All Features articles – Page 297
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FeaturesCountry focus: France
Investors remain prudent, but France is weathering the economic storm pretty well - and offering opportunities that need to be acted on now. Patrick Leniston of EC Harris reports
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FeaturesCedar shingles
John Brash western red cedar shingles have been used on the new Booths supermarket in Hesketh Bank near Preston, to create a building that sits comfortably in its semi-rural location
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FeaturesHammerson's Vinod Thakrar: Think I’ll bite?
Time was when some contractors found Hammerson such an exacting client, they steered clear. Now Vinod Thakrar, the man in charge of its supply chain, has them lining up to talk to him. Luckily for them, he’s after fresh blood
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Anti-pollution roof systems
Icopal has launched the Eco-Activ roofing range. The product line-up includes Noxite, a flexible roof waterproofing membrane made with recycled bitumen, which is then coated with a granular titanium dioxide finish that turns harmful nitrogen oxides in the air into harmless nitrates.
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FeaturesMake's £100m Cube: Birmingham cubed
The Second City’s Jewellery Quarter inspired the facade of Make’s astonishing Cube development. But as with any box of jewels, its real treasures are inside
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Movers and makers
Alumasc has published a new technical manual providing full details of its aluminium rainwater systems. The guide sets out product selection tables, technical data and NBS specification advice as well as installation guidance for the Heritage, Aqualine and GX gutter ranges and the Heritage, Flushjoint and Guardian downpipe systems.Concrete, resin ...
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FeaturesDave Sheridan: His friends in the north
A year ago Dave Sheridan suddenly found himself thrust to the top of property services group, Apollo. Once he’d got over the shock he set out on a high-risk strategy of shifting the business away from London to the northern regions
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FeaturesCost model update: small projects
The recent changes to Part L could add up to 8% to the capital cost of building, says David Holmes of Davis Langdon. This is what that will mean for primary schools, social housing and small industrial units
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FeaturesWhat next for Laing O'Rourke? Britain's most secretive contractor
It’s been 10 years since Ray O’Rourke bought Laing, the grand old man of UK construction. The intensely private boss won’t talk about it, but Laing O’Rourke is regrouping after the downturn: eyeing new sectors and infrastructure mega-schemes
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FeaturesAmazing ONS Specs! Makes the economy look much better than it is!
According to the Office for National Statistics, 2010 was the year that construction became a powerhouse of national growth and regained all the ground it lost last year. Oh yeah? Building checks out its story, with the help of a few economists …
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FeaturesQatar's zero carbon stadium: 96 degrees in the shade
Qatar wants to host the 2022 World Cup. But first it has to convince FIFA that the game can even be played in a Qatari summer. So it got Arup Associates to create a micro-climate inside a 500-seat test stadium. Cool.
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FeaturesFirst Impressions: Zaha’s Maxxi Museum of 21st Century Art
Three architecture students comment on Zaha Hadid’s 2010 Stirling Prize winning building in Rome
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FeaturesSikh place of worship: The gurus of Gravesend
A cash-strapped project to build a Sikh place of worship in Gravesend procured the large marble domes, arched windows and highly ornate stonework from India - and saved more than £2m along the way
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Will raising social housing rent work?
Every extra pound housing associations are allowed to charge in weekly rent generates up to £4.4bn for their development budget, and the chancellor is counting on that money to fund social housing in the future. The question is: will it?
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FeaturesMarket forecast the depths of winter
After the uplift in activity in the first half of this year and the swingeing cuts in the spending review, a long and difficult winter lies ahead, says Peter Fordham of Davis Langdon
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FeaturesLaboratory of Molecular Biology: Master of science
The Medical Research Council’s new chromosome-shaped lab in Cambridge is an example of how attention to detail and planning can deliver complex buildings on time and to budget
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FeaturesDan Labbad: Aussie Rules
The arrival of Bovis Lend Lease’s new boss sparked rumours about the company’s future. Now, after a long silence, Labbad reveals his plans for one of the UK’s best known contractors.
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FeaturesBribery Act: Where the buck stops …
You probably wouldn’t dream of handing over a wad of $100 notes to clinch a deal abroad. But what if a third party acting on your behalf did just that, without you knowing? Under the new Bribery Act you’ll now face 10 years in prison
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Features40 under 40 2010: Pascale Scheurer
Pascale Scheurer, 36, founding director of Surface to Air architects and Wired architects
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