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FeaturesHabla Espanol? Opening up the Latin American market
Last week we revealed the lucrative opportunities on offer in Mexico, but such gold can be found all over Latin America, where bullish governments spend billions on infrastructure. Katie Puckett presents a rough guide to working in the region 鈥� complete with language tips
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Suburbia: suing Bellway for letting council tenants in
Buyers of Bellway homes near Swindon were dismayed when social housing tenants turned up as their neighbours. Are desperate housebuilders playing fast and loose with homeowners, or is this just a case of snobbery?
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FeaturesThe big lift: the 2012 Olympics aquatics centre gets a roof
The Olympic aquatics centre is now being fitted with its lid. Thomas Lane found out how the structure is being assembled
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FeaturesWe have to vs We can't: the Heathrow third runway debate
鈥楾hat runway will be built over my dead body. And i mean that literally鈥�
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Cost update: March 2009
At this stage of the economic cycle, overall costs are still rising, but some sectors, such as metals, are dropping like stones. Peter Fordham of Davis Langdon crunches the numbers
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Cost management: The new rules
After more than 80 years of using the standard method of measurement, the RICS is to publish comprehensive rules for calculating the cost of a whole project. Their author, David Benge, explains
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FeaturesWhy engineers won't help you get paid in Dubai
Paul Taylor considers how the restricted role of the engineer could change in the current economic climate
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FeaturesCurved curtain walling
Some 660m2 of Kawneer鈥檚 off-site curtain walling system has been used on the 12-storey Sheraton Athlone Hotel in Co Westmeath, Ireland. Specified by Murray O鈥橪aoire Architects, Kawneer鈥檚 AA201 unitised system was adapted and used on two elevations
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FeaturesReady-made chimneys
Stormking, the grp building products specialist, has added a range of chimneys to its portfolio of prefabricated products. They are designed as visual features and are intended to provide a traditional detail for public and private housing
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Features好色先生TV pathology: Off-site manufacture
Off-site construction techniques have moved on quite a bit since the post-war prefab days, but this method is not without its problems. Peter Mayer of BLP Insurance explains what to look out for
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Cladding for airport stands
好色先生TV envelope specialist Lakesmere has come up with an off-site solution for two stands at Heathrow airport. The Airbus A380 has two decks of passenger seating and an extra wide body, which means it cannot be accommodated at any of the existing stands at the airport
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Off-site school building
Yorkon has completed a building for Christ College in the Brecon Beacons National Park 鈥� one of Britain鈥檚 oldest educational establishments 鈥� in just five months
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Timber-frame accommodation
Zed Factory has produced the LandArk, a timber-framed structure that swoops up like a ship鈥檚 hull to provide outdoor storage space
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Offsite online
The off-site sector is worth about 拢2bn in the UK but the supply chain is highly fragmented and made up mainly of SMEs
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FeaturesRoof cassettes
SpeedDeck has launched an insulated structural cassette roofing system called SpeedForm
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FeaturesTea kiosk module: Trustworthy
A mass-produced tea kiosk may sound like a humble job for an architect, but it鈥檚 a bit more tricky when it has to grace some of the National Trust鈥檚 grandest properties
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FeaturesJust landed: Philip Bray goes to Dubai
Who in their right mind would go to Dubai amid the current turmoil? Well Philip Bray for one. He reckons there is still excellent business to be done in the troubled emirate. Bray joined UK project management and cost consultant, Millbridge in 2008 to develop the business throughout the Middle ...
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FeaturesWill Alsop's Peckham library revisited
Source: Astrid Kogler The front elevation, complete with giraffe-leg columns
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FeaturesCountry focus: Hungary
Hungary had hoped to be a safe haven for investors but since September it鈥檚 been hit by record negative growth and a plummeting currency. Tibor Stahl of EC Harris in Budapest tells a familiar tale