All articles by Thomas Lane – Page 11
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FeaturesSir John Fairclough
The government's latest one-man ginger group for construction is its former chief scientific adviser, but, as Thomas Lane discovered, he is not just calling for radical reform. He's much more ambitious than that …
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FeaturesThe benchmark
It's a tough life for the Greenwich Millennium Village team: a location next to the maligned Millennium Dome, the attentions of John Prescott, and tough targets for improving construction performance. Thomas Lane finds out how well they are doing
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NewsO'Rourke trials system-built package on Dartford HQ
New offices to be test-bed and showroom for component-based prefab system aimed at developers.
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FeaturesPalm stormers
Get drawings, cut paperwork or surf the net, all from a muddy ditch anywhere. As computers get faster, smaller and cheaper, some companies are holding the future in their hands. Thomas Lane explores the revolution in mobile computing
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FeaturesWorking with Christopher Wren
Greenwich's Old Royal Naval College is arguably the finest collection of early modern buildings in the UK. After being taken over by Greenwich University, it became what must be the most sensitive refurbishment project in Britain. Thomas Lane finds out how it was done.
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Deutsche Bank plans leaning tower of Islington
Sheppard Robson designs 38-storey skyscraper resembling "a slab of chocolate leaning on its side".
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Colour me beautiful
Sexy and tough, polycarbonate has a great future and Tate Modern architect Herzog & de Meuron has just covered the Laban Centre in south-east London in it. Thomas Lane meets the new kid on the cladding block
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The big freeze
Winter is coming for the UK construction industry, and Building's latest national survey reveals that only regions with a large amount of public sector work can hope to avoid the worst of the blizzards.
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Brighton and Hove Albion unveils £44m stadium plans
Long-awaited new home for south coast football club proposed for area of outstanding natural beauty.
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The specialists
They're the guv'nors: the guys who get things sorted. Without their expertise, knowledge, talent and understanding of materials nothing would get built.
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They reign in panes
When the big players in glass shy away from a cutting edge project, engineers can find a champion in a small family firm in Essex.
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Military plans to give power to the people
The Royal United Services Institute is considering how to make buildings more energy self-sufficient, because of concerns that oil supplies and nuclear power may be affected by turmoil in the Middle East.
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Keeping Ken cool
The arresting shape of the new home for London's mayor and the Greater London Authority is far from being its only innovative feature. The building also houses the ultimate in state-of-the-art, energy-saving air-conditioning and glazing systems.
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No more New Yorks
Ever since it emerged that the collapse of the World Trade Centre was actually caused by raging fires, safety experts have been putting their heads together to see how fire protection and escape routes can be improved in new landmark buildings.
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Towers may be strengthened to stop house-of-cards collapses
Fortified buffer storeys could be introduced in tall buildings to prevent a repetition of the World Trade Centre collapse.
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Fire experts to examine safety regulations
Cross-industry working group led by RIBA president will look at ways of preventing collapse of tall buildings.
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Return of the dinosaurs
Once thought of as practically extinct, trams are making a come back as a popular, efficient and safe means of getting around. Trouble is, they're very slow to arrive.
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Bronzed god
The team building the world's largest statue found designing the cladding a particular challenge. Still, nothing that creating a virtual computer model, building a bespoke foundry and predicting the weather in a thousand years' time couldn't overcome.
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Skyscrapers face huge cost rise after Bloody Tuesday
Prospect of tougher fire regulations and rocketing premiums for target buildings put developments in question.