Technical Feature – Page 46

  • Senior Aluminium Systems’ door at the Fresenius Medical Care Centre.
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    Techbrief

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    This week: Products from Vetrotech, Cosifloor Pleated Blinds & Senior Aluminium Systems

  • A three light Dwell-Vent window installed at a demonstration project in Norwich.
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    Nothing wrong with a breath of fresh air

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    Supply air windows are an established idea, but Part L's air-tightness requirements could mean their time has come.

  • In the mid 1950s a British architect called John Penn moved to Los Angeles to work with Richard Neutra, famed for his modernist Case Study houses perched on Californian hillsides.
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    I wish I'd done those... Doors and windows

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    Jason Turner on John Penn's Beach House in Suffolk

  • Evans Vettori Architects converted this West Pennines barn into a house by adding a new wing linked by a glazed kitchen area.
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    Time Test

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    Robert Evans of Derbyshire-based Evans Vettori Architects checks for leaks in a private house built in an exceptionally exposed location

  • The trading floor’s “luminous sky” by Zumtobel contributes to its 700 lux light level.
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    Oil coloured office

    2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

    BP's Canary Wharf offices are lit for productivity, tranquility and the pleasure of passers-by

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    A feast of light

    2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

    Elaine Knutt reports on the lighting design for Tadao Ando's new Morimoto restaurant in New York

  • Martin Lupton
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    I wish I'd done that... Lighting

    2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

    Martin Lupton on Maurice Bill Lighting Design's Finsbury Avenue Square

  • The Hungerford Bridge lighting scheme is part of a pedestrian route that links the South Bank and the roads leading up to Trafalgar Square.
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    Time Test

    2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

    Claudia Clements, design associate at lighting designer Speirs & Major Associates, reviews the lighting scheme for the pedestrian walkways on London's Hungerford Bridge

  • Ben Stagg, DLA Architecture
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    Winning green hearts

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    Is regulation or PR the way to win the sustainability debate? Elaine Knutt was at an Energy Saving Trust round table of architects looking for the answer

  • The team erects the central arch at last year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed.
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    How we cracked it 28: Unipart Stand at Goodwood Festival of Speed

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    The challenge: To design a truss for a 25m-diameter inflatable dome so the whole structure could fit in a transit van and be erected without specialist equipment

  • The finished Rivergreen Business Centre.
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    Friends of the earth

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    Rammed earth is going mainstream as a result of its insulation and sustainability properties

  • Architype’s Sheerness Sure Start Centre is the first Plan-Ziegel building to be completed in the UK.
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    Faster out of the blocks

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    Are Ziegel blocks a quicker and more efficient alternative to cavity walls? David Littlefield finds out

  • Mike Jaggs
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    Airtightness test

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    Mike Jaggs, head of BRE's airtightness testing team, on smoking out leaks in homes and commercial buildings, in line with Part L 2006.

  • British Gypsum’s new HomeSpec 4 guide.
    Technical

    Techbrief

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    This week: British Gypsum, BRE & Inca

  • Simon Whittle’s winning project is inspired by a family tree, rotating a simple repeated shape.
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    Branching out

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    For years the AA has been using the Serpentine pavilion as a teaching tool, but this summer a group of its students will build their own structure out of timber and construct it outside the school in Bedford Square. Elaine Knutt looks at the winning scheme and the runners-up

  • Guy Greenfield
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    Time Test

    2006-04-28T00:00:00Z

    Architect Guy Greenfield returns to his Hammersmith Bridge Road Surgery building for a check up after six years in use

  • The faceted roof of Kingsdale’s new sports hall is made up of 12 beams, with 2.4m wide by 13.5m long KLH panels spanning between two bays. It will be topped by a 120mm insulation layer and a single-ply waterproof membrane.
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    Working with the grain

    2006-04-28T00:00:00Z

    DRMM is pioneering a structural timber system for its latest school building

  • The Skypad will be wrapped in a sparkling Meshtec shell, specified by ORMS to signal an out-of-the-ordinary building in the middle of a concrete campus.
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    Teenage fixes

    2006-04-28T00:00:00Z

    An ORMS building in Cardiff creates a template for teenage cancer units

  • Washroom specialist Armitage Venesta has launched Surf, a bright nautically themed range for junior schools and other areas designed for 7-11 year olds.
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    Techbrief

    2006-04-28T00:00:00Z

    This week products from Armitage Venesta, LS Group & DuPont

  • Lloyd Stratton
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    I wish I'd done that... Education building

    2006-04-28T00:00:00Z

    Lloyd Stratton on BDP's Caroline Chisholm School in Northampton