All Features articles – Page 173

  • Michael Heseltine
    Features

    Heseltine: ‘I haven’t yet been told to shut up’

    2016-05-05T06:00:00Z

    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

  • At 284m the Westonbirt Treetop Walkway is the longest in the UK
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    Treetop walkway: A walk on the wild side

    2016-05-04T06:00:00Z

    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

  • The Greenhauses in Shepherds Bush is the largest Passivhaus development in London. The Cartwright Pickard-designed scheme uses the Kingspan TEK Cladding Panel to minimise U-values
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    CPD 11 2016: Structural insulated panels in cladding systems

    2016-05-04T06:00:00Z

    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

  • feature-map
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    Lands of hope and glory

    2016-05-03T14:42:00Z

    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?

  • PR110
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    What to specify: Walls, ceilings and partitions

    2016-05-03T12:48:00Z

    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

  • London Wall Place development
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    London Wall Place: High suspense

    2016-04-29T06:00:00Z

    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

  • Image of the week
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    Image of the week: 'Her legacy lives on ...'

    2016-04-29T06:00:00Z

    A poster showing the late Zaha Hadid fixed onto the under-construction Opus building in Dubai

  • Sketch High Court India
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    Sketch of the week: Law court in India

    2016-04-29T06:00:00Z

    This week’s sketch is by Shashank Jain, senior environmental consultant at ChapmanBDSP

  • Archive
    Features

    This week in 2001

    2016-04-29T06:00:00Z

    Foot and mouth wreaked havoc in the Cumbrian countryside

  • Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool
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    CPD 10 2016: ISO 9001 compliance and BIM

    2016-04-28T16:51:00Z

     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

  • M62 motorway
    Features

    Planes, trains and automobiles

    2016-04-27T06:00:00Z

    George Osborne is famously a fan of infrastructure - but is he putting his money where his mouth is?

  • barbour-00
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    Market review: Holding steady

    2016-04-26T06:00:00Z

    A month on from the Budget, the construction sector remains in reasonable health despite monthy fluctuations

  • LTthumb
    Features

    Lead times: Jan - Mar 2016

    2016-04-25T14:37:00Z

    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

  • OFFICE
    Features

    Gathering evidence

    2016-04-22T06:00:00Z

    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

  • bptw partnership
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    Sketch of the week: Mixed-use scheme, Barking

    2016-04-22T06:00:00Z

    This week’s sketch is by Patrick Spears, architect at bptw partnership

  • Syria
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    Image of the week: Rising again

    2016-04-22T06:00:00Z

    A reconstruction of the 2,000-year-old Triumphal Arch of Palmyra in Syria is installed in Trafalgar Square

  • Battersea crane collapse
    Features

    Battersea crane tragedy: After the fall

    2016-04-22T06:00:00Z

    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

  • RIBA
    Features

    This week in 1981

    2016-04-22T06:00:00Z

    The 1981 election for the RIBA presidency takes an unprecedented twist

  • Steel
    Features

    Testing our metal

    2016-04-21T06:00:00Z

    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?

  • Diespeker
    Features

    What to specify: Water products

    2016-04-20T06:00:00Z

    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