All Archive Titles articles – Page 1157
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Woman fined for racism after refusing to let Asian council worker into her home
A homeowner who refused an Asian council worker entry to her flat has been fined £200 plus £150 costs.
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Archive TitlesAerosols canned
Aerosols canned: The government has backed a Greater London Assembly initiative to combat graffiti in the capital. Ministers agreed to pilot a scheme in London banning the sale of aerosol paint to under-18s. The GLA's graffiti committee estimated earlier this year that £100m of public spending goes on cleaning up ...
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BME association bosses angry at plans to streamline ADP
Plans to limit Approved Development Programme funding to larger housing associations could endanger the Housing Corporation's duty to promote diversity in housing.
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County Palatine, Family and Beech merge to form Adactus
Three North-west housing associations have merged.
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Accord takes over Ashram Housing Association
The troubled Ashram Housing Association is to become a subsidiary of Accord Housing Association.
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Heathrow expansion threatens 9000 affordable homes
Third runway would directly conflict with government's housing targets in South-east
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Councils' £3m boost to go to mediation services
The extra £3m that the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister pledged to councils last week will fund mediation schemes aimed at preventing people from becoming homeless in the first place.
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2nd opinion: A setback and a step up
Christian Wolmar sees the good and bad of right to buy
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Empty spaces above shops 'could house 500,000'
Councils grappling with government demands to preserve greenfield sites could house half a million people above shops in town centres.
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Three housing associations get £770,000 to install solar power
Three housing associations have won grants totalling more than £770,000 to put solar power in new housing and regeneration schemes.
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Slice of Quarter
Building services consultant Silcock Dawson & Partners has won the contract for m&e work on part of the regeneration of the area of London's King's Cross to be known as Regent Quarter.
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Pooling resources
Value engineering sometimes translates into a compromised design. But Rother District Council used partnering to fix costs for its new swimming pool – and still get the design it wants.
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Partner pyramid
We’re all supposed to be working together for the good of construction – according to the government. But what’s in it for the industry? BSJ looks at what partnering means in theory and in practice. And discovers some of its advantages, as well as at the kind of work involved ...
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A measure of quality
The Construction Industry Council (CIC) has developed an assessment tool to measure the design quality of buildings.
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Archive TitlesTaking it to the max
Raising the volumetric air supply rate is one way of increasing the cooling capacity of displacement ventilation systems. We explore how different types of diffusers can help make this work.
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Archive TitlesLight and lighting
Low pressure, high performanceHeraeus Noblelight has introduced a series of low pressure lamps, offering significantly higher UV-C output. The NNI series features the Heraeus Goldspot amalgam lamp and is available in a power range of 50-300 W. With a specific radiation flux of 0·6 W/cm, the lamps provide three times ...
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Read the label
With the news that building energy efficiency labels could soon be on the way in Europe, it seems the UK will take full advantage of the option to stay out of the scheme until 2009. Danny Coyle asks why and looks at what the labelling is eventually hoped to achieve.
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Part L in practice
Installer’s lighting guide number 4: Lighting requirements for Part LBRECSUTo order a copy call BRECSU on 01923 664258.BRECSU has published Installer's lighting guide number 4: Lighting requirements for Part L of the Building Regulations England and Wales for the Government's Energy Efficiency Best Practice Programme (EEBPp).The aim of the eight-page ...
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Archive TitlesA search for improvement
Linking with others in the partnering process means your own house has to be in order. Rethink the way your organisation works internally, and create more effective partnerships. We find out how S&P Coils adopted a course of continuous improvement
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Archive TitlesThermal imaging
Thermal imaging of building fabric: a best practice guide for continuous insulation£15.00ISBN 0-86022-590-9.¶ To order a copy contact the BSRIA bookshop on 01344 426511.BSRIA has published a new technical guidance note, Thermal imaging of building fabric: a best practice guide for continuous insulation. The guide has been produced with ...