All Features articles – Page 341
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FeaturesPaul Hamer: saving White Young Green
After swallowing 18 companies in five years, the consulting engineer was bloated with debt and stranded in rapidly receding markets. Now its new boss, Paul Hamer, has to mount a rescue. Tom Bill asks him how he’ll do it …
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FeaturesGraduates: What you can do in the recession
Now is not the best time to be a construction graduate, but if you make the most of what opportunities there are, you can still stand out from the crowd. Michael Willoughby has some suggestions
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Doorset with minimum door swing
Doorset maker Leaderflush Shapland has designed a doorset solution for the single-room pilot ward project at Hillingdon Hospital in Uxbridge, Middlesex.
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FeaturesBrentwood Community Hospital: Operation sunlight
Sheppard Robson’s redevelopment of a PFI hospital in Essex aimed to maximise views for patients. But how did it square this rather pricey ambition with the need to keep costs down?
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FeaturesBathroom solutions
The problem of designing and providing a cost-efficient, accessible toileting or bathing facility in hospitals, nursing homes and elderly persons homes is simplified with a new approach from Manchester company Total Hygiene.
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FeaturesReason to celebrate: a Building Awards preview
It’s easy amid all the gloom to forget what we’ve achieved as an industry over the past few years. The Building Awards are here to remind you and although you’ll have to wait until April to know who the winners are, we think you’ll enjoy this preview
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FeaturesRecession architecture: 'The icon era is over'
And about time too, many will say. But the question is, what kind of architecture are we going to build in a time of recession? One thing’s for sure: there are going to be far fewer twisty, spiky, blobby towers going up
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The Tracker: Hitting an all-time low
The news is pretty bad for January, with activity lower than it’s ever been before – as are tender price inflation, workload in the south of England and employment, says Experian Business Strategies
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Wiring accessories
MK Electric has developed a collection of products dedicated to healthcare environments.
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FeaturesI've started so I'll finish: David Tuffin of Tuffin Ferraby Taylor
David Tuffin started Tuffin Ferraby Taylor when people wore loon pants and voluntarily listened to the Bay City Rollers. Several recessions later, he’s handing it over to a new generation. But isn’t that going to be a bit tricky right now?
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FeaturesSurviving Mipim without champagne
Mipim looks set to a frugal affair this year, with fewer big boats, less free champagne and virtually no Russian oligarchs. Building gets some tips on doing Cannes on the cheap
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FeaturesThe race to build Britain's nuclear reactors
Japanese-owned nuclear giant Westinghouse is in a race with France’s Areva for the UK’s £20bn nuclear reactor market. And it looks like it’s falling behind. We asked the man spearheading the bid if he was worried...
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FeaturesRoll over Beethoven!
This music theatre in Graz starts off in classical style, but inside it’s doing the twist
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FeaturesDon't sweat it: Arup's National Physical Laboratory
Building a laboratory where temperatures are controlled to the nearest 0.1ºC is scary enough. But when you have the added possibility of radiation leaks and you know the job finished off the last firm to try it, well, you could forgive Arup for being ‘a bit nervous’
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FeaturesCost model update, March 2009
With the construction market in reverse, it’s crucial to have the latest data. This cost update has been compiled by Max Wilkes and Simon Rawlinson, with help from Davis Langdon’s sector experts
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Standing seam profiles
Rigidal’s Ziplok standing-seam profile has been used for cladding on a car park in County Durham
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FeaturesRainscreen panels
Eurobond’s Rainspan rainscreen support panels have been used on the refurbishment and extension of the Emersons Green Sainsbury’s store in Bristol
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Louvred panels
Arcelor Mittal has introduced its Recif range of louvred metal cladding for facades in the UK