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Archive TitlesHurray for Holyrood
Alan mack thought it would be a quick, prestige job. Four years later, he's still there and the scottish parliament is mired in more controversy than ever.
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Archive TitlesHow handy
When Bovis construction manager John Mash goes out on site at Paternoster Square, he carries thousands of drawings and method statements with him. In his hand. Or, to be more precise, in his handheld.
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Archive TitlesGong to his head?
Alan Crane FCIOB, Chair of Rethinking Construction, was awarded his CBE in January. He says it's nice - but he still has to queue at Stringfellows
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Going for gold
It's time for London to make its bid to host the 2012 Olympics. But is this the gold medal, or just a booby prize?
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SummitSkills gets go-ahead
SummitSkills, the proposed Sector Skills Council (SSC) has been given the go-ahead to move into the next stage of its development.
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Archive TitlesSheffield's Winter Garden opens
The Winter Garden in Sheffield opened in mid-December and is part of a £120 million scheme to regenerate the city centre and is the largest temperate glasshouse in a European city centre. Architects Pringle Richards Sharratt and consulting engineers Buro Happold have worked for seven years designing the structure which ...
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Archive TitlesLighting for the future
The lighting of schools presents distinct challenges to specifiers and designers. We examine some of the key issues in lighting classrooms for a positive effect on students.
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Archive TitlesWinning formula
Construction of new chemistry laboratories for the University of Oxford provided a number of challenges, on both the structural and services engineering fronts. We discover how potential problems were avoided by the use of innovative techniques, combined with high levels of co-operation.
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Fabers win Winter Olympics
Faber Maunsell is set to ensure that the new atheletes village for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin meets the sustainability brief set by the client
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Archive TitlesMake 'em laugh
Send us a caption for this picture (above) and we'll hand over a £20 drinks voucher for the wittiest entry. Email construction_manager@buildergroup.co.uk
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EIC wants more support for UK
The Environmental Industries Commission (EIC) wants more action from government to support the UK environmental technology sector in the face of overseas competition.
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Energy efficient ventilation systems
This month the cost and research departments of Mott Green & Wall and Davis Langdon & Everest examine the efficiency of ventilation systems.
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Don't knock media studies
It may come as a bit of a blow, but degrees in building offer slightly poorer employment prospects than media studies.
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Waste disposal and recycling
It is estimated that in England, Scotland and Wales over 100 million tonnes of construction and demolition waste is produced every year.
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Archive TitlesCool at the core
The Kirchhoff AG administration building in Germany, incorporates a system that combines the functions of controlled air supply and cooling in one active structural element.
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Designer cool
Stay cool, a design guide for the built environment in hot climatesJames & James (Science Publishers)£25ISBN 1 902916 29 8Stay cool, a design guide for the built environment in hot climates, aims to satisfy human comfort requirements through passive and environmental means. The book gives an outline of climatic issues, ...
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The perils of conversion
Conversion of standard luminaires for emergency use can be a minefield. What are the implications of invalidating the CE mark and the special requirements of lower mercury fluorescent lamps?
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Archive TitlesLift group traffic control
Calculating how to get workers up to the top of a new office building for a 9 o'clock start is hard enough, but when you have to work with just three lifts in an existing building what can you do?