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Scott Wilson goes it alone on road to recovery
Chief executive Hugh Blackwood scotches sale rumours as he plans international strategy
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FeaturesBeyond the pale: Renzo Piano's Central St Giles
Controversial it may be, but Central St Giles has cheered up an obscure corner of London with a riot of reds, yellows, greens and oranges 鈥� making the rest of the capital look a tad grey.
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Haiti: The road from ruin
Roxane McMeeken reports on the reconstruction effort in Haiti, amid growing fears that the ad hoc approach to rebuilding could be doing as much harm as good
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Nouvel takes Manhattan
The French architect describes his 23-storey apartment block on the Lower West Side as a 鈥榲ision machine鈥�. Ike Ijeh tries to decipher what that means. Photos by Roland Halbe
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FeaturesI'm lovin' it: Henry Trickey of McDonald
Companies eager to expand in these famished times won鈥檛 be able to resist McDonald鈥檚鈥� supersize diet of drive-thru restaurants and store makeovers. Emily Wright chews the fat with Henry Trickey, the man who鈥檚 serving them up
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FeaturesThe big brother houses: monitoring residents' energy use
Housebuilders can specify all the green technology they want, but what happens when human beings get left in charge of the thermostat? Buro Happold installed sensors to find out, then told Thomas Lane what they discovered
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The tracker: On eggshells
Experian Business Strategies reports on a fragile recovery in the market
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Regime change UK: Our new coalition government
Sarah Richardson and Roxane McMeeken look at the consequences of a Lib鈥揅on coalition
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Bpod: Prefab just got fabber
A concrete volumetric system for multistorey buildings with a unique loadbearing structure
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Movers and makers - 14 May 2010
Latest news from the world of construction product manufacture
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Fire retardant for timber frames
Arch Timber Protection has launched Vacsol FR treatment, a fire protection system for timber frame components during the construction phase
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Cavity closers
Big Blok cavity closers from Cavalok 好色先生TV Products have been specified on the Minehead Eye youth and community centre for their ability to span a 300mm cavity
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Off-white bricks
Brick maker Wienerberger has launched an off-white brick to complement its architectural range
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Ground stabilisation
Tensar International鈥檚 TriAx geogrid has been used at one of the stadiums hosting the 2010 World Cup
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Low energy blocks
Interlocking blocks from Durisol have been used in the construction of the New Horizon Youth Centre in King鈥檚 Cross. Because they are stacked like Lego, skilled bricklayers are not required, which made it easier for the centre鈥檚 users to help with the construction
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Thermal break modules
Sch枚ck Isokorb thermal break modules have been used in this extraordinary apartment building and cr猫che in Vienna, designed by Austrian architect R眉diger Lainer for developer Heimbau and Eisenhof
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Smart ties
Ancon has developed a wall tie to fix traditional brick cladding to an internal leaf of cellular clay blocks with horizontal bed joints of just 1mm
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FeaturesBankside: Have you met the Tate鈥檚 new neighbours?
Once snubbed as the poor relation of the trendy South Bank, Bankside has been transformed over the past decade by ambitious design. Now, finally, the residential sector is moving in
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FeaturesEarthship: Sustainable building with 900 spare tyres
David Matthews wanted to build his own Earthship 鈥� a radically sustainable home built of recycled materials 鈥� and live in it forever. Trouble was, he didn鈥檛 have a clue how to go about it. So 好色先生TV sent him on a three-day course to find out