All Features articles – Page 456

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    At first It was like the battle of the Somme

    2005-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Today Building launches Projects Reunited. Here you can catch up with former colleagues from legendary schemes you worked on together and find out how everybody is doing now. To get the ball rolling, we assembled 18 old chums who braved the muddy wastes of the Millennium Dome site …

  • Centrale Development
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    Best Commercial Project sponsored by Bland Bankart

    2005-10-21T00:00:00Z

    John Clark Associates: Centrale Development

  • Phil Standen
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    Appointments

    2005-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Movers and Shakers this week...

  • Gateshead Council Design Services: The Sage Gateshead
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    Best Access/Disability Regulations Innovation

    2005-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Gateshead Council Design Services: The Sage Gateshead

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    WRAP teams up with BRE on aggregates

    2005-10-20T10:00:00Z

    Database will be created to give information on using recycled and secondary aggregates.

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    Inside an off-site toolkit

    2005-10-19T15:43:00Z

    Darren Richards introduces a toolkit that maximises off-site technology’s potential

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    Steps to successful process improvement

    2005-10-19T15:37:00Z

    To get the best out of off-site construction, you need to get your build process right, says David Thomas. Here’s how…

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    The how what why

    2005-10-19T15:34:00Z

    Martin Goss answers the key questions about certification, regulation and standardisation

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    So who’s counting?

    2005-10-19T15:31:00Z

    The cost-benefit argument for OSC appears to have gone largely unmade.

  • Richard Ogden
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    ‘We went from greenfield to selling hamburgers in 48 hours’

    2005-10-19T15:22:00Z

    In the 1980s Richard Ogden played a key role in trailblazing the use of off-site construction for a certain fast-food chain. Now he’s the first chairman of Buildoffsite, connecting burgeoning demand for new construction techniques with supply.

  • Northern Edge’s design for the Design for Manufacture competition
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    Bring it on

    2005-10-19T14:06:00Z

    Okay, we can all stop worrying about whether off-site techniques will ever be taken seriously as a construction method, or whether anybody outside housebuilding has even heard of it... The real question now is whether the industry is ready to take advantage of all those off-site opportunities – the Olympics, ...

  • The warehouse has walls made with hemp blocks finished externally with fine render and a green roof. The hemp is such a good insulator the building wont need any plant to prevent cool beer stored inside warming up.
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    Products

    2005-10-17T18:13:00Z

    This week’s structural special has all the latest innovations, from how to build a beer warehouse out of hemp to how to put up a concrete bungalow in two days. Plus, more news from the manufacturers

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    Costs: Structural steel

    2005-10-17T18:11:00Z

    If structural steel is your frame of choice, you need to think about fire protection. Peter Mayer of Building LifePlans runs through the various options and what each one will cost

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    Checklist

    2005-10-17T18:08:00Z

    A good working relationship between specifier and structural engineer is vital to the success of a project. Here Barbour Index and Scott Brownrigg explain how to achieve it

  • Architect Kohn Pedersen Fox's visualisation of Kuwait Business city
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    Structures

    2005-10-17T18:04:00Z

    Our structural special kicks off by examining the new thinking on tall buildings in the post-9/11 world, before offering tips on fine-tuning dealings with structural engineers and how to gauge costs of fire-protecting steel frames

  • The unseemly row between the past three chief executives over their financial problems and the impact they have had on the company …
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    The blame game

    2005-10-14T00:00:00Z

    As soon as Mowlem’s accounting difficulties hit the news last month the race was on to find the person responsible. Building reports on the unseemly row between the past three chief executives over their financial problems and the impact they have had on the company …

  • Martin Shields
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    Appointments

    2005-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Movers and Shakers this week...

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    Alun Michael

    2005-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Once upon a time, the government saw construction as a vital lever for regulating the economy, and gave it an entire minister. These says it gets an average of seven minutes of Alun Michael’s day. So what can he accomplish in that time?

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    Top 200 Consultants 2005: Class acts

    2005-10-14T00:00:00Z

    It’s Friday night and that means it’s time for … erm, Building’s eagerly awaited annual consultants’ league. Before we count down the top 200, Katie Puckett and Richard Heap pick out the highest climbers, hottest new entries, bestselling acts – and a rather familiar group in the number one spot ...

  • Stephen Williams
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    I’ll be seeing you …

    2005-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Stephen Williams has just been appointed head of construction at the Health and Safety Executive. As Building discovered, he is a man with an intense interest in the industry – and plans personally to visit as many sites as possible.