has a new icon in the shape of the colourful media centre Toxteth TV
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FeaturesThe experts’ view: Think tank
What is the most frustrating thing about trying to do regeneration? What is holding us back? What are the mistakes that are being made right now? How can the whole process be made to work better? To answer these questions, Building assembled an architect, a developer, a planning expert, a ...
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FeaturesThe naked project manager
Philip Ashton PhD may be a reluctant televison star, but he’s happy to embrace the publicity Channel 4’s Bricking It has given young people in construction. We meet project management’s answer to Jamie Oliver.