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FeaturesVentilated cladding
Rainscreen cladding from Shackerley has been used to help transform Boston House, a former shoe factory in Leicester, into 44 apartments, including eight penthouses.
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High-pressure laminate panels
Specialist cladding manufacturer CEP Claddings has extended the number of finishes for its Bauclad range of high-pressure laminate panels.
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Pre-painted cladding panels
Kingspan XL Forté is a pre-painted system from Kingspan Insulated Panels.
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Accoya cladding
The first office building clad in Accoya – a modified softwood – has been unveiled in Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
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Solar shading
Solar shading from Levolux has been used on Foster + Partners’ Folkestone Academy in Kent.
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FeaturesThe alternatives: cladding
Finding an economic way to clad a building with unconventional shapes, while also allowing natural ventilation, has resulted in some interesting solutions
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FeaturesBuilding's 99% campaign award for refurbishment
New development may be skidding to a halt, but the need to improve existing buildings is just as important as ever. Building looks at the winner and runners-up of the prize for refurbishment at the Sustainability Awards
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FeaturesHow the bonus became extinct: Building Hays Executive salary survey
This year’s Hays Executive salary guide charts the dawn of the age of recession, in which the recruitment market is over-supplied and the bonus culture has gone the way of the dodo. David Parsley reports
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NewsChipperfield in China
This David Chipperfield-designed housing scheme in China has been completed.
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FeaturesWestfield shopping centre: in pictures
The £1.7bn Westfield London, Europe’s biggest in-town shopping centre, finally opened last week. But is it the shining example of urban regeneration that its developer claims? Martin Spring fought through the crowds to find out
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CommentDangerous defects
The CaseBirmingham Development Company (“Birmingham”) was a property developer. Birmingham developed a site next to land owned by Michael Jacob Tyler (“Tyler”). Tyler had a factory on his land. During the development demolition of the gable wall of the building on Birmingham's site exposed part of the flank wall of ...
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New PFI refinancing rules will only affect nineties schemes
Industry sources have said that changes to PFI refinancing rules, which mean contractors profit less from deals, will only have an immediate impact on schemes that date from the mid to late nineties.
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Stone facades
TI Dynamic Facades has launched sandstone and limestone options for its Aerolite range of facades.
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NewsEco logic: do the government plans for eco towns add up?
An eco towns judge and a leading councillor give their views on the new planning guidance and grades for the schemes
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NewsPsychologist to crack crime in housing developments
New housing design guidlines to reduce crime on estates
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NewsMigrants set to lose benefits
Social security to be restricted to British citizens under draft legislation.
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New life cycle costing standard planned for 2009
Costing in use document will cover facilities management and operations of buildings
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NewsLondon mayor axes seven transport schemes in bid to save cash
Boris Johnson has announced that major projects will be dropped to divert funds to Crossrail