All Technical articles – Page 54
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TechnicalGet the facts before the flood
Amanda Birch says ignore your project’s risk factors at your peril
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TechnicalThe Rem & Cecil show
They’re architecture’s most famous double act. Architect Rem Koolhaas and structural engineer Cecil Balmond have built showstopping buildings from Portugal to LA. Graham Bizley asked them about their 18-year marriage
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TechnicalDynamic duos
Take a lesson from Koolhaas and Balmond — the architect/engineer alliance is the way forward
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Super structures
Which building best marries architecture and engineering? In their own words and sketches, six architects make their case
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In detail 43: Barn operating theatre, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool
Redevelopment of the Broadgreen Hospital includes a new surgical unit with eight operating theatres designed to minimise the risk of infection, four of which will be combined in a “barn” theatre.
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TechnicalClean lines for hospital design
Bacteria-resistant finishes and surfaces are weapons in the bug battle
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TechnicalOn the right track
A Swiss hospital is pioneering a revolutionary A&E room that speeds treatment.
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TechnicalTechbrief
Screen savers One product that is aimed at containing infections in hospitals is Troax, UK’s Toldeo range of double-skin modular partitioning systems. The reduction of joints and ledges and the use of flush glazing and coved skirting, lessens the chance of dirt collecting with this system, so a clean ...
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Green man:Carbon credits could be the currency of the future
Could the time have come for the government to adopt a coordinated policy on carbon emissions and could saving the planet even become an election issue?
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TechnicalPower politics
The government’s chief scientific adviser wants Tony Blair to go further on sustainable buildings
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TechnicalTechbrief
Get wired Weary of wires cluttering up internal spaces and want a kit that centralises all electronic devices? AMX, a manu-facturer of residential and commer-cial automated control systems, has launched a series of wireless Modero touch panels that group all the electronics in a building into a single unit. ...
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In detail 42: New Hall Barn, Scarisbrick, Lancashire
Client & builder: Steve DaviesSprinkler sub-contractor: Firefighter Ltd
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TechnicalI wish Id done that... safe building
John Fidler on Colonel Drummond Jervais’s Fort Brockhurst
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TechnicalSprinklers finally soak in
No longer ugly extras, residential sprinklers are growing in popularity
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TechnicalHow we cracked it 04: Charles River Bridges, Boston
Hakes Associates and Buro Happold are developing two curved pedestrian bridges, squeezing between river, road and rail. Retaining the structure’s elegance was the big challenge
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TechnicalIn detail 41: Light industrial units, Mitcham, Surrey
A 4,500sq m speculative commercial development by the Chancerygate Group is the first project to be granted planning approval under the London Borough of Merton’s prescriptive renewable energy policy.
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TechnicalNew books on sustainability
Building with Straw: Design and Technology of a Sustainable Architecture, edited by Gernot Minke and Friedemann Mahlke. Birkhauser, 152pp. £30.50.We’ve seen what can be achieved with straw bales in Sarah Wigglesworth’s Straw Bale House, but how do you design with it? Building with Straw has some answers in this ...
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TechnicalI wish Id done that...sustainable building
Robin Nicholson on Sauerbruch Hutton’s GSW Building in Berlin