All Features articles – Page 435
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FeaturesWhole-life costs: Concrete vs steel
What are the environmental, capital cost and lifetime cost differences between a building with a steel frame and one built using concrete? David Weight of cost consultant Currie & Brown applies the firm’s Live Options modelling system to find out
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FeaturesAn ideal client for firms with a taste for perversity
Frightening, stimulating, argumentative, bewildered by its own bureaucracy but still willing to take chances (don't believe everything the media tells you), the BBC is the best client in Britain for firms who don't just want an easy life.
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FeaturesThe Building Hall of Fame
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of its name change from The Builder, Building has launched a Hall of Fame. Today we've inaugurated 40 people who have made the greatest impact on the built environment over that period.
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FeaturesA bitter pill
The PFI is not responsible for the NHS' headline-grabbing deficits - the NHS is
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FeaturesHerd the one about the two architects and the sheep?
Making the news An exclusive joint interview with Renzo Piano and Lord Richard Rogers, moments after they successfully conveyed a flock of sheep across the Millennium Bridge
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FeaturesThe 99% campaign - greening the stock we're stuck with
Almost all our energy efficiency regulations apply only to new buildings, which add a mere 1% to the built environment a year. Today Building opens a campaign to persuade the government to improve the performance of the other 99%. At the moment they're allowed to leak energy like there's no ...
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FeaturesWhere in the world?
From the salmon runs of British Columbia to the golf courses of Hong Kong, the white rum of Antigua to the jade green pastis of southern France … there's a whole world waiting for you. Hays Construction & Property and Building's international salary guide helps you take off the blindfold ...
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FeaturesJust the job
Angus Robertson tells Sonia Soltani how he followed his heart to the city that never sleeps
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FeaturesCurved space – the Peter Harrison Planetarium
Greenwich park is about to get a strange and beautiful adornment: a weird bronze cone through which the heavens will be made manifest. Thomas Lane found out how it's being made
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FeaturesCost model: Business parks
Business parks are back, but this time they need to be sustainable and mixed-use. Neal Kalita of Davis Langdon examines how developers can meet the evolving needs of planners and occupiers without breaking the bank
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FeaturesThe technology and beauty of aircraft
A sleek building in the shape of a boomerang, or more appropriately a pair of aircraft wings, has been opened at Farnborough airport in Hampshire.
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FeaturesShouldn't you be at work?
Will Mr Jerk be able to provide enough Trinidadian food for everybody at Reid Architecture? Will the Scott Brownrigg beer keg be big enough? Will Lord Foster ‘do the Crouch'? With the answers to these questions and many more besides, George Hay presents a definitive guide to World Cup office ...
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A quick recovery
After March's nosedive, Experian Business Strategies reports that construction activity is now back up and running - plus why civils are enjoying the most growth but employment prospects are falling
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FeaturesThe only way is up
Berkeley First had a mere 21 months to house 1000 students and key workers on a tight west London site. There was just one solution: the tallest modular construction the UK has ever seen. Sonia Soltani found out how it was built