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FeaturesGrant Shapps: A young man in a hurry
Come the summer, Grant Shapps is probably going to be in charge of housing policy. And he鈥檚 got an awful lot of policy to get through, from a root-and-branch rethink of planning to a radical overhaul of the HCA. Joey Gardiner asked the questions, Tim Foster took the photos
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FeaturesTwist and shout: RMJM鈥檚 Abu Dhabi Capital Gate tower
RMJM鈥檚 Capital Gate tower in Abu Dhabi leans at a stomach-lurching 18潞, making it a project that largely consisted of geometrical and structural problems 鈥� not least of which was finding out where the building had moved to each morning
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Lead times: July - September 2009
There鈥檚 good news for anybody waiting impatiently for structural steel 鈥� it鈥檚 arriving three weeks earlier. Other packages are pretty static, and once again none have increased
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FeaturesSpotlight on lifts
The complexity of lifts can vary immensely, which means that their lead times do the same. Here Brian Moone looks at what鈥檚 involved 鈥� with special reference to the lifts at one very special building 鈥�
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SMEs: Tangled up in tape
A survey by the NFB has shown how public procurement is systematically biased against small firms. Emily Wright found out how, and met one group of SMEs that are fighting back
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FeaturesInternally grateful: Meet two construction interns
Our jilted generation of graduates can be trained, retained and ultimately employed 鈥� if firms woke up to the advantages of internship. 好色先生TV met two interns and explained why 好色先生TV is backing The Pledge to recruit more
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FeaturesThe VIP list: Teenagers design a nightclub
Women in Property invited some very important guests to help design a new bar at the Matter nightclub in Greenwich
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FeaturesScottish parliament: Miralles鈥� magnificent mess revisited
The bizarre mixture of the dysfunctional,the delightful and the disappointing that is the Scottish parliament building opened in 2004. Five-and-a-half years later, Martin Spring returned to ask the MSPs it was built for what it鈥檚 like to work in
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Market forecast: Another tough year
Now that 2009 has come into focus, we can clearly see what a disastrous year it was. Unfortunately, the process of recovering from it will not be quick, says Peter Fordham of Davis Langdon
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What it costs: Tiled cladding
Tiles, shingles and slate can provide traditional and thermally efficient covering for external walls. Peter Mayer of BLP Insurance considers the options
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FeaturesPutting on the glitz: Brass cladding
More and more architects, enamoured of the golden lustre of brass, are choosing it as a cladding material, while others love it just because of the way it weathers
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FeaturesPanel system
Eurobond鈥檚 composite panel system has been used on an 拢11m 鈥淟ifestyle鈥� building at Stoke-on-Trent college鈥檚 Cauldon Campus
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Movers and makers
Solar Gard, which makes solar control films, has launched the Capsol audit tool, which measures the impact of solar gain on office buildings. Capsol, and Solar Gard鈥檚 complementary consulting service, can be used to predict the results of retrofitting solar control window film
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FeaturesTextured panels
DuPont has launched a range of decorative panels with 3D patterns for interior decor
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Fibre cement cladding
Marley Eternit鈥檚 Natura Plus fibre cement cladding has been used on the 3 Assembly Square building in the Cardiff Bay Waterfront
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Prefabricated walls
Szerelmey has launched a lightweight prefabricated wall structure combined with external stone cladding that it says speeds up construction and cuts costs
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Aluminium frame system
Technal, the architectural aluminium specialist, has launched its Modal facade system for low-rise buildings
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Brick slips
Hanson has launched the Structherm Fastbrick, an a insulated real brick slip cladding system that aims to combine the advantages of modern construction techniques with the appeal of traditional brickwork
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FeaturesAluminium cladding
James & Taylor has supplied the aluminium cladding for the exterior of Jamie Oliver鈥檚 first independent restaurant in Canary Wharf
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FeaturesFirst impressions: Ron Arad's Google-box in Belgium
Architecture students from Nottingham Trent and the Royal College of Art on the Belgium shopping centre