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  • Features

    Server cabinets

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    Panduit has launched the Net Access server cabinet (pictured). The cabinet is the result of a collaboration with IBM, and the company claims it provides improved performance in terms of cable management, cooling efficiency and grounding over previous generation server cabinets.

  • Biometric fingerprint systems such as the Liver Register system can be used to replace smart cards and key pad entry systems
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    The alternatives: Secure schools

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    Schools have to provide secure access systems, both to keep unwanted visitors out and to keep pupils in. Stephen Kennett looks at three ideas – from the simple to the really clever

  • News

    Mixed fortunes for Galliford

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    Galliford Try has reported a flat profit of £60m for the year to 30 June after incurring £9.1m in land writedowns and £1.9m in redundancy costs.

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    Profit falls at Stewart Milne

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    Profit at Scottish contractor and housebuilder Stewart Milne has slumped 40% as a result of the ailing housing market.

  • Make’s gleaming dumb-bell of a pavilion links academia with the business community
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    Make has triplets

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    Make Architects has just unveiled three pavilions for the University of Nottingham – two in terracotta allude to the city’s geology, the third is even more heavyweight …

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    Fine form

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    Willmott Dixon has been appointed to build this £20m academy in Tipton, West Midlands.

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    Construction needs ‘half as many recruits as expected’

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    The number of recruits needed by the industry over the next four years has been halved by the downturn, according to data released on Wednesday.

  • Comment

    My digital life — Martin Clowes

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    The boss of Elementa Consulting climbs mountains, reads war tales, sails boats and owns old vinyl records, and likes any technology that fits in with these passions

  • Comment

    Eat, drink, fall overboard

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    It’s Cowes again, where gentleman are free to do what gentleman do best – sail close to the wind, sink pontoons, tumble arse-first down hatches and beer-first off the back of boats

  • News

    Dutch masterplan

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    This is the first view of Anglo-Dutch architect S333’s masterplan for the regeneration of the area around Derriford hospital, to the north of Plymouth.

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    Halt to eco-towns consultation called for until after review

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    Planning lawyers have called for the government to delay a consultation on its eco-town programme until after a judicial review of one scheme.

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    Multi-faceted learning

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    Architect Broadway Malyan has received outline planning permission for this £24m sixth-form college and centre of excellence in Stoke-on-Trent.

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    Gateway standards

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    All new homes built in the Thames Gateway may have to meet standards such as Building for Life and BREEAM after Cabe said they should be a mandatory part of a “design pact”.

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    Brewery redevelopment

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    Sunderland Arc is looking for a developer to redevelop the former Vaux Brewery site in Sunderland into a business district with space for 3,200 jobs.

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    Social services

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    Up to one in 10 people access housing association services such as community centres, children’s play areas and sports grounds, according to a survey by the National Housing Federation.

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    Land of hope and glory

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    Native Land has secured £56m funding from Bank of Scotland Corporate to develop a 2.5-acre site on London’s South Bank.

  • Features

    Dead meat

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    The plunge in land prices, which is much steeper than the nineties slump, has been observed by cash-rich buyers circling high in the sky. Now they’re hoping to swoop when the market hits the bottom. But who are they and when will they strike?

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    Williams leaves HSE to become 2012 safety boss

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    Stephen Williams, the chief inspector of construction at the Health and Safety Executive, is to take up a newly created post at the organisation policing safety at the 2012 Olympics.

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    Tyros take on media centre legacy

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    A trio of cutting-edge architects has been appointed to help masterplan the legacy of the £350m 2012 Olympics media centre.

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    Gandy quits Carillion for Bovis Lend Lease

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    Paul Gandy, the former construction boss of Multiplex, has joined Bovis Lend Lease’s southern division as operations director.