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Keep up to dateVentilation specialist Addvent has launched a range of mixed-flow fans that come in 100mm, 125mm, 150mm and 200mm models.
Addvent says the fans’ noise levels are low and that they can be mounted in series for increased pressure and in parallel to increase airflow. It also says they are easy to maintain.
Before he died in 2007, the legendary Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa sketched out a swirling, ‘dragon-tailed’ cancer care centre in Swansea. Now the UK’s 13th Maggie’s Centre has been completed in titanium-studded concrete by Garbers & James
When writer and garden designer Maggie Keswick Jencks was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1993, together with her husband, the architectural writer Charles Jencks, she set about her creating a charity project to provide cancer sufferers with expert support within a more sympathetic built environment.
The Maggie’s Centre certainly provided a stern test of the capabilities of precast concrete supplier Thorp Precast. The job involved creating 56 precast panels, and although many of these were similar, very few were identical.
Our first Building the Future Think Tank regional roundtable for 2024 was held in Cambridge last month, with industry experts coming together to brainstorm ways to meet the productivity challenge in the East of England. Jordan Marshall reports
David Partridge has been tasked with bringing together construction’s many and varied definitions of net zero. He tells Thomas Lane why setting a recognised and easily understood benchmark for whole-life carbon emissions is so important
Building’s continually-updated policy tracker will keep you up to speed on the latest pledges and announcements made by the parties in the run up to polling day
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