More Focus – Page 293
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The tracker: Calm before the storm?
The industry is bullish in the face of the volatile financial market but the residential sector is expected to feel the pressure soon. Experian Business Strategies reports
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FeaturesImproving internal performance
Morgan Ashurst finds ways to improve SHE including the reduction of waste
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FeaturesWind turbine for primary school
Miller included a wind turbine, PVCu-free cabling and rainwater harvesting on Middlestone Moor school
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FeaturesSustainable Dalby visitor centre
Miller construction builds fully recyclable timber building in North Yorkshire
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FeaturesOperation landfill
Reducing construction waste makes economic sense and is good for the environment but what should the industry be aiming for? Wrap and Building gathered together a group of industry experts to discuss whether the goal of halving construction waste to landfill by 2012 is achievable and how it might be ...
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FeaturesNaturally ventilated utility headquarters
Miller Construction designs and constructs the new Yorkshire Water headquarters
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FeaturesLow energy building in Edinburgh
Miller Construction built City of Edinburgh Council Chambers with low embodied energy, C02 and waste
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FeaturesExcellent BREEAM rating at school
Miller Construction achieved green rating at Hagley Haybridge High School in Worcestershire.
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FeaturesVery good BREEAM rating for college
Vinci applied sustainable principles to buildings at Wood Green High School College of Sport
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FeaturesHademore level crossing
Use of pulverised fuel ash by Vinci in replacement of a railway level crossing by a road bridge
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FeaturesGreen roofs at Bromley school
Vinci built the new Bishop Justus secondary school in Bromley to a high environmental spec
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FeaturesEco-Learning Village in Croydon
Vinci aimed for environmental efficiency in new teaching buildings
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FeaturesShell Centre Tower water reduction
SPIE Matthew Hall worked with supply chain in refurb to reduce services water use
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FeaturesShell Centre Tower waste reduction
ISG and SPIE Matthew Hall used segregation to reduce waste going to landfill at 26-storey building.
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FeaturesOff-site uni build
Morgan Ashurst has used off-site manufacturing for University of Manchester building
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FeaturesEngaging school children on PFI
HBG employed a Learning Resource Coordinator to engage with community in Bromsgrove PFI scheme
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FeaturesRemediation of land in Cardiff Bay
Taylor Woodrow worked on the scheme for the sustainable remediation of a 33ha site.
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FeaturesOils captured by nappies
Contractor Barhale used 'plant nappy' to capture contaminating oils at water reservoir
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FeaturesEfficient sewerage scheme in Kenilworth
Barhale installedan efficient sewage tunneling system that overcame the challenge of soft soil.
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FeaturesThe outdoors type
Jon Emery, the man behind Hammerson’s redevelopment of the Birmingham Bullring, is repeating the trick in Bristol and Leicester. He tells Lucy Handley why the era of the indoor out-of-town shopping centre is over and why he doesn’t enjoy spending time at Bluewater