All Features articles – Page 329
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FeaturesGreen guide misuse could steer zero-carbon housing off course
A guidance note is always open to personal interpretation
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FeaturesDiversity in construction: transforming lives
If a job candidate isn’t white, male and able-bodied, the construction industry doesn’t seem to want to know them. So a training organisation called NET Ambitions is trying to get employers to diversify. Emily Wright talked to three people whose lives have been transformed
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Carbon countdown: How can the UK make the step change required for zero carbon?
Whether you like it or not, the Government’s 2016 target for all new homes to be built to Code Level 6 of the Code for Sustainable Homes (CSH) is set to remain
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FeaturesMy Dubai hell: David Marks breaks the silence on payment problems
Many UK firms are owed money by Middle Eastern developers, but few are willing to talk about it. Roxane McMeeken spoke to one man who was prepared to break the silence
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FeaturesHackney-sur-Mer: Levitt Bernstein’s Queensbridge Quarter
Dalston, a less-than-glorious corner of east London, is beginning to look as if it might be able to tempt well-heeled Londoners to give it a go – thanks in part to Levitt Bernstein’s Mediterranean-styled Queensbridge Quarter
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FeaturesFirst impressions: Judah's sculpture for Goodwood
Recent architectures graduate from the Royal College of Art comment on the giant Audi loop sculpture at Goodwood
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The tracker: Vital signs
The rate of decline continues to slow, especially in the residential sector, but, with demand weak and jobs uncertain, the prognosis still isn’t great. Experian Business Strategies studies the charts
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FeaturesA great venue to play: David Byrne's Roundhouse installation
Buildings and musical instruments are usually quite easy to tell apart. That was, until David Byrne got his hands on north London’s Roundhouse
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FeaturesWe’re all going on a (green) summer holiday
Eco-tourism is big business in Cornwall, with green developments popping up all over the county to meet demand from conscientious tourists. So Building packed Dan Stewart off on his hols to find out what the options are for the green tourist – and if it’s all it’s cracked up to ...
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FeaturesThe way of all quangos
The Tories are rekindling that age-old election pledge: to burn down the quangos. We’ve heard it all before, but is it any different this time? And if so, which ones would be for the pyre?
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FeaturesGateway to the world: Thames Gateway Forum 2009
The Thames Gateway Forum in November is attracting delegates from France to China, as global investors eye up opportunities in the South-east’s fastest changing region. You should really be there too …
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FeaturesFirst impressions: Heatherwick’s Shanghai Expo British Pavilion
Two RCA postgraduate architects share their different verdicts on the British Pavilion at Shanghai Expo for 2010
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FeaturesHousing associations write off £174m
Falling land and house prices mean 40% more is knocked off associations' assets than last year
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FeaturesRefurbishment funding: A long way from home
Assessing the once mighty £21bn Decent Homes programme’s past achievements, and its increasingly uncertain future
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FeaturesComplying with Part L: A question of cuts
L is for … Some building types need to shave their carbon emissions a lot. Others, less so. Yet the regulations say they all have to improve by 25%. The last in our series on Part L examines a proposal to fix this anomaly
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FeaturesGrosvenor Waterside by Make: Don’t tell Charles …
Within spitting distance of the notorious Chelsea Barracks site is this startlingly modern block of flats by Make Architects. Yet, so far, the good burghers of Belgravia haven’t uttered a word against it. And nor has you-know-who. What’s going on?
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FeaturesCost model: Indoor arenas
Even in recessionary times, entertainment creates opportunities and in the live music business, promoters want new, purpose-built venues. Simon Rawlinson and Martin Jennings of Davis Langdon examine how gigs are changing the face of the indoor arena
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FeaturesIs there any such thing as a good framework?
BAA’s decision to abandon framework agreements has led many to fear that other major clients will follow suit. No bad thing, says Stan Hornagold (above right), while Don Ward (above left) couldn’t disagree more …
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FeaturesCan you do better?
Building and the UK Green Building Council's prestigious Sustainability Awards are open for entries and, this year, there’s also a one-day conference for green experts to debate the latest challenges
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FeaturesTimber panellised system
Framework BSL, the manufacturer of pre-engineered panellised building systems, has supplied a timber panellised system for the construction of an art centre at King Charles I School, Worcestershire