All Features articles – Page 309
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FeaturesGreen roofs
SIG Design & Technology has developed a green roof system with Aldingbourne Nurseries, which is suitable for extensive or semi-extensive applications over large areas
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FeaturesSands of time: Foster's shell roof
Novum Structures had just four months to build this complex shell roof structure - part of Foster + Partners’ sand-dune inspired pavilion for the Shanghai 2010 Expo. So how did they do it?
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FeaturesThin film photovoltaics
Power Panels form Kingspan Insulated Panels have been specified for the refurbishment of new training and storage facilities for Sustainable Energy Systems
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FeaturesLeaping for the other side: The jump back to the private sector
As you will be aware, public spending is going to be hacked back before the private sector recovery has really begun. Emily Wright asked 15 of the UK’s largest firms how they will cope
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FeaturesMeddles all round: Prince Charles, Boris and Cabe ...
Planning has always been a national regatta for those with oars to stick in, but Charles’ Chelsea fiasco took it to a new level. Sarah Richardson compares him with the other rowers
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FeaturesSupport act: Cannon Place
Finding somewhere to lay the foundations for an office block above London’s Cannon Street station proved so difficult, the engineers had to call on the structural principles of the Forth Bridge to get the job done
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Movers and makers - 28 May 2010
Latest news from the world of construction product manufacture
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Cost update: Q1 2010
The quarterly analysis of changes to costs and prices shows the industry in general on an upward curve, as consumer price inflation continues to rise
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FeaturesNelson's ship in a bottle: How did they do that?
The latest fourth plinth artwork is a cute idea, but it took some hefty engineering to make the concept a reality, as one of the team behind it explains (plus he shows us the actual calculations)
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FeaturesPositive thinking: Masdar HQ
The seven-storey Masdar Headquarters, under construction outside Abu Dhabi, will be the world’s first large building that generates more energy than it consumes
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China: Infrastructure opportunities
China is the world’s largest infrastructure market, so it’s worth finding out how to do business there. To mark Building’s Global Infrastructure Forum in London this week, Roxane McMeeken reports on opportunities in China and how to win them
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FeaturesBeyond the pale: Renzo Piano's Central St Giles
Controversial it may be, but Central St Giles has cheered up an obscure corner of London with a riot of reds, yellows, greens and oranges – making the rest of the capital look a tad grey.
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Scott Wilson goes it alone on road to recovery
Chief executive Hugh Blackwood scotches sale rumours as he plans international strategy
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FeaturesAll Black Zinzan Brooke: Alive and kicking
Any man who can calmly kick a 47m drop goal while playing for the All Blacks isn’t going to freak out when his construction businesses come under a bit of strain. Emily Wright talks to Zinzan Brooke, New Zealand’s legendary number eight
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FeaturesJust add sand … Colegio de Las Mesas
No it’s not a mirage, but a dramatic and inventive addition to a college in eastern Spain
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Smart ties
Ancon has developed a wall tie to fix traditional brick cladding to an internal leaf of cellular clay blocks with horizontal bed joints of just 1mm
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Nouvel takes Manhattan
The French architect describes his 23-storey apartment block on the Lower West Side as a ‘vision machine’. Ike Ijeh tries to decipher what that means. Photos by Roland Halbe
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FeaturesI'm lovin' it: Henry Trickey of McDonald
Companies eager to expand in these famished times won’t be able to resist McDonald’s’ supersize diet of drive-thru restaurants and store makeovers. Emily Wright chews the fat with Henry Trickey, the man who’s serving them up
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Haiti: The road from ruin
Roxane McMeeken reports on the reconstruction effort in Haiti, amid growing fears that the ad hoc approach to rebuilding could be doing as much harm as good