All Features articles – Page 378
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FeaturesGood vibrations
How VJ Technologies turned the troublesome vibration regs into a really good business opportunity.
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FeaturesGlazing over
Fendor manufactures and installs performance glazing ranging from standard commercial curtain walls and windows to specialist fire and security glazing systems.
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Minimalist fittings
DR Services is to market Sadev’s range of point fittings and spiders for facades and glass canopies in the UK.
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life At the sharp end
Cladding In an explosion, every fragment of glass in a building becomes a potentially lethal missile. Stephen Kennett looks at the best ways to protect ourselves
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FeaturesCost model update: Small projects
Max Wilkes of Davis Langdon revisits industrial units, primary schools extensions and primary health care centres to investigate how recent changes to legislation, specifications and general price increases have affected building costs
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Profiled cladding
Euroclad has added to its Elite range of built-up cladding products with a horizontal wall system that features a half round profile outer sheet.
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Terracotta rainscreen cladding
TI Dynamic Facades has launched a single-skin terracotta rainscreen system that is suitable for both domestic and commercial applications.
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FeaturesThe strange case of the overdue library
Alright, so it might not win the Man Booker Prize, but the tale of how Birmingham council spent 10 years trying to get its new central library off the drawing board has got the critics gasping.
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FeaturesEating concrete for breakfast
Colin ‘Dano’ Daniel was a fearsome site manager who used to have ‘a lot of outbursts’. But that was before he worked for his new boss – his son Julian, head of Bovis’ south division.Now they live, eat and breathe construction together, pausing only to watch their beloved Hull City. ...
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Anti-graffiti paint
Johnstone has launched an anti-graffiti system that is suitable for both interior and exterior brick, masonry and previously painted surfaces in sectors such as education, retail, transport and leisure.
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FeaturesWill it be ken again?
He may once have been master of all he surveys, but Ken Livingstone’s victory in May’s election for London mayor is not assured. This time he has to convince voters of his record. So how has he done? Mark Leftly takes seven key pledges in the London Plan and judges ...
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FeaturesThe Building Good Employers Guide 2008
Last year, Building successfully launched the Good Employer Guide to showcase the very best companies to work for across the construction industry. With recruitment and retention ever more important, we are starting to compile our guide for 2008, and we would like you to participate.
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FeaturesNo more nods to Noddy
Stephen Bayley explains how a “Marks & Spencer’s food” approach to architecture could help restore Britain’s lost reputation as a builder of great communities, ensuring that the Thames Gateway becomes a place to stay in, rather than to escape from – and why Noddy needs to leave his car at ...
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FeaturesA framework and a focus
Simon Thurley, chief executive of English Heritage, believes that only a small part of the potential of the Thames Gateway’s historic environment has been tapped; much remains that could be used to create distinctive, successful and ultimately sustainable communities
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FeaturesIconic pavements and aiming high
Wayne Hemingway fears that we’re making the Thames Gateway too difficult to love and warns against designing houses “from the bottom up”
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FeaturesThe stage is set …
… and come 1 April, if you're on the shortlist for the Building Awards 2008, you could be stepping up at the Grosvenor House hotel with applause ringing in your ears
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FeaturesThe inside job
It was like the Great Escape in reverse. How do you get inside a prison to double prisoner capacity without giving your captive audience any funny ideas about all that scaffolding? Using a panelised system was one solution – though not half as much fun as smashing a hole in ...
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FeaturesPhase One fever
Katie Puckett went to Building’s Birmingham bash last week and survived to tell the tale.