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FeaturesDoing the rounds
Developer Asticus chose concrete for a cylindrical London office block. The results were beautiful – and saved money. Guy Thompson, head of architecture and housing at The Concrete Centre, reports
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Set for life
Embodied energy is only one part of a building’s impact on the environment. Specifiers should look at the bigger picture, reports Andrew Frost, sustainability manager of The Concrete Centre
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FeaturesGo with the flow
Climate change could make floods more frequent, and traditional hard landscaping can worsen them. Fear not: permeable concrete paving can help replicate natural drainage, reports Alan Bromage, head of civil engineering at The Concrete Centre
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Top of the class
Now pay attention at the back – the government has made it clear that design is not to be neglected in its ambitious school building and refurbishment campaign. Swotting up on concrete’s advantages in education buildings could get you top marks, says Andrew Minson, director, technical services and head of ...
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FeaturesClass values
New independent research confirms that concrete offers big cost advantages to the schoolbuilder. On the different designs tested, concrete beat steel for cost and lead times every time, reports Francis Ryder, head of costs at The Concrete Centre
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Concrete has many benefits. Add to these cost savings and sustainability ...
Concrete’s many inherent benefits, such as fire resistance, sound insulation, robustness and minimum vibration, are widely recognised. New cost model studies and research now add cost-effective construction and sustainability to that list.
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FeaturesThe final analysis
Tessa Jowell has now given us the final, definitive, official budget for the London 2012 Olympics, and it’s a huge increase on the 2005 figure. Or is it? Mark Leftly crunches the numbers
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NewsNick Keable on recognising one’s own elbow
Labour’s record of planning reform is a tale of ineffectual confusion. And now it’s just got worse
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CommentMipim uncovered
Ah, the glamour of the Riviera ... long-legged Russian beauties, a daring daylight robbery and, erm, that’s about it – unless you count middle-aged male nudity or the stand from Corby council
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FeaturesThe dream towers of Mipim
It was the year of the tall building down in Cannes, with Eric Kuhne’s V building in the vanguard
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Bogus self-employment ‘costing £2.5bn a year’
Ucatt is calling for a clampdown on builders falsely claiming to be self-employed, which it says costs the Treasury £2.5bn a year.
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NewsEastern towers: Aedas Architects scheme in Pakistan
Aedas Architects has revealed this design for a mixed-use development in Karachi, Pakistan
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McCarthy & Stone chairman retires
Keith Lovelock has retired as chairman of McCarthy & Stone, the country’s biggest retirement housebuilder.
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CommentBuilding buys a pint ... for Churchill Retirement Living
The last time I had a bevvy with Spencer McCarthy, he took about 50 mates, relations and hacks to the Cartier International polo match and spent thousands on crates of champagne.
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Atkins and NG Bailey acquire specialist engineers
Consultant Atkins and privately owned M&E company NG Bailey both bought specialist engineering firms this week.
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NewsDevelopers paying over odds for sites, says report
Overbidding for sites is common in London, according to a report on the capital’s development industry.
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NewsFirst Base goes for the double
Regeneration developer First Base has submitted plans for two housing developments on English Partnerships (EP) sites in London.
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NewsHeart and Seoul: Rogers scheme in South Korea
Richard Rogers, with Samoo Architects & Engineers, has designed this £766m mixed-use scheme in Seoul, South Korea.
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NewsGuide explains how to build low carbon community
A guide on how to create “low carbon communities” was launched this week by the London Energy Action Partnership.
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Lords enter QS visa debate
The House of Lords has waded in to the debate on visa rules for foreign quantity surveyors.