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Lifetime costs: masonry walls
The higher costs of making sure your masonry wall complies with Part L are partially offset by annual savings in energy costs. But by how much? We do the sums
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Movers and makers
The Environment Agency has teamed up with research company HR Wallingford to develop a British Standards Institution-approved Kitemark scheme for flood protection products. The Environment Agency said it believed this was the first quality standard in the world for flood protection. The first products to win Kitemark approval are Floodguard ...
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FeaturesFit for a king
Poundbury. The very name of this 21st-century housing model strikes fear into the hearts of specifiers everywhere, as it demands strict compliance with tough design rules – and under the watchful eye of a rather important man. We meet a valiant developer who wouldn't be deterred
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Handover heart
You work at it, you complete it, you celebrate it and you go home feeling warm and fuzzy. And the next morning your client moves into an office that's too hot and too cold. Architect Mark Way has a way to stop this happening. We find out how
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Cost model: Supermarkets
Supermarkets are among the UK’s top 10 construction clients. In this cost model, Davis Langdon & Everest and Mott Green Wall examine the costs, specification and procurement of new build and existing stores
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NewsSaints alive
Developers St James Securities and CTP unveiled their St Paul's scheme for Sheffield this week. The Allies and Morrison-designed project will include 20,000 m2 of offices, 6000 m2 of leisure and retail space, 250 flats and a 500-space multistorey car park. It will also include the creation of two public ...
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Consultants agree to cap fees at Scottish parliament
Consultants on the Holyrood Scottish parliament building this week agreed to cap fees after talking to the parliament's presiding officer George Reid
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Eleven on school design list
Architects Will Alsop and Wilkinson Eyre head the 11-strong list to produce exemplar designs for the government's £60bn Building Schools for the Future programme
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Two more die in falls as HSE starts campaign
Two construction workers, one of whom worked on the £23m Bath Spa scheme in Somerset, have died this week after falls on site
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Former Bluu boss joins Rowney Sharman
Former Bluu and Interior Services Group boss Matthew Giles has joined project management firm Rowney Sharman
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NewsRetail hits the riverside
Sainsburys this week appointed Stanhope as development partner for the redevelopment of its former head office in the South Bank. The Foster and Partners-designed scheme comprises a 20-storey building on the corner of Blackfriars Road and Stamford Street. It will offer 375,000 m2 of office space and a Sainsburys supermarket ...
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MCG boss criticises PFI batching
Dermot Gleeson, the incoming chairman of the Major Contractors Group, has outlined a five-point plan to improve the PFI process
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NewsFlights on a float
Architects HOK International has won a contest to design Kitakyushu Airport in Japan. The airport is on an artificial island in the Sea of Suou, Kitakyushu City. The main roof element is inspired by the lantern floats used at the local Tobata Gion festival. The firm beat off competition from ...
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Anglo-French shortlist for social housing
Design watchdog Cabe and its French counterpart have unveiled a shortlist of seven Anglo-French practices for a social housing competition in London
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Hanson staff in pay ballot
More than 1400 workers at brick manufacturer Hanson voted this week on a 4% pay rise, as the firm tried to avert strike action
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Contractors share £300m job centres framework deal
Contractors Shepherd, Mansell and Mowlem are among 14 companies that have been awarded a £300m framework deal to refurbish up to 750 job centres
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NewsCryptic suggestions
Plans were submitted this week to Westminster council for a £34m restoration and extension to the St Martin-in-the-Fields church in Trafalgar Square, central London. Designed by Eric Parry Architects, the scheme will open up the church's 18th-century crypt and create an entrance pavilion and foyer. Originally designed by James Gibbs ...
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UK building industry to grow at average of 5.1%
The UK construction market will grow at an average rate of 5.1% a year until 2012, according to research firm Global Insight