Housing Focus 鈥� Page 15
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Outdoor sockets with translucent lids
Wiring device maker MK Electric has added two sockets with translucent lids to its Masterseal range, which allow users to view the on/off neon indicators of outdoor wiring devices without opening them and protect the plugs in environments in which they could be exposed to dust or water.
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Prefabricated chimney
Schiedel Chimney Systems has launched a prefabricated chimney set for semi-detached properties.
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Outdoor LED spotlights
Ansell Lighting has introduced an LED exterior spotlight called Sierra Luxeon.
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Sustainable carpet range
Milliken Carpet Europe has launched a modular carpet collection called Plan A, which comes in a choice of six patterns.
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Fitting for plumbing manifold
Plumbing and drainage supplier Hepworth 精东影视 Products has extended its Hep2O manifold range to include a fitting that allows direct connection between 22mm and 15mm pipes.
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FeaturesThe writing鈥檚 on the wall
Two neighbouring sixties council estates in north London. One is the best kept estate in the district. The other is in total disrepair, blighted by crime and, much to residents鈥� relief, being torn down. To find out what can be learned for the latest wave of high-density inner-city housing developments, ...
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FeaturesPump up the volume
Martin Spring takes a look at the latest advances in volumetric construction, from novel uses for shipping containers to designs for modules that are 鈥� whisper it 鈥� less boxy. But will any of this increase its popularity among housebuilders?
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FeaturesShould new housing be built on green belt land?
The Social Market Foundation says the government will have to build on the green belt to meet its housing targets.
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FeaturesMini cost model: Nursing homes
As people in the UK live longer, demand for residential care and nursing homes is growing 鈥� as are our expectations of the standard of living they will provide. Max Wilkes of Davis Langdon looks at how home developers and operators are rising to the challenge
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FeaturesThe quiet revolutionary
Don鈥檛 be fooled by the lack of windmills and solar panels 鈥� this Innovate Properties building in Leeds is the greenest office in the UK, even with its mechanical ventilation. Eleanor Cochrane finds out how it was done
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FeaturesGuess who just upped their street cred
You鈥檇 expect the winners of the Housing Design Awards to be ambitious schemes. But you may be surprised to learn they鈥檝e been built by the biggest mass developers and the smallest social landlords. Martin Spring celebrates some of the best entries and, on page 50, revisits a trailblazing former winner.Photographs ...
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Features鈥� and cut!
The politicians may want to reduce domestic carbon emissions to zero, but it鈥檚 the physicists and engineers that will decide whether it can be done. Thomas Lane took a trip to Watford to look the latest technology in the latest prototypes
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FeaturesMasdar: Nice spot for a zero-carbon city...
For his next trick, Norman Foster is going to turn a patch of desert in Abu Dhabi into the world鈥檚 first zero-carbon, zero-waste city. Martin Spring finds out how
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FeaturesCost model: Tall buildings
Cities throughout the UK are developing residential towers and landmark skyscrapers. Steve Watts and Neal Kalita of Davis Langdon consider the design and construction challenges of high-rise development and provide a cost model for a central London office tower
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The start of a beautiful friendship
The proposed merger between Taylor Woodrow and Wimpey may be the biggest housebuilder deal so far, but it follows a year of frenetic takeover activity. Mark Leftly investigates what lessons this might hold for the new kid on the block
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FeaturesHonest John
John Callcutt鈥檚 housebuilding review is likely to be as candid as the man himself
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FeaturesThe digi-box
Want a three-storey extension to a grade II-listed building in less than a day? Or a house that鈥檚 been digitally manufactured to be as easy to assemble as an Airfix model? Martin Spring visits two projects that are taking off-site manufacture to the next level
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FeaturesDrainage channel for patios
Manthorpe has launched a drainage channel for patios and driveways.
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FeaturesStainless steel sinks
Carron Phoenix has launched a range of stainless steel sinks called Zeta. They have 180mm deep bowls and a draining board and sit 4mm off the work surface.
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FeaturesWalk-in shower enclosures
Aqata has brought out a range of walk-in shower enclosures called Minimalist.