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FeaturesThe alternatives: Secure schools
Schools have to provide secure access systems, both to keep unwanted visitors out and to keep pupils in. Stephen Kennett looks at three ideas 鈥� from the simple to the really clever
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FeaturesMake has triplets
Make Architects has just unveiled three pavilions for the University of Nottingham 鈥� two in terracotta allude to the city鈥檚 geology, the third is even more heavyweight 鈥�
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Data cabling
As comms rooms become more densely populated with hardware and cabling, restricted airflows can result in more cooling requirements, more power consumption and rising costs.
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FeaturesBSF special: the painful upbringing of 好色先生TV Schools for the Future
The troubled past of the government鈥檚 拢45bn school building programme has been well documented, but there seem to be signs that it is growing into a more mature and productive client. Kicking off our schools special, Thomas Lane charts its progress. Illustrations by Max Schindler
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FeaturesBSF special: Six of the best - a review of the latest 好色先生TV Schools for the Future
Design watchdog Cabe has given 好色先生TV Schools for the Future designs a bit of a thrashing to date. But what of the latest crop? Martin Spring takes an exclusive look at six newly completed BSF schools 鈥� all but two designed by different architects
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FeaturesCost analysis: Sustainable schools
The government鈥檚 target is to make schools zero carbon by 2016. Sean Lockie and Ian Butterss of Faithful + Gould and BRE鈥檚 Anna Surgenor look at the costs involved in upping their green grades
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FeaturesFlatpack schools: St Agnes primary school, Manchester
No need for wishful thinking: using solid timber panels as a construction material will bring speed and sustainability to the government鈥檚 school building programme. Stephen Kennett looks at a down-to-earth solution
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FeaturesBrislington Enterprise College: Light and airy or a prison?
The pupils of Brislington Enterprise College give their verdict on Bristol鈥檚 拢34m 好色先生TV Schools for the Future project. Photography by Neill Menneer
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FeaturesBSF special: 'a plate glass window palace doesn鹿t make a good school' - Chris Woodhead, former chief inspector for schools, interviewed
Former chief inspector for schools Chris Woodhead carries a big stick (he鈥檚 broken his ankle) but you wonder if he鈥檇 rather use it to thwack all those dunces who don鈥檛 get the difference between a good school and a bit of architectural frippery. Emily Wright learns more
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FeaturesLifecycle costs: New standard for whole-life costing for buildings
A new standard has been published that allows whole-life costing for buildings to be compared for the first time. Joe Martin of the BCIS explains how it works and applies it to a notional school project
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FeaturesCambridgeshire's trash palace
The Fenland pavilion made out of unwanted doors, windows, gates ... and stained glass windows
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FeaturesFirst impressions: Projects by Jean Nouvel and Westfield
Another 鈥楩irst Impression鈥� panellist, this time Graeme Jacquet, graduate from Oxford Brookes University, comments on five new schemes
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FeaturesA history lesson: Countdown to 2012, London's 1908 Olympics
When London staged the Olympics 100 years ago, the delivery authority was a bunch of clubbable aristos, the developer was a Hungarian folk dancer and the athletes had to book themselves into local hotels. Nick Jones tells us what we have to learn from that approach
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FeaturesThe delivery man: Robert Napier, new chair of the Homes and Communities Agency
Can Robert Napier build 240,000 homes a year and run the new government agency in the toughest housing market since the seventies?
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FeaturesEscape to victory: how SMEs can work abroad
While many of the big consultants dodge the downturn by picking up business overseas, their smaller rivals may be feeling a little imprisoned in the UK. But it doesn鈥檛 have to be like that. Thom Gibbs unearths some escape routes that work, and some that don鈥檛
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Features'London doesn't have to beat Beijing, nor should it try. you have to be pragmatic and get 80% there': Countdown to 2012, David Higgins, chief executive of the Olympic Delivery Authority
David Higgins has to deliver the 2012 Olympics with a fraction of the money that China had to spend. Oh, and he has to regenerate a swath of east London at the same time. To kick off our countdown to the Games, Sarah Richardson asked him how he鈥檚 planning to ...
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Cost update: September 2008
The downturn鈥檚 effects become evident as inflation escalates for consumer, input, output and materials prices, says Peter Fordham of Davis Langdon
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FeaturesWhere we鈥檙e at 鈥� the 2012 London Olympics
This is the space 鈥� an area as vast as Hyde Park 鈥� that has been cleared to make way for the Olympic park.
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FeaturesSun, sea and salt extraction
A British inventor, architect and services engineer have devised a system that could produce food, fresh water and energy solely through the use of solar power.