Stratford and beyond: this year marks a watershed for Chris Wilkinson Architects, with several major projects coming to fruition

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Chris Wilkinson architects were appointed to design the Stratford Market Depot for the Jubilee Line Extension. The main shed provides secure stabling for 33 trains, with space for inspection, maintenance and repairs. Other related buildings are sited in line with the western side of the shed, each designed to suit its own particular function. The maintenance shed features a long span structure in a parallelogram shape, made out of tubular steel, clad with a seamed aluminium system. A cost analysis for the building is provided.

Design and construction, Terminals (Transportation), Transportation facilities

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The future's bright, the future's green: Three hundred delegates took part in this year's lively BCO/AJ conference 'Greening Commercial Property'

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The Greening Commercial Property conference was attended by 300 delegates from the UK construction industry. Minister for the Environment Michael Meacher presented the keynote address, and Sir John Houghton from the Met Office provided the government's response to the facts of climate change. John Worthington of DEGW explored the relationship between transport and urban sustainability and Lesley Punter of Reading Borough Council provided a community view of planning for sustainability.

Sales Meetings, Construction industry, Conferences, meetings and seminars, Environmental aspects, Commercial buildings, Conferences and conventions

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The way forward for urban concrete - a personal view

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Concrete was once hailed as a liberator of architecture, but when used in high rise buildings in Britain, began to sink low in public esteem. Modern pioneers hailed its plasticity which made it appropriate for free standing houses and expressionist monuments. However there is always reaction to overtly different forms and materials and in a urban context, concrete was seen as brutal and forbidding.

History, Concrete construction

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