All Features articles – Page 197

  • Network Rail
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    Network fail?

    2015-07-16T06:00:00Z

    Network Rail is a huge client for the UK construction industry but with the Department for Transport increasingly frustrated by engineering overruns, can chief executive Mark Carne safeguard the company’s future?

  • B / quarterly construction output (all work) and annual rate of change (new work)
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    Economics: Market forecast

    2015-07-15T07:01:00Z

    Revised figures for Q1 2015 saw market pricing volatility increase, with a project’s attractiveness playing a crucial role in this current trend. Michael Hubbard of Aecom reports

  • Bradbury Place, Andover, Hampshire
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    Housing Design Awards 2015: Winners

    2015-07-15T07:01:00Z

    This year’s Housing Design Awards show that the sector’s return to strength has brought with it bold and experimental design, with council housing and housing for older people in particular taking some unexpected forms

  • Astor House, a £21m student residential building in Plymouth, uses Marley’s HDPE soil and waste products and eight-way collar boss
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    CPD 13 2015: Introduction to sanitary pipework design

    2015-07-14T07:01:00Z

    The latest module in our CPD series examines the regulations, standards, materials and other key factors to consider when designing pipework layouts. This module is sponsored by Marley Plumbing Drainage

  • Balfour
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    Who’s running Balfour Beatty?

    2015-07-10T07:00:00Z

    New Balfour Beatty chief executive Leo Quinn has wasted no time making his mark on the contracting giant. But so far his actions haven’t managed to stem the flow of senior figures departing the troubled firm

  • offshore wind
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    Infrastructure: Offshore wind

    2015-07-10T06:00:00Z

    Reduced costs and the ability to attract finance are critical to the viability of the UK wind industry, and with the government recently withdrawing onshore subsidies, the focus on offshore has never been greater

  • Sketch
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    Sketch of the week: LFA drawing competition

    2015-07-10T06:00:00Z

    This week’s sketch is by City Academy Hackney student Daryell Scott

  • Archive 81
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    This week in 1981

    2015-07-10T06:00:00Z

    Potential university grant cuts could have a big impact on architecture courses

  • July 7 memorial
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    Image of the week: Remembering a darker day

    2015-07-09T16:50:00Z

    The July 7 memorial 10 years on from the 7/7 bombings

  • ROCKWOOL DUOROCK T/F 85mm roofing boards are key to the sound insulation strategy at Worle Community School restaurant in North Somerset
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    CPD 12 2015: Acoustic design and flat roofs

    2015-07-09T09:55:00Z

    The latest module in our CPD series provides guidance on the key acoustic considerations when designing or specifying a flat roof. This module is sponsored by ROCKWOOL

  • Heathrow perimeter fence
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    Davies report: Will it fly?

    2015-07-08T10:34:00Z

    Howard Davies’ Airports Commission has come down emphatically in favour of a third runway at Heathrow, but the politics are so fraught and planning issues so labyrinthine that a final decision still looks a long way off

  • Last month saw the completion of Crossrail tunnelling
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    Crossrail: Service update

    2015-07-07T13:23:00Z

    As Crossrail celebrates a trio of significant milestones, Ike Ijeh takes a look at the current state of play

  • South Devon College’s Energy Centre, where Schneider Electric has installed an intelligent BMS that monitors and analyses energy use
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    CPD 11 2015: Cyber security for intelligent BMSs

    2015-07-07T10:09:00Z

    Networked building management systems bring many benefits but can expose organisations to cyber security breaches. This module, sponsored by Schneider Electric, examines the key ways to guard against attack

  • SIG-Technology
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    What to specify: Roofing

    2015-07-06T11:52:00Z

    Green roofs, clay roofs and even BIM-ready roofs. Whatever you’ve currently got in mind for roofing solutions, these manufacturers can top it

  • Crane on the crane
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    BAR yachting HQ: At the rate of knots

    2015-07-03T06:01:00Z

    Ben Ainslie Racing’s Portsmouth HQ embodies the bold spirit of the yacht teams it will house

  • 05_Church
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    Sketch of the week: Cross of Christ Church

    2015-07-03T00:01:00Z

    This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Mariusz Wroblewski, senior architect at Chapman Taylor

  • This week
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    This week in 2005

    2015-07-03T00:01:00Z

    London wins the right to host the 2012 Olympics

  • victorian-terrace-__-alamy
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    Retrofit: Low expectations

    2015-07-02T10:01:00Z

    David Blackman looks at the vanishing chances of making green retrofit a national infrastructure priority

  • Glastonbury 2015
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    Image of the week: The pop-up city

    2015-07-01T17:13:00Z

    For the weekend Worthy Farm in Somerset becomes a city approximately the same size as Oxford

  • ¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ-Osborne-index
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    Budget preview: Ace up Osborne's sleeve?

    2015-07-01T06:01:00Z

    Freed from the shackles of coalition government, chancellor George Osborne will be outlining some quite different policies and priorities when he presents his emergency Budget next week