All Supplements articles – Page 55
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Structures
This foray into the world of building structures begins with this startling, earthquake-proof house suspended over a New Zealand cliff-face. Plus overleaf we report on the vexed subject of new European standards, look at the costs of concrete repair and offer guides to products and suppliers
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Archive Titles10 ways to define regeneration
The term urban regeneration covers everything from creating desirable homes in city centres to finding new uses for our formal industrial heartlands. We asked industry figures to sum up what regeneration means for them. Here are their answers…
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Archive TitlesNow we're all upwardly moblie
In the battle to make cities more family friendly, residential developers are proposing to build high, freeing up space below for public use. Josephine Smit reports on a Docklands scheme that may unnerve a few yuppies
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Archive TitlesLatest thinking on … the Black Country
What regeneration activity is going on in the Black Country?
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Archive TitlesReshaping the city
We should stop looking to the USA to tell us how mixed communities can work, says the renowned expert on urban society, Richard Sennett - an American. And on this point at least, Dermot Finch, director of Centre for Cities, is happy to agree.
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Archive TitlesJust what the doctors ordered
Cash is about to start pouring out of hospitals and into ‘one stop shops' where health meets social care and the public and private sectors join forces to deliver services. As Swanke Hayden Connell Architects explains, mixed-use health projects call for new models of integrated development
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Archive TitlesWay to go
The Northern Way was launched two years ago with the aim of bridging the £29bn wealth gap between the north and the south of England. But has the real gap been between rhetoric and action?
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Archive TitlesFrom where I'm sitting …
Why should investors put their money into regeneration projects?
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Legal
The Public Contracts Regulations bring in new rules for public procurement - you mean you didn't know? Get reading
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5 factors
… that could have an impact on your working life this year - but won't necessarily ruin it
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Archive TitlesIf you were facing this man's tax bill, you'd be glum, too
Nobody likes paying tax. So it is no surprise that developers are up in arms at the prospect of having a new one foisted on them in the form of the planning gain supplement, put forward by chancellor Gordon Brown in his pre-Budget report.
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Archive TitlesOut of Whitehall A policy briefing on the government's plans for regeneration
As the new year began, the housebuilding industry was still absorbing the welter of documents that emerged from Whitehall before Christmas. Gordon Brown's pre-Budget report, with the long-awaited response to Kate Barker's review of housing supply, triggered a plethora of consultation documents and research papers.
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Archive TitlesNot so fast, Mr Brown
Fifty-one pages to draft PPS3. More than 70 pages to the proposed Code for Sustainable Homes. Have you read all the paperwork that the government released on 5 December in the package that made up its response to Kate Barker's review of housing supply?
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Sustainability: Code for Sustainable Homes
Everything you wanted to know about the government's new Code for Sustainable Homes - but were afraid to ask
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Cutting it fine
Environmental legislation coming into force in 2006 will put the pressure on housebuilders to cut carbon emissions. So how can you clean up your act?
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Archive TitlesHow do we get from this ...... to this?
With the toughest challenges to the Decent Homes programme still to come, the pressure is on to find ways of meeting the 2010 deadline - including a bigger role for the private sector. But the 1980s regeneration of the Redriff Estate in London Docklands may already hold the answer.