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FeaturesSustainability: Offices
In this latest feature on eco-friendly development, Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon examines how a growing commitment to sustainability will affect the commercial offices sector, with a case study on how a client’s requirements can be met in a leased building
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FeaturesA view from the gods
Looking out over this nondescript part of Leicester, and almost entirely suspended from this roof, will be the UK’s most exciting new theatre – and the first building in this country to be designed by US architect Rafael Viñoly.
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FeaturesWho’s going to drive this?
There is only one place in Britain where crane operators are trained: the National Construction College in Norfolk. Now a decision by the local council has thwarted plans to prevent it sliding into dereliction. Sarah Richardson and Angela Monaghan look at what, if anything, can be done to retrieve the ...
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FeaturesThe new boy
The previous chief executive of Building Schools for the Future spent eight stormy months struggling with the brief before jumping overboard. Tim Byles, the local authority bureaucrat who replaces him, has a different plan, a different style, and (he hopes) a different fate.
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FeaturesThis professor has been brought to you by ...
If your lecturer spends more time with private firms than with you, should you a) Complain, b) Be glad they’re keeping up with the latest thinking, or c) Get them to wangle you a job?
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FeaturesGreen ticks all round
Health and safety Sonia Soltani reports on how the BCSA is coming to the rescue of small contractors and explains why the Steel Construction Institute’s Trojan Horse is a welcome gift
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What will be the affects of changes to the CIS?
Neil Graham and Jarlath McCloskey of Berg Kaprow Lewis look at how CIS in April will impact on construction businesses.
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FeaturesSix ways to reduce waste
When dealing with construction waste there are six questions you should ask yourself. WRAP's Mervyn Jones explains
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FeaturesWhat to specify: offices
Glazed curtain walling, state-of-the-art lighting and a host of other products designed to make offices safer, more comfortable and generally less depressing …
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FeaturesA well-oiled machine
Honda’s construction team has taken inspiration from the company’s car production lines to keep its projects purring smoothly
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FeaturesLet there be light
WHO MAKES IT — DP Architectural Lighting has established its name in the big league of interior design by providing bespoke lighting solutions to high profile clients like Foster and Partners.
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Escaping doesn’t have to be this hard …
Ready for another year of sitting at the same desk, talking to the same people and staring out of the same window? No? Claire Dodd helps plot your bid for freedom
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FeaturesStyle council
OFFICES — Ealing borough council wanted to migrate 2,500 staff from an archipelago of offices into its headquarters, and turn that into a sexy, sustainable civic centre for the good burghers of west London. Sonia Soltani reports on how it did the job, with a little help from Pringle Brandon
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FeaturesWhat it costs: mechanical ventilation
In many instances mechanical ventilation may be the only option to manage office environments. Peter Mayer of Building LifePlans explores the options
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Features‘You could run this building as a traditional school – but it would be a waste’
Building Design Partnership’s Marlowe Academy in Ramsgate is like no other school – it has a campus feel, there are no corridors and the students don’t even bunk off.
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Features‘We don’t hug trees and do Kum Ba Yah’
Murray Coleman is not a man to mince his words, as Mark Leftly found when he trailed the new Bovis Lend Lease construction boss around one of the contractor’s more problematic PFI projects
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FeaturesTimber frame business centure: From little acorns…
HOW WE WORK TOGETHER — Directors from Reid Architecture, Woolgar Hunter and Donaldson & McConnell explain why they opted for a timber-frame solution on a business centre in West Lothian.
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FeaturesThe 2007 Building horoscope
Will the Olympic budget keep soaring? Will Ray O’Rourke buy when Amec sells? Will Ucatt survive against the super union? Will QSs still be interested in property? And will we still be talking about Wembley in December? Consulting a beginner’s guide to astrology, we reveal all this and more in ...
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Steady as she goes
Contractors in all sectors and across all regions were feeling buoyant in October. According to the Experian Business Strategies survey, activity is rising across the board – and especially in civil engineering. When it comes to the future, though, they’re a little less certain