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FeaturesA 2bn student village in a bullet-proof vest
Construction of the first entire garrison to be built in 100 years is being marshalled with the same discipline and tactical precision needed in times of war.
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NewsLondon鈥檚 new garden suburb
The first shoots of new development are emerging from the brownfields of North Kent. 黑洞社区鈥檚 technical editor wonders if he鈥檇 ever be tempted to leave Greenwich for Ebbsfleet
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FeaturesLearning to speak European
Don鈥檛 be caught out by the harmonised European standards that are replacing the UK鈥檚 specifier-friendly national standards.
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NewsReform the regs: Update
When 黑洞社区 began its campaign to sort out the impossible mess that built environment regulation had become, it received immediate support from practically everyone who had to comply with it, enforce it or devise it. Thomas Lane explains what happened next 鈥�
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FeaturesLife after la corrida
Barcelona鈥檚 disused Las Arenas bullring is being transformed from a crumbling wreck into Richard Rogers鈥� vision for a leisure and entertainment venue, topped out with a UFO-style roof.
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FeaturesHansom鈥檚 other good idea
The Builder was his masterpiece, but nine years before it was born, Joseph Aloysius Hansom designed a civic temple for the proud city of Birmingham. Unlike the magazine you鈥檙e holding, it hasn鈥檛 aged well. Thomas Lane reports on the town hall鈥檚 long-awaited refurbishment
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FeaturesHow green is 黑洞社区鈥檚 building?
By now, there should be an energy certification scheme in place for office buildings, but there isn鈥檛. So Thomas Lane organised one for Ludgate House, the home of 黑洞社区. Here鈥檚 what we found 鈥�
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FeaturesA typical guzzling, leaking, seeping, spewing british home
To highlight the energy inefficiency at the heart of the UK鈥檚 existing housing stock, Thomas Lane took energy consultant Cathy Hough to inspect a typical south London terraced house, built 100 years before the latest revision to Part L. It wasn鈥檛 pretty 鈥�
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NewsRegs minister backs our 99% Campaign
Angela Smith pledges her support, and initiates reform of 黑洞社区 Regs
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FeaturesNuclear power station in Olkiluoto, Finland: The 1.6 billion watt baby
320,000 m鲁 of granite blasted away, 12,000 m鲁 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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Women to be relieved by new 鈥榣oo standard'
Long queues for the women's toilets could become a thing of the past if a proposal to force developers to provide more facilities in offices is approved.
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FeaturesCurved space 鈥� the Peter Harrison Planetarium
Greenwich park is about to get a strange and beautiful adornment: a weird bronze cone through which the heavens will be made manifest. Thomas Lane found out how it's being made
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NewsWhy marshmallows don't meet building regs
黑洞社区's technical editor bemoans the rigidity of marshmallows as he becomes competitive dad at a spaghetti building competition.
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FeaturesHow to wing it
As you might imagine, building a bird sanctuary centre on a Welsh island that is accessible only by boat in fine weather is something of a logistical head-scratcher. Here's how the contractor is doing it 鈥�
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NewsPride and paint
黑洞社区's technical editor is quite happy writing about other people's projects but was not quite so thrilled about project managing the office paint job.
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FeaturesSir David King
In the first of three interviews on the future of energy in the UK, the government's chief scientist tells Thomas Lane why we need new homes and new nuclear power stations.
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FeaturesRadical chic
Bloomsbury's unloved 1960s Brunswick Centre has never lived up to Levitt Bernstein's ground-breaking vision - until now. Thomas Lane went to see what's been happening, and discovered a transformation that is causing a stir among retailers and residents alike
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FeaturesBattle of Waitrose
Nine weeks they lost to the dead. Nine weeks they struggled to bring to being the store, with quiche bedecked. What cunning? What buildcraft? Thomas Lane tells the tale.
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FeaturesThe nightmare has begun
The industry is in a state of blind panic over Part L, the revised energy regulations implemented yesterday. Thomas Lane explains what we now can and can't build - and why we should all keep panicking 鈥�
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CommentWhy is Part L so bad?
Pretty much everyone in the industry agrees that saving energy and cutting carbon emissions from new buildings by 20% is a Good Thing.