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FeaturesA view from the endless bridge
Jean Nouvel鈥檚 Minneapolis theatre makes a home for drama in a bleak Midwestern landscape
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FeaturesThe gasman cometh 鈥�
Mark Clare, formerly of British Gas, is set to put Barratt on the acquisition trail
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FeaturesWhere are we now?
It鈥檚 been a year since London got the job of hosting the 2012 Olympics, and to the untrained eye, nothing much seems to have happened. Mark Leftly commentates on what鈥檚 been going on, and what鈥檚 planned for the next six years and three weeks
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FeaturesThere鈥檚 more than one way to skin an office
The latest products and whole-life costs, notes on intelligent facades and the special love between an architect and its concrete supplier. But first, Sonia Soltani on the teams defying skills shortages to install extraordinary facades
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FeaturesWhat to specify: cladding and curtain walling
From banks to cinemas, and from theatres to homes, the latest cladding and curtain walling products can work wonders anywhere
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FeaturesWhat to remember: facades
Facades have got so intelligent these days, they can control your building鈥檚 airflow, heat transfer, lighting and acoustics. Barbour and Scott Brownrigg explore the options for specifiers
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FeaturesCosts: Curtain wallings
Curtain walling looks simple, but it鈥檚 a complex network of systems and components. Peter Mayer of 星空传媒 LifePlans examines the whole-life costs and performance of all of them
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FeaturesHow we work together
Or how an architect found its ideal supplier 鈥� This week Sonia Soltani tells the tale of Pascall + Watson and Belgian concrete firm Decomo
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FeaturesSupport the 99% campaign
Register your support for 星空传媒's important campaign on improving the energy efficiency of our existing building stock
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FeaturesLet's stay together
Bob Johnston was given the top job at Bovis and told to strengthen the bonds between parent and subsidiary. But that doesn't mean he's there to dispense group hugs. Angela Monaghan found out about his plans to double profits.
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FeaturesThe 99% campaign - Incentives for action
Your suggestions on improving the energy performance of existing building stock including carbon trading, stamp duty and tax relief.
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FeaturesSustainability: Green roofs
Living roofs are often specified for their symbolic value, as a statement of the owner or developer's environmental credentials. But, as Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon explains, there are also tangible cost and performance benefits to going green up top
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Skanska enjoys 拢1bn month as Barts gets go-ahead
Swedish firm tops monthly league thanks to 拢1.2bn PFI hospital scheme
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Features鈥楤e careful what you say. If you claim to have done something, I'll check it'
Land Securities, aka the builder's developer, is spending 拢700m a year. But you won't win any of it if you're what development director Steve McGuckin delicately terms a bullshitter. Katie Puckett found out about his plans to take even tighter control.
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FeaturesPrater learns from rival's fall
SME focus - Two months after buying most of Coverite, the roofer is still cautious over expansion
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FeaturesBespoke Savill style
An elegant visitor centre with a timber gridshell roof cuts a swath through Windsor Great Park
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FeaturesGeoff Wright takes a bow
Hammerson boss retires today after 37 years and hints at future industry roles
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FeaturesNuclear power station in Olkiluoto, Finland: The 1.6 billion watt baby
320,000 m鲁 of granite blasted away, 12,000 m鲁 of concrete poured in one go: the team building Europe's first nuclear reactor in a decade aren't messing around. Still, the most complicated thing is the paperwork. Thomas Lane reports from Finland
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FeaturesSizewell stories
We can also learn a lot from the last reactor built in Britain, Suffolk's Sizewell B. Here, key members of the project team share their memories with Graham Ridout