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What it costs: Suspended ceilings
The many choices when specifying a suspended ceiling for a hospital are made more difficult by the regulations on cleaning and acoustics. Peter Mayer of BLP Insurance takes a look
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FeaturesNew age medicine: healthcare technology
Willmott Dixon has developed a prototype of a healthcare facility of the future, which includes self-diagnosis pods, robotic medicine dispensing and remote treatment
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FeaturesHygienic wall covering
Construction Specialities has launched Acrovyn Hydroclad, a wall covering developed for use in hygienically sensitive locations such as operating theatres, hospital kitchens and laboratories
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FeaturesBacteria-resistant doorsets
Leaderflush Shapland is offering a range of products to combat healthcare-associated infections
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FeaturesSecondary glazing
Selectaglaze has installed secondary glazing in a 16-bed critical care ward at St Mary鈥檚 Hospital in Paddington, west London
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Anti-ligature windows
Kawneer has developed the AA3110 sliding window for the healthcare market
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Electrical accessories
MK Electric has compiled a collection of wiring accessories suitable for the healthcare sector
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Hospital furniture
David Bailey Furniture Systems was specified by architect Watkins Gray International when it required fitted furniture for a series of refurbishment projects at Great Ormond Street Hospital
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FeaturesWorking for the Colonel: opportunities in Libya
Forty years of isolation has left Libya desperate for reconstruction and rolling in money. So it鈥檚 spending billions on national renewal, and if you鈥檙e clever you鈥檒l help it out. Oh, it helps if you like coffee
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FeaturesA hard act to follow: the New Acropolis
This is the New Acropolis museum, and it鈥檚 located a two-minute stroll from the most famous building in the world. So how did the architect handle that brief?
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FeaturesHell鈥檚 clients: whatever happened to frameworks?
Frameworks were one of Egan鈥檚 famous win鈥搘in deals: suppliers would get lots of work and clients would get their loyalty. But now clients don鈥檛 need fidelity, so it seems they鈥檙e ripping up the rules. Joey Gardiner looks at what that means for the industry
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FeaturesCould it be magic? Take That's stage set
Well, with its giant mechanical elephant, big top and 10m-high puppet ringmaster, Take That鈥檚 new show is certainly surreal. But who designs and builds this sort of stuff? Thomas Lane went behind the scenes at the fastest-selling show in UK pop history
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The tracker: Still falling...
After the rate of decline slowed in March, activity accelerated again (slightly) in April. Goods news is thin on the ground, but things might just pick up in June and July, says Experian Business Strategies
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FeaturesInquiring minds: Tips for picking the right degree
Signing up to a degree is a huge decision, so it鈥檚 vital to find out everything you can at your interview. Katie Puckett pinpoints the 10 questions you really need to ask
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FeaturesIn control: building inspectors
Forget Britain鈥檚 Got Talent, last week a Channel 4 documentary finally gave the unsung world of building control its moment in the limelight. Emily Wright finds out what the inspectors involved, and the rest of the industry, thought of it...
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FeaturesReed out loud: the RIBA's first woman president
Ruth Reed wants to change people鈥檚 views of the RIBA 鈥� and becoming the institute鈥檚 first woman president isn鈥檛 a bad place to start. She talks to Dan Stewart about her priorities for her two-year stint, the recession and how she hopes to make the RIBA less London-centric
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FeaturesExploding church, invisible architect: Iglesia de Santa Monica
Spanish firm Vicens + Ramos is a reclusive practice, but this iconic/iconoclastic church in Madrid is hard to miss
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FeaturesCouncil houses: return to a golden age?
It鈥檚 not a lot, but the government has made 拢100m available for councils to start building homes again. So is this the start of a glorious return to a golden age?
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FeaturesNeighbours: Lovell and Tarmac on reaching code level four or above
The house on the left aims to meet code level four, but next door they鈥檝e got even loftier pretensions. Stephen Kennett reports on goings-on at a site in Nottingham
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FeaturesAutomated design: checking the regs
So you鈥檝e squeezed every last minute and penny out of the construction process. But what about all the frustrating to-ing and fro-ing with the drawings? Stephen Kennett meets a man who thinks he has an answer to that