Alistair King Freelance
Building
Stories by this contributor.
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Slab happy
Specifier 06 July 2007
The inventors of SmartSlab describe it as an all-in-one, load-bearing, moving-image display slab. It’s also the only system that provides animated displays while retaining all the features associated with external cladding.
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Do you dig?
2007 Issue 26
In the fourth of our series examining renewable energy technologies, Alistair King talks us through ground-source heat pumps, which provide developers with a Part L-friendly way of keeping buildings warm or cool using the ground beneath our feet
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Might as well try and catch the wind
2007 Issue 25
Micro-turbines may be the height of fashion, but are they any good? In the third part of our series on renewable energy sources, Alistair King finds out more
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Sustainable schoolrooms: Here’s one for the kids
Specifier 15 June 2007
Willmott Dixon’s classroom of the future may sound like something made in the Blue Peter studio – with its strips of waste wood off-cuts and glue – but it’s quick to build, affordable and carbon neutral. Alistair King looks at one they made earlier…
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The burning question
2007 Issue 24
With coal and oil reserves running low, and the pressure on to reduce carbon emissions, you’d have thought the government would be eager to promote combined heat and power. So, why isn’t it? Alistair King reports, in the second article of a series on green energy
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Camouflaged solar roofing: The power slate
Specifier 1 June 2007
Solar panels may be admirable, but they’re definitely ugly. Now two suppliers have launched products that look like simple roof slates.
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Timber frame body appoints fire safety expert
29 May 07
UK Timber Frame Association appointment seeks to reassure construction industry following Colindale fire
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Great leaps forward
2007 Issue 20
Taking a break from Blair, here are Alistair King’s top 10 technological developments
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Shop lighting: A LED balloon?
Specifier 18 May 2007
They’re easy to maintain, last ages and don’t cook the food. So will LEDs knock fluorescent tubes off their pedestal in shop design? ‘That’s a laugh,’ detractors tell Alistair King
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‘Grave concerns’ over cement shortage
14 May 07
Precast concrete firms blast cement manufacturers for shortage as production facilities are forced to close
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Adjustable-depth pools: Out of the deep
Specifier 4 May 2007
A swimming pool contractor found itself in uncharted waters when it came up with a raisable floor system. Now all it had to do was find a suitable material
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Burger fat to power 60,000 homes
24 Apr 07
Agri-Energy reveals plans for a £50m plant in Wales that will convert cooking oil and crops into electricity and bio-diesel
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Builders' tea hits the shelves of Asda
16 Apr 07
A percentage of profits from Make Mine a Builders tea will go towards a new charity foundation formed by the FMB
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NHBC offers help for builders struggling with Code
11 Apr 07
Courses on the Code for Sustainable Homes courses will be aimed at developers and builders
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Planning to be scrapped for domestic renewables
4 Apr 07
Government proposes removing planning barriers to domestic wind turbines and PVs except in extreme circumstances
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Six feared dead in Beijing Olympic tunnel collapse
29 Mar 07
Subway being built for the 2008 Olympics collapses and buries construction workers
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Mass market green boilers to go European
28 Mar 07
Biomass boilers could satisfy up to 40% of the UK's electricity demands
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Renewables grants slammed despite £6m budget boost
27 Mar 07
The 'shambolic' low carbon building programme is suspended by the DTI as renewable firms call for further increase in investment
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Joint venture to provide 870 HIPs assessors
20 Mar 07
www.energy-assessors.com claims it can provide a third of the domestic energy assessments required by Home Information Packs
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Trade body investigates UK cement market
20 Mar 07
High prices and supply shortages prompt British Aggregates Association investigation
