More Focus – Page 208

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    World (table football) Cup: Passion play

    2010-06-11T00:00:00Z

    What is it about the World Cup? We staged our own finals in east London’s Bar Kick and it began to feel like the real thing. Sarah Richardson and Roxane McMeeken tell the story of plucky underdogs and amazing new talents

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    Hospital specifier: Feeling better now?

    2010-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Not that lying in hospital is ever going to be any great shakes, but designers can do a lot to improve the patient experience

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    International lessons from Prague

    2010-06-10T10:00:00Z

    Construction, QS and surveying students add an international perspective to their studies

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    In the pink

    2010-06-10T11:14:00Z

    House painters in Bristol take a rose-tinted approach to safety hazards, it seems

  • Construction city: Hong Kong and New York are the only cities in the world with more buildings than São Paulo
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    Cracking Brazil

    2010-06-04T00:00:00Z

    It’s hosting the 2014 World Cup, and the 2016 Olympics, and has emerged from the credit crunch with barely a scratch. So why aren’t more UK firms working there?

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    Warning: Hazard sign

    2010-06-04T00:00:00Z

    It’s always good to hear from our American readers, so thanks to Dave Hermanson, vice president of Capital Power in Illinois

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    Gehry in Las Vegas: Just Frank being Frank

    2010-06-04T00:00:00Z

    Gehry has taken on Vegas, and left it with an unusual mixed-use scheme: a brain health centre and ’event space’

  • The home was designed as three elements – two wooden boxes containing bedrooms with a glazed kitchen, living and dining area in the middle. The guest bedroom is a separate annex with its own stairs
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    In pictures: Low-profile living

    2010-06-04T00:00:00Z

    This New Forest residence makes a minimal impact on the environment and the view. Of course, that doesn’t have to mean going without a swimming pool. Thomas Lane goes down to the woods to investigate

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    Mainstream green: Brighton belle

    2010-06-04T00:00:00Z

    One Brighton is the brainchild of the team behind super-green development BedZed. But although sustainability is at the heart of the scheme, it’s going to do it its own sweet way

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    Part L: Top Tips

    2010-06-04T00:00:00Z

    The revision to Part L comes with four approved documents and two guides to help you tick those energy efficiency boxes. But in case you don’t fancy reading the lot, Nick Cullen has a 12-point plan to lead you on the path to compliance

  • Stride Treglown Architects’ new office building in Cardiff will produce 55% less carbon emissions than Part L 2006, and will comfortably beat the 2010 target for a heated shallow-plan office, which is a 22% reduction
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    The 2010 Regs Round-up

    2010-06-04T00:00:00Z

    The government has myriad tools at its disposal to persuade or compel construction companies to up their energy efficiency game. And with a target to make all homes zero carbon by 2016 and all buildings by 2019, regulatory control of the industry is only going to get more demanding.

  • New Street Square was developer Land Securities’ exemplar for sustainability when designed in 2002. It can be easily upgraded to meet future revisions of Part L, to keep it attractive to tenants who increasingly want to occupy green buildings
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    Part L Revisited

    2010-06-04T00:00:00Z

    As the industry waits for the full details of the implementation of Part L 2010, Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon reflects on lessons learned from the 2006 revision and what it could mean for the upcoming changes

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    My digital life: Kevin P Flanagan

    2010-06-04T00:00:00Z

    What’s your most-played ITune?

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    Embodied energy: The next big carbon challenge

    2010-06-04T00:00:00Z

    Reducing the amount of embodied energy in building materials won’t be easy – but it’s essential

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    Low-energy retrofit: Heating a house with a towel rail

    2010-06-04T00:00:00Z

    What you’re looking at is a pioneering project that shows how a low-energy retrofit can make deep cuts in carbon emissions from social housing. Readers of ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV’s website will be able to follow progress on the Passivhaus diary

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    Andrew Chisholm: Career break and back

    2010-06-04T00:00:00Z

    One year ago, Andrew Chisholm shut the surveying firm he had spent 15 years building up, then took a seven-month break. But now he’s back with a new company – and a lot of his old staff

  • A government scheme to guarantee loans to first-time buyers has benefited former Communist housing developments as much as the new-build sector
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    Country focus: Romania

    2010-06-04T00:00:00Z

    The downturn hit Romania hard but it’s in a reasonable position to recover

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    Kingston architecture students exhibit work

    2010-06-03T16:41:00Z

    Kingston University’s Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture show their final year work to the public

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    Show RCA: Architecture - 25 June to 4 July

    2010-06-03T15:19:00Z

    Final part of the graduate show exhibits work by final year postgraduate architecture students

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    Nottingham Trent's architecture degree show - Until 9 June

    2010-06-03T14:40:00Z

    Architecture and construction students will showcase their work including an urban health spa and an artistic foundation for Nottingham