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NewsPassivhaus goes to school
Hadlow college in Kent is the first educational building in Britain to meet the stringent demands of the German low-energy standard
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NewsDesigns on Dundee: Six proposals for the V&A
Six designs have been shortlisted for the proposed £47m V&A Dundee museum
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NewsRender for timber frames
Reinforced render finish systems from Weber have been used on a number of new-build and refurbished schools for Aberdeen council
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Movers and makers - 01 October 2010
Latest news from the world of construction product manufacture
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NewsFibre cement
Natura Pro fibre cement cladding from Marley Eternit has been used on the £23m Sir Thomas Wharton Community College in Doncaster
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Communities department ‘struggles’ with homes incentive plan
The communities department is in chaos over how to implement the coalition government’s proposed housebuilding incentive scheme, according to the previous Labour housing minister.John Healey told a fringe meeting at the Labour party conference that his former department had no idea how to implement the New Homes Bonus scheme, a ...
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NewsSlate flooring
Kirkstone, specialists in Cumbrian slate and imported architectural stone, has supplied natural silver-green slate flooring on an extension and renovation project on the Samuel Lindow Building at the University of Central Lancashire’s Cumbrian campus
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CommentEd, the thoughtful radical
Ed Miliband was not my first choice as leader of the Labour party
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Shower controls
Rada has launched the V10 sequential shower control, which is suitable for light commercial or semi-residential applications such as university accommodation
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Ground to air heat exchanger
Rehau’s Awadukt Thermo ground-air heat exchanger has been specified for the Carclaze Community primary school in St Austell, Cornwall
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Radiant heating panels
HCP, the specialist heating division of SAS International, has launched a radiant heating service raft
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Cladding panels
Steni cladding panels have been used to give a new lease of life to St Mary’s Catholic Primary School in Falmouth, Cornwall
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CommentMust-see TV
Christopher Hare snapped these two committed couch potatoes trying to fit a TV aerial in a rainy London Bridge. Clearly the television schedules must have improved since we last looked …
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Because you're worth it
Chris Cheshire has hit the nail right on the head with his comments about low quotes (17 September, page 10)
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Long live RSLs
Oh dear Mr Shapps! What an ill-conceived comment about housing association “fat cat” pay
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In the steps of Duncan Wallace
Rudi Klein asserted that “traditional procurement methods are so needlessly wasteful that a consultant or solicitor who advises a client to adopt them may be guilty of negligence”
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Green gauge
Exactly how the Green Investment Bank will be funded and managed continues to be up for debate but there is only so much longer this can go on before the “greenest government ever” gets a reputation for being all talk and no action
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Sound advice
I read with interest your recent article on free schools (10 September, page 42) and agree wholeheartedly, in principle, that existing buildings should be considered for conversion into so-called free schools
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