More Focus – Page 166
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FeaturesCareers: Is Qatar your next destination?
Qatar is an oil-rich country that plans to spend 40% of its budget improving infrastructure between now and 2016. Can you afford to leave it off your CV?
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FeaturesBerkeley's Rob Perrins: Out of the shadows
In the three years since he replaced Tony Pidgley as Berkeley’s managing director, Rob Perrins has convinced the City that he is very much his own man
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FeaturesIs localism dead and buried?
Last week’s housing and planning reforms suggest the government has given up on localism to build the homes we need
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FeaturesThe university sector: Your starter for 10
Will the university sector make up for the lack of construction work elsewhere in education?
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FeaturesRay of light
The Velux skylight brand is normally associated with the residential sector. But a collaboration with Foster + Partners could soon enable the company to break into commercial and public buildings
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FeaturesShould schools be uniform?
Will standardised schools herald a school building programme where design quality and educational aspiration are crushed under a monotonous wave of Identikit slabs? Ike Ijeh investigates Photos by Mike Pinches
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FeaturesAre these schools really a priority?
After six months of delays the Priority School Building Programme could be accused of failing to live up to its name. So when will the tenders finally be released? And is there a risk the Treasury’s PFI review will hold up some schools still further?
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FeaturesEducation: Space exploration
This week the government trumpeted the opening of 55 free schools. But the success of the movement is being stymied by a lack of suitable sites, and with a further 114 schools approved for next year, the problem is set to get worse
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FeaturesDoors and windows: Movers and makers
From triple glazed timber windows to door entry systems with picture capture technology, we look at the latest, cutting-edge window and door products
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Door entry system that takes your photo
The Wandsworth Group has launched a door entry system with picture capture technology as part of their Jung door entry system range
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FeaturesFire door retainers
Fireco have added a flame red finish to its Dorgard Effects range of wireless fire door retainers
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Passivhaus council house
Windows from Halo are being used to bring a forties former council house up to Passivhaus standards
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Tilturn window system
Architectural aluminium systems supplier Kawneer widens its window range
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Fire and bullet resistant glass
Schott has now launched its fire-resistant glass NOVOLAY® and PYRANOVA® as a high performing secure range
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Timber sliding sash
Dale Windows has launched a timber sliding sash, with concealed spring balances
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FeaturesThe Tracker: A light ahead
Awful weather and difficult finances combine to keep construction in negative territory, according to Experian Economics. But at least some firms now have more than six months’ work ahead of them
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FeaturesSouthend Pier Cultural Centre: Out on a limb
How do you carry out a construction project more than a mile out to sea during one of the wettest, windiest summers on record? Well, Kier’s approach to the £3m Southend Pier Cultural Centre job was to build it somewhere else
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FeaturesThe Green Deal: Hidden path
How can the government persuade the City to take a risk on the Green Deal?