All Features articles – Page 248
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Birmingham New Street: Quite a journey
Getting the trains to run on time is one thing, but running to the timetable on a project the size of the £700m refurbishment of Birmingham New Street - while keeping the existing station fully operational - is something else entirely. Thomas Lane jumps on board
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Cost model: Hotels
Converting an existing building is often the best option for opening new hotels. Here are the main design considerations and costs
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Latest housing products
Some of the best products on the market for use in the residential sector, including anti-flood valves and aircrete plate packages
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Overrated?
Are green ratings helping or becoming a problem in the quest to improve the sustainability of new buildings?
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House of straw
An affordable co-ownership scheme made of straw is proving highly energy efficient
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Something my printer made earlier
3D printing isn’t the preserve of sci-fi. ¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ reports on a technology that offers speed, predictability, efficiency - and more power to architects
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Jason Prior: The big picture man
Aecom’s head of buildings and places, Jason Prior, maps out where the company is headed
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Land of Oz
A recent dip in Australia’s construction output figures may have spooked Australians but for UK firms the market is an entirely different world
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Sustainability: European housing
Phil Birch of Sweett Group reviews recent research by the Energy Bill Revolution campaign to assess what it is going to take to turn the UK into the energy efficiency champion of Europe
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Anna Stewart: The successor
This month, Anna Stewart takes over the reins at Laing O’Rourke, the UK’s largest private contractor. Tough decisions await her
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Finding work after study
How do university courses support students in finding employment? We spoke to four built environment schools to find out what they offer
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The difficulties of sustainable planning
For years the BRE has been trying to build housing on its Bricket Wood site and now the latest proposals have been given short shrift from local residents. It’s a classic example of the difficulties of sustainable planning. The development with close-by links to London and a rural location would ...
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PodSolve: Flexible friend
Leeds East Academy is the UK’s first school to consist of a warehouse full of moveable classroom pods
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¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ best practice: risky business
¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ and Newforma have teamed up for the ¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ Best Practice series of webinars. The latest broadcast followed the theme of Decreasing Risk on Projects
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The Tracker: February 2013
Activity rose in February on the back of a sharp increase in civil engineering work - and it was a strong month for orders too. Experian Economics crunches the numbers
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Funding colleges: A poor third?
The previous government’s ¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ Colleges for the Future failed to impress. Will the coalition’s new measures do any better?
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¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ intelligence
Data from Experian Economics shows that the first quarterly rise in construction output since the second quarter of 2011 ocurred in fourth quarter of last year. However, not all the trends are positive
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Costain vs Kier: The battle for May Gurney
Who stands to win if Kier does decide to challenge Costain over its merger with May Gurney?
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Andrew Gould: Pause for thought
In his sabbatical from Jones Lang LaSalle, Andrew Gould is busy being chair of the UKGBC – where he intends to ‘educate’ rather than ‘lobby’ the government on green issues