More Focus – Page 360
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Costs: Prefabricated structural panels
Prefabricated structural panels are increasingly specified as an alternative to traditional site construction. Peter Mayer of Building LifePlans considers the whole-life-cost implications
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FeaturesSpecifier Products
In this off-site special, a panel-framed home that’s ultra-energy efficient, all-in-one shower pods and how car parks can help solve the housing crisis. Plus the latest on the industry’s movers and shakers
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FeaturesOff-site manufacture
This week, we look at the startling way this bingo hall renovation was designed and how an off-site solution was found for an elegant cedar-framed family house in Oxford. Plus advice on specifying steel frames and all the latest products
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Council-tax payers foot bill for ‘upside-down map’ gaffe
‘X’ doesn’t mark the spot as highways clerk sends contractors to the wrong place.
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FeaturesOn top of the world
Wednesday, 6 July, 12.49: A moment that will leave an indelible mark on the city of London. Against the odds the UK’s capital won the right to host the 2012 Olympics. For bid leader Lord Coe, it was a personal triumph to match his two 1500 m Olympic gold medals ...
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FeaturesKill or cure?
As fewer and fewer contractors are willing to pay £4m for the chance to win a £100m PFI hospital, the government is being forced to decide between single-bid tenders and increasingly painful delays …
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FeaturesThe bridge to Kibera
These Kenyan children may have a school to go to, but without clean water and sanitation they will soon have to leave. They are among 700,000 dwellers in Africa’s biggest slum, and they are desperate for the construction industry’s help. Paul Jowitt explains how it can be given
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FeaturesSchool project
Mitie has just opened its first two construction skills centres for 14-16 year olds
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FeaturesDesigner Power
Gus Alexander heads to Portobello Road, Notting Hill, to take a look at a swanky residential scheme that is a testament to the very hands-on approach of its architect
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FeaturesSimon Vivian begins
Most of Simon Vivian’s six months in charge of Mowlem have been spent struggling with disastrous projects, boardroom bloodletting and a predecessor who didn’t leave. Now he’s finally ready to do it his way. Tom Broughton finds out what he has in mind.
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FeaturesHidden shallows
As soon as Brunel’s 19th-century SS Great Britain was taken out of the sea, it began to corrode. Now a restoration team has found a way to preserve its hull while also giving it the illusion of a return to the open water.
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FeaturesA sunny reception
Building’s annual meeting of politicians, peers and top executives at the House of Commons
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FeaturesA profession on the rise
Five years ago, project managers were regarded as pen-pushers – now they are seen as indispensable. So how much work is out there and who is winning the bulk of it?
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FeaturesTalking shop
Three young and thrusting managers at Bovis Lend Lease chat to Victoria Madine over coffee
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FeaturesHead first
Former headmistress Valerie Bragg has been a leading player in implementing Labour’s schools strategy. Here she tells us about why architecture doesn’t really matter – and how she got on with Norman Foster at the Bexley academy.