All Building articles in 07 September 2012 – Page 3
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Comment
New housing measures: The right direction?
The housing measures could benefit from less focus on the planning system and more on affordable housing
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News
UK firms win Moscow expansion job
Architects Gillespies and John Thompson & Partners and engineer Buro Happold on winning team
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News
Lend Lease bags £70m hospital job
Contractor beats Kier, BAM and Vinci to Northumberland emergency hospital project
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Interserve bags £300m NHS Midlands contract
Firm named preferred bidder for seven year support services deal
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Features
Whirl pool
From the swirling, curving walls and diving boards to the pools themselves, concrete makes a big splash at Zaha Hadid’s awe-inspiring aquatics centre
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Features
Wall-to-wall coverage
The curving concrete walls of the aquatics centre are one of its defining characteristics. They are first seen in the centre’s welcome area and provide a top and tail to the competition pools, as well as a stylish backdrop to television coverage of the diving.
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Features
Star jumps: how the diving boards took shape
Variously likened to the stamens of an exotic flower, a splash or even poised cobras, the dramatic lines of the aquatics centre’s six diving boards have attracted much interest – not only as a natural centre of attention during the Games, but because they are visually fascinating in themselves.
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News
DevSecs and Cathedral plan £700m 'Greenwich Beach'
Residential and office-led scheme planned on the banks of the Thames next to O2 Arena
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News
Free schools champion hits out at lack of premises
Wolf calls on government to rethink process for securing sites after 24 schools unable to open
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News
Solar legal claim could rise above £100m
Exclusive: A growing number of solar panel installers are set to join High Court damages challenge
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Features
Tilturn window system
Architectural aluminium systems supplier Kawneer widens its window range
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Features
Should schools be uniform?
Will standardised schools herald a school building programme where design quality and educational aspiration are crushed under a monotonous wave of Identikit slabs? Ike Ijeh investigates Photos by Mike Pinches
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Features
Timber sliding sash
Dale Windows has launched a timber sliding sash, with concealed spring balances
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Features
Are these schools really a priority?
After six months of delays the Priority School Building Programme could be accused of failing to live up to its name. So when will the tenders finally be released? And is there a risk the Treasury’s PFI review will hold up some schools still further?
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Comment
Playtime's over
Most government initiatives identified as a way of boosting the economy through the construction has floundered in the execution