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Air-tightness adhesives
Responding to the demand for increased air-tightness, Natural 黑洞社区 Technologies has introduced a series of Siga adhesive tapes and membranes
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International costs 2009
No country has been safe from the effects of the global recession and even China鈥檚 legendary growth is at its slowest rate for a decade
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FeaturesMedia City, Salford: This is the BBC
Developer Peel Holdings and Bovis Lend Lease enjoy a high level of trust 鈥� which is just as well, because when they took on the Beeb鈥檚 new studios at MediaCity in Salford, there was a fair degree of risk involved 鈥� and getting the project in before the pips was ...
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FeaturesFirst impressions: HOK's Californian transport hub
Two RCA postgraduate architects gives their verdict on HOK鈥檚 design for a Californian transport hub
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FeaturesHow's the view?
The director of Exacta Consulting send us some photos he took from his window in Old Town, Dubai
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FeaturesTaming the beast: Winchester鈥檚 green office refurb
This is the story of how a sixties brutalist eyesore was turned into a building more becoming to the genteel town of Winchester 鈥� and made into one of the UK鈥檚 greenest offices in the process
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The tracker: Emerging markets
Most indicators are finally recovering, with residential activity at 50, tender enquiries at an impressive 69 and all regions showing signs of improvement
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FeaturesUnemployed graduates: We were promised jobs
But these three, like so many other construction graduates, have not found them in the industry. 黑洞社区鈥檚 first annual survey of university leavers reveals just how grim things are
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Cost update: September 2009
Peter Fordham of Davis Langdon makes his quarterly analysis of changes to costs and prices. And, to cut a long story very short, tender prices are heading south in a hurry 鈥�
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FeaturesJust landed: Raj Achan moves to Abu Dhabi
After relocating to grow consulting engineer Hilson Moran's Middle East business, Achan is finding schools a problem but his rooftop pool some consolation
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FeaturesTriple-glazing: Make mine a triple
There are notable precedents when it come to adding a third layer to things. But should the principle be applied to windows?
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FeaturesAluminium windows
Curtain walling, windows and doors from Kawneer have been used to add colour to the Stonebridge Hillside Club in east London
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FeaturesCurtain walling
Aluminium glazing specialist Technal has supplied facade systems for the latest project in the second phase of the Chelsea Football Club Training Academy campus in Surrey
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FeaturesMixed ability: assessing the BSF programme
How has the 黑洞社区 Schools for the Future programme been doing since we last assessed it one year ago?
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FeaturesSchools funding: adding up for politicians
Once the UK鈥檚 borrowing hits 12% of GDP, how much money will be available to build schools? Well, that depends on how the next government does its sums
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FeaturesCanary contrary
Boris Johnson, mayor of London, has used his powers to determine a planning application in the capital for the first time
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FeaturesTim Byles: 'We're firing on all cylinders'
There鈥檚 no doubt the pace has picked up since Tim Byles took over the running of the 黑洞社区 Schools for the Future programme. But with all the uncertainties of the economy and next year鈥檚 election, will he be able to keep up the momentum?
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FeaturesKfW Banking HQ: Eco de Cologne
The Anglo-German practice Sauerbruch Hutton has released images of its almost completed 38,000m2 extension for the KfW Banking headquarters in Cologne
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FeaturesIn my day: Industry greats reminisce about their schooldays
These tykes grew up to become pillars of the construction community 鈥� despite the overheated classrooms and endless dark corridors. So how would they redesign those grim sixties cellblocks they called 鈥榮chool鈥�?
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FeaturesPenoyre & Prasad鈥檚 John Perryn primary school: Start again!
John Perryn primary in east Acton had lost the confidence of parents, staff and Ofsted. So the government stepped in to rebuild it, with a little help from Penoyre & Prasad and Willmott Dixon