All Archive Titles articles – Page 206
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Builders shouldn’t dictate policy
In 2003 the London Borough of Merton became the first local authority in the UK to include a policy in its UDP requiring large new non-residential developments to generate at least 10% of their energy needs from on-site renewable energy equipment.
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Archive TitlesBoKlok Blog
Gavin Skelly, a Regional Construction Manager with Avebury, is overseeing the UK’s first development of Ikea’s BoKlok homes for developer Live Smart @ Home. In the second of his monthly blogs he reveals why he is pushing ideas from commercial and multi-storey projects onto a housing development.
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Prevention beats cure
The best way of protecting a building is to ensure fire doesn’t break out in the first place. Colin Bennett describes a new system that claims to do just that
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New environmental impact self-assessment tool available for SMEs
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Scotland are getting to grips with their environmental responsibilities more quickly than firms of a similar size in the rest of the country.
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Archive TitlesSeal of approval
Low-amplitude air pressure waves can be used to check drainage trap seal systems. BSj reports on how a new maintenance method could save lives
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Archive TitlesFirst zero emission Antarctic station
The design for the first zero emission Antarctic station has been unveiled in Belgium.
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Case notes... From Ann Wright
Want to avoid costly disputes on your job? Then read Ann’s short-but-sweet summaries of the latest legal cases
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Critical path analysis
Complex projects mean complex programmes. can you be sure yours is right, asks John Fozard
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Air-con recycling
Daikin UK has launched a recycling service for installers of its equipment.
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ECA pay deal accepted
The ECA and union Unite-Amicus have finally agreed a three-year pay deal for electricians which was first put forward by the Joint Industry Board in April.
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‘Course accelerated my understanding...’
Andrew Percival joined Taylor Woodrow in 2002 from the Royal Navy, initially as deputy project manager.
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£992m arbiter ruling could boost private interest in Metronet
Potential bidders for collapsed tube maintenance company Metronet will submit offers this month to administrator Alan Bloom of Ernst & Young.Transport for London was the only organisation that had voiced an interest as Construction Manager went to press. Private sector companies were expected to be put off by the disastrous ...
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Archive TitlesKingfell's Paul Bryant discusses PAS 911 fire strategy
PAS 911 sets the framework for a fire strategy. The author, Paul Bryant, explains his thinking
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Archive TitlesAn £80m business should not be built on the back of SAP chaos and code tinkering
BRE aims to double its turnover as a business from £40m to £80m.
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New research puts value of UK fire protection market at £3 billion
A new piece of research by the Fire Industry Association (FIA) has calculated the value of the total UK fire protection industry at just under £3 billion.
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HSE closes 244 refurb sites
One in three refurbishment projects is putting site workers’ lives at risk, according to the Health and Safety Executive.
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Confessions of a Nimby: School’s out
Rumours abound as residents wonder whether their new local school will ever get built
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Who’s doing what?
Confused about which public sector department is doing what – let alone what they’re known as? Davis Langdon Crosher & James puts names to the faceless