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FeaturesKisho Kurokawa's Maggie's Centre
Before he died in 2007, the legendary Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa sketched out a swirling, ‘dragon-tailed’ cancer care centre in Swansea. Now the UK’s 13th Maggie’s Centre has been completed in titanium-studded concrete by Garbers & James
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FeaturesSolving the panel puzzle
The Maggie’s Centre certainly provided a stern test of the capabilities of precast concrete supplier Thorp Precast. The job involved creating 56 precast panels, and although many of these were similar, very few were identical.
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FeaturesThe ‘cosmic whirlpool’ and other Maggie’s Centres
When writer and garden designer Maggie Keswick Jencks was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1993, together with her husband, the architectural writer Charles Jencks, she set about her creating a charity project to provide cancer sufferers with expert support within a more sympathetic built environment.
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Movers and makers
Alumasc has published a new technical manual providing full details of its aluminium rainwater systems. The guide sets out product selection tables, technical data and NBS specification advice as well as installation guidance for the Heritage, Aqualine and GX gutter ranges and the Heritage, Flushjoint and Guardian downpipe systems.Concrete, resin ...
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Radiant heating panels
HCP, the specialist heating division of SAS International, has launched a radiant heating service raft
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NewsPassivhaus goes to school
Hadlow college in Kent is the first educational building in Britain to meet the stringent demands of the German low-energy standard
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NewsRender for timber frames
Reinforced render finish systems from Weber have been used on a number of new-build and refurbished schools for Aberdeen council
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NewsSlate flooring
Kirkstone, specialists in Cumbrian slate and imported architectural stone, has supplied natural silver-green slate flooring on an extension and renovation project on the Samuel Lindow Building at the University of Central Lancashire’s Cumbrian campus
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Shower controls
Rada has launched the V10 sequential shower control, which is suitable for light commercial or semi-residential applications such as university accommodation
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Cladding panels
Steni cladding panels have been used to give a new lease of life to St Mary’s Catholic Primary School in Falmouth, Cornwall
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NewsFibre cement
Natura Pro fibre cement cladding from Marley Eternit has been used on the £23m Sir Thomas Wharton Community College in Doncaster
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Ground to air heat exchanger
Rehau’s Awadukt Thermo ground-air heat exchanger has been specified for the Carclaze Community primary school in St Austell, Cornwall
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Movers and makers - 01 October 2010
Latest news from the world of construction product manufacture
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FeaturesDomestic heat pumps: So you think this will do the job, then?
Given that the government seems bent on promoting heat pump technology to help it meet its carbon reduction targets, it’s odd that evidence for its effectiveness has been so thin on the ground. Now at last a study reveals the truth…
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NewsFire-rated doorsets
The £20m North Glasgow College campus includes more than 400 doorsets from Leaderflush Shapland’s Extended Performance and Designer ranges
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Fire-resistant doors
Wrightstyle has launched a range of unlatched, fully-glazed interior and exterior fire-resistant doors
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Door operators
Dorma UK has launched the ED100 low-energy swing door operator which is suitable for situations where users may be hampered, for example people carrying shopping or using push chairs
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NewsComposite windows
Window manufacturer Idealcombi has launched the Futura+ range of composite doors and windows which feature a polyurethane core to enhance thermal efficiency and help designers meet the new Part L of the Building Regulations.
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NewsEmpire State Building window refurb: The empire strikes back
Manhattan’s Empire State Building is leaking air and carbon by the tonne. But a project to reduce heat loss and solar gain from its 6,514 windows has raised its green credentials - and drastically lowered its energy bill