More Focus – Page 340

  • Visualisations of the double-decker lifts. Users enter the double-deck car simultaneously from two adjacent floors, having prebooked their journey using their ID card or a touchscreen terminal
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    Express elevation

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Double-deck lifts - Office workers at Broadgate Tower won't be hanging around waiting in the lobby. They'll be speeding up its 34 storeys in the latest lift innovation.

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    Help!

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    By 2010, the average graduate will owe the banks £33,700. There's only one way to pay it back: get a job with a decent salary. So Katie Puckett asked 20 top construction employers how much they're offering

  • Machiavelli
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    The office

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Do you have a tricky problem in the workplace? Let our office politics strategist show you how to turn it to your advantage …

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    Impress your boss - Ðǿմ«Ã½ Schools for the Future

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    A bluffer's guide to … BSF

  • 99% Campaign
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    The 99% campaign - greening the stock we're stuck with

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Almost all our energy efficiency regulations apply only to new buildings, which add a mere 1% to the built environment a year. Today Ðǿմ«Ã½ opens a campaign to persuade the government to improve the performance of the other 99%. At the moment they're allowed to leak energy like there's no ...

  • Tim Stone
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    A bitter pill

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    The PFI is not responsible for the NHS' headline-grabbing deficits - the NHS is

  • Integrated steel 3
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    Whole-life costs: Concrete vs steel

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    What are the environmental, capital cost and lifetime cost differences between a building with a steel frame and one built using concrete? David Weight of cost consultant Currie & Brown applies the firm’s Live Options modelling system to find out

  • Darryl Strong
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    Appointments

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Who's moving up the career ladder this week?

  • The planetarium resembles an alien space ship half buried in Greenwich park after a crash landing
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    Curved space – the Peter Harrison Planetarium

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Greenwich park is about to get a strange and beautiful adornment: a weird bronze cone through which the heavens will be made manifest. Thomas Lane found out how it's being made

  • The house performs 40% better than the Part L carbon emission target
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    Housing

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Contractor Osborne wanted to push the boundaries of sustainability, so it built a demonstration house packed with green features, from solar panels on the roof to heat pumps under the floor. Sonia Soltani paid a visit

  • Geothermal energy
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    Products

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    A range of items to bring out the interior designer in everyone, including belle époque bathrooms and pool lighting. Plus, the more pressing matters of efficient boilers and greywater recycling

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    Checklist

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    One of the reasons small is beautiful is that it's usually a lot less hassle. Which brings us to the specification of an apartment block … Scott Brownrigg and Barbour Index explain

  • Angus Robertson
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    Just the job

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Angus Robertson tells Sonia Soltani how he followed his heart to the city that never sleeps

  • Farnborough airport’s new terminal and operations building evokes modern aircraft by its long, sleek, streamlined form, faced in shiny aluminium
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    The technology and beauty of aircraft

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    A sleek building in the shape of a boomerang, or more appropriately a pair of aircraft wings, has been opened at Farnborough airport in Hampshire.

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    Where in the world?

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    From the salmon runs of British Columbia to the golf courses of Hong Kong, the white rum of Antigua to the jade green pastis of southern France … there's a whole world waiting for you. Hays Construction & Property and Ðǿմ«Ã½'s international salary guide helps you take off the blindfold ...

  • At developer Stanhope’s 14,300 m² Chiswick Park, west London, buildings are clustered and retail outlets brought within the office shells to create a mini-community
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    Cost model: Business parks

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Business parks are back, but this time they need to be sustainable and mixed-use. Neal Kalita of Davis Langdon examines how developers can meet the evolving needs of planners and occupiers without breaking the bank

  • Left to right: lawyer Dominic Helps, carbon coach Dave Hampton and the CIC’s Graham Watts consider their carbon output – as represented by Dave’s giant purple balloon
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    Let's see how they got on

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    Back in February, Ðǿմ«Ã½ challenged three industry figures to repent their sins and adopt low carbon lifestyles. One hundred days later, Katie Puckett gathered them together to find out how they coped - and finds that things aren't going quite to plan.

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    Cost update: June 2006

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    In this quarter's focus on the costs of industry materials and labour, Peter Fordham of Davis Langdon reports on the impact of record global commodity prices

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    Materials

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    The latest look at materials and energy costs shows that manufacturers' input prices are still through the roof - partly because gas is 60% up on this time last year …

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    Labour

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    Ðǿմ«Ã½ and civils operatives are about to enjoy a 14.5% rise over three years - but it's not quite the 60% they had in mind … Plus the latest labour rates for plumbers and more