All Archive Titles articles – Page 1077
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Success? It's all in your head
A new report suggests you can train your brain to think like a great project manager. so start at the top - with your little grey cells.
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Now just slot and go with revamped Thermalite aircrete
Thermalite has made two modifications to its Trenchblock aircrete foundation blocks to make them easier to lift and place.
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Archive TitlesPowerful advice
Uninterruptible power supplies and standby power systems presents the wide variations in design now available for uninterruptible power supplies (ups) and, to a lesser extent, for standby generating plants.
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Fancy France? A view from across the channel
But the grass is not always greener, says project manager Philippe Martinez.
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Archive Titles2003 Awards entry deadline looming
March 14th is the deadline for your entries for this year's Building Services Awards.
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Giving designers more control
It is estimated that 90% of H&V control systems in buildings are inadequate. This costs industry and commerce £500m p.a. in additional costs (Dept. of Environment) As HVAC design engineer I normally concentrate on the hardware of the heating system and allow design specialists to take care of detail ...
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The 82/71 rule
As office building insulation requirements improve and the capacity of heating (whether wet or air systems) is reduced, why are 82/71°C water temperatures still used instead of more economic temperatures such as 60/50°C? Flow rates would remain unaltered and boilers would operate in condensing mode, with the only ...
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Think tank
Homelessness, tenancies and human rightsA secure tenant of the local authority I work for recently made an approach to our homeless section as homeless. He was alleging threats of violence at his property and said he was unable to return there. He and his family then spent three weeks in ...
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Did I miss something?
Returning to work from a week's leave, I was startled to make a couple of discoveries in Housing Today (16 January). First, I was surprised to see that the Chartered Institute of Housing and the National Housing Federation have now become government agencies. I was taken aback yet more by ...
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Long-term value for money
We were interested to read your article ("Employers to discuss paying for workers' homes", 16 January, page 7). In May last year we completed an innovation and good practice report on behalf of the Housing Corporation.The report, Affordable Housing for Key Workers, noted that employers of key workers can incur ...
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Loan stars
With lenders either pulling out of social housing, merging or reviewing their business, housing associations are going to have to make themselves look good to attract the financial suitors that are left in the game.
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Archive TitlesIrwell Valley to rejoin NHF without paying rebranding levy
Renegade housing association Irwell Valley has kissed and made up with the National Housing Federation.
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WORKING FROM HOME
WORKING FROM HOME: Decorator Trevor Saunders settles into his new shared-ownership flat in Newham, east London, which he helped to refurbish under a scheme run by Boleyn and Forest Housing Society. In the project, one of the society’s first self-build schemes, participants exchanged work for a 25% equity share in ...
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Archive TitlesHey, good-looking
Tired of your image? You're not alone: rebranding is all the rage these days among housing associations. But, asks Elaine Knutt, is it worth the money – or just a bad case of style over substance?
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Wheel gone kid
Wheel gone kid: Centrepoint residents hit the racetrack earlier this month to raise money for the youth homelessness charity. Clubbers and record industry workers joined them and a total of 20 teams paid £650 each to race go-karts at the Raceway centre in King's Cross, north London and a ...
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East meets west
As a Hounslow resident, I was concerned to read that “Essex-based” arm’s-length management organisation Hounslow Homes had received two Audit Commission stars (23 January, page 12). Is this a case of mistaken identity? Or could it be that Housing Today doesn’t know its stars from its ALMO?
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LGA joins federation fight on stamp duty
The Local Government Association is to join the National Housing Federation in fighting to have stamp duty rules changed.
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Archive Titles'Get real' on unruly tenants, demands Wicks
Housing sector is not addressing residents' concerns on antisocial behaviour, minister says
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The dangerous schism at the heart of New Labour
Oh dear. New Labour is going through one of its periodic crises of conscience. The prospect of its government marching off to a seemingly unjustified war hand in hand with the Americans is alarming a large cohort within the Labour movement.