All Building articles in 01 March 2013 – Page 7
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Features
CRASH: Transforming St Paul’s Homes
With support from CRASH, its patrons and supporters, derelict almshouses have been transformed into comfortable homes that provide a sanctuary for those that have experienced real hardship
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Co-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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Comment
Green is good for business
Tim Yeo remembers when sustainability was a dirty word for the business community. Now as an MP he sees the industry taking the lead and willing the government to do more
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Comment
Wonders and blunders with Andy Ford
Andy Ford is thrilled by Heatherwick Studio’s UK Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai Expo, but infuriated by Zaha Hadid’s Olympic aquatics centre
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50 stars of sustainability: M to S
Introducing the industry’s freshest talent working in sustainable construction …
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50 stars of sustainability: S to V
Introducing the industry’s freshest talent working in sustainable construction …
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Dulux Trade Awards 2012
Contractor painters that go the extra mile have been rewarded by Dulux Trade
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Comment
View from my office: Jamie Crouch
It’s a bustling scene of construction amid woodland if you look out the window of this project director’s office
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Comment
Schools: are we failing future generations?
School buildings must provide opportunities for children to learn as well as being designed to be as long-lived as practicable
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Care homes: The new way to get old
According to a Dutch idea, older people need on-site restaurants, bars, village squares and beauty parlours. Is the UK is ready for a revolution in care home design?
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50 stars of sustainability: J to L
Introducing the industry’s freshest talent working in sustainable construction …
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Cost update Q4 2012
Building costs rose at the end of the year due largely to a change in holiday pay rules, but material prices remain steady. Peter Fordham of Davis Langdon, an Aecom company reports
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News
One in five Affordable Homes schemes without sites
HCA says 80% of the programme, designed to deliver 170,000 homes, now has a “firm site identified”.
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Aecom and the RIBA pull plug on consultancy collaboration
Collaboration launched to offer specification consulting to architects - announced last May - will no longer go ahead
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Housebuilders report strongest market since 2008
Barratt, Persimmon, Bovis and Redrow boast hikes in pre-tax profit, as NewBuy ‘fires on all cylinders’
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PRP targets £1m turnover for new research business
Architect plans new business to develop areas including construction products, low-carbon buildings and sustainable community building
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Skanska's Trinity Square gets green light
Skanska has been given planning permission for its Cheltenham residential development.
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50 stars of sustainability: D to J
Introducing the industry’s freshest talent working in sustainable construction …
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50 stars of sustainability: A to D
Introducing the industry’s freshest talent working in sustainable construction …