Whole-life carbon – Page 2

  • The West Middlesex University Hospital, London by architect Nightingale Associates features blocks arranged around attractive courtyards. These contain the outpatients department at ground floor level with wards above
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    Whole-life costs: Hospital design

    2005-09-23T00:00:00Z

    In this third article in our series, and as part of our PFI special, David Weight of Currie & Brown looks at the differences in lifetime costs between deep-plan, shallow-plan or courtyard-based hospital designs

  • The SAS Institute at Upper Whittington is narrow-plan and naturally ventilated
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    Whole-life costs: Office design

    2005-06-24T00:00:00Z

    In the second of our series, David Weight of Currie & Brown looks at the differences in whole-life costs between a deep-plan, air-conditioned base office building and a shallow-plan scheme that is naturally ventilated

  • European whole-life costs
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    European whole-life costs

    2005-05-27T00:00:00Z

    Quantity surveyor Franklin + Andrews makes its annual appraisal of the costs of building and maintaining a standard factory in 14 European countries and finds the familiar north-south divide

  • Children play in the grounds of Bo’ness Primary School, Scotland
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    Whole-life costs: Primary schools

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    The first of our quarterly articles on whole-life costs focuses on primary schools. David Weight of Currie & Brown outlines typical expenditure on a basic single-storey building, then analyses the additional capital, energy and repair and maintenance costs of a further two building types

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    Whole-life cost study: Egg's Pride Park

    2001-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Almost two years after its first call centre cost model, Building revisits Egg’s Pride Park, updating the whole-life costs and comparing it with a model call centre by Citex