All Archive Titles articles – Page 1099
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Acton speaks louder than words
Acton speaks louder than words: Residents of the William Church Estate in west London have praised Acton Housing Association for the way they were consulted during the planning and building of 27 properties on neighbouring land. The £2.88m development is split into three blocks of houses and one block of ...
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Audit Commission accuses councils of neglecting their duties after transfer
Councils that transfer their stock to housing associations are often guilty of neglecting their strategic housing role, an Audit Commission report said this week.
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Management and maintenance cash up 6%
council management and maintenance allowances will rise by 6% on average between 2004 and 2006 – but this may not be enough to stave off steeper rent rises.
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Archive TitlesHousing Corporation picks its 20 leading London projects
The London office of the Housing Corporation has selected 20 of "the best schemes" recently completed in London by housing associations.
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2nd opinion: How much are we really gaining?
Christine Whitehead, author of a damning report on section 106, asks: what now?
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Archive TitlesFuture unclear for £170m Liverpool renewal plan
Council demands renegotiation of 'inappropriate, undeliverable, unaffordable' project
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Government gives £350,000 to reduce the number of families in B&Bs
The government is cracking down on the use of bed and breakfast hotels as temporary accommodation for families.
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Archive TitlesVIP treatment
When the RNIB refurbished an old building to create its new headquarters, engineers had to pay particular attention to occupant needs. We examine how the building services were designed to match these special requirements.
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SARTOR set for radical update
A working panel, led by the Engineering Council aims to 'radically update' the Standards and Routes to Registration (SARTOR) requirements for introduction in 2003.
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Archive TitlesLight & lighting
Exterior angle lighting system Sill Lighting UK has introduced the Boulevard exterior lighting system. Designed around a combination of exterior projectors and extruded aluminium mounting poles the system is suitable for use around shopping centres, airports and landscaped areas.Two lengths of lengths of mounting pole are available, one for use ...
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Seeing the light
Good lighting is hard to quantify and even harder to justify to speculative developers. So how will the lighting industry change this?
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Health treatment
In a bid to improve the quality of public healthcare facilities the government has wed itself to the policy of PFI. What does this mean for those designing the schemes?
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What's the worst that could happen?
With increasingly violent acts of terrorism, and the threat of worse to come, it seems that we are living in an unhappy and unstable age. It's best to prepare for the worst.
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Archive TitlesWorking from the fulcrum
Think about Fulcrum Consulting and probably one of the first images that springs to mind is the giant Buddha which received so much press coverage.
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Archive TitlesEngineering PFI
Does PFI allow engineers to deliver buildings they can be proud of? Andy Keelin discusses the Whitby Bird experience of designing for PFI schools.
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Embracing Europe
The European Directive on the Energy Performance of Buildings is going to be here sooner than you think. We look at the schedule, and how the directive could become part of UK law.
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Archive TitlesIn at the deep end
Fish tanks don't come much larger than the shark pool at Plymouth's National Marine Aquarium. We find out how the services had to satisfy both the visitors and the underwater life.
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Comparison in wonderland
This month we're asking whether PFI can work. Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time. Unfortunately, the more you look at PFI, the stranger it all gets. On one side, we have a selection of engineers and contractors who say that they have worked on successful PFI ...