All Building articles in Regulations April 2008
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Solar powered ventilation
Monodraught has launched a solar powered natural ventilation system for use in dwellings.
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Opening salvo
The last year has seen something of a surge (to use the current military terminology) in the battle for a greener built environment. A year ago housebuilders were just beginning to contemplate the implications of the Code for Sustainable Homes; now they have gone some way towards actually trying to ...
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Integrated photovoltaics
Photovoltaics integrated into roof and cladding panels have been launched by Arval, part of Arcelor Construction.
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Waste and how to tame it
Site waste has never been the most glamorous end of the sustainability agenda. But, with a stringent regulation and a sharp rise in landfill tax being introduced this month, you ignore it at your peril. Dr David Moon of WRAP and Adam Mactavish of Cyril Sweett offer advice on how ...
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Solar hot water
Velux has launched a solar hot water system. The company, which is known for its rooflights but also markets itself as a ‘daylight engineer’, says the system could provide up to 70% of homes’ hot water requirements.
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High-performance timber windows
Aimed at housing associations and developers with large-scale developments who are trying to meet the Code for Sustainable Homes and BREEAM criteria, Green Building Store has launched the Ecocontract range of timber windows.
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Grey water recycling
For designers looking to meet level three and beyond of the Code for Sustainable Homes, Polypipe Sanitary Systems has launched a micro greywater recycling system.
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Dual-flush WC
Impulse Bathrooms has launched a dual-flush WC that is designed to cut domestic water use in homes by half.
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The Code for Sustainable Non-dwellings
In December, the UK Green Building Council published a report into the feasibility of replicating the Code for Sustainable Homes for all other building types. Nick Cullen of engineer Hoare Lea looks at what that report recommends and whether we can expect zero-carbon non-housing any time soon …
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The UK's first code level five homes
The new flats in Mid Street in the sleepy village of South Nutfield might not look like anything to scare the horses, but in fact they are quietly revolutionary. Alex Smith takes a trip to the country to see the UK’s first code-level-five sustainable homes
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Phase change materials
One of the disadvantages of modern lightweight construction is its lack of thermal mass, which means this type of building can overheat in the summer and can’t retain heat in the winter.
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A comforting vision of L: KPMG in Canary Wharf
KPMG’s new building in Canary Wharf shows that comfortable, glass-clad offices and the CO2 emissions targets expected in the 2010 revision of Part L are not mutually exclusive.
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Building ‘brand zero’
Just as housebuilders have realised how horribly soon the 2016 deadline for zero-carbon homes is approaching, the government is moving on to the even more problematic non-residential sector. But how feasible is a zero-carbon built environment? David Strong has some words of caution, while overleaf we analyse the report that ...
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Heat-pump boiler
A heating system that harnesses energy from the air to provide heat and hot water in the home has been launched by Mitsubishi Electric.
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Reform the Regs: The first battle is won
Building has claimed victory in its fight to reform the regs (which just leaves the small task of implementing all the tough new environmental regulations mentioned elsewhere in this supplement). Thomas Lane rates how well the government has answered our campaign demands
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Part L: Arguing over the details
After four years of robust testing of the Part E acoustic regulations, Robust Details Limited is ready to extend its pattern book approach to Part L. But some specifiers still see it as an expensive, unfocused and unproven means of compliance. Here, we get both sides to fight it out…