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NewsBedzed's baby: Zedfactory housing in Andover
Green architect Zedfactory has designed a housing development in Andover that takes the Bedzed principles and shows how they can be paid for
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NewsLooking ahead...
Curious to know how the Thames Gateway will look when it’s all finished? Well if you feel like going to Ashford in Kent, there’s a model already built. And if you don’t, don’t worry, Chloë McCulloch’s already been and she took her camera
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FeaturesThe outdoors type
Jon Emery, the man behind Hammerson’s redevelopment of the Birmingham Bullring, is repeating the trick in Bristol and Leicester. He tells Lucy Handley why the era of the indoor out-of-town shopping centre is over and why he doesn’t enjoy spending time at Bluewater
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Introduction
Retail has never been a sector for the fainthearted. For construction firms, it means slashing your prices so your client can keep slashing theirs, working round the clock, and around milling customers with absolutely no impact on sales, or pulling off a flawless finish against an immovable deadline.
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NewsWell stocked for greens
Some of the UK’s largest retailers are introducing fabulous new ranges of sustainable building practices. Eleanor Harding finds out what four of the biggest stores are doing differently and what this means for their suppliers.
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NewsThere’s life in the old girl yet …
Marks & Spencer’s Bournemouth branch is one of its ‘old ladies’ a typical forties-built high street shop that, in carbon terms, is a relic from a bygone age. They could have quietly closed it down and built a nice green ‘eco store’, complete with wind turbines and solar panels. But, ...
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NewsDawn of the shed
There’s something nasty lurking in the industrial wilderness, but it’s nothing that a bit of natural light and rainwater harvesting can’t sort out. Chris Wheal reports on the greening of the nation’s distribution centres
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NewsA cast of thousands
The trend towards retail-led, mixed-use schemes in city centres can be an organisational nightmare. With as many as 40 parties involved in some schemes, they need strong leadership, close collaboration and a lot of very careful planning.
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NewsBack to the future
The heyday of the high street may be about to return, as developers turn against out-of-town retail parks and head back to the centres of places like Oxford, Bristol, even Cricklewood. But will it be just like the old days? Well, not exactly …
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FeaturesA tale of a tile
The compressing of clay dust to form a small tablet that can be baked and painted was a Victorian invention that became a Victorian obsession. Stephen Kennett tells us how one modern council set about emulating their achievement
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Insulated render
Telling Lime Products and Pittsburgh Corning have collaborated to produce an insulated render system.
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FeaturesHere’s one we made earlier
Make’s City of London information centre had to look as distinct from nearby St Paul’s cathedral as possible, which led the architect to search for a cladding supplier with a flair for origami
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Curtain walling
Kawneer has enhanced its AA100 curtain walling system with the launch of structurally glazed and horizontally capped options.
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Tile effect cladding
Stormking has introduced a tile effect cladding system that it says has the authentic look of traditional wall tiles.
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Decorative cladding
Marley Eternit has launched the Natura range of fibre cement decorative cladding panels.
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FeaturesWhat to remember: Cladding
Unlike, say, a brick wall, an office building’s cladding is a sophisticated system that requires careful thought, assiduous testing and examplary workmanship. Peter Caplehorn of Scott Brownrigg explains