All Features articles – Page 475
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Costs: School toilets
Jamie Oliver is sorting out the nation’s school kitchens, but what about the toilets? Peter Mayer of Building Performance Group sums up the issues on choice of material and long-term durability
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FeaturesEducation
Essential information this week for all those specifying a school, college or university, including up-to-the-minute accessories and fittings, tips on whole-life costing, and how much those head-flushing, girls-weeping toilet cubicles are going to cost you. But first we have the coolest college atrium on the planet …
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FeaturesLock, Stock, and two cordless powertools…
Vinnie’s got at 18-volt combi drill driver, and he ain’t afraid to use it.
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FeaturesGoing great guns
What with all the fuss over Wembley, you could be forgiven for forgetting that a certain other north London stadium is under construction. We went to the new Highbury to check the state of play
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FeaturesDiarmuid Gavin
Don’t be fooled by the affable exterior – television’s most popular gardener is plotting a revolution in our own back yards. Here he lets us in on the secret and tries to recruit you as well.
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FeaturesWhatever happened to those fearless construction managers? …
The case of Great Eastern Hotel vs Laing is the first time that a court has turned a construction manager upside down and given him a good shake. On this occasion, £10m fell out of Laing’s pockets. So, has the game fundamentally changed, or was this case the exception the ...
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CM in the dock
Does this ruling concern the competence of one particular construction manager or does it have wider significance for the whole profession?
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FeaturesCompanies close up
Nick Jones visits the factory of ductwork contractor Hotchkiss to find out why a traditional approach to training has led to an impressive awards cabinet
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FeaturesCanterbury tale
Architect Rivington Street Studio has turned a run-of-the-mill repair and maintenance job into an elegant refurbishment for a faded campus of the Kent Institute of Art & Design.
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The bitter truth
It’s difficult for an expert witness to tell the party paying them that their case leaks like a sieve, but it is in everybody’s best interests that they do just that
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FeaturesThe Arnolfini wedding
Bristol’s famous marriage of art gallery, 1970s office and Victorian warehouse has been comprehensively redesigned by Snell Associates … We found out how it was done
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Cost update: March 2005
In this quarter’s analysis of construction materials and labour prices, Davis Langdon reports on the double whammy of electrical costs and electricians’ pay deal that is making it pricey to get the sparks flying …
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Architects face York plaque attack
A York councillor is proposing shaming bad buildings with a plaque of shame.
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FeaturesWe have take-off
On a miniscule site that gives new meaning to the phrase ‘close to the flightpath’, the team building Heathrow’s new air traffic control tower found an ingenious way to hoist the control room 87 m into the air.
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FeaturesJohn Redwood
After three years away from the front bench, the poster boy of the Thatcherite right is keen to demonstrate how a Tory government would make £35bn of efficiency savings – and gladden the hearts of the construction industry.
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Just the job
Tim Johnson trained as a QS but quickly took a career swerve into an emerging sector
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FeaturesLofty ideas, hushed tones
In its reinvention of the library as gateway to human knowledge, Bennetts Associates has created a graciously grand yet efficiently low-energy centrepiece to a mixed-use regeneration scheme in Brighton. We took a quiet look around