All Features articles – Page 434
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FeaturesCracking the code
The British Standard for the structural use of concrete is to be replaced with Eurocode 2 in March 2008. But there’s no need to worry, says The Concrete Centre’s Charles Goodchild
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FeaturesA class of its own
Concrete's thermal efficiency and adaptability means it's not only well placed to deliver the government's school construction and refurbishment programme, it can do so sustainably, says The Concrete Centre's Andrew Minson
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FeaturesCentre of learning
The successful design and construction of Oldham's library and lifelong learning centre could teach other PFI consortiums a thing or two
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Features‘Be careful what you say. If you claim to have done something, I'll check it'
Land Securities, aka the builder's developer, is spending £700m a year. But you won't win any of it if you're what development director Steve McGuckin delicately terms a bullshitter. Katie Puckett found out about his plans to take even tighter control.
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Carbon trading
Timber homes might have less embodied CO2 than than those buit from concrete. But new research shows that over their lifetime, concrete homes win the carbon battle hands down. By Jeff Dyson of The Concrete Centre
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FeaturesGeoff Wright takes a bow
Hammerson boss retires today after 37 years and hints at future industry roles
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Places to be - July and beyond
Your monthly guide to all the best networking events, parties and essential industry seminars
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FeaturesBespoke Savill style
An elegant visitor centre with a timber gridshell roof cuts a swath through Windsor Great Park
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FeaturesThe 99% campaign - Incentives for action
Your suggestions on improving the energy performance of existing building stock including carbon trading, stamp duty and tax relief.
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Skanska enjoys £1bn month as Barts gets go-ahead
Swedish firm tops monthly league thanks to £1.2bn PFI hospital scheme
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FeaturesNuclear power station in Olkiluoto, Finland: The 1.6 billion watt baby
320,000 m³ of granite blasted away, 12,000 m³ of concrete poured in one go: the team building Europe's first nuclear reactor in a decade aren't messing around. Still, the most complicated thing is the paperwork. Thomas Lane reports from Finland
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FeaturesNo regrets
The chairman of Wembley National Stadium Limited has broken his silence on the project, but don't ask him to take the blame for its troubles.
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FeaturesThe office
Do you have a tricky problem in the workplace? Let our office politics strategist show you how to turn it to your advantage …
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FeaturesA midtown Xanadu
Foster and Partners has turned a Manhattan office into a 48-storey tower. Here's an exclusive look at the arrestingly cinematic interior
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FeaturesExpress elevation
Double-deck lifts - Office workers at Broadgate Tower won't be hanging around waiting in the lobby. They'll be speeding up its 34 storeys in the latest lift innovation.
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FeaturesJean de florette
Jean Nouvel's museum of ethnic art in Paris, which opens today, tries to find a flowery architectural language to talk of ‘death and oblivion, visions of haunted places and the consciousness of the sacred'. Martin Spring explains how he set about this somewhat unusual task - and assesses his success.