More Focus – Page 197
-
FeaturesEco co-housing schemes: Give it a spin
The UK has begun experimenting with co-housing schemes that aim to slash emissions while encouraging a more sustainable lifestyle - as you can imagine, communal washing machines that run on harvested rainwater are de rigueur
-
FeaturesMark Whitby: Many happy returns
When Mark Whitby retired last year, everyone but him knew it wouldn’t last. But after a year working on his garden, he’s finally seen the light … Emily Wright met him as he prepared to open his new venture
-
FeaturesHow SMEs cut carbon: Best foot forward
SMEs have a vital role to play in helping the UK meet its carbon reduction targets. So they’d better be ready for the challenge, says Kristina Smith, because more and more clients are relying on these firms to help them shrink their carbon footprint
-
FeaturesGovernment cuts: Find out where the money is currently spent
Here we show government spending by department, including capital funding, and where it’s expected they’ll be forced to make savings
-
Features
The tracker: That sinking feeling
Construction workload is expected to keep falling over the next three months, but the pace of decline should begin to ease, according to Experian Marketing Information Services
-
FeaturesArena Stage, Washington by Bing Thom: Through a glass darkly
Peer closely and you’ll make out not one theatre behind that glass facade, but three. It’s Bing Thom Architects’ audacious response to the need to make artistic and architectural sense of two dysfunctional theatres in a deprived area of Washington DC. Ike Ijeh was wowed
-
FeaturesMark Prisk: He’s no guru, but Prisk aims to enlighten us anyway
New construction minister wants to simplify procurement, clarify planning and expand markets
-
FeaturesThe QS apprentice
The trainee QS who joined consultant Cyril Sweett via CSTT discusses life as a apprentice
-
Features
Wonders & blunders with Rob Ewen
Mace director Rob Ewen tips his hat to a sustainable skyscraper in Manhattan, but is less thrilled with the British tower blocks of the sixties and seventies
-
FeaturesInterview with WSP's Paul Dollin: Cheer leader
Paul Dollin, WSP’s enthusiastic new UK boss, has no intention of ’waking up American’. So the former Atkins man intends to grow the UK business by pushing even harder into infrastructure, particularly rail and nuclear. Just don’t expect to see any more Shards going up
-
FeaturesHansom: Terms and conditions
CVs are solicited this week from anyone with a way with words, a lupine surname, a deep affinity with the heroes of trashy American cinema and waitering skills. Eyewatering dress sense desirable
-
FeaturesWho’s running Archial now?
This architect has been through many changes of name and ownership in its 14-year history, but who could have predicted that it would eventually go Canadian? Joey Gardiner finds out how the events came about
-
FeaturesGilt trip: Refurbishing the Savoy hotel
The refurbished Savoy hotel looks a million dollars - which is just as well because it cost more than £200m to do up. Happily nobody was to blame for the cost and time overruns - except possibly the owner’s insatiably lavish tastes
-
FeaturesBack to front
We’re into month three of turning a leaky Edwardian house into a model of energy efficiency. Robert Prewett, the project architect, reports on the specification and installation of the front and rear windows
-
FeaturesLime slice
The £35m Lime Street Gateway project in Liverpool opened this week. Balfour Beatty was the contractor on the Glen Howells designed scheme
-
FeaturesTop 250 Consultants 2010: The Hungry Years
The year’s tables of the UK biggest consultants show that many of them have too many mouths to feed, which means they will face painful choices in the next 12 months. Roxane McMeeken looks at how they got into this position. To accompany the tables, which are will , we ...
-
FeaturesSustainability: Tax incentives
The government wants to encourage energy-efficient investment. Steve Smith and Richard Quartermaine of Cyril Sweett look at what tax incentives are available
-
FeaturesFirst Impressions: The Iranian Embassy in London
Two Nottingham Trent University students on the controversial Daneshgar-designed marble and stone cube modernist scheme
-
FeaturesThe magic mushroom: Pavilion at Stuttgart university
If you think 6.5mm plywood is just for DIY patch-ups, then you should see what the scientific wizards at Stuttgart university have done with the stuff
-
FeaturesSolar gains and the new Part L: unless your building is a glass box it’s great news
What impact will the new limits on solar gains have on office design?