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Doorset with minimum door swing
Doorset maker Leaderflush Shapland has designed a doorset solution for the single-room pilot ward project at Hillingdon Hospital in Uxbridge, Middlesex.
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FeaturesReason to celebrate: a 黑洞社区 Awards preview
It鈥檚 easy amid all the gloom to forget what we鈥檝e achieved as an industry over the past few years. The 黑洞社区 Awards are here to remind you and although you鈥檒l have to wait until April to know who the winners are, we think you鈥檒l enjoy this preview
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FeaturesCost model update, March 2009
With the construction market in reverse, it鈥檚 crucial to have the latest data. This cost update has been compiled by Max Wilkes and Simon Rawlinson, with help from Davis Langdon鈥檚 sector experts
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FeaturesThe race to build Britain's nuclear reactors
Japanese-owned nuclear giant Westinghouse is in a race with France鈥檚 Areva for the UK鈥檚 拢20bn nuclear reactor market. And it looks like it鈥檚 falling behind. We asked the man spearheading the bid if he was worried...
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FeaturesI've started so I'll finish: David Tuffin of Tuffin Ferraby Taylor
David Tuffin started Tuffin Ferraby Taylor when people wore loon pants and voluntarily listened to the Bay City Rollers. Several recessions later, he鈥檚 handing it over to a new generation. But isn鈥檛 that going to be a bit tricky right now?
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FeaturesRoll over Beethoven!
This music theatre in Graz starts off in classical style, but inside it鈥檚 doing the twist
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FeaturesSurviving Mipim without champagne
Mipim looks set to a frugal affair this year, with fewer big boats, less free champagne and virtually no Russian oligarchs. 黑洞社区 gets some tips on doing Cannes on the cheap
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FeaturesDon't sweat it: Arup's National Physical Laboratory
黑洞社区 a laboratory where temperatures are controlled to the nearest 0.1潞C is scary enough. But when you have the added possibility of radiation leaks and you know the job finished off the last firm to try it, well, you could forgive Arup for being 鈥榓 bit nervous鈥�
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FeaturesProfiled cladding
Euroclad鈥榮 Elite Systems have been used on the 拢6.4m redevelopment of the historic market site in Minehead, Somerset
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FeaturesRivington Street Studio's York St John University: New York, New York
Rivington Street Studio鈥檚 flamboyant design for York St John University鈥檚 new quadrangle in England鈥檚 most complete medieval city provoked predictable outrage. Now that it鈥檚 built, its youthful verve frees it from the heritage vice
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FeaturesRainscreen panels
Eurobond鈥檚 Rainspan rainscreen support panels have been used on the refurbishment and extension of the Emersons Green Sainsbury鈥檚 store in Bristol
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FeaturesComposite panels
Kingspan Insulated Panels has added the KS1000 LV Louvre and KS1000 CW CurveWall to its architectural wall panel range
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FeaturesUnderground, overground: the ICE award winners
From tunnels under the Thames to tree-top walks in Kew, London was the scene of some impressive feats of civil engineering in 2008. Yesterday, the ICE celebrated the best of them
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FeaturesThe world construction outlook
In the old days, before the world banking meltdown, firms looked abroad for expansion opportunities. These days they are economic migrants. Davis Langdon looks at the best places to flee
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FeaturesSerbia: Construction's new hope?
Alright, it hasn鈥檛 got the shops, the offices, the hotels or the gleaming infrastructure 鈥� but then, that鈥檚 precisely why the so-called 鈥楤alkan Tiger鈥� is such a find for UK construction
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FeaturesThe return of the glazed terracotta tile
Like an old punk band that reunites for one last gig, glazed terracotta tiles 鈥� famous for their early appearances on Victorian pubs and tube stations 鈥� are making a comeback. Stephen Kennett gives a big hand to two completed schemes that are shaking up the streets of London
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Standing seam profiles
Rigidal鈥檚 Ziplok standing-seam profile has been used for cladding on a car park in County Durham
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Louvred panels
Arcelor Mittal has introduced its Recif range of louvred metal cladding for facades in the UK