All Features articles – Page 307

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    The hard stuff

    2010-03-26T00:00:00Z

    The world of flooring is coming up with cheaper, cleaner alternatives to traditional stone tiles

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    Tiled floors

    2010-03-26T00:00:00Z

    The £3.7m renovation of the Marianne North Gallery at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew has included the recreation of a Victorian geometric tiled floor, complete with intricate border, by Craven Dunnill Jackfield

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    Sports flooring system

    2010-03-26T00:00:00Z

    An innovative high-performance sports floor system, developed through a partnership between Gerflor and InstaCoustic, has been installed for the first time in the UK at the Moat House leisure and neighbourhood centre in Coventry

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    Modular PVC flooring

    2010-03-26T00:00:00Z

    Gerflor has launched Saga, a modular PVC floor tile that is an alternative to carpet tiles

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    Heated floor module

    2010-03-26T00:00:00Z

    Underfloor heating specialist Timoleon has launched the Toron flooring system, which combines a floor deck with an underfloor heating system in a single, structural unit

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    Sustainability: Renewable energy

    2010-03-26T00:00:00Z

    The old grudging attitude to renewable energy is being slowly transformed by a series of financial incentives

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    Davis Langdon at the crossroads

    2010-03-26T00:00:00Z

    Even men with hearts of iron have reason to be concerned about whether a sale to Aecom would make financial sense

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    Textured floor covers

    2010-03-26T00:00:00Z

    Altro has provided a complete floors and walls package for the Ennerdale leisure centre in Hull

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    What it costs: Flooring

    2010-03-26T00:00:00Z

    Level access showers can improve quality of life for disabled users. Peter Mayer of BLP Insurance looks at the design options and lifecycle costs for retrofitting them into existing floors

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    Carpets

    2010-03-26T00:00:00Z

    Carpet manufacturer Desso has launched a new collection, Core Structures

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    Carpet tiles

    2010-03-26T00:00:00Z

    Burmatex has created a high impact floor for the Shoreditch showroom of interior designer Forster Inc

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    Fast build nation: Richard Ogden on offsite construction

    2010-03-26T00:00:00Z

    Richard Ogden, the man who built a McDonald’s in two days, thinks the speed, efficiency and sustainability of offsite manufacture, and investment from major contractors such as Laing O’Rourke, will at last win over a sceptical industry

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    Ashley Primary School: Any colour as long as it’s green

    2010-03-26T00:00:00Z

    Ashley Primary School is run with such zeal for the environment that when an expansion became necessary, it grabbed the chance to increase its sustainability credentials

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    The 2010 ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Awards: Public projects shortlist showcase

    2010-03-26T00:00:00Z

    Hard not to have a wiggle in your walk when you see the cornucopia of building projects shortlisted for the 2010 ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Awards

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    Movers and makers: 26 March 2010

    2010-03-26T00:00:00Z

    Weber, the manfacturer of industrial mortar, has brought out a flooring systems brochure. The 16-page guide introduces the main product categories of commercial, industrial, decorative, calcium sulphate and marine screeds as well as innovative products such as Leca insulation fill, which allows for quick and easy foundation preparation

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    Preventing a pile-up

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    Transport infrastructure spending seems to be one of construction’s good news stories. According to Davis Langdon, there has been 10% growth in real terms

  • Singapore’s East Coast Parkway. The country is expected to represent 11% of South-east Asian transport expenditure in 2014
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    Nought to sixty

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    South-east Asia has big plans to ramp up its transport network, and must act fast to stop the economic growth of the past decade from going into reverse. But first it needs to find billions of dollars of private investment

  • Work on the existing East London line involved stripping out the railway to the tunnel inverts and replacing it along with new power and signalling systems to take up to 20 trains an hour
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    In the loop

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    The £1bn East London line extension, which opens in May, is the first part of a plan to give the capital an orbital railway. Stephen Kennett looks at the work done and how the circle will be completed

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    The London Library: Speaking volumes

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    The London Library has been extending in higgledy-piggledy fashion ever since it moved to its St James’s home in 1845. Now Haworth Tompkins has set out to rationalise its circulation so that readers may actually be able to find the books they’re looking for

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    Down the line: Market report on transport

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    Transport investment is currently buoyant, but in the medium term, prospects could be affected both by political divisions and spending cuts. Simon Rawlinson and Steve Waltho of Davis Langdon provide a guide to what the next few years might hold in store