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FeaturesExpat survival guide to India
Never offend by refusing your host's offer of food, even if you're full 鈥� luckily, burping is encouraged
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FeaturesHow to set up business in China
To establish the personal relations critical for business success in China you need a local base, and should use local expertise to negotiate the country's complex ways
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FeaturesFirst impressions: Projects by Rafael Vi帽oly and Atkins
Another 鈥楩irst Impressions鈥� panellist, this time James Procter from Westminster University comments on Rafael Vi帽oly鈥檚 Museum of Modern Arab Art in Qatar and an organic tree house
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FeaturesHappily ever after
The Gus Report:聽Newhall in Harlow set out to marry quality design with quality of life. So how has it done? Continuing his series of visits to important housing developments, Gus Alexander celebrates something approximating nuptial bliss
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Features好色先生TV pathology: BMS systems
好色先生TV management systems give occupants control of M&E equipment at the touch of a button, but their complexity can cause problems
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FeaturesPRI's energy metering
Energy management and smart metering specialist PRI has developed Carbon View, a system for carbon monitoring, which displays instant and accurate energy-consumption data
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FeaturesCountry focus: Germany
Germany, traditionally the motor of European construction, has stagnated for a decade. Now it鈥檚 sputtering back into life 鈥� but will the credit crunch kill it? John Atkins of EC Harris reports
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FeaturesBailey鈥檚 cream: Strathclyde HQ
When M&E specialist NG Bailey set out to build its new headquarters in Strathclyde, it wanted to show what it could do to a standard spec office. Its control over the project enabled it to bring in a building of the finest green credentials
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FeaturesA game of musical jobs
This year鈥檚 Hays/好色先生TV Salary Guide shows that more and more candidates are chasing ever fewer vacancies, and we all know what the law of supply and demand says about that 鈥� Debika Ray reports
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FeaturesThe tracker: Bottoming out?
The indications are that there鈥檚 still a way to go before we鈥檙e out of the woods, but there are small signs of improvement, reports Experian Business Strategies
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FeaturesPhase One: Edinburgh
好色先生TV鈥檚 networking event took a new twist when it went to Edinburgh this month by giving attendees a sneak preview of Rab Bennetts鈥� 拢42m Informatics Forum 鈥� a futuristic realm of computer wizardry and flying robots. Katie Puckett and Dan Stewart joined the snoopers
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FeaturesGeneration gripe
Fed up with eager young pups at work who don鈥檛 know they鈥檙e born? Or had enough of hearing how it was back in the old days?
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FeaturesGet with IT
ICT is at the heart of all schools built under the BSF programme, but so far architects and designers have yet to switch on to the bigger picture. Stephen Kennett looks at what it takes
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Lighting control systems
Dynalite has launched the Ecolinx lighting energy management system for commercial buildings.
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Smart floor tiles
Tau Cermamica has collaborated with Pep Torres to develop a smart floor tile, which is equipped with a weight sensor and a microchip which can record the length of time a person stands on the tile.
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FeaturesRugged laptops 鈥�
Rugged laptop manufacturer Getac has launched the V100, which features a sunlight-readable LCD screen that uses an active anti-reflective process to block reflected light, increasing visibility, even under the brightest conditions.
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More rugged laptops
Dell has launched the Latitude E-Family range of rugged laptops which includes the Latitude E6400 ATG, a 14.1-inch semi-rugged laptop, built and tested to meet military 810F standards for dust, vibration and humidity resistance.
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Remote pictures
Red Zebra Mobile is a new mobile phone image management system that allows site managers, workers and subcontractors to take pictures and send them in real-time to an online gallery for office-based colleagues to look at.
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FeaturesData cabling conduit
Mita has launched the Cableline Prima 60 three-compartment, moulded PVC trunking system which has been designed for use with power cables and high-density category 5E, category 6 shielded cabling and 10Gb structured cabling.
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FeaturesServer cabinets
Panduit has launched the Net Access server cabinet (pictured). The cabinet is the result of a collaboration with IBM, and the company claims it provides improved performance in terms of cable management, cooling efficiency and grounding over previous generation server cabinets.