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  • Features

    Metallic finishes

    2007-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Shackerley has added a range of metallic finishes to the ceramic granite panels of its rainscreen cladding system.

  • Features

    Maximising daylight: Working on sunshine

    2007-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Daylight improves productivity and wellbeing in the workplace, so theoretically it could help the brainwork at Edinburgh University’s new science facility. But how do you get a good helping of daylight in grey Scotland? Jan-Carlos Kucharek reports on an innovative brise-soleil

  • Features

    Fire-resistant curtain walling

    2007-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Aluminium cladding maker Kawneer has launched a fire-resistant version of its AA100 curtain walling system.

  • Stranger than paradise: The Watercube in Beijing will be three times the size of the Eden Project
    Features

    The Cube route

    2007-03-02T00:00:00Z

    ETFE specialist Vector Foiltec’s involvement in building an iconic aquatic centre for the 2008 Beijing Olympics has called for the relocation of its fabrication operation to China, as managing director Ben Morris explains.

  • Bennetts Associates’ New Street Square in Stratford, east London
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    We’ve got it covered ...

    2007-03-02T00:00:00Z

    As pressure mounts for suppliers to improve energy efficiency, Italian cladding maker Permasteelisa explains how it’s doing its bit for the environment.

  • Features

    Colourful panelling options

    2007-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Fibreglass Grating has launched a range of composite, colour-tinted translucent screening and cladding panels.

  • Features

    What it costs: ceramic tiles

    2007-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Ceramic tiles have come a long way since ancient Egypt. Peter Mayer of ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø LifePlans considers the options

  • Features

    Apartment blocks

    2007-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Marley Eternit's fibre-cement rainscreen cladding panels were selected by Heat Architects for the conversion of two 1950s light industrial buildings into apartments.

  • Features

    The world according to...

    2007-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Ben Morris, managing director, Vector Foiltec

  • News

    Specifier 2 March 2007

    2007-03-02T00:00:00Z

    In this weeks cladding special, panelling natural, metallic and glass in an array of colours vie for attention among apartment dwellers and university students. Plus a round-up of news from manufacturers

  • News

    Specifier 16 February 2007

    2007-02-16T00:00:00Z

  • Renolit has supplied a single-ply membrane for the Dogs Trust’s rehousing centre in west London
    Features

    What to specify

    2007-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Up on the roof, we’ve got glossy black tiles and red cedar shingles, cold roof systems and products to keep in the heat and block out the noise – and that’s before we even reach the dogs’ home ...

  • Terminal ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø, Farnborough
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    Who makes it

    2007-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Jonathan Clemens, the managing director of Kalzip, explains why the firm justifies the title ‘the daddy of standing seam roofing’. For a full guide to suppliers of sustainability products, log on to www.building.co.uk/specifier

  • This visualisation shows how the roof will look from inside the courtyard.
    Features

    Georgious Washington

    2007-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Roofing If you liked the British Museum’s Great Court roof, you’re going to love its designers’ spectacular covering for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.

  • Examples of roof coverings image 3
    Features

    What it costs: roof coverings

    2007-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Reducing wind damage to roofs is one key to meeting the challenge of climate change. Peter Mayer of ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø LifePlans considers the whole-life costs of materials

  • Archive Titles

    Who wins?

    2007-01-26T00:00:00Z

    Regenerate editor Josephine Smit deals another card in the casino debate.

  • Archive Titles

    The legend of zero

    2007-01-26T00:00:00Z

    The government has a new weapon in its fight against global warming: the zero carbon home. But of course it will be up to developers to build them. Angela Lemon and Anthony Kerr give their best swashbuckling advice.

  • Archive Titles

    Bricks, blocks and roofing

    2007-01-26T00:00:00Z

    Products this month …

  • Features

    What to specify: flooring

    2007-01-19T00:00:00Z

    Everything you could possibly want to do to a floor is covered this week, from laying it, carpeting it, heating it, colouring it and protecting it, to fixing balconies and inserting sockets into it.

  • Features

    What to remember: Floor screed

    2007-01-19T00:00:00Z

    Don’t want to lay your fancy finish on that bumpy, lumpy sub-floor? You need a decent screed – but there’s more to applying one than mixing cement and sand, says Peter Caplehorn of Scott Brownrigg