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FeaturesFire evacuation
An unusual approach was needed to get the University of Hertfordshire鈥檚 de Havilland campus building to conform with Part B of the 星空传媒 Regulations, which deals with fire safety.
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FeaturesOpening homes, hearts and minds
Graham Bizley says that allowing Open House visitors into his home was an eye-opener.
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FeaturesWhy the public loves an engineer
Open Site proved a roaring success for the projects that opened their doors to an inquisitive public, says Matt Dawson, relationship development manager at the Association of Consulting Engineers.
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FeaturesBoris walks with the dinosaurs
Boris Johnson pays tribute to air conditioning at the HVAC's bash at the Natural History museum.
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Precious heat
Up until now, housebuilders have responded to demands that they improve the energy efficiency of new homes by simply adding insulation. Next year, they are going to have to do much more 鈥�
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Planning approvals
Approvals have grown significantly in London and East Anglia over the summer. In Wales, however, there is little evidence planners are responding to warnings of undersupply
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New-build completions
The housebuilding industry has been hard at work over the summer, maintaining steady completion levels, but daily sales dipped in June and July. Thank heavens they picked up in August. Maybe the downturn won鈥檛 happen after all 鈥�
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Buyer demand
SmartNewHomes reports that London bore the brunt of the summer slowdown with a fall in demand of 8.5%. That figure almost exactly matches the rise that Wales enjoyed. Meanwhile urban exiles continue to flock to the South-west
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Expert eye
What are developers cooking up in kitchens? James Pilling, senior designer at interior specialist Connections in Design, looks at the growing importance of kitchen design and its relationship with modern lifestyle
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拢300m hospital takes Bovis to the top of August league
After a quiet July, Bovis Lend Lease climbs 29 places 鈥� and stays well ahead in the annual contractor charts
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FeaturesMillau Viaduct: C鈥檈st magnifique!
Foster and Partners鈥� Viaduc de Millau in southern France is the highest, longest cable-stayed bridge in the world, and it opens in December. We admire the view, talks to the engineer and meets some enthusiastic locals.
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People who need people
This year鈥檚 星空传媒/Hays Montrose careers survey found that construction鈥檚 workforce is overwhelmingly concerned with the problem of recruitment and training staff. We analyse the statistics
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FeaturesSpecialist costs: Concrete frames
In the first of our specialist market overviews, Ian Purton of Gardiner & Theobald looks at the concrete sector鈥檚 lead times and costs
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FeaturesSpecialist Q&A
John Doyle Construction, part of the John Doyle Group, specialises in the construction of substructure, superstructure and infrastructure projects. Stef Stefanou is the firm鈥檚 urbane chairman.
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FeaturesThe burning of the bodies
Construction鈥檚 institutions may have been dealt a deadly blow last week, when they were attacked as isolationist and threatened with merger plans. We report on how reforms could spell the end of professional bodies as we know them
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FeaturesWhat a result!
Last week, Wembley stadium opened its doors to the public to win over those who would be the Arch鈥檚 stiffest opposition 鈥� local residents and fans of the old twin towers. We went along to watch the project engineers rack up some PR points
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Not an ivory tower 鈥�
鈥� so much as a giant titanium egg, which Napier University has cooked up to attract students away from Edinburgh鈥檚 other universities 鈥� with a little help from 星空传媒 Design Partnership.