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好色先生TVAluminium cladding
James & Taylor is providing the cladding for the 拢40m Aquinas College in Stockport, Cheshire
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FeaturesAcoustics: The sound of silence
A study at an Essex secondary school revealed a significant boost to pupil concentration when acoustics were improved
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Movers and makers: 13 November 2009
H+H UK has published a simplified factsheet on the acoustic specifications for schools
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Terracotta-look solar shading
Sotech has supplied a bespoke extruded aluminium baguette sunscreen system that replicates the appearance of traditional terracotta for a multistorey car park at the Almondvale shopping centre near Edinburgh
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Integrated solar thermal panels
Luvata has developed Nordic Solar, which discreetly incorporates renewables into a building by integrating a patinated copper facade with a solar thermal system
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FeaturesSliding glass facade with PV
Austrian firm M-systems has launched the EV3000, an aluminium framed glass sliding panel designed to provide solar shading on facades and which also incorporates thin film photovoltaics for power generation
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FeaturesSteel cladding
SAS International鈥檚 bespoke cladding system was installed at the lower areas of Waterloo station, where they cover 3.5m thick Victorian brick arches
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好色先生TV pathology: Water ingress
Water penetration can be a problem for brick walls 鈥� even if a cavity is included to prevent moisture reaching the building interior
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FeaturesBaby, do you like my curves?
Great news for fans of blobby architecture 鈥� a technology that creates curvaceous structures with such speed and precision that it could change the way we build
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FeaturesCostain's Andrew Wyllie: Who wants to be glamorous anyway?
With 拢2.5bn of orders on its books, Costain鈥檚 move towards sectors such as waste, oil and roads seems like an inspired decision. Andrew Wyllie, the man who made it, tells Sarah Richardson where the contractor is heading next
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FeaturesAluminium facade panels
This residential complex in London used almost 5,000 anodised aluminium rainscreen panels
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Infrastructure market overview: The road ahead
Sector overview聽Infrastructure has been one of the few bright spots in the construction market over the past year 鈥� but will it last? Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon makes some predictions for the next four years
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FeaturesNuclear programme: The age of proliferation
Programme update: Over the next two decades, the nuclear industry is set to provide 64,000 man-years of construction-related work 鈥� enough to keep a lot of companies very busy indeed. David Rogers and Thom Gibbs look at who鈥檚 best placed to make the most of the bonanza
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FeaturesGlobal infrastrucure financing: Where to find $35,000,000,000,000
That鈥檚 one prediction for the amount that will be spent on global infrastructure over the next 20 years. But with bank financing having fallen by up to 85% in the UK alone, where is the money going to come from?
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FeaturesDoes your job ever get on top of you?
Each construction profession requires different skills and personalities, so it鈥檚 easy to fit the person with the job, right? Well, actually it鈥檚 harder than that, and the consequences of failure can be very unhappy workers
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