More Focus – Page 310
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FeaturesWonders & blunders
With lots of lottery cash, the PFI and a millennium to celebrate, the decade has been packed with new buildings – some good, some not so good. Martin Spring looks at the Blair era’s …
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FeaturesGreat leaps forward
Taking a break from Blair, here are Alistair King’s top 10 technological developments
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FeaturesMaking best practice the obvious practice
From segregating waste to re-using materials - cost effective waste management can become second nature
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FeaturesImproving the quality of affordable housing with off-site construction
Best Practic Case Study on Raines Court
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Finn Forest
Fulcrum have a unique track record in built solutions that deliver the following: Comfort and performance Low through-life cost Simplicity in operation and maintenance We have established that sustainability is the natural result of the correct understanding of the potential compatibility between these objectives. We therefore find that ...
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FeaturesFulcrum Consulting
Our objective is buildings that work; for the procurer, the user, and for future generations.
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FeaturesAre we really ready for eco-towns?
Do we have enough green experience to develop sustainable towns?
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FeaturesHave you seen BT’s new mobile?
BT’s property team don’t sit behind desks. They use the latest technology to work from home, clients’ offices and ‘touchdown’ points around the UK. And soon they’ll expect you to do the same
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FeaturesProcurement: Building services
The design and installation of building services needs careful management if a project’s M&E is to be delivered successfully. Simon Rawlinson together with Barry Nugent and Andy Dedman of Davis Langdon Mott Green Wall look at best practice in this specialist area of procurement
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FeaturesGetting heavy
What to do about site waste is construction’s 100 million tonne question. We gathered together some of the industry’s experts to try to find an answer.
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FeaturesA man on a mission
Arup engineer Daniel Rea tells Lydia Stockdale how he followed a path trodden by Dr Livingstone and ended up at the Building Awards
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FeaturesBMW Welt: How’s this for a car showroom?
Architect Coop Himmelb(l)au’s astonishing Munich creation is the latest blow in the battle between BMW and Mercedes-Benz
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FeaturesWho owns this place?
Some PFI consortiums have won leases on their hospital that run for almost a century after they finish their contract. Mark Leftly reveals the Department of Health’s risky gamble