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NewsWater efficiency
Often overshadowed by energy, water efficiency is about to get its own tough rulesJohn Tebbit, industry affairs director of the Construction Products Association
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NewsOutstanding Contribution To The Industry
This award goes to a man who has just left full-time employment after a career spent quietly transforming everything that he’s turned his formidable mind to.
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NewsMajor Contractor of the Year
This is one of the most eagerly awaited categories in the Building Awards, and this year it goes to a contractor that, in a difficult year, has flown the flag for the whole of British construction
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NewsMajor Housebuilder of the Year
These mighty businesses have demonstrated that being big does not necessarily make a company less nimble or less innovative or less close to its customers or less aware of its social responsibilities ...
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NewsMajor Housing Project of the Year
This category proves beyond doubt that Britain’s elite housebuilders can tackle the most problematic brownfield schemes and produce innovative and intelligent solutions to them
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NewsManufacturer of the Year
A building is only as good as the stuff it’s made from, so the industry relies entirely on the firms that make it. This year’s winner has helped everybody out with the quality and innovation of its designs
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NewsPutting the rules to work
Green legislation will be pointless if it isn’t enforced. But how best to do it? Traditional council building control or self-certification? Paul Everall And Dave Baker argue the toss …
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NewsZero carbon homes
All new homes are going to have to be zero carbon by 2016. But what exactly is zero carbon? And how are we supposed to achieve this target?John Tebbit, industry affairs director for the Construction Products Association, reports
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NewsPersonality of the Year
This award goes to a man who almost never appears in the pages of the British press, but has been a principal factor behind the success of Sir Robert McAlpine over the past 40 years
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NewsThe North Sea vs your back garden
Everyone accepts that electricity has to come from zero-carbon sources, but there is a big fight in the offing over where those sources should be located
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NewsPFI/PPP Project of the Year
These projects prove that the PFI can deliver almost any kind of public sector project, from barracks to schools, and the winner may have changed the way we go about designing hospitals in the future
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NewsBuilding Magazine Project of the Year
Arsenal triumphed this year, despite stiff competition from a selection of buildings that were all functionally outstanding, visually attractive and pushed forward the sustainability agenda
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NewsWho’s afraid of energy labelling?
The government has just announced details of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive. Nick Cullen of Hoare Lea and Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon analyse what effect it will have on buildings in the real world
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NewsSpecialist Contractor of the Year
With growing emphasis on the regeneration of brownfield sites, construction is generally preceded by the destruction of the previous job. That’s why this year’s specialist is a demolition firm ...
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NewsIntegrated Supply Chain
In recent times collaboration has been recognised as the way forward, and these six entries certainly make a good case for this style of working, with the winner reinventing the way public sector projects are managed
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NewsWRAP Award for Sustainable Construction
As the issue of construction waste makes its way up the agenda of government, clients and green lobby groups, the industry is under ever more pressure to sort itself out. Here are the firms that are doing just that
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NewsPart L, one year on
Project teams have spent the past 12 months grappling with the new toughened-up version of part l of the building regulations. the result has been a lot of struggle, a lot of misunderstanding, and a lot of valuable experience … Martin Clowes of Elementa Consulting tells the story
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FeaturesArchetype: A touch of glass
London-based architect Archetype recently restored and converted a Herefordshire barn as its second office.
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FeaturesPhase-change materials: Phase to stun
Phase-change materials that can store and emit energy might transform the way we design and specify buildings. As the first products come to market, Jan-Carlos Kucharek finds out how they work