All Features articles – Page 199

  • Research shows that occupiers prefer Victorian and Georgian homes, but they can provide poor energy efficiency
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    Whole-life carbon: Wellbeing

    2015-03-26T06:00:00Z

    Improving the energy efficiency of a building may be good for the planet, but occupiers may only be prepared to foot the bill if they can directly feel the benefit. Gareth Roberts of Sturgis Carbon Profiling analyses the latest research

  • Maggie's Oxford
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    Preview: ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Awards Small Project of the Year shortlist

    2015-03-25T06:00:00Z

    From swimming pool to school, court to chapel, the architectural gems up for this year’s ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Awards Small Project of the Year prove that size isn’t everything

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    What to specify: Flooring

    2015-03-24T06:00:00Z

    A range of flooring styles is demonstrated this week, from a resin floor used to direct passengers at a refurbished bus terminal to the striking design feature made from rubber floor tiling at SAP’s office reception

  • Armstrong’s CoolZone phase change materials were installed at Belvoir High School in Nottingham
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    CPD 8 2015: Ceiling Solutions for Education

    2015-03-23T14:00:00Z

    This module will examine how suspended ceilings can help meet both the acoustic and thermal-performance demands of schools under the PSBP. It is sponsored by Armstrong Ceilings

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    Inside Westminster: One for the road

    2015-03-20T06:00:00Z

    Continuing our series looking at construction from inside the corridors of power in the run-up to the election, Mark Leftly asks if the coalition’s track record on infrastructure is anything to celebrate

  • Mipim flight
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    Sketch of the week: Easyjet flight to Mipim

    2015-03-20T06:00:00Z

    This week’s sketch depicts the cabin of a bustling flight to this year’s Mipim

  • Archive budget
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    This week in 2010

    2015-03-20T06:00:00Z

    George Osborne presents his first Budget as chancellor of the newly formed coalition government

  • Budget
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    Image of the week: George’s last stand?

    2015-03-19T10:12:00Z

    Our image of the week shows the chancellor preparing for his final Budget of this parliament

  • Nick Taylor
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    Interview: Nick Taylor

    2015-03-19T06:00:00Z

    Nick Taylor closed the Russian office of his company, Waterman Group, one month before Putin annexed the Crimea. He explains why pulling back from developing markets and focusing on the UK is right for the engineer

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    Preview: ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Awards Project of the Year shortlist

    2015-03-18T13:00:00Z

    The schemes in the running to be ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV’s Project of the Year are as varied as the purposes for which they were designed. But whether a hockey centre or a special needs school, the teams behind these buildings went the extra mile

  • Pylons
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    Infrastructure: Energy transmission

    2015-03-17T10:36:00Z

    The UK’s energy transmission networks need to attract large volumes of investment to respond to a rapidly changing energy market. David Porter and Simon Rawlinson of EC Harris review progress as new regulatory systems bed down

  • Frank Porthous
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    Sketch of the week: Woburn Coffee House

    2015-03-13T06:00:00Z

    This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Frank Porthouse, director at Project Design Studio

  • crossrail
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    Image of the week: The breakthrough

    2015-03-13T06:00:00Z

    The Crossrail boring machine breaks into the eastern end of Liverpool Street station

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    This week in 2009

    2015-03-13T06:00:00Z

    Yacht parties aren’t what they used to be…

  • Peter Rogers
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    Interview: Peter Rogers

    2015-03-13T00:00:00Z

    Despite a career spent working on London’s skyline, Peter Rogers has never lost his hunger for a challenge. Which is just as well, as he’s taking on the Pinnacle, possibly the capital’s most troubled project

  • UKIP posters
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    UKIP: The vocal minority

    2015-03-12T06:00:00Z

    Control immigration and large areas of British countryside will not need to be destroyed by housebuilding, says UKIP. Nationalist populism at its most simplistic, perhaps, but the party’s anti-development stance is bearing down on politics at a local level

  • Bethlem
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    Bethlem Hospital: Altered states

    2015-03-11T06:00:00Z

    Fraser Brown MacKenna’s renovation of Bethlem Hospital’s Museum of the Mind may look from the outside much as it did, but the interior spaces now house art galleries, exhibition spaces and an incomparable archive

  • Hong Kong
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    Global city focus: Hong Kong

    2015-03-10T10:41:00Z

    How is Hong Kong to maintain its competitive edge with the rise of the emerging Asian cities? Barbra Carlisle of EC Harris, Constance Lau and Tim Robinson of Langdon Seah explore its unique positioning

  • Alistair Campbell
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    Ecobuild 2015 video: Alastair Campbell

    2015-03-06T13:30:00Z

    Former Labour party communications director on the government’s track record on green building policy

  • James Wates
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    Ecobuild 2015 video: James Wates

    2015-03-06T13:00:00Z

    Chairman of Wates Group on the merger between the UK Contractors’ Group and the National Specialist Contractors Council