All Supplements articles – Page 45
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Have councils lost the plot?
You would think that with the pressure on councils to build more homes on brownfield sites, they would be only too pleased to release the thousands of acres of unused employment land. So why aren’t they?
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What makes a building sustainable?
Would you recognise a sustainable building if you saw one? Paul Appleby says it’s not as easy as it first looks
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Copper bottomed
The boss of regeneration developer St Modwen, ex-cop Anthony Glossop, prefers plain talking to flashy hyperbole. Then again, the company’s £46m bottom line does rather speak for itself.
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5 questions
To Shelagh Grant, the new chief executive of the Housing Forum, one of Constructing Excellence’s sector forums
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FeaturesThere’s more than one way to skin an office
The latest products and whole-life costs, notes on intelligent facades and the special love between an architect and its concrete supplier. But first, Sonia Soltani on the teams defying skills shortages to install extraordinary facades
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FeaturesHow we work together
Or how an architect found its ideal supplier … This week Sonia Soltani tells the tale of Pascall + Watson and Belgian concrete firm Decomo
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FeaturesWhat to remember: facades
Facades have got so intelligent these days, they can control your building’s airflow, heat transfer, lighting and acoustics. Barbour and Scott Brownrigg explore the options for specifiers
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FeaturesCosts: Curtain wallings
Curtain walling looks simple, but it’s a complex network of systems and components. Peter Mayer of Building LifePlans examines the whole-life costs and performance of all of them
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FeaturesWhat to specify: cladding and curtain walling
From banks to cinemas, and from theatres to homes, the latest cladding and curtain walling products can work wonders anywhere
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FeaturesTouching the void
If you thought concrete had to be heavy then you've clearly never used the latest void forming systems, reports Roger Northam of Cobiax Technologies
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Solid as a rock
An unfortunate side effect of the increasing use of lighter, longer floor spans is vibration, a particular problem in buidings such as hospitals. But as The Concrete Centre’s Andrew Minson reports, this doesn’t have to be a problem
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Trent's Sheffield job starts on site
Construction is now under way on a 13-storey residential development in Tenter Street, Sheffield, which was designed by Axis Architecture.
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NewsThe latest in hassle-free housebuilding
H+H Celcon has introduced the Rå House (pronounced "raw"), a new concept in masonry construction. It is made from Celcon aircrete blocks stuck together using the "Thin-Joint" system. The floors and roofs also use proprietary systems, and there is an option to use Celcon Foundation blocks and the Celcon Flooring ...
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Permeable paving goes mainstream
A new report from Interpave, Permeable Paving Projects: Concrete Block Permeable Pavements Case Studies and Update, provides evidence of the movement of concrete block permeable pavement technology into the mainstream.
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FeaturesPlaying it cool
The first glasshouse to be built at Kew in almost 20 years is not designed to keep heat in – quite the opposite in fact. Which is why concrete proved to be as vital a component as glass.
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FeaturesConstruction lessons
A new prestressed slab product has helped to deliver quality student accommodation at a West Country university within a tight deadline, reports George Tootell, special projects director at Buchan Concrete Solutions
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FeaturesA class of its own
Concrete's thermal efficiency and adaptability means it's not only well placed to deliver the government's school construction and refurbishment programme, it can do so sustainably, says The Concrete Centre's Andrew Minson
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FeaturesCentre of learning
The successful design and construction of Oldham's library and lifelong learning centre could teach other PFI consortiums a thing or two