All Features articles – Page 451
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FeaturesCharm offensive
Despite his continuing war with the Labour party, the Daily Telegraph and the US Senate, George Galloway has opened a new front against Tower Hamlets council. Building reports on the leader of Respect’s struggle to persuade tenants to fight their council’s housing policy
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FeaturesJust the job: Gemma Clark in the Antartica
Structural engineer Gemma Clark explains why her winter is going to be even chillier than ours …
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Costs: Industrial doors
Industrial doors have to resist heavy traffic and hard treatment. Peter Mayer of Building LifePlans outlines the options and whole-life costs
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FeaturesDoors and windows
This month Specifier takes a look at doors and windows, including how much industrial doors for your warehouse scheme will cost and which standards to use to get the best performance. But first, how the Eden Project specified a very scientific rooflight and some very arty windows for its very ...
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BRE appoints top environmental consultant
Dr Katherine Hyde joins BRE as director of BRE's Environmental Consultancy Dr Katherine Hyde.
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FeaturesFrom train to track
As well as being a vital part of the UK’s economic infrastructure, the Channel Tunnel Rail Link will play a key role in making London’s Olympics a success.
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FeaturesStratford-upon-Thames
The grim accumulation of brick and concrete known as the London Borough of Newham is about to become an international demonstration of what skill, inspiration and a great deal of money can achieve …
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FeaturesVintage Rogers
Richard Rogers Partnership is the latest of the big-name architects to design a winery – this one for a vineyard in the northern Spanish village of Peñafiel.;
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FeaturesOnce in a life time
One of the things about the grandeur of the King’s Cross projects is that they provide up-and-coming developers with a chance to step up to the superleague. Elaine Knutt found out how the Manhattan Loft Corporation’s Angus Boag is planning to do just that
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Lead times
This quarter Mace finds many lead times unchanged, but on the brink of increases next year as strong order books put the pressure on …
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FeaturesWith this issue...
....of Building we are publishing a Channel Tunnel Rail Link supplement.
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FeaturesThe inheritors
The standard business model of the standard volume housebuilder is well tried, well tested and increasingly obsolete. Now the market is being invaded by dynamic, agile firms that have adapted to an environment in which affordability, sustainability and brownfield expertise are what count.
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FeaturesThe incredible journey
Who’d have thought that building a simple rail line from Kent to London would involve so much work, undertaken by so many people, touching so much of the country and affecting so many water voles? Here’s a quick look at the big picture
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FeaturesLovely idea...
… shame about the council’s cost-cutting hit men. Gus Alexander takes a stroll around Whitechapel’s Idea Store, the David Adjaye-designed library-cum-IT-superstore, and laments what might have been
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Projects update: health and safety
The seconds following a site accident can make all the difference between life and death, which is why the Red Cross has set up a programme of construction-specific first aid training days
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FeaturesSt Pancras Midland Grand Hotel: A hotel to remember
The Midland Grand Hotel used to be a vast, obsolete luxury liner moored alongside St Pancras station. Then it was an office, then a ruin, and in a few years it will become something truly splendid.