All Building articles in Specifier 20 October 2006
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FeaturesWhat to remember: Toilets
One of the more flagrant areas of discrimination between the sexes is the provision of toilets in offices. But not for much longer … Peter Caplehorn of Scott Brownrigg explains
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FeaturesSpecifier - Regulations
SBEM, the official Part L software, was meant to make it easy to calculate the energy efficiency of any building, even ones like this. In fact, it struggles with anything more complicated than this. So what are the alternatives?
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FeaturesWhat to specify: regulations
Whether it’s for noise or fire or disability discrimination, the products here will keep your projects on the right side of the law
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FeaturesBaxi and the Band A boilers
WHO MAKES IT - About 1.5 million people replace their heating systems every year, so business is good at boiler specialist Baxi. But what effect have the changes to Part L had on sales?
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FeaturesArt of planning fire escapes
HOW WE WORK TOGETHER - When Snell Associates wanted an effective but stylish solution to fire escape at the Arnolfini Centre for Contemporary Art in Bristol, Clark Door’s sliding solution proved a masterstroke