All Supplements articles – Page 7

  • News

    Aluminium cladding

    2009-11-13T00:00:00Z

    James & Taylor is providing the cladding for the £40m Aquinas College in Stockport, Cheshire

  • Features

    Acoustics: The sound of silence

    2009-11-13T00:00:00Z

    A study at an Essex secondary school revealed a significant boost to pupil concentration when acoustics were improved

  • Features

    Movers and makers: 13 November 2009

    2009-11-13T00:00:00Z

    H+H UK has published a simplified factsheet on the acoustic specifications for schools

  • Features

    Terracotta-look solar shading

    2009-10-30T00:00:00Z

    Sotech has supplied a bespoke extruded aluminium baguette sunscreen system that replicates the appearance of traditional terracotta for a multistorey car park at the Almondvale shopping centre near Edinburgh

  • Features

    Movers and makers

    2009-10-30T00:00:00Z

    Latest news from the world of construction product manufacture

  • Features

    Integrated solar thermal panels

    2009-10-30T00:00:00Z

    Luvata has developed Nordic Solar, which discreetly incorporates renewables into a building by integrating a patinated copper facade with a solar thermal system

  • Sarah Richardson
    Comment

    Infrastructure: The long game

    2009-10-30T00:00:00Z

    Welcome to the first of ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø’s special market reports

  • Features

    Sliding glass facade with PV

    2009-10-30T00:00:00Z

    Austrian firm M-systems has launched the EV3000, an aluminium framed glass sliding panel designed to provide solar shading on facades and which also incorporates thin film photovoltaics for power generation

  • Features

    Marble cladding

    2009-10-30T00:00:00Z

    Stonespec has introduced Agglotech to the UK

  • Features

    Steel cladding

    2009-10-30T00:00:00Z

    SAS International’s bespoke cladding system was installed at the lower areas of Waterloo station, where they cover 3.5m thick Victorian brick arches

  • Features

    ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø pathology: Water ingress

    2009-10-30T00:00:00Z

    Water penetration can be a problem for brick walls – even if a cavity is included to prevent moisture reaching the building interior

  • Features

    Baby, do you like my curves?

    2009-10-30T00:00:00Z

    Great news for fans of blobby architecture – a technology that creates curvaceous structures with such speed and precision that it could change the way we build

  • Features

    Costain's Andrew Wyllie: Who wants to be glamorous anyway?

    2009-10-30T00:00:00Z

    With £2.5bn of orders on its books, Costain’s move towards sectors such as waste, oil and roads seems like an inspired decision. Andrew Wyllie, the man who made it, tells Sarah Richardson where the contractor is heading next

  • Features

    Aluminium facade panels

    2009-10-30T00:00:00Z

    This residential complex in London used almost 5,000 anodised aluminium rainscreen panels

  • Features

    Infrastructure market overview: The road ahead

    2009-10-30T00:00:00Z

    Sector overview Infrastructure has been one of the few bright spots in the construction market over the past year – but will it last? Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon makes some predictions for the next four years

  • Features

    Nuclear programme: The age of proliferation

    2009-10-30T00:00:00Z

    Programme update: Over the next two decades, the nuclear industry is set to provide 64,000 man-years of construction-related work – enough to keep a lot of companies very busy indeed. David Rogers and Thom Gibbs look at who’s best placed to make the most of the bonanza

  • Features

    Global infrastrucure financing: Where to find $35,000,000,000,000

    2009-10-30T00:00:00Z

    That’s one prediction for the amount that will be spent on global infrastructure over the next 20 years. But with bank financing having fallen by up to 85% in the UK alone, where is the money going to come from?

  • Comment

    Welcome

    2009-10-16T00:00:00Z

    … and the lion shall lie down with the lamb …

  • Features

    Does your job ever get on top of you?

    2009-10-16T00:00:00Z

    Each construction profession requires different skills and personalities, so it’s easy to fit the person with the job, right? Well, actually it’s harder than that, and the consequences of failure can be very unhappy workers

  • Features

    Commentary

    2009-10-16T00:00:00Z

    David Rogers looks at what the tables tell us this year