More Focus – Page 297
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Aluminium and timber glazing
Velfac has extended its range of aluminium and timber glazing systems with the Velfac Plus window system.
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Wood veneers and metallic laminates
Formica has launched two ranges for internal vertical applications.
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Metal panels used to make ‘sail’
The KS 1000 Optimo facade system from insulated metal panel specialist Kingspan was specified at Shire House, a £3m office development in Bradford.
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More than a shade of difference
Solar shading is an option in Part L for limiting summer solar heat gains. Peter Mayer of Building LifePlans takes a look at the options and life cycle costs.
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FeaturesMetal arithmetic
Phil Cook of Euroclad explains how his company is reacting to rapid changes in the market, and why metal cladding is on the up and up.
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FeaturesSkin grafting
Edward Whipp, preconstruction director at English Architectural Glazing, explains how his firm has coped with the high demand caused by a shortage of cladding specialists.
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FeaturesThe handover
When Mike Davies took over from James Wates as chair of the Strategic Forum earlier this week, the organisation got a quieter, more reserved leader. Mark Leftly spoke to both men to find out if this will also mean a change of direction
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FeaturesSpotlight on — critical systems
Martin Smith from Gardiner & Theobald reviews the lead times for major M&E components on critical systems projects such as data centres
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FeaturesDo you want chips with that?
The most commonly used and available form of biomass is wood. Here the Building Cost Information Service discusses this source of fuel, and the technology used to burn it
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FeaturesChelsea’s magic sponge
The famous CFC hopes its marksmen will be kept fit and working by this luxurious training and physiotherapy complex in Surrey
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FeaturesMetronet puts its future on the line
The consortium with the job of upgrading most of London Underground is struggling to cope with a £2bn cost overrun, potentially endless legal difficulties and increasingly nervous shareholders. Angela Monaghan looks at how it went so wrong, and what the stakeholders are doing to put it right
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FeaturesMaxximum Zaha
Almost 10 years after Zaha Hadid’s design for Rome’s MAXXI museum won an international competition, it’s still only two-thirds built. Martin Spring looks at how the architect’s ideas have survived years of stop-start funding and delay.
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FeaturesWho’s going to build the olympics?
Just our luck. Right when we’re getting down to building the 2012 Games, all the big contractors get loads of other work and disappear into framework tie-ins. Angela Monaghan reports on the changing face of British building
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FeaturesSustainability: Managing water consumption
Water conservation is often given a low priority in sustainability strategies, but in areas where the water supply is under pressure from development, it may provide relief. Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon examines the options and their costs
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FeaturesDo you dig?
In the fourth of our series examining renewable energy technologies, Alistair King talks us through ground-source heat pumps, which provide developers with a Part L-friendly way of keeping buildings warm or cool using the ground beneath our feet
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FeaturesThe enchanted forest: Vallecas-Pau in Madrid
While Madrid’s new Vallecas-Pau suburb waits for its trees to grow, it has been fitted with portable tower parks. They look like this …
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FeaturesGovernment backs crane campaign
Building’s campaign to make tower cranes safe has won the support of a key Whitehall figure: Lord McKenzie, the minister for health and safety, as Dan Stewart found out. Buoyed up by this ministerial backing, we’re taking our demands to the Strategic Forum …
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FeaturesDirector’s cut
When Sydney Pollack first saw the Bilbao Guggenheim, it moved him to tears. The great director tells Martin Spring how it also inspired him to make his first documentary – a journey into the mind of its creator, Frank Gehry
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FeaturesDans army
These days the Territorial Army isn’t so much about playing at soldiers as training them for actual combat. Still, it finds time to run ‘executive stretch’ weekends, where future managers find out a little about leadership. Dan Stewart joined a group from the construction industry for two days of fake ...