All Building articles in Building Specifier June 2004

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  • Features

    The rules

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    A sustainablitiy task group recommends a new building code and demands specifiers use more recycled materials. Plus, why housebuilders must shell out to comply with noise pollution standards.

  • News

    Products

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    In this month's sustainable homes special, What's the Spec shows you how to harness the June sunshine to plan winter-warm homes, and insulate with recycled materials

  • Features

    Green and gold

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Transforming a dilapidated sliver of suburbia into award-winning, sedum-roofed housing was easy enough on paper. The hard part was pruning the specification to preserve the eco-friendly design – within budget.

  • Features

    Costs

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Eco-friendliness can be your budget's worst enemy. But help is at hand with Davis Langdon's cost indicator table, BRE's online tool to calculate cost–energy trade-offs, and XCO2 Consibee's sums on zero-heating homes

  • Features

    Checklist

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Photovoltaic panels can give a building instant green credentials, improve its insulation levels and add design flair. Specialist supplier Solar Century offers a nine-point plan to make the most of British sunshine

  • Comment

    Bias without prejudice

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Specialist Ceiling Services Northern Limited obtained an adjudicator's decision against ZBI Construction UK Limited. In this application Specialist sought enforcement of a summary judgment of that decision against the defendant ZBI.

  • Comment

    A sustained attack

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Sustainability is at the top of the government's agenda at the moment. The industry is being bombarded with reports on how to use fewer natural resources and a sustainable buildings code has been proposed that will force designers of public sector buildings and social housing to specify sustainable materials. English ...

  • News

    Friendly aliens?

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    The possible influx of foreign workers into the UK has made the industry think through the consequences of the European single market