All Building articles in 20 April 2012 – Page 4
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NewsHeat Pump Solution
St Mungo’s, a charity providing housing, health and employment services to homeless people in London and the South, has chosen Mitsubishi Electric’s Ecodan CAHV monobloc air source heat pump boilers for its newly built flats in Spring Gardens, Lewisham
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CommentHansom: In it to win it
This week, Crossrail has some fighting talk for Bam Nuttall, West Ham’s owners get excited about their Olympic stadium bid and Foster’s team battles more opposition in its quest for a South-east airport
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Green light
To get consumers excited about the Green Deal we need to have the right incentives in place
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FeaturesMarket forecast: Spring hasn’t sprung
Fears over the eurozone crisis may be subsiding, but construction is still in for a miserable year, with £5.4bn less work than 2011
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Flexible tile grout
Saint-Gobain Weber has introduced weber.joint pro, a water-repellent, flexible tile grout, to its range of tile preparation, fixing and finishing products
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Finnframe flooring system
Metsä Wood’s Finnframe flooring system has been updated to improve its acoustic and thermal performance
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NewsUKTI examining how Olympic marketing rules could be relaxed
Concerns raised through Building ‘now being taken seriously’
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Archive TitlesInsulation envelope
The Kingspan Kooltherm K-range of premium performance insulation was chosen to transform The Nook, a Victorian Villa in Brighton, into an energy-efficient home
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Steel lintels ease installation
Catnic has supplied its CG90 steel lintels in various lengths for the development of six detached executive homes at Rivermeade, Welford-on-Avon
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CommentMy digital life … John McRae
For the director of this architecture practice, Linkedin and Twitter are useful tools for staying up-to-date while you can’t beat face to face communication for explaining design
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NewsGovernment drops plans for standardised school designs
Industry fears confusion as Gove shifts policy from standardisation to basic design guidance
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StoTherm Classic envelope
Sto supplied 5,000m3 of StoTherm Classic external insulation for the envelope of Westfield Avenue’s 193 flats in Edinburgh
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Sustainable cladding
Supplied by UK distributor Arnold Laver, Accoya wood was used for the cladding throughout the development of 64 luxury private flats at Granville Place in north London
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Fibre cement cladding solution
James Hardie has launched a fibre cement cladding solution called HardieLinea
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NewsSmall builders fear exclusion from Green Deal launch
FMB claims delay on self-certification scheme will handicap small firms
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Reclaimed brick range extended
Northcot Brick has extended its range of reclaim lookalike bricks with three new products: the Cherwell Urban Antique, Mixture, and Reclamation Blend
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CommentBrian Green on ... recession
Continuing hard times will see others follow Balfour Beatty’s lead
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CommentWonders & blunders with Bridget Sawyers
Bridget Sawyers thinks the elegant simplicty of the Olympic velodome deserves a lap of victory, but St George Wharf on the Thames should be disqualified
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CommentThe Building Information Modelling minefield: Bimming hell!
Rightly, we’re all getting excited over Building Information Modelling, but if you don’t get your head around some of the contractual implications, things could get heated