More Focus – Page 340

  • Lord Rogers and Renzo Piano
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    Herd the one about the two architects and the sheep?

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Making the news An exclusive joint interview with Renzo Piano and Lord Richard Rogers, moments after they successfully conveyed a flock of sheep across the Millennium Bridge

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    Appointments

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Career movers this week ...

  • Visualisations of the double-decker lifts. Users enter the double-deck car simultaneously from two adjacent floors, having prebooked their journey using their ID card or a touchscreen terminal
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    Express elevation

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Double-deck lifts - Office workers at Broadgate Tower won't be hanging around waiting in the lobby. They'll be speeding up its 34 storeys in the latest lift innovation.

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    Help!

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    By 2010, the average graduate will owe the banks £33,700. There's only one way to pay it back: get a job with a decent salary. So Katie Puckett asked 20 top construction employers how much they're offering

  • Machiavelli
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    The office

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Do you have a tricky problem in the workplace? Let our office politics strategist show you how to turn it to your advantage …

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    Impress your boss - Building Schools for the Future

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    A bluffer's guide to … BSF

  • 99% Campaign
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    The 99% campaign - greening the stock we're stuck with

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Almost all our energy efficiency regulations apply only to new buildings, which add a mere 1% to the built environment a year. Today Building opens a campaign to persuade the government to improve the performance of the other 99%. At the moment they're allowed to leak energy like there's no ...

  • Tim Stone
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    A bitter pill

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    The PFI is not responsible for the NHS' headline-grabbing deficits - the NHS is

  • Integrated steel 3
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    Whole-life costs: Concrete vs steel

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    What are the environmental, capital cost and lifetime cost differences between a building with a steel frame and one built using concrete? David Weight of cost consultant Currie & Brown applies the firm’s Live Options modelling system to find out

  • Darryl Strong
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    Appointments

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Who's moving up the career ladder this week?

  • The planetarium resembles an alien space ship half buried in Greenwich park after a crash landing
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    Curved space – the Peter Harrison Planetarium

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Greenwich park is about to get a strange and beautiful adornment: a weird bronze cone through which the heavens will be made manifest. Thomas Lane found out how it's being made

  • The house performs 40% better than the Part L carbon emission target
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    Housing

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Contractor Osborne wanted to push the boundaries of sustainability, so it built a demonstration house packed with green features, from solar panels on the roof to heat pumps under the floor. Sonia Soltani paid a visit

  • Geothermal energy
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    Products

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    A range of items to bring out the interior designer in everyone, including belle époque bathrooms and pool lighting. Plus, the more pressing matters of efficient boilers and greywater recycling

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    Checklist

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    One of the reasons small is beautiful is that it's usually a lot less hassle. Which brings us to the specification of an apartment block … Scott Brownrigg and Barbour Index explain

  • Angus Robertson
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    Just the job

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Angus Robertson tells Sonia Soltani how he followed his heart to the city that never sleeps

  • Farnborough airport’s new terminal and operations building evokes modern aircraft by its long, sleek, streamlined form, faced in shiny aluminium
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    The technology and beauty of aircraft

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    A sleek building in the shape of a boomerang, or more appropriately a pair of aircraft wings, has been opened at Farnborough airport in Hampshire.

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    Where in the world?

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    From the salmon runs of British Columbia to the golf courses of Hong Kong, the white rum of Antigua to the jade green pastis of southern France … there's a whole world waiting for you. Hays Construction & Property and Building's international salary guide helps you take off the blindfold ...

  • At developer Stanhope’s 14,300 m² Chiswick Park, west London, buildings are clustered and retail outlets brought within the office shells to create a mini-community
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    Cost model: Business parks

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Business parks are back, but this time they need to be sustainable and mixed-use. Neal Kalita of Davis Langdon examines how developers can meet the evolving needs of planners and occupiers without breaking the bank

  • Left to right: lawyer Dominic Helps, carbon coach Dave Hampton and the CIC’s Graham Watts consider their carbon output – as represented by Dave’s giant purple balloon
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    Let's see how they got on

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    Back in February, Building challenged three industry figures to repent their sins and adopt low carbon lifestyles. One hundred days later, Katie Puckett gathered them together to find out how they coped - and finds that things aren't going quite to plan.

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    Cost update: June 2006

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    In this quarter's focus on the costs of industry materials and labour, Peter Fordham of Davis Langdon reports on the impact of record global commodity prices