More Focus – Page 217

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    Countdown to 2012: Our year on the Olympics

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Catching up on the past 12 months in the life of ¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ's young 2012 team

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    Deregulation: Fixing New Zealand’s £5bn leak

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Cutting red tape is one thing. But total deregulation is about as sensible as turning on your bathtaps and going on holiday – as thousands of soggy Kiwis now know

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    Cordon sanitaire: MAAP’s mental health facility

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    How do you make a mental health facility secure without it feeling like a prison? The answer MAAP Architects proposes is to turn the buildings themselves into a perimeter fence

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    Off-site hospital

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Yorkon has handed over what it claims to be the largest UK hospital to be built off site

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    Movers and makers: 12 March 2010

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Recent tests at BRE has confirmed that Hydropanel partition walls meet all the requirements of BS 5234-2: 1992 including criteria for stiffness, resistance to surface damage by a variety of objects and the effects of door slamming, as well as resistance to crowd pressure. It also underwent lightweight and heavyweight ...

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    Water controls

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Douglas Delabie, under its Chavonnet banner, has launched a range of water controls to help prevent hospital-acquired infections

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    Washroom fittings

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    A number of products from Rada have been incorporated into a £270m healthcare project in Newcastle-upon-Tyne that will see services transferred to the Royal Victoria Infirmary and Freeman Hospital

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    Mould-proof grouting

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Weber is rolling out its mould-stop technology to a number of its popular grout products including Weber joint fine flex, Weber joint wide and Weber joint wide flex

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    Power generation

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Cummins Power Generation has launched a new range of generator sets

  • Lawyer
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    Taking the law into your own hands

    2010-03-09T12:16:00Z

    With the number of construction disputes getting ever higher, now could be a good time to hit the books and get some legal qualifications

  • Giving the club an up-to-date feel without losing the original building’s heritage was the key challenge. The biggest changes were to the entrance, which has a cantilevered first floor DJ booth
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    Back to the floor: Factory Records is reborn as a nightclub

    2010-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Factory Records, the legendary Manchester label, has been reborn as a nightclub. Thomas Lane nips in ahead of the crowds

  • King’s Cross St Pancras Underground Redevelopment / King’s Cross Northern Ticket Hall, phase two
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    Civil stars: ICE’s London award winners

    2010-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Civil engineering may not be the most glamorous profession but the ICE’s London awards give its brightest and best their moment in the limelight. Thomas Lane takes a look at the winners

  • Masdar in Abu Dhabi: the world’s first zero-carbon city
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    Country focus: United Arab Emirates

    2010-03-05T00:00:00Z

    The end of the year could see a more robust performance from the UAE economy, but for the time being it’s displaying only the most anaemic of recoveries. Simon Light of EC Harris in Dubai reports

  • Steve Morgan
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    Me and my baby: Steve Morgan is back at Redrow

    2010-03-05T00:00:00Z

    You can’t imagine much intimidates Steve Morgan. In his time, the 57-year-old former site engineer has battled the prime minister of Thailand for control of Liverpool football club, founded Redrow at the age of 21 with a £5,000 loan from his father and was on the wrong end of a ...

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    US and you: America’s London embassy is looking for UK firms

    2010-03-05T00:00:00Z

    America is about to build a £330m embassy in south-west London and it wants British firms to do the lion’s share of the work

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    The two-year rush hour: London’s Park Plaza hotel

    2010-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Park Plaza has built a 1,000-bedroom hotel and conference centre in the middle of one of London’s noisiest roundabouts. But it was delivering the project in just 24 months that kept the construction team suitably stressed

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    Taking the law into your own hands

    2010-02-26T00:00:00Z

    With the number of construction disputes getting ever higher, now could be a good time to hit the books and get some legal qualifications

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    Winging it: Eddie the Eagle on sport and building

    2010-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Eddie the Eagle, aka Michael Edwards, soared to international stardom when he flopped in the 1988 Winter Olympics ski jumping event. After the glow faded, he finally came back to earth as a Gloucestershire builder. Emily Wright asked him about a life of brilliant improvisation

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    Charter 284 Transport: Spending vital for construction and the UK

    2010-02-26T00:00:00Z

    In the second week of the Charter 284 campaign, Katie Puckett explains why the UK’s future prosperity hinges on the government maintaining spending in this vital sector

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    ¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ pathology: Wind turbines

    2010-02-26T00:00:00Z

    The output, reliability and lifespan of wind turbines varies widely depending on a number of factors. Peter Mayer of BLP Insurance talks us through them