Materials – Page 5
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News
Profits up 50% at Grenfell insulation firm Kingspan
Materials giant boosted by strong demand and acquisitions
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News
Assemble designs collective national hallucination
Audio-visual project will be experienced with eyes shut
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Julian Harrap completes restoration of Smithfield Market’s ‘outer crust’
Conservation project paves way for £250m Museum of London move
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New York’s Met appoints Nadaaa and Moody Nolan to $40m renovation
Monumental ramp will connect museum’s Asian and Cypriot collections
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Coffey’s digital skills centre is UK’s first Town Deal project to complete
In pictures: Norwich’s luminous Digi-Tech Factory will accommodate 500 students
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Features
How to design timber buildings that will be insured
An explainer for architects on the insurance industry perspective of mass timber
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News
Revealed: First image of Theaster Gates’ Serpentine Pavilion
US artist is working with Adjaye Associates
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Spiralling costs mean London’s builders turning down jobs in droves
As inflation climbs, Aecom report finds main contractors don’t want to be saddled with fixed-price work
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Ministers ‘distracted from net zero goals by lockdown parties row’
Backbench MP set to propose bill on reducing embodied carbon in construction projects
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Use more concrete to make timber buildings safer, says insurance report
Report recommends concrete cores and alternating concrete and timber floors to reduce flood and fire risk
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News
Build cost inflation hitting 45% on some housing projects, says London mayor
Sadiq Khan says there will be ‘significant impact’ on affordable home building without government cash
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News
Kingspan ordered to halt sales of Kooltherm K15 insulation
Insulation manufacturer recalls batches of the same product used on Grenfell after it was found to have lower than advertised fire safety performance
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Opinion
What’s stopping us from ditching brick?
The huge carbon cost of new brick means it’s time to turn to alternatives, such as stone, timber – or even recycled and reclaimed brick, says Anna Beckett
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Technical
Technical Study: The Black & White Building by Waugh Thistleton
The Office Group’s first new-build project will be London’s tallest timber office building when it completes next year. And as for the reduction in embodied carbon compared with concrete – well, the numbers speak for themselves. Thomas Lane reports
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Multimedia
Jargon buster: Heat pumps
Simon Wyatt at Cundall on the pros and cons of replacing gas boilers with heat pumps
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Opinion
What’s stopping engineers from being more creative?
There are good reasons why we choose the tried and tested, but too often that stifles innovative thinking and the potential for progress, says Anna Beckett
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News
NHBC chief denies building control body was Kingspan’s ‘poodle’
Head of technical operations denies allowing use of Kingspan to avoid ‘barrage of claims’
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V&A East to hold design competition for Stratford galleries
News comes as O’Donnell & Tuomey museum tops out
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Features
Interview: We’ve never found a practice who are our pin-ups
They used to look up to YAYA winners – then they joined those ranks. This year they took the AYA crown. So what’s next for Fergus Feilden and Ed Fowles, asks Elizabeth Hopkirk
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News
Building control body denies it took ‘benevolent’ attitude to Kingspan because it was in financial trouble
Grenfell Inquiry shown emails in which LABC staff said Kingspan deal would ‘save this failing company’