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  • Features

    Checklist

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    Lighting is a key consideration for retail and leisure centres, and the latest technology is making a lot of exciting options available. Scott Brownrigg and Barbour tell you more …

  • Ray Mabey
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    To local resident Ray Mabey this is ‘a joyriders' car park' …

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    To Newham council it is the testing ground for an american-inspired mixed communities initiative … But will the impending £110m transformation convince tenants like Ray to stay in Canning town's area 3? …

  • Archive Titles

    Upcoming bills and consultations

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    UK and Scottish parlimentary bills & DCLG, Scottish executive and Welsh assembly consultations

  • Roger Blitz
    Archive Titles

    Agenda

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    All change in the Cabinet may mean all change in policy

  • Cease and desist: Officers arrest rioting youths at the Cité des 4 Tours housing estate in the Paris suburb of Le Blanc Mesnil last November
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    After the riots

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    Youths running wild on suburban streets, police cracking down, violence, poverty, despair - not a scene from La Haine but real-life France last autumn. To stop this happening again, the French government is trying to revive the banlieues. Will it succeed and what can we learn from its efforts?

  • Archive Titles

    5 lessons …

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    … from the local elections, by Tom Curtin and Will Scawn of Green Issues Communications

  • Abbey Mill House: Morley has agreed the £40m forward-funding of PMB Holdings’ 15-storey tower in Reading. It will be the city’s tallest office building.
    Features

    Put your specs on

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    The speculative office funding market is back, and more players are getting in on the action than ever before. But success will rely on a clear, realistic vision of occupational demand and rental prospects.

  • Illustration by Brett Ryder
    Features

    What a performance

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    The European energy performance of buildings directive obliges landlords to make clear how much energy their offices use. No guidance has been issued on how to meet the directive, costs seem to be a state secret and no one has a clue if it will work. Oh, and it came ...

  • Manchester’s latest mixed-use tower is the £83m Albany Crown
    Features

    The only way is up

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    Dublin and Manchester are expanding at such a rapid pace that many developers believe the only way for them to continue to compete as major European cities is to build tall. So what are the prospects of seeing more high-rise office space? Well, that's two quite different stories …

  • The office unplugged
    Features

    The office unplugged

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    Wi-fi hot-spots are popping up in coffee bars from Greenwich to Glasgow, and more and more homes have wireless internet. But what does the technology mean for the office?

  • Richard Kauntze
    Features

    So where next?

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    The British Council for Offices has enjoyed such success it might be forgiven for resting on its laurels. But at a time when most of Britain's wealth is created inside offices, the chance of reaching out to a wider business world is one it must pursue with vigour

  • The office of the future
    Features

    The office of the future

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    What will it look like? Who will it cater for? And will the market hold up? We asked a few people who should know to peer into their crystal balls …

  • Foster and Partners’ Bishops Square development in Spitalfields, east London, uses a large number of unitised components.
    Features

    Here's one we prepared earlier …

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    If you are a specialist in residential development or hotels, you'll be well up on the many uses of off-site manufacture. But are there the same opportunities to build off site in the office sector? Simon Rawlinson of QS Davis Langdon discusses the current state of play

  • Don’t know which one to pick?
    Features

    Don't know which one to pick?

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    Choosing the right consultants for office projects is never easy, and it's only getting harder as specialisms and ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Regulations multiply. Mark Leftly asked some developers for their expert advice, then got a consultant to outline what not to do…

  • Gerald Ronson
    Features

    ‘If you are offering a six-star product, you can't deliver three-star service …'

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    … so says property tycoon Gerald Ronson on his plans for London's first luxury office tower. He talks exclusively to Claer Barrett about his ambition to create a Savoy among offices.

  • Viñoly’s 192 m high ‘Walkie Talkie’ building at Fenchurch Street for Land Securities – an example of couture architecture at its most flamboyant
    Features

    Who you calling Square?

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    Forget Milan, forget Paris and don't even mention New York. The big story on the architectural catwalk is the City of London, with Europe's most fashionable architects wowing the Square Mile with glamorous designs. Rob Booth watches them strut their stuff

  • Ireland rugby coach and BCO conference speaker Eddie O’Sullivan is no expert on the UK property market. But he does know all about building a team and turning that team into winners.
    Features

    On the ball

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    Ireland rugby coach and BCO conference speaker Eddie O'Sullivan is no expert on the UK property market. But he does know all about building a team and turning that team into winners. George Hay finds out what he can teach you.

  • News

    Skyline May 2006

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

  • ‘Wooden’ vinyl flooring
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    Products

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Wall-to-wall carpets, vinyl that looks like handcrafted wood, super-tough lino and gizmos that improve acoustic performance in high-density housing all star in this week's flooring special

  • News

    Flooring

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    This weeks Specifier turns its attention to the ground beneath our feet beginning in Birmingham, where an innovative thin flooring system helped to save this iconic building from demolition.