All Archive Titles articles – Page 78
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Archive TitlesVox pop
Government minister Baroness Vadera has apparently.spotted ‘green shoots’, but what about CM readers?
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Power to the people
An experiment to design a door that generates electricity as people pass through produced unexpected results
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Archive TitlesA new opening
Schüco has launched the Schüco AWS outward-opening window, compatible with the AWS inward opening system and the company’s FW50 and FW60 facades.
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Archive TitlesNew products promote Passivhaus solutions for UK market
Environmental construction products supplier Green Building Store (GBS) has launched two ranges of windows and doors.
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Archive TitlesWhy we specified: Technal windows Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield
The windows were probably the hardest thing we had to specify for the £250m Pinderfields Hospital (due to open in autumn 2011).
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Archive TitlesHub hub hooray
The 19000 construction-related businesses in the East Midlands should benefit from Daventry’s iHub, a conference and business incubation centre that has just secured funding.
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Archive TitlesHow many hats does this man need?
Police officer, health and safety inspector, site waste manager and sustainability expert – the list of possible roles for building control surveyors is growing. As the government draws up plans for the future of building control, Elaine Knutt asks if the profession is facing an identity crisis
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You’re invited to the green party
CIOB is a headline supporter of the Ecobuild/Futurebuild exhibition at Earl’s Court on March 3-5. Our seven green guides have a date in their diary. How about you?
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Archive TitlesWhere pane means gain
To match its illustrious neighbours, 8-13 Lime Street in London’s City has been designed with an eye-catching glazed facade. But the location presented more than a few obstacles
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We need integrated transport, not free market provision
Now that runway three at Heathrow has been approved we’ll be subjected to sound bite after sound bite from the various protagonists trying to turn a very complex matter into a simple black or white issue.
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Archive TitlesFinger friendly
Leaderflush Shapland has found an elegant way to prevent fingers from being trapped in door hinges.
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Archive TitlesGreen sites hard to find
Site managers at medium-sized contractors are failing to manage sites’ environmental performance or take environmental issues seriously, according to research by Benjamin Potts, CIOB Sir Ian Dixon Scholar 2007 and project manager at contractor Kilby & Gayford.
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The double whammy of investing in people
The confirmation at the end of last month that the UK economy is officially in recession will have been a non-event to everyone in the construction sector
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Fire door
Jeld-Wen’s 35mm FireGuard 30-minute rated door is the same thickness as non-fire-rated internal doors, which makes it compatible with standard door frames.
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Don't miss out on mentoring
The Construction Industry Council wants to recruit 30 London-based building professionals as mentors to 15 to 18-year-olds studying for the Construction and Built Environment Diploma in Newham.
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Archive TitlesTrain your way out of the crunch
Training budgets might seem vulnerable in a recession, but contractors that innovate can improve staff performance and the bottom line
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No concrete evidence on defective pipework
Thames Water wanted a new water mains in Shepherd’s Bush, London, involving 80-metre tunnels for water pipes of 600mm and 900mm in diameter. The GRP pipes were to be placed in two tunnels, which would be backfilled with foam concrete.