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FeaturesTop drawer
Talk about a cabinet reshuffle 鈥� Denton Corker Marshall鈥檚 flamboyant design for Manchester鈥檚 Civil Justice Centre has brought dynamism to the heart of the legal establishment. Over the next eight pages Martin Spring praises the building鈥檚 clear, bold expression and on pages 48-50, we meet the Australian trio who designed ...
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FeaturesThe golden age of travel
Is right now, thanks to the bulging pay packets, cushy expat packages, sexed-up CVs and challenging jobs that are on offer to UK professionals willing to work abroad.
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FeaturesInside the project team
Now you鈥檙e all clued up on Manchester鈥檚 Civil Justice Centre, it鈥檚 time to meet the Aussies who designed it. Martin Spring got inside their mutual headspace. Portraits by Tim Foster
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Features鈥業 just feel the whole system is rather stupid鈥� 鈥� One man鈥檚 14-year battle with the planning laws
Gerald Ringe had one of those classic dreams: buy an old wreck in the country and turn it into a rural retreat. But he hadn鈥檛 counted on the idiosyncrasies of our planning system. Fourteen years after his first planning application, he鈥檚 finally giving up. He tells Katie Puckett why鈥�
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The cosmic bungalow
Hydrogen is the basic building block of matter. When it fuses with itself, it releases enough energy to light the universe. When it combines with oxygen, it releases enough energy to heat a small house in the Black Country. Is it the answer to all our problems?
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FeaturesSpecialist cost update: Services
Gardiner & Theobald looks at recent changes in the rapidly evolving and increasingly high-tech world of services, from engineering services to lifts and IT systems
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FeaturesBouygues鈥� battle for Britain
As the 10th anniversary of the French company鈥檚 entry into the UK approaches, its managing director tells Mark Leftly about his plans to expand all over the country
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Features鈥楾hey all hate me!鈥�
There are some things that the fledgling project manager can鈥檛 learn at university 鈥� such as how to deal with punch-ups or the nagging feeling that your team couldn鈥檛 care less. Debika Ray seeks some therapeutic advice
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FeaturesPhase one, take two
Young Mancunians were out in force at 星空传媒鈥檚 second networking party last Wednesday
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FeaturesWater fight
The Nirah freshwater aquarium will provide vital scientific research and 鈥� at four times the size of the Eden Project 鈥� is set to be a huge tourism boost for Bedford. So why has it had to endure an almighty struggle to get planning consent?
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FeaturesIs Brown's plan for 3 million new homes by 2020 feasible?
The Prime minister this week announced plans to dramatically escalate housebuilding in England and Wales over the next 12 years.
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Lead times January-June 2007
Increased lead times for eight construction packages have been counterbalanced by reductions in eight others, reports Brian Moone of Mace Business School.
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FeaturesPyromania for beginners
Look around you at all the things that you can set fire to. Now imagine you can do that instead of paying your gas and electricity bills. Interested? Better listen to what Thomas Lane has to say 鈥�
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FeaturesHow to attract students
Lots of construction companies do university milk rounds, but which come away with the cream? Katie Puckett asked six why they chose their employer 鈥� and if they were ever let out early to go the pub
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FeaturesSlab happy
The inventors of SmartSlab describe it as an all-in-one, load-bearing, moving-image display slab. It鈥檚 also the only system that provides animated displays while retaining all the features associated with external cladding.
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FeaturesCurtain-walling for curved facades
Comar Architectural Aluminium Systems has launched a capped curtain-walling suite called Comar 6EFT in the UK. It is designed for glazing on high-rise, sloped and inclined facades.
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Features鈥楩rameless鈥� glass panels
Hunter Douglas has developed an effectively frameless version of its QuadroClad ventilated rainscreen facade, called QuadroMeleon.
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Perforated facade
Kalzip has launched a lightweight facade system, the Kalzip Perforated Facade.
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Colour-coated steel envelope
Steel cladding manufacturer Arval has launched a colour-coated steel building envelope called AR200XP.