All Features articles – Page 173
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Heseltine: ‘I haven’t yet been told to shut up’
While most 83-year-olds settle for a quiet life and daytime TV, Lord Heseltine’s time is taken up spearheading the government’s regeneration agenda
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Treetop walkway: A walk on the wild side
Glenn Howells’ treetop walkway snakes its way through the forest at Westonbirt Arboretum in the Cotswolds, using form, structure and materials to lift visitors to a heightened communion with nature
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CPD 11 2016: Structural insulated panels in cladding systems
When used in external cladding systems, SIPs can help to reduce thermal transmittance and air-leakage rates. This CPD, sponsored by Kingspan Insulation, highlights the key design considerations
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Lands of hope and glory
More and more independent UK consultants are carving out thriving businesses for themselves in foreign lands. So what are the benefits and pitfalls of working abroad - and what’s the secret to competing with larger corporate rivals?
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What to specify: Walls, ceilings and partitions
This week’s products cover all wall, ceiling and partition projects, from a ceiling suspension system used in a large hospital building, to glazed partitions for Bath University
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London Wall Place: High suspense
The construction team working on London Wall Place have extended the usable space of one of the buildings by cantilevering 15 floors of offices out over the pavement by a breathtaking 11 metres
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Image of the week: 'Her legacy lives on ...'
A poster showing the late Zaha Hadid fixed onto the under-construction Opus building in Dubai
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Sketch of the week: Law court in India
This week’s sketch is by Shashank Jain, senior environmental consultant at ChapmanBDSP
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CPD 10 2016: ISO 9001 compliance and BIM
 This CPD will focus on ISO 9001 and on how firms can ensure their quality management systems are compliant as they become BIM Level 2 ready. It is sponsored by Newforma
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Planes, trains and automobiles
George Osborne is famously a fan of infrastructure - but is he putting his money where his mouth is?
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Market review: Holding steady
A month on from the Budget, the construction sector remains in reasonable health despite monthy fluctuations
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Lead times: Jan - Mar 2016
After a period of increase due to heavier workloads, lead times seem to be levelling off. But fit-out and finishing trades are still in hot demand
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Gathering evidence
ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV’s recent debate on evidence-based design identified post-occupancy evaluation as a crucial part of the process. ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV looks at the issue in more detail
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Sketch of the week: Mixed-use scheme, Barking
This week’s sketch is by Patrick Spears, architect at bptw partnership
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Image of the week: Rising again
A reconstruction of the 2,000-year-old Triumphal Arch of Palmyra in Syria is installed in Trafalgar Square
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Battersea crane tragedy: After the fall
Ten years after the Battersea crane tragedy, Joey Gardiner talks to the mother of one of the two men killed in the accident and asks if tower cranes are any safer now than they were a decade ago
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Testing our metal
The steel rollercoaster of the last few weeks seems to have ended well, with Greybull’s purchase of Tata’s construction division. But is this, and the government’s call to ‘buy British’, enough to save UK steel?
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What to specify: Water products
This week’s products include an indoor terrazzo fountain designed for an Italian restaurant in London, and Westminster City council installs a shower pump in an apartment block designed for the elderly and less able