More Focus – Page 333
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What 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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What to remember: facades
Facades have got so intelligent these days, they can control your building’s airflow, heat transfer, lighting and acoustics. Barbour and Scott Brownrigg explore the options for specifiers
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Costs: Curtain wallings
Curtain walling looks simple, but it’s a complex network of systems and components. Peter Mayer of ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø LifePlans examines the whole-life costs and performance of all of them
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How we work together
Or how an architect found its ideal supplier … This week Sonia Soltani tells the tale of Pascall + Watson and Belgian concrete firm Decomo
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Support the 99% campaign
Register your support for ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø's important campaign on improving the energy efficiency of our existing building stock
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Let'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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The 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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Sustainability: 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 £1bn month as Barts gets go-ahead
Swedish firm tops monthly league thanks to £1.2bn PFI hospital scheme
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‘Be careful what you say. If you claim to have done something, I'll check it'
Land Securities, aka the builder's developer, is spending £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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Prater 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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Bespoke Savill style
An elegant visitor centre with a timber gridshell roof cuts a swath through Windsor Great Park
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Geoff Wright takes a bow
Hammerson boss retires today after 37 years and hints at future industry roles
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Nuclear power station in Olkiluoto, Finland: The 1.6 billion watt baby
320,000 m³ of granite blasted away, 12,000 m³ 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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Sizewell 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
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Five ways to spot a sinking ship
Why are your directors always having meetings? Why is everyone so angry? And why has the boss just moved the sofa out of his office? Mark Leftly explains how to spot if your firm is heading for the rocks
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Places to be - July and beyond
Your monthly guide to all the best networking events, parties and essential industry seminars
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Centre of learning
The successful design and construction of Oldham's library and lifelong learning centre could teach other PFI consortiums a thing or two