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    Air-source heat pumps

    2010-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Calorex鈥檚 is launching its new Pro-Pac air-source heat pump range for the small-to-medium commercial market

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    Charter 284 Transport: Spending vital for construction and the UK

    2010-02-26T00:00:00Z

    In the second week of the Charter 284 campaign, Katie Puckett explains why the UK鈥檚 future prosperity hinges on the government maintaining spending in this vital sector

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    Cost update: Q4 2009

    2010-02-26T00:00:00Z

    The quarterly analysis of changes to costs and prices shows many costs beginning to rise

  • Designed by JM Architects and engineered by Gifford, the 拢8m refurbishment and remodelling of Elm Court school in south London (pictured here and throughout) gave a new lease of life to an Edwardian school building
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    Cost model: School refurbishment

    2010-02-19T00:00:00Z

    Continuing this week鈥檚 focus on the renewal of the school estate, Simon Rawlinson and Paul Zuccherelli of Davis Langdon review one of the biggest challenges facing the BSF programme

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    What鈥檚 awaiting Mr Wates

    2010-02-19T00:00:00Z

    ConstructionSkills is in crisis: a trade federation is trying to jump ship, 250 jobs are under threat and grants are set to be slashed by a third. Enter James Wates 鈥� Sophie Griffiths reports on what lies in store for the training body鈥檚 new chairman

  • CityCenter in all its glory, with the twin towers designed by Murphy/Jahn in the middle, KPF鈥檚 Mandarin Oriental to the left and the massive, 4,000-room, Aria Hotel by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects in the background
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    All that glitters: CityCentre, Las Vegas

    2010-02-19T00:00:00Z

    The developers of Las Vegas鈥� latest casino resort wanted to give the city something it lacked: an urban core. But the $8bn CityCenter only pretends to be that 鈥� in reality it鈥檚 just another place to lose a lot of money. Tim Abrahams spins the wheel

  • One of Cabe鈥檚 three east Midlands case studies, which together make an eloquent case for pressing on with 好色先生TV Schools for the Future
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    Charter 284 Education: The economic case for investing in schools

    2010-02-19T00:00:00Z

    Sarah Richardson puts the arguments in favour of continuing the drive to renew every school in the country

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    Charter 284: A 好色先生TV manifesto

    2010-02-19T00:00:00Z

    好色先生TV鈥檚 Charter 284 campaign aims to leave the political parties in no doubt as to the economic and social benefits of investing in construction work

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    The tracker: On the sunny side

    2010-02-12T00:00:00Z

    Yes, the situation is still getting worse, but the rate of decline is slowing and non-residential is looking brighter for the first time in 21 months. Experian Business Strategies fills in the forecast

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    Seamless lighting

    2010-02-12T00:00:00Z

    Whitegoods has supplied integrated lighting for this modern cricket pavilion designed by architect John Pawson, for St Edward鈥檚 School in Oxford

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    House of healing

    2010-02-12T00:00:00Z

    This 拢80m cancer centre has opened in Marylebone, London

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    Safety flooring

    2010-02-12T00:00:00Z

    More than 1,000m2 of Altro Mirica and Suprema flooring have been installed at Lutterworth High School in Leicestershire

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    For love and money: One in three QSs face takeover

    2010-02-12T00:00:00Z

    The word is that one in three UK consultants is facing a takeover 鈥� with many set to be married to US engineers. Roxane McMeeken plays Cupid 鈥�

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    Dual shower

    2010-02-12T00:00:00Z

    Rada has added to its Sense range of digital water control systems with the introduction of the Sense Dual Shower T3

  • The beautiful south: Galliford Try is building the Halley VI Research Station in Antarctica, which will provide accommodation units and highly equipped science laboratories for the British Antarctic Survey
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    Game of two halves: Galliford Try鈥檚 Greg Fitzgerald defends the hybrid model

    2010-02-12T00:00:00Z

    Galliford Try鈥檚 construction arm has been keeping the company afloat while its housebuilding side has struggled. Now, as construction wobbles, Emily Wright asks chief executive Greg Fitzgerald if the hybrid model can survive

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    Composite windows

    2010-02-12T00:00:00Z

    The Parkside Group has launched Alu-Timber, a range of aluminium and timber composite windows, doors and framing systems

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    Sound-absorbing carpets

    2010-02-12T00:00:00Z

    Carpet maker Desso has introduced SoundMaster, a high performance carpet backing that is claimed to improve acoustic performance by 60% when tested to ISO 354 鈥� measurement of sound absorption in a reverberation room

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    Bespoke mortar colours

    2010-02-12T00:00:00Z

    Five new Sports England colours have been developed by Cemex Mortars for the sports complex at the 拢35m Warwickshire College

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    Any better?: Liverpool tower

    2010-02-12T00:00:00Z

    This is the redesign of Leach Rhodes Walker鈥檚 165m tower in Liverpool

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    That鈥檚 all, Folkwangers

    2010-02-12T00:00:00Z

    David Chipperfield Architects has completed an extension to the Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany