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FeaturesDouble crossing: Heneghan Peng’s Olympic bridge
Heneghan Peng’s 54m-wide central bridge at the Olympic park, which was lowered into place last week, has been ingeniously designed to form two narrower walkways after the Games have finished. Stephen Kennett explains how it all works
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FeaturesCost model update: Small projects
In this latest update, Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon reviews the capital costs of primary schools, social housing and small industrial buildings
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FeaturesAlsop’s new look: Chris Littlemore interview
Chris Littlemore, the boss of Archial, is planning to exploit the architectural group’s most famous brand for its relaunched international business
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FeaturesLow-paid architect jobs: An offer you can refuse
If you were an unemployed architect, would you take a job working 14-hour days for £6 an hour? Well, that’s exactly what one firm is offering
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FeaturesPreventing a pile-up
Transport infrastructure spending seems to be one of construction’s good news stories. According to Davis Langdon, there has been 10% growth in real terms
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FeaturesIn the loop
The £1bn East London line extension, which opens in May, is the first part of a plan to give the capital an orbital railway. Stephen Kennett looks at the work done and how the circle will be completed
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FeaturesNought to sixty
South-east Asia has big plans to ramp up its transport network, and must act fast to stop the economic growth of the past decade from going into reverse. But first it needs to find billions of dollars of private investment
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FeaturesDown the line: Market report on transport
Transport investment is currently buoyant, but in the medium term, prospects could be affected both by political divisions and spending cuts. Simon Rawlinson and Steve Waltho of Davis Langdon provide a guide to what the next few years might hold in store
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The tracker: One step at a time
Construction activity and orders are still inching towards growth – even if the civil engineering sector experienced its quietest ever month in January
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FeaturesGo figure: The future of infrastructure spending
Treasury secretary Ian Pearson gives Joey Gardiner a lesson in abstract mathematics
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FeaturesNo more repeats: Episode two of BBC Broadcasting House
With a very public dressing down still ringing in its ears, Britain’s most venerable broadcaster has a point to prove on phase two of the £1bn redevelopment of Broadcasting House
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FeaturesCountdown to 2012: Our year on the Olympics
Catching up on the past 12 months in the life of Building's young 2012 team
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FeaturesDeregulation: Fixing New Zealand’s £5bn leak
Cutting red tape is one thing. But total deregulation is about as sensible as turning on your bathtaps and going on holiday – as thousands of soggy Kiwis now know
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FeaturesCordon sanitaire: MAAP’s mental health facility
How do you make a mental health facility secure without it feeling like a prison? The answer MAAP Architects proposes is to turn the buildings themselves into a perimeter fence
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FeaturesOff-site hospital
Yorkon has handed over what it claims to be the largest UK hospital to be built off site
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Movers and makers: 12 March 2010
Recent tests at BRE has confirmed that Hydropanel partition walls meet all the requirements of BS 5234-2: 1992 including criteria for stiffness, resistance to surface damage by a variety of objects and the effects of door slamming, as well as resistance to crowd pressure. It also underwent lightweight and heavyweight ...
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FeaturesWater controls
Douglas Delabie, under its Chavonnet banner, has launched a range of water controls to help prevent hospital-acquired infections
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FeaturesWashroom fittings
A number of products from Rada have been incorporated into a £270m healthcare project in Newcastle-upon-Tyne that will see services transferred to the Royal Victoria Infirmary and Freeman Hospital
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Mould-proof grouting
Weber is rolling out its mould-stop technology to a number of its popular grout products including Weber joint fine flex, Weber joint wide and Weber joint wide flex