All Building Design articles in BD Magazine - Housing - April 2008 – Page 2
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FeaturesSpeeches, policy and a great cup of tea
The Chartered Institute of Housing’s annual conference rocks up Harrogate, June 17-19
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FeaturesMonier concrete interlocking roof tiles
Based on traditional designs, the Redland profile range comprises precision-made interlocking clay and concrete tiles in a variety of colours and finishes with multiple options on shapes, colours and textures. Interlocking tiles are designed for ease of laying which saves installation time on site.
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FeaturesConcrete floors from Milbank
The company designs, manufactures and installs prestressed hollowcore and beam and block floors.
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FeaturesTom Dixon’s circular habitat
Habitat design guru Tom Dixon will soon have an unusual new des res to fill with furniture — but he’ll have to come up with some curvy designs to fit it, writes Katie Puckett.
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Developers to provide sustainability certificates
Developers selling new homes that reach completion after May 1 will have to provide prospective buyers with sustainability information.
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FeaturesCelotex insulation
Celotex manufactures high-performance PIR insulation boards in a range of thicknesses from 12mm to 200mm.
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Features‘You save more than double your expense on maintenance’ — Jonathan Fennell, UK business unit manager, Lindab
Lindab is a 50-year-old Swedish company started by a man called Lage Lind — so our name comes from his surname plus Ab, which is Swedish for “limited”.
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Scott Brownrigg plans Romford conversion
At Harold Wood near Romford, Scott Brownrigg and Countryside Properties are planning to convert a grade II listed building into 15 flats surrounded by 859 new dwellings.
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FeaturesBricks from Ibstock
Hardwicke Minster is a range of five different bricks providing different tones in the buff, yellow and cream spectrum.
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Building StudyBroadway Malyan and Hemingway create a new blueprint for living
Architectural diversity and community living are at the heart of The Bridge, a Thames Gateway development that banishes the idea of repetitive streets of identikit boxes.
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FeaturesThe big housing question
With housing delivery a key challenge for the future, should the government be more active in regulating the market? Three architects give their views - and we want to hear yours too.
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Building StudyRichard Murphy’s New Hall is big in Essex
The architect’s challenge was to offer a generous level of space indoors and out without being OTT for the suburbs
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FeaturesFeilden Clegg Bradley Studios on how to think big on housing
Duggan Morris Architects is keen to get into large-scale residential commissions
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FeaturesRoof by Erisco Bauder
Evelyn Road’s flat roof used a tapered insulation scheme, waterproofed with the company’s bituminous membrane.
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FeaturesGreen House success leads to Barratt deal
As Gaunt Francis’s competition-winning, zero-carbon Green House nears completion at BRE in Watford, contractor Barratt has commissioned the firm to design a suite of zero-carbon homes, from starter pad to three-bedroom home.
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Features‘House-builders have to go back to first principles’
Interview: Jayne Lomas, project manager at English Partnership’s Carbon Challenge programme
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