All Technical articles – Page 6
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FeaturesA lesson in geometry: Knauf's UK headquarters
AHMM’s design for the new Knauf HQ is a masterclass in lineal precision, fitting seamlessly into its industrial riverside setting despite its modernist white exterior. Here’s how, with the use of some of the manufacturer’s own materials, the project stacked up to just £1.8m
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FeaturesThe eco-supermarket pioneers
As Sainsbury’s Greenwich, the pioneer of retail sustainability, prepares for possible demolition just 15 years after its opening, we look at how eco-stores have evolved since, with supermarkets attempting to save energy and boost their green credentials
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FeaturesBIM: The inside story three years on
Manchester council’s FM team were initially reluctant to use BIM in the operation of the city’s newly refurbished Central Library. But then they were shown how much time it could save, even on changing a lamp… Thomas Lane catches up with the team in part three of a series that ...
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FeaturesBuilding Awards Small Project of the Year: Maggie's cancer centre, Aberdeen
With its streamlined, organic form enhancing its welcoming ethos, the latest Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centre in Aberdeen, designed by Snøhetta, is a worthy winner of this year’s Small Project of the Year Building Award
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FeaturesCreating the Design Museum's new home
The iconic Commonwealth Institute needed a new tenant - and the iconic Design Museum needed a new home. But adapting a fragile and low-spec sixties building to house a visitor attraction meant using some serious technical know-how
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FeaturesParking problems on housing developments
Few things outrage the driver’s innate sense of entitlement more than not being able to find a car parking space near to home. Yet planners and designers are still grappling to reconcile the need to placate the resident with the desire to minimise the impact of the car
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FeaturesRise of the machines
Quadrocopters, wall-making machines, multi-dimensional laser scans … These futuristic technologies may be coming soon to a building site near you
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FeaturesSuch stuff as dreams are made on: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Seventeen years after the reconstruction of Shakespeare’s Globe, the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse completes the vision in dazzling style
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FeaturesPwC's London office: Highest BREEAM-rated building ever
When PwC decided to refurbish its unloved central London office, it thought it would be doing well to achieve a BREEAM “excellent” rating. Then it realised it could do rather better than that …
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FeaturesCladding at Birmingham New Street
Birmingham New Street station is being transformed by a curving steel cladding system, but attaching such an instantly iconic facade to an existing frame has thrown up a variety of structural challenges
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FeaturesRenewable Heat Incentive: The heat is on
Andrew Brister looks at plans to reignite the Renewable Heat Incentive and asks whether the moves will achieve the government’s targets
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CommentM&E firms and strategic partnerships
David Hurcomb knows as well as anyone that the recession’s been an unhappy time for M E contractors. But creating strategic partnerships may be one way out
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FeaturesThe Cheesegrater: One for heavy metal fans
How the 224m-tall Leadenhall Building was constructed in the City without disrupting the neighbours
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FeaturesSomerstown Central Community Hub
A council estate cut in two by a dual carriageway has been reconnected by a community hub spanning the divide
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FeaturesOlympic venues: The legacy
A year after London hosted the 2012 Games, Ike Ijeh looks at how quickly work is progressing to convert the venues for public use
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FeaturesBuilding's new home: 240 Blackfriars Road
Great Portland Estates has gone the extra mile to make sure 240 Blackfriars Road will appeal to its demanding occupiers - such as, well, Building Magazine, for example
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FeaturesArla's zero-carbon dairy
Arla’s £150m project will be most environmentally friendly dairy in the world. Thomas Lane reports on progress at this unique industrial building
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FeaturesEuston, we have a problem
How HS2 has pulled the emergency cord on plans to demolish London’s most loathed station
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FeaturesStonehenge visitor centre: A lot of history
Stonehenge’s first building work in many years is nearly complete. All it’s taken is 20 years, several design competitions and nearly £40m in planning costs
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FeaturesDerwent London's white collar factory
Derwent London has come up with an office concept that could undercut the rest of the market. But will its basic specifications and industrial design attract prospective occupiers?