All Archive Titles articles – Page 145
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What a nice site
The Beswick regeneration project in east Manchester has been named the UK’s most considerate site by the Considerate Constructors Scheme (CCS).
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Powder news
Qualicoat has added new guidance notes to its website on powder coating specification and maintenance.
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The month...in pictures
The industry may have been frothing over former newspaper magnate Eddie Shah’s attack on what he termed ‘lazy and incompetent builders’ this month, but watching the first episode of Dom Joly’s The Complainers on Channel Five you can see why he might be upset.
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The month...in words
This is obviously not the industry’s finest hour ... It affects confidence and has the potential of diverting people from the real work being done to improve standards, safety, and ethical practice.
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Mug of the month
The aptly-named Mark Goodhand hand makes mugs like this one for all of his customers. The design, he says, was ‘inspired by the green oak timber framing courses at the Weald and Downland Museum’(!)
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Let’s take a Spanish lesson on respect
Reading your editorial in the February issue ‘Blood sweat and tears’, reminded me of my experience of site tragedy in Spain, when I worked on a new power plant in Aragon. One April morning I arrived at site to find all worked stopped and a large police presence all around.
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We need low-flying leaders
Thanks, Steve Hennessy (Letters BSj 3/08), for the witty retort upholding the honour of Australian engineers.
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JCT ponders sustainability
Following an industry consultation, JCT has established a working group to consider how sustainability performance should be incorporated into its contracts.
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Inviron in Stockport
Inviron is to design and install M&E services worth £10.3m at two primary care trusts in Stockport, including CCTV.
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Industry malpractice must be taken more seriously
There is not a lot to say about the OFT investigation into bid rigging at the moment. Even in its own statement the OFT has not claimed that any of the named firms have been proved guilty as yet, even though 40 or so have admitted to being complicit in ...
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Signs of the squeeze hurting
Construction sector failures are up 13% on same period last year
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Housing maintenance qualification
The CIOB and Chartered Institute of Housing have accredited the first centre to provide training for new housing maintenance qualifications.
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High school
Building the concrete cores for two residential towers in London’s Docklands required the project team to quickly learn some new techniques using self-climbing formwork.
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Archive TitlesHigh lights
Each side of Thorn’s solar-powered LED concept luminaire for urban areas has two photovoltaic panels flanked top and bottom by a 600mm strip of 10 x 1W LEDs.
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Website hits the heights
Inspired by the HSE’s Shattered Lives campaign, www.laddernews.com is a new website for anyone involved in working at height.
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It looks good on paper...
Inaccurate drawings, missing details, late submissions... why can’t architects do their jobs properly? Stephen Cousins and Kristina Smith report on an increasing problem for contractors.
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NHS goes to ground
Skanska and Geothermal International are installing a 5.4MW ground source cooling system at Kings Mill Hospital in Mansfield.
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Archive TitlesStep-change needed in local generation
Local authorities should become sustainable energy pioneers according to a document published by the Town and Country Planning Association and the Combined Heat and Power Association.