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FeaturesQuite a departure
It’s finally here, and it’s quite unlike any other airport experience in the world. Over the next five pages, Martin Spring imagines what passengers will make of Richard Rogers’ monumental Heathrow Terminal 5. Then, on page 50, we ask whether this groundbreaking project really has changed the construction industry for ...
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The softly, softly approach
Regarding the article “Housebuilders scramble to tackle credit crunch crisis” (18 January, page 9), while it is right that all organisations – clients, housebuilders, local authorities – have a focus on cost reduction, it is important to consider how best to go about it.
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No excuses
The government has taken considerable flak for its plans to reduce Health and Safety Executive (HSE) funding, but the construction industry mustn’t this as an excuse for rising accident and death rates. After all, this is an industry-wide responsibility.
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What’s changed?
Having just read an article by Rupert Choat (16 November, page 80), my mind returned to a report compiled by the late John Huxtable.
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No company for QSs
Further to Jon De Maria’s assumption that both he and the cockroaches will be left standing after an apocalypse (Inbox, 25 January, page 30), I regret to inform him that if the apocalypse is of the nuclear type, he will surely be standing alone.
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NewsNext stop the Niagara Falls!
Peter Renn spotted this wannabe tightrope-walker on a cold and windy housing site in Leicestershire. He says: “I assure you it was indeed an apex ridge on a steeply sloping roof.”
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News‘I don’t have the language for what we are any more’
Meet David Cowans, a man who has turned a standard-issue housing association into a vehicle for exploring concepts for which words have yet to be invented.
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NewsSunny Glastonbury
Cole Thompson Anders Architects was the firm behind the modernising and refurbishment of Glastonbury house, a 22-storey residential block in Westminster.
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NewsSmart meters
PRI has the home energy controller as part of a government drive to roll-out smart metering to all UK households over the next decade.
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NewsRecycled PVCu windows
The Epwin Group has introduced a recycled composite material to replace steel and aluminium reinforcement in its PVCu window and door ranges.
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Heat pump boiler
Mitsubishi Electric has launched the Ecodan air-source, heat pump boiler which, it says, is more efficient than a conventional condensing boiler at providing heating and hot water in domestic situations.
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Low-energy floodlighting
Greenstock has launched an LED floodlight, made by Deltech, which it says uses 160 LEDs to provide the same light as an 80W lamp, but with a power consumption of 10W.
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LED external lighting
Ansell Lighting has introduced the Sierra Luxeon LED exterior spotlight, to cater to the growth in commercial and residential exterior lighting needs.
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Super-efficient combi boilers
Zenex Technologies has used its Coolflue technology to develop a domestic hot water system that, it says, can save households more than 50% of their domestic hot water costs and double the flow rate of hot water.
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Intelligent thermostats
Magnum has launched an “intelligent control” thermostat, with a built-in digital clock, designed for its electrical heating systems.
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CommentIt’s just not good enough
Public authorities have to treat all bidders with perfect impartiality. As perfection is quite a high standard to meet, many are judged wanting. Like this client here …
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FeaturesCole Thompson Anders scheme gets go ahead in East London
Architect Cole Thompson Anders selected to work on a project in Forest Gate, East London