All Archive Titles articles – Page 988
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Councils to get £13m for HMO licensing
The government will give councils £13m to implement licensing for houses in multiple occupation.
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North British strikes £200m bond deal to fund 1000 homes
Places for People association's 21-year deal is one of the biggest ever closed
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Archive TitlesSet in stone
What is the connection between a £3m water feature and the Ford car company? Princess Diana of course.
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Archive TitlesMore of the same?
They say Colin Busby tells it like it is. But, as Kristina Smith found, he is kicking off his CIOB tenure with caution.
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Archive TitlesRevitalised Victorian
Richard Leese, Leader of Manchester City Council, explains how the city has reinvented itself with a whole new vision of its own future.
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Archive TitlesSkanska stirs up porridge
Modules are changing the way prisons are built, and one firm is the true guv'nor. Peter Kernan checks out skanska's latest slammer
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Archive TitlesMonth in numbers
10The number of cubic metres of air which the new Part L of the Building Regs allows to escape from a building every hour. Contractors should have been testing all buildings over 1,000 sq m since the rule came in last April. John Prescott's office has ordered building control officers ...
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Archive TitlesThe market for modular
All roads in construction lead offsite. so what's on the agenda for the industry's big players.
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Archive TitlesOn the map
A guide to all the new key developments that have made Manchester the UK's leading example of how innovative design can transform a city's image.See graphic and pictures.
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Archive TitlesMaking it modular
Stronger, swifter, safer: advances that will improve your buildings.
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Archive TitlesLighting products
Frankly speaking Franklite Creative Lighting has introduced another lighting range, Pandora. It has two variations – the circular or square suites. Each suite in the range is available in a selection of fittings manufactured using satin nickel with clear-edged satin glass and using tungsten halogen lamps.Both suites include a semi-flush ...
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The same language
Building management systems are advancing in capability, but it's still a real feat to get them communicating. Is there hope for more compatibility?
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Archive TitlesKeeping it (water)tight
Corus boffins have found a way of sealing sheet piles to make an instantly watertight basement. Kristina Smith finds simple solutions are often the best.
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Keep on rockin', mate
I first met Adrian Coppin, now heading up Currie & Brown’s Italian Office (‘Nice work if you can get it’, CM Feb), in sweltering downtown Abu Dhabi, some 20 years ago. To his colleagues he was always AWAC, from his initials and the US spy-planes that regularly flew over the ...
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Archive TitlesInformation station
This month: Why goat hair beats horsehair, MoD contracts and slippery subbies. Saleem Akram has been busy...
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It's an image thing
One of the earliest IOB magazines I remember had a cover with a picture of a pair of boots and the headline 'Not Just Muddy Boots'. Some twenty years later I read in the latest issue of Contact that "we have to get away from this image of labourers". Each ...
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New public health society
The Society of Public Health Engineers (SoPHE) was launched at the end of June.
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New partnering guide launched
BSRIA'S Partnering Toolkit was launched last month by Nigel Griffiths MP, the new minister for small business and enterprise.