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Archive TitlesSaving energy
Is the new Energy Performance of Buildings Directive a great move for transformation of the property market, or another example of Eurocracy gone mad?
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White paper should include efficiency targets
The Association for the Conservation of Energy (ACE) is demanding to know why the government's Energy White Paper does not include targets for energy efficiency.
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Honest, not disloyal
Since March's "Death of a Degree" issue, I have watched the responses with interest.
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Archive TitlesJourney to the next dimension
Walls that tell you where they came from? Beams and bricks with their own order history? the future is 'DATA-CENTRIC MODELLING', An on-screen design inventory that gives project team partners instant access to all the information they'll ever need.
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Archive TitlesSupply and Demand
A recent seminar explored the issues behind the European Directive on the Energy Performance of Buildings and highlighted some of the obstacles it will have to overcome.
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DEAD? Simple
Why is construction unpopular? Surely the real question - which no one at thinktanks, conferences or in the pages of your journal will face up to - is why should an industry attract any applicants at all when it:kills and injures such an unacceptably high number of its own employees;provides ...
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Life in the dead degree
The DfES White Paper The Future of Higher Education places great emphasis on institutions working together. One example of good practice is the growing collaboration between the University of Glamorgan’s School of Technology and its further education partners. Structured work-based learning is a key feature of their degree programme with ...
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Archive TitlesDelivering data
More power, more speed, more information: Advances in IT that will change the way you build.
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Archive TitlesKeeping a clear view
When Merlyn Roberts was offered the chance to run his own m&e consultancy, it wasn't a career path he'd ever considered.
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Change is good
Spring has sprung in the Construction Manager office. The spirit of newborn lambs and cherry blossoms has wafted its way over this issue to bring you an uplifting selection of stories about fresh starts.
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New president issues challenge to the industry
Terry Wyatt is the new president of CIBSE. He was appointed early in May and gave his inaugural speech, on the theme of 'adapt, or die'.
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Case (study) for the defence
A national housebuilder had just decided to implement an intranet-enabled, paperless site-based communication and procurement system. The highly experienced site manager was unable and unwilling to even open the box containing the laptop that his company provided.A placement student arrived on site, set up the new system and demonstrated its ...
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Archive TitlesCaption of the month
Send us a caption for next month's picture (above) and we'll hand over a £20 drinks voucher for the wittiest entry. Email construction_manager@buildergroup.co.uk
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A brave new world
How often does Europe manage to do something helpful? Not very, to be honest. But the new Energy Performance of Buildings Directive looks like it could be one of the best things out of Brussels since chocolate or beer. It’s not that the Directive is a flawless bit of Euro-law. ...
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Archive TitlesThe gospel of St Bovis
Every company mouths its commitment to safety, but Is Bovis's apparent conversion any different? Kristina Smith measures the depths of a new religion.
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Best practice means better business
Construction Best Practice claims that users of its programmes have increased their profitability over the past four years.