More Focus – Page 276
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FeaturesPhase One fever
Katie Puckett went to Building’s Birmingham bash last week and survived to tell the tale.
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FeaturesWhy did the lights go out on Hills electrical?
Earlier this month, one of the best known and best respected subcontractors in Britain was sold for the price of a cup of coffee. Eleanor Goodman and Sarah Richardson report on what went wrong
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Top 45 surveyors websites: Measuring up
In the third of his series on construction industry websites, Martin Hornagold turns his attention to surveyors and again finds that they are failing basic tests
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FeaturesCalculating housing lifecycle costs
Q: How do you work out the total cost of a house over a 100-year lifetime without spending hours poring over every single element? Stephen Kennett finds out the answer
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FeaturesInterview with Jon Emery of Hammerson
Hammerson doesn’t like cosy relationships and obliging suppliers. It wants designers and builders who will kick back, come up with alternative suggestions and generally keep its creative juices flowing.
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Lifecycle costs: The basics
Peter Mayer from BLP to explain just how many separate calculations are usually required to work out the whole life costs for a house
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FeaturesFace recognition
The world's largest casino, the Venetian in Macao, has installed 13 Vision Access 3D face readers to authenticate up to 12,000 employees as they come through the building’s main entrance at the start of a shift.
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FeaturesRugged laptops
Panasonic has launched a range of lightweight, portable laptops specifically designed for the construction industry.
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Server cabinets
Panduit is to launch the Net Access server cabinet, which it claims has enhanced thermal management features.
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Structured cabling
Structured cabling specialist Connectix Cabling Systems has added a compact wall-mounted cabinet to its range of networking cabinets.
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Network cable
Emitex has launched a double-sheathed UTP Cat 5E cable, which it says can be used outdoors or in underground ducting, even in partially flooded areas.
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Structural design software
Bentley has released version 11.3 of the RAM Structural System – its modelling, analysis and design software for structural engineers.
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Online guidance
The RICS has teamed up with content management system provider, Jadu, to relaunch isurv.
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Tracking devices
Wavetrend Technologies has launched Global Eyes, a tracking system that monitors people and assets using a range of communication technologies to give real-time visibility and intelligence on their location, condition and status.
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FeaturesRapid site surveys
Infoterra has launched the GeoStore service to enable property developers and designers to carry out initial and rapid site surveys from their desks.
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FeaturesSound with vision: Spiritel
Spiritel was founded in 1989 as a specialist supplier and installer of voice and data systems with particular focus on the retail, leisure and hospitality sectors.
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FeaturesIntegrated Environmental Solutions: Get with the program
Integrated Environmental Solutions was set up in 1994 but its roots go back to the seventies energy crisis when Don McLean, its founder and current managing director, started his PhD in the detailed computer simulation of renewable energy devices.
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FeaturesCost model: Laboratories
Laboratories are probably the most demanding buildings that it is possible to build. Here, Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon examines the factors that their designers have to take into account, from the need to attract world-class talent to energy efficiency
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FeaturesZaha's challenge
The abandonment of Zaha Hadid’s Architecture Foundation HQ in London was a disappointment for design connoisseurs, but what does it tell us about the ambition of the British construction industry?
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FeaturesWhere next?
Britain’s regional builders have suddenly become irresistibly attractive purchases for major contractors across Europe. Tom Bill finds out why.