All Features articles – Page 618
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The New Autonomous House
The New Autonomous HouseBrenda and Robert ValeThames & Hudson£18.95256 pagesThis book summarises the achievement of the Vales, the UK's best practitioners of sustainable architecture, and shows how homes could approach self-sufficiency even on urban plots. Brenda and Robert Vale illustrate what is possible today with a rare mixture of practicality ...
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A Green Vitruvius: Principles and Practice of Sustainable Architectural Design
A Green Vitruvius: Principles and Practice of Sustainable Architectural Designprepared for the European CommissionJames & James£25145 pagesA worthwhile and easy-to-use listing of the complex design methodologies that should be considered by any architect working towards more sustainable building solutions. I suspect the real problem is that there are just too ...
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Appointments
ContractorsBrook Nolson has been appointed business development director in the Leeds office of Willmott Dixon Construction. Gordon Grant has joined the group as an IT specialist.Taylor Woodrow has appointed Adrian Auer group finance director.HousebuildersDavid Griffin has been appointed construction director in the South Midlands division of Charles Church. Neil Sivens ...
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The all-powerful
Everything about the Maitreya Buddha being built in northern India is impressive. It costs £100m, is three times the height of the Statue of Liberty and is designed to last 1000 years. Oh, and it's sustainable, too.
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Sustainable Architecture – European Directives and Building Design
Sustainable Architecture – European Directives and Building DesignBrian EdwardsArchitectural Press£35277 pagesThis is the book that explains to the building industry why construction really needs rethinking. It is ideal for all those efficiency-oriented Eganites who want to work out what the next agenda is, and where the carrots and sticks are ...
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Energy and Environment in Architecture – A Technical Design Guide
Energy and Environment in Architecture – A Technical Design GuideNick Baker and Koen SteemersE&FN Spon£37.50224 pagesThe low-energy strategies explained in the first half of this book illustrate how simple design decisions can save energy. The second half shows how each design tool can be quantified from first principles using a ...
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Your £250,000 green tax bill
Do the government's green initiatives sound like so much hot air to you? In fact, the climate change levy, due in April, looks set to make a big difference to the whole of the construction market.
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On with the show
Canadian circus troupe Cirque du Soleil needed its tent pitched double-quick on a site without planning permission, in the middle of the storms. That meant no clowning around.
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Products of the year
Short of ideas for Christmas presents? Join Building on a tour of the year's best products for inspiration.
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Prescott's village rises slowly from the mud
As John Prescott opens the first four units of the Greenwich Millennium Village today, is it living up to his vision as a "showcase to the world" or simply another Milton Keynes?
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Eat your heart out, Nigella
Construction has its own domestic gods. Alan Crane, Richard Ryder and Malory Clifford get busy in the kitchen, while Building columnists taste test 10 wines.
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Virtual Christmas
So what does the internet have to offer at this time of year? From the really useful to the spectacularly tacky, don't miss this guide to festive web sites.
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King of the castle
The energetic lawyer leading the £2bn regeneration of the unloved Elephant explains how it will be transformed.
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From Mo Mowlam to Michael Palin - The best of Wonders & blunders
Six years ago, Building had an inspired idea for a new column: why not ask people to tell us about their favourite and least favourite buildings? Wonders & blunders made its debut in the magazine on 3 June 1994, when Phillip Ward, then director of construction sponsorship at the Department ...
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Bah, humbug!
William Wiles talks to Ebenezer Scrooge about how a little Christmas spirit transformed his company.
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Appointments
ContractorsIan Lawson (right), previously with Bickerton Group, has joined Kier Group as managing director of its PFI division, Kier Project Investment.George Shields has been promoted to director, projects unit, at Balfour Kilpatrick, the multiservices and power systems business of Balfour Beatty. He will be supported by Gerry Black who has ...
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All shook up
What a year. From the wobbling bridge to the dome, nothing quite went to plan over the past 12 months. Building looks back over the industry's rollercoaster millennium experience.
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The survivor
Baroness Dean spent the first half of this year fighting for the Housing Corporation's survival. Now she has to prove that she can make it work.