All Features articles – Page 326
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Heritage tiles
Independent handmade roof tile maker, Tudor Roof Tile, has introduced a peg tile designed to complement listed buildings and heritage properties
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FeaturesGreen roofs
Roofing supplier ICB has worked with architects Ian Brown Partnership to design bespoke green roofs for 20 beach huts in Blyth, Northumberland
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Lead-free flashing
Iko has launched Ikoflash, a lead-free flashing product for use in areas where traditional lead flashings would normally be installed, such as chimneys and abutments, around rooflights and pitched valley linings. According to the company, the product is a faster, more cost-effective alternative to traditional lead flashing and is less ...
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What it costs: Tensile fabric
Fabric roofs are becoming the topping of choice for everything from bike sheds to concert venues. Peter Mayer of BLP Insurance looks through the available options
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FeaturesCost model: Office refurbishments
As more owner-occupiers look for cheaper, more efficient and sustainable offices, refurbishment may provide the answer. Simon Rawlinson and Ian Harrison of Davis Langdon report
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FeaturesCopper roofing
Kalzip has supplied more than 800m2 of copper sheeting for the roof of the new Burns Monument Centre in Kilmarnock
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FeaturesBrown roofs
BriggsAmasco has begun work on a brown roof scheme at Manchester’s latest mixed-use development, 1 New York Street. The roof has been designed and specified with the aim of attracting the rare black redstart bird into the city centre by emulating a natural area of habitat and vegetation that will ...
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FeaturesACT Natural: Thames Gateway green spaces
Developers, architects, councils and government agencies will come together at next month’s Thames Gateway Forum to launch a scheme stressing the importance of green spaces in the South-east’s biggest growth area
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FeaturesAcademic study: Free your mind
Being good at your job may not depend, it turns out, on getting years of experience under your belt. In fact, spending quality time away from site may be just what you need. Katie Puckett goes back to university to find out why
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FeaturesStanbrook Abbey: Life and soul
Nuns may not be the most demanding of clients, but apparently they do expect a building to be ‘transcendental’. Dan Stewart took a pilgrimage to Feilden Clegg Bradley’s Stanbrook Abbey in the Yorkshire moors to find out what that means
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FeaturesFirst impressions: Viñoly's New York architecture college
Two architecture students from Nottingham Trent and an RCA graduate architect give their verdict on the newest CCNY building
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FeaturesCityscape Dubai: The Middle Eastern launch pad
Hilson Moran’s commercial director muses the approach of the emirate's annual property event
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FeaturesInternational markets: Welcome to Iraq
Emily Wright reports on nation-building in the world's most dangerous country
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Features'India is on the move'
And the good news is that UK companies are uniquely placed to capitalise on the South Asian powerhouse’s £344bn infrastructure boom – as an increasing number of firms are discovering
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Spending cuts: What, where and how much?
Now that politicians of all parties have admitted spending has to be cut, the question is how much and where. Here Sarah Richardson makes the case for keeping capital programmes going. Overleaf, we mark your card for the upcoming party conferences
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FeaturesSpecialist cost update
In the final part of our series, Sense Cost Consultancy explores the difficulties that M&E contractors and suppliers are facing, the effect that’s having on prices, and what the future may have in store
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FeaturesCounter attack: Interview with Sainsbury's head of property
Firms react differently to recession. Some struggle through, some hibernate – and some (for example, Sainsbury’s) launch £1.6bn offensives to grab market share. Emily Wright and Anna Reynolds met the man who’s planning the big push
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Out of the blue: Terry Pawson's Carlow arts centre
This luminous edifice in the south-east Irish town of Carlow is a glowing testament to a growing reputation
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FeaturesGet your skates on: Vancouver’s 2010 Olympic ice rink
The 2010 Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games has triggered a flurry of building activity – including this Trout Lake ice rink. Stephen Kennett hurried along for a preview
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FeaturesPhilip Youell interview: ‘We read the market right’
No new major schemes in the UK or Europe, a global recession and the collapse of business in Dubai. So why is EC Harris so bullish? Chief executive Philip Youell explains how his re-engineering of the (former) cost consultant has been vindicated