Health and efficiency: Frederick Gibberd Partnership has simplified the structure of a 1920s building to create a new HQ for health insurer BUPA

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Frederick Gibberd Partnership has refurbished a 1920s building in Bloomsbury Way for BUPA, the health insurer. The building was to be upgraded creating extra office floorspace and creating an appropriate new entrance. All existing stairs and lifts were scrapped with vertical circulation and service ducting located within a new central core in the existing lightwell. The central core is lined in beech-veneered panels and much of the 1981 steelwork was removed, with new column free floors suspended from castellated beams. The new layout incorporates a double height observatory coffee lounge.

Building, Developing, and General Contracting, GENERAL BUILDING CONTRACTORS, Modernization & Repairs, Remodeling and renovation, Office buildings, Building renovation

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Bath's art of stone: Last year the Bath Stone Group scooped five Annual Stone Awards - a success that reflects the company's rapid growth and achievement

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Bath Stone Group can produce up to 18,000 tonnes of stone a year, with half sold for new-build work and half for restoration work. Managing director Nicholas Horton feels that there is much ignorance about natural stone amongst architects and the company provides advance at each stage of a project. Morhead Masonry, an installation team, was incorporated into BSG in 1997, allowing the group to offer a one-stop-shop package, which should appeal to architects.

Quarries and quarrying, Quarrying, Building, Stone, Stone construction

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Cast glass: Jeff Bell has cast a range of sculptural glass furniture and fittings for a flat in London

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Cast-glass artist Jeff Bell established his studio seven years ago and his work with architects provides him with technical challenges. The two casting methods used are plaster/quartz moulds and open casting. Another process, known as slumping, where cat-glass sheets are placed over an open mould. Bell uses lead crystal and float glass sheets, and he prefers the green glass from Saint Gobain.

Glass construction

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