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FeaturesShould green planning applications be fast-tracked?
Is the government right to seek a rewrite of the renewable energy planning permission rules?
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FeaturesMini cost model: Nursing homes
As people in the UK live longer, demand for residential care and nursing homes is growing 鈥� as are our expectations of the standard of living they will provide. Max Wilkes of Davis Langdon looks at how home developers and operators are rising to the challenge
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FeaturesTime for lunch
Lunch is for wimps, right? Who are you kidding? Lunch has come right back into fashion as companies realise that a well-fed workforce is a happy workforce.
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FeaturesAnyone for Hopkins?
With the National Tennis Centre in south-west London, Hopkins Architects has taken a lumbering and guileless building type and instilled in it the grace and finesse of a Roger Federer. Martin Spring admires the architect鈥檚 all-round game
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FeaturesYvette Cooper
The government鈥檚 effort to get housebuilders to produce more homes has been like a man trying to herd cats by shouting into a megaphone. Now it鈥檚 looking for more effective tactics. In her first interview since joining the Cabinet, the housing minister tells Stuart Macdonald what they are.
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What it costs: CHP (combined heat and power systems)
Peter Mayer of 好色先生TV LifePlans looks at the cost and environmental dividends from combined heat and power systems.With Combined heat and power (CHP) or co-generation systems, heat that might be lost as a by-product of electricity generation is captured for space and water heating. Locally supplied electricity incur lower transmission ...
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FeaturesWater flow control device
Marley Plumbing and Drainage has added Flowloc, a water flow control device, to its Waterloc range.
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FeaturesEasy-to-use building control system
Hager has launched Tebis TX, a building services control system that it says is the simplest on the market.
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FeaturesNG Bailey: Let鈥檚 talk about M&E
Cal Bailey of NG Bailey talks us through his ideal M&E project, and then describes one that came pretty close 鈥� the Scottish Natural Heritage headquarters.
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FeaturesColt International: The heat is off
Colt International鈥檚 Dave Ferrol explains why its smoke control and HVAC products are popular on everything from underground car parks to stately homes.
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FeaturesThe undercover networker
EC Harris QS Vicki Burley, right, knows that in business who you know is often as important as what you know. But how easy is it for a newcomer to get a look in? We sent her and Katie Puckett to infiltrate and review three networking events in London
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FeaturesPretty bubbles in the air
The Water Cube, as the 2008 Olympic aquatics centre is known, is the largest ETFE-clad building in the world. And, as it nears completion, its vast bubble-wrap exterior is already the talk of Beijing.
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FeaturesNo rush to judgment
Housebuilders and planners have blamed each other for the UK鈥檚 housing shortage, but the head of the National Housing and Planning Advice Unit believes a more rounded approach is called for. Mark Leftly meets Kevin Williamson
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FeaturesCost model: Further education
England鈥檚 tired further education colleges need about 拢5bn of work to bring them up to date. Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon explores the design, procurement and cost issues
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FeaturesBatten down the hatches
Hull council wants to make flood resistance a condition of planning permission, but is it possible to build a house capable of resisting the recent freakish weather? And would anybody buy one?
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FeaturesThe quiet revolutionary
Don鈥檛 be fooled by the lack of windmills and solar panels 鈥� this Innovate Properties building in Leeds is the greenest office in the UK, even with its mechanical ventilation. Eleanor Cochrane finds out how it was done
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FeaturesThe art of Deco
Ansell Lighting has launched Deco Highbay, a light designed for situations in which both illumination and visual impact are required, for example in offices, shops and restaurants.
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Air-source heat pumps
DEVI has released Danfoss, a range of air source heat pumps that supply heating and hot water simultaneously.