All Technical articles – Page 61
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Technicalities: The M&E generation
The mechanical and electrical industry has been around for the best part of a century, so why is it that the duties of the building services engineer are so often the cause of confusion, acrimony and the frequent lament: "M&E engineers never draw enough detail"? In 1997, a cross-industry group ...
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TechnicalBreathe easier
Anthrax and ricin scares have provided an impetus to design buildings that can resist biological attack.
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TechnicalIn detail 07: Crop store, Renewable Energy Centre, Hertfordshire
The Renewable Energy Centre demonstrates a range of renewable energy technologies. Bales of Miscanthus, used as fuel for a biomass boiler, are stacked in the crop store. The end walls of the building are formed from galvanised steel mesh to allow air to blow through and dry out the crop. ...
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Schemes explore energy options
Our regulations expert on energy, off-site and Brussels' branding
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Faux clay Kingspan’s new insulated roof panel (KS1000 RT) looks like a traditional clay tile but is in fact a steel-faced panel system. The insulated roof panel is lightweight and can be installed easily and efficiently. It fixes directly to purlins so there is no need for battens, roof felt ...
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TechnicalRoar of the quiet man
Laurie Abbott is the force behind RRP's remarkable solution for Barcelona. But, as with most of his work, he likes to keep quiet about it.
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Technicalities: Chris Wise
Egg zeppelinJohn Prescott recently said he likes the "bulge factor" in architecture, a statement that ought to consign the old flat "roof" and "wall" to history. But in the world of bulgy things we haven't really moved on since Brunel's curvaceous iron ships of the 1850s.Prescott likes Future Systems' Selfridges, ...
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A modern neighbour for Salisbury Cathedral
A new school building by Feilden Clegg Bradley combines brick and steel.
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In detail 05: Las Arenas redevelopment of the Barcelona Bullring
The original brick perimeter wall is all that will remain of the original 1899 Bullring by architect Lluis Domenech i Montaner. The brick-work will be underpinned by a pair of concrete ring beams connecting all the brick piers. These concrete beams will be propped off V-shaped supports made from welded ...
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TechnicalHeavenly sounds
Heaven 17 founder Martyn Ware is now making his mark as an acoustic designer.
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The Green Bottle Unit, a Hackney-based 100% recycled glass outfit has scaled up. It can now produce large sheets of recycled glass suitable for floors, walls, external cladding and tabletops (shown left)."We have just cracked this process and I believe we are the only glass recycling company in the ...
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Technicalities: Poured out
Just what is it that makes today's poured floors so different, so appealing? Everybody's doing it from the year-out student to Rem. It is the latest fashion and even features on the make-over TV shows. Just add water, mix and pour; leave for 24 hours, and there you have it ...
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TechnicalCover versions
Eley Kishimoto's distinctive prints cover furniture, tea sets, wallpaper, globetrotter cases and, of course, clothes, and soon its flash print will encase Nokia phones.
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Printing buildings
Textile design duo Eley Kishimoto have teamed up with 6A Architects to create screen-printed panels for an art installation. But, as Amanda Birch reports, it is an idea that could spread to buildings
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Clash over school acoustics
Quiet controversy is reverberating around the acoustic design world.
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In detail 03: Digital Studio, Oxford Brookes School of the Built Environment
The studio for architectural students occupies the top floor of a 1960s concrete framed building. To counteract the resonance of the hard surfaces, a series of profiled Melatech foam sound-absorbing baffles are suspended on isolating hangers from the ceiling.