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Curved roofing
A sweeping Kalzip aluminium roof has been used on the new Leigh Technology Academy college in Dartford, Kent
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FeaturesSustainability costs:聽Refurbishment
The advent of EPCs means commercial landlords can no longer ignore the inefficiency of existing stock. Richard Quartermaine of Cyril Sweett breaks down the costs of revamping these energy guzzlers
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FeaturesClay roof tiles
Redland has recreated the traditional fired blue of Staffordshire clay plain roof tiles with the Blue Brindle addition to its Rosemary Classic range
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FeaturesPaul King: The carbon crunch
It鈥檚 a global crisis, and it鈥檚 getting grimmer by the day, but this one we might actually be able to do something about鈥� Paul King explains why sustainability is still the biggest issue of 2009
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FeaturesSheep vs grass: The best and the worst eco-ideas
With all great movements come fresh ways of thinking 鈥� some good, some, frankly, not so good. Roxane McMeeken asked five sustainability experts to name their favourite green ideas and those that they would send straight to the recycling plant
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Aluminium roofing
Ash & Lacy 好色先生TV Systems has provided 4,000m2 of Ashzip for a retirement home in Ireland
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FeaturesBig ambitions: Defra's Alnwick HQ
When designers began working on Defra鈥檚 offices in Alnwick, they thought a BREEAM 鈥榚xcellent鈥� rating an exciting enough challenge. But then BRE went and introduced 鈥榦utstanding鈥欌��
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FeaturesPRESS RELEASE: Tarmac to build 'blueprint' for affordable, volume zero-carbon housing
Tarmac Limited is set to build two concept homes at the University of Nottingham in order to provide housebuilders and Registered Social Landlords (RSLs) with a blueprint for low cost, scaleable zero-carbon housing which has the potential to be replicated across the UK
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FeaturesPrice war: How the retail crash is affecting construction
Misery loves company, and many of Britain鈥檚 largest retailers are sharing theirs with their supply chains. Olivia Boyd finds out which are and which aren鈥檛
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Features2009: the sustainable year ahead
Michael Willoughby flicks through his diary to the key events that make 2009 such a critical 12 months for sustainability
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FeaturesJust landed: Mark Chamberlain moves to Azerbaijan
Mark Chamberlain 鈥� a member of 好色先生TV's graduate advisory board 鈥� has just quit surveying for NG Bailey in London to head for a new adventure in oil exploration in Baku
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FeaturesMiddle East Q&A: Muhyiddin Itani
Davis Langdon's Beirut director explains why construction in Lebanon has been booming in recent years, and advises UK firms how to get involved
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FeaturesCountry focus: Poland
Poland has been enjoying a construction boom over the past three years, and although it鈥檚 not immune to the financial pandemic, it鈥檚 still going to record 6% growth. Marcin Klammer of EC Harris reports
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FeaturesIdentity crisis: Construction's corporate rebrander Steve Edge
He鈥檚 worked with George Lucas, Cartier and Dior, but is a corporate rebrand from Steve Edge really what construction companies need to survive the recession? Well, Wates, Kier and Skanska seem to think so
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FeaturesBSF schools: Why is it so difficult?
Alistair Darling might be accelerating spending on 好色先生TV Schools for the Future, but that won鈥檛 necessarily mean more schools get built, as this exemplary story of a scheme in Greenwich demonstrates
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FeaturesThe hot seat: APC supervisor reviews
For first-year APC students, it鈥檚 almost time for the first formal sitdown with your supervisor. Jon Lever explains how it works
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FeaturesGlamorous address: Candy & Candy's One Hyde Park
Candy & Candy鈥檚 One Hyde Park is coming along quite nicely, thank you. Which is just as well, because when you鈥檙e spending 拢100m on an apartment, you do rather want the builders out of the way before you move in
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FeaturesChange of destination: job opportunities still abound in the Middle East
The downturn may have hit Dubai, but other Middle Eastern markets and the booming oil and gas sectors still provide plenty of escape routes
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FeaturesNew Year blues: Predictions for 2009
It doesn鈥檛 look like a whole lot of fun, but 2009 must be endured where necessary and enjoyed where possible. So, here鈥檚 our guide to what鈥檚 going to happen, complete with the big stories, the key dates and the people who are going to make the news
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FeaturesFirst Impressions: Projects by Will Alsop and Coney Island concept
Another 鈥橣irst Impression鈥� panellist, this time Adam Smith postgraduate architecture student from the Royal College of Art comments on six schemes