All Archive Titles articles – Page 57
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Driven to distraction: work-related road safety
The precedent is set: texting drivers may be jailed. Good employers will ensure their staff are educated about safe driving practices
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Tories propose CRC trade-off
Employers should be able to offset some of their mandatory carbon reduction targets through improvements made to their employees’ homes, says the Conservative Party
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Crabtree: Weatherseal sockets
Crabtree has just launched Weatherseal, a range of IP56 water and dust-proof sockets that can maintain a full waterproof seal, even on moulded plugs with rigid cable tails
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Archive TitlesLutron: lighting controls
Lutron’s Homeworks whole-home lighting control system can now be accessed and managed via Apple iPhone and Apple iPod Touch devices
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Tyco Thermal Controls: TraceCalc software
Tyco Thermal Controls has introduced Raychem TraceCalc Net Construction, an online design tool for heat-tracing pipes to provide freeze protection and hot water temperature maintenance
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Contactum: wire-free light switch
Contactum has developed a new piezo electrically operated wire-free light switch
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Haden Young consults over job cuts
Site operatives and office staff in consultation exercise as m&e firm axes jobs
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Construction sector still in free fall
Forecast of 12% output drop in 2009 with further 3.4% fall predicted for 2010
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Masterplanning sustainable communities
True sustainability has to start with the masterplan, and this means there’s a seat for services engineers at the table
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Products: Commercial & industrial heating
The way ahead is smaller, smarter and energy efficient. BSD reviews the options
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Global focus: Mexico City
Space Architects has unveiled its design for the Efizia Tower, a 33-storey mixed-use scheme in the Santa Fe district of Mexico City
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CIBSE: design data
CIBSE has launched the Design Compass, an online tool to assist building design professionals to incorporate weather and climate change-related information into a clearly defined framework
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Changing face of green housing
Is government policy on zero carbon homes leading to box-ticking rather than true sustainability? Josephine Smit finds some housing developments with wider ambitions
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Services design change as Shard goes on site
The Shard, which at 310m will be London’s tallest mixed-use building, has lost an innovative radiator which was to wrap around its tip and dissipate excess heat without the use of fans or condensers
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Post Occupancy: Watford Leisure Centre one year on
Watford’s new leisure centres challenge preconceptions about swimming pools and low-carbon technologies. Roderic Bunn looks at how the systems were chosen and the savings already being made
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Reducing carbon emissions in existing housing
Designers have a duty to engage with the huge task of reducing carbon emissions from the UK’s ageing housing stock
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Eco-refurb call
The low energy efficiency of existing housing stock has to be tackled on a large scale, says the Housing Forum
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Pair up to win business
Many HVAC firms are missing out on assessment contracts under the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive because they do not have appropriately qualified engineers
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How to use BSD's Project Wiki
Stimulate the sustainability debate by contributing to the BSD Project Wiki. Fear not, technophobes – we have a beginners’ guide, a cheat-sheet and a help team on standby