All Features articles – Page 212

  • School
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    Time to go back to school?

    2014-09-05T06:01:00Z

    When it comes to school building work, the construction industry has been tasked with doing ‘more for less’, but as the economy picks up is it time for a rethink?

  • Tamil Nadu
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    Sketch of the week: Tamil Nadu

    2014-09-05T06:00:00Z

    This week’s #buildingdoodle art work is by Meredith Bowles, director at Mole architects.

  • Mairi Johnson
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    Interview: Mairi Johnson

    2014-09-05T06:00:00Z

    While at the EFA, Mairi Johnson was obliged to espouse a design-averse school building programme she didn’t much care for. Now at Aecom, she is fulfilling her ambitions

  • Infographic index
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    Infographic: Growth in need for school places

    2014-09-05T06:00:00Z

    Projected UK population growth, following inward migration and rising fertility, will have a huge impact on the need for school places, with an overall increase of 12% in the school-age population expected between 2012 and 2024. But the data shows the impact will vary widely between English regions.

  • Unite’s plans for a 759-bed student block off Greetham Street in Portsmouth
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    Student digs

    2014-09-05T00:00:00Z

    Despite rising tuition fees, university applications in the UK have risen to an all-time high. How is the industry is coping with the demand for student accommodation?

  • H.O.U.S.E 1
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    Our H.O.U.S.E

    2014-09-04T06:00:00Z

    Combining the benefits of high enviromental efficiency and prefabricated design and assembly, the student-designed H.O.U.S.E is setting the benchmark for regulation friendly housing

  • Broadwater Farm Inclusive Campus
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    Broadwater Farm Inclusive Campus: Down on the farm

    2014-09-04T06:00:00Z

    The Broadwater Farm Inclusive Campus accommodates on one site both special educational needs and mainstream schooling and is the culmination of a radical programme of inner-city renewal

  • watertight concrete sika
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    What to specify: Regulations

    2014-09-03T09:02:00Z

    This week’s regulations products include the installation of Taraflex flooring in a Stockport gym to match sports surface regulations, and ensuring that the Library of Birmingham meets watertight requirements

  • Eurocentral printing facility in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire
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    CPD 19 2014: Software-as-a-service and construction

    2014-09-02T14:00:00Z

    As collaboration software takes on an ever more important role this module, sponsored by 4Projects by Viewpoint, outlines the key considerations

  • Tracker: August 2014
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    Tracker: July 2014

    2014-09-02T06:00:00Z

    Construction activity remains consistent as the index picks up five points for the month, while the orders index sees a small incline and residential experiences a significant uptick

  • Leeds Arena
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    CPD 18 2014: Specifying retractable seating

    2014-09-01T14:00:00Z

    Retractable seating systems are tiers of seating that fold away into a space the depth of a single row. Our latest CPD module, sponsored by Audience Systems, will examine the different systems available and the key factors that specifiers should consider

  • Scotland archve index
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    This week in 1999

    2014-08-29T09:57:00Z

    As the Scottish independence debate continues, we look at the opening of the Scottish parliament in 1999

  • TfL / Gotham building
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    Sketch of the week: 'Gotham city hideout'

    2014-08-29T09:30:00Z

    This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Warren Williams at Julian Cowie architects

  • Scotland
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    Will they stay or will they go?

    2014-08-29T06:00:00Z

    What effects would a ‘Yes’ vote in the Scottish referendum have on the industry?

  • Mark Davey
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    Interview: Mark Davey

    2014-08-28T06:00:00Z

    Defying five years of recession, cladding company Lakesmere has experienced rapid growth. MD Mark Davey reveals how the firm beat the downturn

  • Aecom indices
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    Cost update: Q2 2014

    2014-08-27T14:00:00Z

    Construction output recorded no change compared with the last quarter, while new housing construction is the primary reason for rises in new work output

  • Vectorworks BIM software was implemented during the planning of Moorlands College in Christchurch multi-use teaching and community spaces
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    CPD 17 2014: BIM for small practices

    2014-08-27T06:00:00Z

    As of 2016, all centrally procured government construction projects must implement level 2 BIM. Our latest CPD module, sponsored by Vectorworks, defines levels of BIM

  • Glasgow School of Art
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    What did Scotland ever do for architecture?

    2014-08-26T14:18:00Z

    Scotland’s architectural pedigree goes back well before the 1707 Act of Union, and whatever the result of the referendum, its architects will continue to transform the built environment well beyond the bonnie braes of their homeland

  • Procurement on trial
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    Procurement on trial

    2014-08-22T06:00:00Z

    Construction firms are increasingly emboldened to take the government to court over its procurement decisions, but who’s to blame?

  • Roger Fitzgerald sketch
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    Sketch of the week: South Bank

    2014-08-22T06:00:00Z

    This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Roger Fitzgerald for charity Article 25’s annual 10x10 event