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FeaturesCo-op’s Manchester HQ: Invisible touch
Hidden within its structure and deep underground, concrete has played a central role in turning the Co-op’s new Manchester HQ into the UK’s greenest office
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FeaturesDulux Trade Awards 2012
Contractor painters that go the extra mile have been rewarded by Dulux Trade
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FeaturesThe Considerate Constructors Scheme annual survey 2013
Every year the Considerate Constructors Scheme asks the building industry and the general public for their views, here’s a summary of what they said this time …
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FeaturesThe retrofit debate: A strong argument for public expenditure
Ahead of Ecobuild, a panel of experts gathered to discuss how to bring about a national retrofitting programme to make the nation’s existing building stock carbon neutral
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FeaturesWhose BIM is it anyway?
Faithful + Gould project manager Jane Foulkes was a BIM sceptic until she was faced with a complex prison design project and a three-month deadline…
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FeaturesThe route to BIM in 10 steps
The industry will have to put its foot down to meet the government’s BIM deadline. Here, five experts break the route in 10 key stages
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FeaturesJoie de vives
Zaha Hadid’s Pierresvives council building in the French city of Montpellier relies on concrete to solve a range of structural and environmental challenges, as well as providing a spectacular geometric facade
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FeaturesLease is more
With capital budgets still tight and limited finance available from other sources, leasing companies believe their moment may have come. We do the sums
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Roundtable debate on going green: "It is happening"
AIS gathered together design and fit-out experts at St Mary Axe in September to compare notes on the pros and cons of going green. We report from the SAS International-sponsored event
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FeaturesBiophilia: Natural resources
Big windows, natural light, pot plants… Sometimes the simplest things in life make the most business sense. We explore the value of biophilia in the office environment
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FeaturesInside Vinci's technology centre
High impact: Discover a place where building materials are tested to their absolute limit
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FeaturesSteel Insight - Education Buildings
The fifth article in the Steel Insight series focuses on the key factors to consider when cost planning a steel-framed school, college or university building
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FeaturesWhirl pool
From the swirling, curving walls and diving boards to the pools themselves, concrete makes a big splash at Zaha Hadid’s awe-inspiring aquatics centre
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FeaturesWall-to-wall coverage
The curving concrete walls of the aquatics centre are one of its defining characteristics. They are first seen in the centre’s welcome area and provide a top and tail to the competition pools, as well as a stylish backdrop to television coverage of the diving.
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FeaturesStar jumps: how the diving boards took shape
Variously likened to the stamens of an exotic flower, a splash or even poised cobras, the dramatic lines of the aquatics centre’s six diving boards have attracted much interest – not only as a natural centre of attention during the Games, but because they are visually fascinating in themselves.
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Archive TitlesContractors named for London student-housing sites
Mace, Elliott Thomas and Morgan Sindall land slices of £300m development pot
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FeaturesSteel insight: Cost planning steel-framed multi-storey buildings
The fourth article in the Steel Insight series focuses on the various factors to consider when cost planning a steel-framed multi-storey building
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FeaturesCaught in the rain
Waterproofing strategies have a high failure rate and can lead to costly repairs. Specialist RIW has some tips on keeping a project dry