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Information - BuildingBCSA and Tata Steel Sponsored Content
Content from BCSA’s Framed In Steel video series including the Walbrook Building, the Co-Operative Headquarters, NEO Bankside, Siemens Facility, the Peace Bridge and Isaac Newton Academy, in addition to Steel Insight supplements.
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FeaturesBIM debate: A premium process?
Building Information Modelling is intended to reduce risk and increase accountability. So will it mean paying less on your insurance? Experts debated the question at a seminar hosted by Building and Zurich Insurance
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Steel Insight: Frame solutions
When cost planning structural steelwork, careful and early information gathering is essential to making the right decision about what frame solution to choose
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FeaturesTraining your staff has never been easier
Training grants from the CITB are more generous, and easier to claim, than many builders think
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FeaturesSt Paul's School, London: Best days of its life
Architectural standards were slipping at the 500-year-old St Paul’s School in London, but the elegant exposed interiors and concrete colonnades of Nicholas Hare’s new science building augur well for the future
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FeaturesFoster + Partners' Queen Alia airport
Foster + Partners’ new airport in Jordan uses a mix of in-situ and precast concrete techniques to create a mesmerising pattern of shallow domes, curving beams and tapering columns
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FeaturesBuilding best practice: risky business
Building and Newforma have teamed up for the Building Best Practice series of webinars. The latest broadcast followed the theme of Decreasing Risk on Projects
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FeaturesBIM: A modelling masterclass
What lessons can be learned from a client-driven Building Information Modelling (BIM) project? A webinar from Building and Excitech points the way forward
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FeaturesCRASH: Transforming St Paul’s Homes
With support from CRASH, its patrons and supporters, derelict almshouses have been transformed into comfortable homes that provide a sanctuary for those that have experienced real hardship
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FeaturesCo-op’s Manchester HQ: Invisible touch
Hidden within its structure and deep underground, concrete has played a central role in turning the Co-op’s new Manchester HQ into the UK’s greenest office
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FeaturesDulux Trade Awards 2012
Contractor painters that go the extra mile have been rewarded by Dulux Trade
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FeaturesThe Considerate Constructors Scheme annual survey 2013
Every year the Considerate Constructors Scheme asks the building industry and the general public for their views, here’s a summary of what they said this time …
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FeaturesThe retrofit debate: A strong argument for public expenditure
Ahead of Ecobuild, a panel of experts gathered to discuss how to bring about a national retrofitting programme to make the nation’s existing building stock carbon neutral
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FeaturesWhose BIM is it anyway?
Faithful + Gould project manager Jane Foulkes was a BIM sceptic until she was faced with a complex prison design project and a three-month deadline…
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FeaturesThe route to BIM in 10 steps
The industry will have to put its foot down to meet the government’s BIM deadline. Here, five experts break the route in 10 key stages
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FeaturesJoie de vives
Zaha Hadid’s Pierresvives council building in the French city of Montpellier relies on concrete to solve a range of structural and environmental challenges, as well as providing a spectacular geometric facade
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FeaturesLease is more
With capital budgets still tight and limited finance available from other sources, leasing companies believe their moment may have come. We do the sums
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Roundtable debate on going green: "It is happening"
AIS gathered together design and fit-out experts at St Mary Axe in September to compare notes on the pros and cons of going green. We report from the SAS International-sponsored event