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Best Fire Engineering Innovation sponsored by Calco
Fletcher Priest Architects: Sedley Place
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Best Access/Disability Regulations Innovation
Gateshead Council Design Services: The Sage Gateshead
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WRAP teams up with BRE on aggregates
Database will be created to give information on using recycled and secondary aggregates.
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Inside an off-site toolkit
Darren Richards introduces a toolkit that maximises off-site technology’s potential
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Steps to successful process improvement
To get the best out of off-site construction, you need to get your build process right, says David Thomas. Here’s how…
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The how what why
Martin Goss answers the key questions about certification, regulation and standardisation
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So who’s counting?
The cost-benefit argument for OSC appears to have gone largely unmade.
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‘We went from greenfield to selling hamburgers in 48 hours’
In the 1980s Richard Ogden played a key role in trailblazing the use of off-site construction for a certain fast-food chain. Now he’s the first chairman of Buildoffsite, connecting burgeoning demand for new construction techniques with supply.
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Bring it on
Okay, we can all stop worrying about whether off-site techniques will ever be taken seriously as a construction method, or whether anybody outside housebuilding has even heard of it... The real question now is whether the industry is ready to take advantage of all those off-site opportunities – the Olympics, ...
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Costs: Structural steel
If structural steel is your frame of choice, you need to think about fire protection. Peter Mayer of ¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ LifePlans runs through the various options and what each one will cost
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Structures
Our structural special kicks off by examining the new thinking on tall buildings in the post-9/11 world, before offering tips on fine-tuning dealings with structural engineers and how to gauge costs of fire-protecting steel frames