All Features articles – Page 442

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    Checklist

    2006-04-07T12:52:00Z

    Fire doors save lives, so it's vital to specify the right one and ensure it's properly installed. What's more, it's costly to replace the wrong one …

  • The east elevation of Fort Dunlop, Urban Splash’s office, retail and leisure scheme in Birmingham, is clad in glass. In the rest of the building, the glazing sits 1.5 m behind the retained brick facade
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    Doors and windows

    2006-04-07T12:07:00Z

    How do you turn an old tyre factory into a swanky office and leisure destination? As Sonia Soltani discovered, if you're Shed KM, you stick a beautiful glass box inside the existing brick box. The result kicks off our doors and windows special

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    Projects update: Sustainability

    2006-04-07T00:00:00Z

    Amec may have been first out of the blocks to sign up to Envirowise, but there's no need to get left behind. You can contribute to several initiatives without leaving your desk …

  • Paul Hodgkinson with some of his female employees
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    Paul's problems with women

    2006-04-07T00:00:00Z

    In April 2001, Simons Group boss Paul Hodgkinson used the pages of Building to make a bold pledge: that 50% of his staff would be female by 2011. It's five years on, but is he halfway there? Photographs by Julian Anderson

  • Chief Executive of the Year - John White
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    Shrewd Operator

    2006-04-07T00:00:00Z

    The winner of this year's Building Award for Chief Executive of the Year is John White, boss of Persimmon, the UK's biggest housebuilder.

  • Smooth surfaces and sharp detailing help the square box transcend the run-of-the-mill retail-shed image
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    Ken's zen

    2006-04-07T00:00:00Z

    A few lines of architectural history have been written in Dartford, where Ken Shuttleworth's Make has just completed its first project - and shown how a judo dojo can fit into what appears to be a retail shed with perfect economy of form...

  • Shop interior
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    Fit-out update: Shop fit-out

    2006-04-07T00:00:00Z

    Shop fit-out There's lots of work and bargains to be had.

  • Sheppard Robson’s design for the Salvation Army’s office in central London
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    Fit-out update: Office fit-out

    2006-04-07T00:00:00Z

    Phil Brown reports on one of the busiest markets for contractors

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    Fit-out update: Landscaping

    2006-04-07T00:00:00Z

    Forget skills shortages - drought is the worry

  • The Airbus A380, the world’s biggest passenger aircraft, is the closest contemporary engineering has come to recreating the impact of Brunel’s enormous steamships
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    What Brunel did for us ...

    2006-04-07T00:00:00Z

    Two hundred years after his birth, the ever-present legacy of the great Isambard Kingdom Brunel still inspires the modern-day engineer to create something different.

  • The Obel will be the tallest building in Belfast
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    Why not work in ... Belfast

    2006-04-07T00:00:00Z

    Investors and confidence are coming back to Belfast. Robert Smith of Hays Construction & Property can help you get in on the action

  • Ahhhhh!
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    The nightmare has begun

    2006-04-07T00:00:00Z

    The industry is in a state of blind panic over Part L, the revised energy regulations implemented yesterday. Thomas Lane explains what we now can and can't build - and why we should all keep panicking …

  • Erika Prime
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    Appointments

    2006-04-07T00:00:00Z

    Who's making career moves this week ...

  • Two stupendous terminals at Beijing Airport are being designed and built in just four years by using repetitive components for the reinforced concrete floors and steel space-framed roof
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    Forget T5, here's T-Rex

    2006-04-07T00:00:00Z

    Beijing is about to get an airport that is large enough to handle the entire population of Britain in a single year, thanks to yet another collaboration between Arup and Foster and Partners

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    Enough hot air

    2006-04-05T07:00:00Z

    In the first of a new series of fortnightly columns, Robert Webb asks if the drive towards sustainability leaves the industry poised for a quiet revolution

  • Joyce Bridges and Sunand Prasad (right)
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    The missionaries

    2006-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Stepping down after seven years as a CABE commissioner, Sunand Prasad has plenty of advice about how to make a success of the job.

  • Even the three-storey flats at the street corner wear
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    Is this a joke?

    2006-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Architectural practice FAT has a reputation for taking the mick. But its new social housing scheme in Manchester is at once playful and perfectly serious.

  • Retention ponds hold water run-off back and slowly release it into the ground to mitigate flooding. They also make an attractive landscape feature
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    Sustainability: Drainage systems

    2006-03-31T00:00:00Z

    With global warming increasing flood risk, projects are turning to sustainable urban drainage systems for solutions. Here, Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon considers the options and costs.

  • The fathers and daughters
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    Like father, like daughter

    2006-03-31T00:00:00Z

    It takes a certain type of woman to follow in her father's footsteps, particularly if his job involves working 100-hour weeks on a building site or being paid to dress up in a wig. Emily Wright meets an architect, a lawyer, a small contractor and two very similar looking facilities ...

  • The mirror blocks in the courtyard are artworks and toys for children
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    A Dagenham Wonderland

    2006-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Shiny pixelated bricks, mirrored blocks, multi-height openings and sliding doors that give surprising views from all angles - DSDHA's John Perry Children's Centre would delight Alice, herself