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FeaturesA world awaits us: The Copenhagen conference building boom
A deal on carbon reduction targets in next month鈥檚 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen could create a boom for UK consultants working overseas
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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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FeaturesObject lessons: Foster's Berkshire academy
Foster鈥檚 latest academy in Berkshire is based around the idea of learning through museum exhibits 鈥� which makes for some unusual interior decor
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FeaturesImagine the world in 2020: climate change
The year鈥檚 2020, and, having left 星空传媒 for reasons far too shocking to go into here, former assistant editor Thomas Lane talks us through a day in his life as an engineer in a world that鈥檚 slowly coming to terms with climate change 鈥�
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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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FeaturesPsychic power: The future of nuclear
In one way, the future for nuclear energy looks assured. In another, it鈥檚 at the mercy of all sorts of possible problems. Olivia Boyd shuffles the cards and identifies five of the biggest
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FeaturesEducating mena
The Middle East鈥檚 grand schoolbuilding plans present a great opportunity for UK firms, so long as they appreciate the unique challenges of the market 鈥� as two speakers at December鈥檚 BSEC MENA conference explain
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FeaturesI'm still here: Expats surviving in Dubai
When the recession brought work in Dubai to a virtual standstill, it triggered an exodus of expat professionals. But not everybody went home. 星空传媒 talks to some of the survivors to find out how life in the UAE has changed
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FeaturesCost model update: Small projects
Max Wilkes of Davis Langdon revisits affordable homes, extra-care homes and nursing homes to find out what effect changes in regulations and tender price deflation have had on the sums
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FeaturesPardon me boy, is that the chattanooga choo choo?
Well, no it鈥檚 not. But following a major renovation and extensive tunnelling to Antwerp Centraal Station, trains can now whizz through on their way to Amsterdam, Brussels and beyond
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FeaturesTom Barry: 鈥楾he UAE is coming out of recession as we speak鈥�
Tom Barry is boss of Arabtec, the UAE鈥檚 biggest contractor, and he鈥檚 been doing the job for 35 years. So who better to ask what鈥檚 going to happen next to the Emirates?
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FeaturesIt鈥檚 back! Return of the PFI
It seems that rumours of the PFI鈥檚 demise have been greatly exagerrated. But what type of work is likely to be available? And where鈥檚 the money going to come from?
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FeaturesA time for action?: Energy policy consulation
Consultation Man will be going back in his box if the Tories have their way, to be replaced by a more 鈥榙ynamic鈥� approach to energy policy. But is there more to the consulting process than just a lengthy exercise in delaying decisions?
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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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Market forecast: Still a way to go
Despite signs of recession abating in some quarters, 2010 will remain tough for the building industry, particularly with public sector work likely to shrink
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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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FeaturesThe five hundred million pound woman: Colette O'Shea
Last week, we looked at what life on site was like for the industry鈥檚 female minority. This week, Emily Wright heads to the boardroom to meet Land Securities鈥� Colette O鈥橲hea, the most powerful woman in London development