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    Who’s running Archial now?

    2010-10-08T00:00:00Z

    This architect has been through many changes of name and ownership in its 14-year history, but who could have predicted that it would eventually go Canadian? Joey Gardiner finds out how the events came about

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    Gilt trip: Refurbishing the Savoy hotel

    2010-10-08T00:00:00Z

    The refurbished Savoy hotel looks a million dollars - which is just as well because it cost more than £200m to do up. Happily nobody was to blame for the cost and time overruns - except possibly the owner’s insatiably lavish tastes

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    Back to front

    2010-10-08T00:00:00Z

    We’re into month three of turning a leaky Edwardian house into a model of energy efficiency. Robert Prewett, the project architect, reports on the specification and installation of the front and rear windows

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    Lime slice

    2010-10-08T00:00:00Z

    The £35m Lime Street Gateway project in Liverpool opened this week. Balfour Beatty was the contractor on the Glen Howells designed scheme

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    Top 250 Consultants 2010: The Hungry Years

    2010-10-08T00:00:00Z

    The year’s tables of the UK biggest consultants show that many of them have too many mouths to feed, which means they will face painful choices in the next 12 months. Roxane McMeeken looks at how they got into this position. To accompany the tables, which are will , we ...

  • The financial case for fitting energy-efficient lighting becomes much stronger once the benefits from ECAs are factored in
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    Sustainability: Tax incentives

    2010-10-08T00:00:00Z

    The government wants to encourage energy-efficient investment. Steve Smith and Richard Quartermaine of Cyril Sweett look at what tax incentives are available

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    First Impressions: The Iranian Embassy in London

    2010-10-04T00:00:00Z

    Two Nottingham Trent University students on the controversial Daneshgar-designed marble and stone cube modernist scheme

  • The plywood acts like an archer’s bow, with a flexible material becoming rigid once bent and held in place. But damp has affected the structure, and after just two months it is sagging
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    The magic mushroom: Pavilion at Stuttgart university

    2010-10-01T00:00:00Z

    If you think 6.5mm plywood is just for DIY patch-ups, then you should see what the scientific wizards at Stuttgart university have done with the stuff

  • An Example side-lit solar gain benchmark building from the national calculation methodology which comprises of a zone with a 1m tall band of glazing that faces east
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    Solar gains and the new Part L: unless your building is a glass box it’s great news

    2010-10-01T12:46:00Z

    What impact will the new limits on solar gains have on office design?

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    My digital life: Rupert Shaw

    2010-10-01T00:00:00Z

    What have you bought recently online?

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    Sustainability laid bare

    2010-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Sarah Wigglesworth’s Wakefield primary school invites its pupils to learn about architecture by putting its impressive sustainability features on open display

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    Designing utopia: Architects on top

    2010-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Architects looking for bigger projects and a more powerful role (yes, that’s you) should be talking to clients in emerging markets where they may well be put at the top of the tree. But they can’t climb there all by themselves

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    Infrastructure - The big picture

    2010-10-01T00:00:00Z

    The UK infrastructure sector is expected to grow by 42% by 2014, but where is the money going to come from? Two speakers from last week’s Infrastructure Now online conference, Richard Threlfall and Steve Waltho, take a peek at the future of this potentially lucrative area

  • Igloo Regeneration’s first development in London includes one block built to level four of the Code for Sustainable Homes
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    Cost model: Part L for residential

    2010-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Housing developers face some interesting choices when complying with the new Part L. Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon and Tom Lelyveld of Aecom consider some of the options

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    After Kieron: Campaigning for better site safety

    2010-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Monday 9 August 2004 is a date Jennifer Deeney will never forget. It was when her husband Kieron died in an accident on a construction site - 13 weeks after they were married. Since then she’s been campaigning for better site safety - and a calendar of naked women ...

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    The master strategy: Can a QS be a management consultants

    2010-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Davis Langdon wants to compete with McKinsey. But can it really find a place at the top table of global management consultancies? And will the rest of the quantity surveying industry follow it

  • National Indoor Sports Arena, Glasgow
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    Marathon effort: piling on the complex Glasgow sports arena site

    2010-09-30T12:56:00Z

    How the team tackled difficult conditions on the site of the 2014 Commonwealth Games centrepiece

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    APC extras: T062 - Procurement and Tendering

    2010-09-29T10:23:00Z

    This is a core competency for a range of different pathways and is used by many candidates for their critical analysis

  • The Daveyhulme waste water treatment plant in Manchester uses bio gas from human waste to power the plant.
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    Market overview: waste and water sectors

    2010-09-24T00:00:00Z

    With regulation driving investment and resource efficiency in the waste and water sectors, Matthew Hicks and Andrew Wheeler of Davis Langdon examine how the UK’s obligations are going to be met, and what the opportunities are for consultants and contractors

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    Dark Victory: 2010 Part L update

    2010-09-24T00:00:00Z

    The new version of Part L kicks in next week, and its tough energy rules are going to make lighting a building altogether more problematic than ever before