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    My digital life: Tom Holbrook

    2008-12-05T00:00:00Z

    This architect enjoys the digital realm, but can imagine some improvements: emails that smell of ink, perhaps, a world without Facebook and an iPhone with a built-in corkscrew

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    Cleveland Bridge driven £17.7m into the red by Wembley row

    2008-12-05T00:00:00Z

    The Wembley stadium legal row with Multiplex has blown a £18.3m hole in the accounts of steelwork contractor Cleveland Bridge UK.

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    Jarvis stops takeover talks

    2008-12-05T00:00:00Z

    Jarvis has ended takeover talks with several interested parties because of the market downturn.

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    Pre-tax profit rises to £5.7m at Hyder Consulting

    2008-12-05T00:00:00Z

    Engineering consultant Hyder Consulting has posted a 2.2% increase in pre-tax profit from £5.5m to £5.7m in the six months to 30 September 2008.

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    The truth about Hollandia

    2008-12-05T00:00:00Z

    The article on your website on 20 November was wholly inaccurate, as Hollandia sees the UK as the hub of future activity and development.

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    Emission omission

    2008-12-05T00:00:00Z

    Participants at the CBI conference last week agreed we face one of the most difficult periods in memory.

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    Annable of the yard

    2008-12-05T00:00:00Z

    A reader wrote in recently to express concern about the garden arrangement of our Ecoterrace refurbishment (21 November, page 47).

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    Okay, we've stopped

    2008-12-05T00:00:00Z

    In your piece about Philip Turner’s digital life (7 November, page 110) you printed a picture of Talking Heads’ Remain in Light, whereas he referred to Stop Making Sense.

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    In the detail

    2008-12-05T00:00:00Z

    Can you identify this building to win a £25 drinks voucher?

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    No flagging: progress on the Lea Valley Olympic venues

    2008-12-05T00:00:00Z

    The Olympic project is racing along

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    Shanghai hits the heights

    2008-12-05T00:00:00Z

    Construction work has started on what will eventually be the tallest building in China and the second tallest in the world.

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    SOM counter-sues Jacobs over £4.7m Qatar dispute

    2008-12-05T00:00:00Z

    Architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is counter-suing engineer Jacobs over a multibillion-pound engineering scheme in Qatar.

  • Features

    Movers and makers

    2008-12-05T00:00:00Z

    This week

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    Antibacterial paints

    2008-12-05T00:00:00Z

    Paint manufacturer Johnstone’s has developed Microbarr, an antibacterial coating it claims will eradicate 99.9% of surface bacteria in 18 hours

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    Anti-ligature windows

    2008-12-05T00:00:00Z

    A window that maximises ventilation while minimising the risk of self-harming has been developed for hospitals by Kawneer

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    Door closers

    2008-12-05T00:00:00Z

    Geze has developed the TS 3000 EC door closer specifically for the education environment

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    Airtight schools

    2008-12-05T00:00:00Z

    Insulation from Saint-Gobain Isover has been used in the first timber-frame school to be built for Powys council

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    LED lighting

    2008-12-05T00:00:00Z

    Lighting designer and supplier Havells Sylvania has added to its Concord portfolio with the launch of Planate – a range of slim modular LED panels designed to provide a high-quality alternative to fluorescent lighting solutions

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    Cladding panels

    2008-12-05T00:00:00Z

    A series of cobalt and brilliant blue exterior cladding panels from Trespa UK have been used on The Cube, a new building at Mount’s Bay school in Cornwall

  • Where the school has an atrium, the E-stack units can vent directly into the space, reducing the cost of installing roof terminal units
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    Natural ventilation: Second wind

    2008-12-05T00:00:00Z

    A Cambridge university research team decided traditional natural ventilation strategies were just not up to scratch and came up with a new approach. Stephen Kennett reports