All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 97
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Plans for Estonia's first eco-town
Buro Happold is working with Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects on the design for Estonia’s first eco-town.
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Paul Mugnaioni's plans for green "ecotowers"
Glasgow developer Paul Mugnaioni wants to save the city’s old housing blocks from demolition and turn them into desirable eco-towers. Is he mad?
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Downturns and turnarounds
Right now, the editorial office of Construction Manager shares one thing in common with every construction business.
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Grave discourtesy
As a retired member, I was intrigued by the large 30 on the cover of September’s BSj and turned to the editorial for an explanation.
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Pitch perfect: football stadium design
In this month’s engineering services cost model, Davis Langdon Mott Green Wall reviews the principles of football stadium design, focusing on the implications for the services
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Archive TitlesOutside the Dragons’ den
You might have seen Paul Tinton on TV last month, securing £200,000 to expand his site waste management business. But what happened after the cameras stopped rolling for him and fellow construction sector hopeful Andrew Cunningham?
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Archive TitlesEDF deal triggers nuclear reaction
The new generation of atomic power stations in the UK could mean big bucks for contractors, but is nuclear really the way forward? The latest news shows division in the industry.
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Archive TitlesCrunch fuelling high-end thefts
Theft of higher value construction, demolition and agricultural plant in Britain was up by 2% in 2007 to 3,630 incidents, according to a report by the National Plant and Equipment Register.
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Nine golden rules for surviving the credit crunch
As house prices fall and many developments face uncertainty and cancellation, the construction sector is in for some tough times. However, this need not spell disaster if your company faces the danger with a few key changes.
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Archive TitlesViñoly’s comeback performance
The Colchester Arts Centre debacle may have left sceptics doubting Rafael Viñoly’s ability to pull off a UK project, but with a little help from Bovis Lend Lease his first completed building is a triumph.
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Cibse’s task in middle east
I fully agree with the observations of Dr Dennis Mui (Letters 08/08) about the necessity of involving facilities managers from the beginning of a project in order to have a better sustainable building.
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Sign up to cut waste and save cash
A new voluntary waste reduction agreement for the UK construction sector promises not just to tick environmental boxes but bring significant financial savings to contractors.
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Care in communities
BRE is developing BREEAM Communities, a version of its environmental assessment standard that it hopes will persuade developers to look at sustainability across a community, not just individual buildings.
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Is it time to review Percy Waldram's daylight calculations?
A re-enactment of Percy Waldram’s jury experiments of the 1920s suggests it’s time to rewrite the lighting rules.
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HVCA picks Burton
Martin Burton, the commercial director of Canterbury-based HW Sladden Commercial, has been elected HVCA vice-president for 2008/09.
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Kingfell's Paul Bryant explains railway station exacuation strategies
Creating evacuation policies for two London rail hubs, used by 240 million people a year, highlighted the challenges of safeguarding large groups of people. Paul Bryant looks at the problems and solutions
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It's not enough, Mr Brown
The government’s £1bn energy efficiency strategy will have little impact on reducing carbon emissions from existing housing stock, judging by a report published earlier this year by the World Wildlife Fund.
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Brother, spare a few dimes to build in these troubled times
With the collapse of investment banker Lehman Brothers last month, the fearful imaginings of the media pundits peaked. BBC Radio 4 imagined another Wall Street Crash, focused on US and Asian finance markets.
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Archive TitlesBouygues signs for ‘council’ homes deal
Bouygues UK has secured a ground-breaking contract to build the first homes planned by a new public-private partnership in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.