All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 117
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Staying in the loop
Climate change may be good news for the ground source heat pump industry but significant challenges still lie ahead, as a recent conference highlighted.
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Archive TitlesOur man in hong kong
Based in the Far East, new CIOB president Keith Pickavance brings an international persepective to the role
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Super heroes
Has the UK government finally made a bold commitment to green energy? Its long- awaited renewable energy strategy, could see up to 15% of Britain’s needs, or about 35% of its electricity, met from renewable sources by 2020.
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Health and safety help
The CIOB has teamed up with Croner to publish a health and safety handbook, designed to give construction businesses the legal and management information required to run safely and efficiently.
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UK policy goes with the wind
Government plans to boost on-shore wind power generation 30-fold to meet EU targets
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Platinum Green Mark rating for Fusionopolis
Singapore’s Fusionopolis Phase 2B science building is set to achieve a Platinum Green Mark rating – the Building and Construction Authority’s highest standard.
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Archive TitlesThe foreign legion
As the credit crunch starts to bite at home and talk of skills shortages and an undersupply of contractors turns to talk of redundancies and falling order books, the still-booming economies of China, Russia, India and the Middle East have never looked more appealing. Eleanor Cochrane spoke to five construction ...
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Facilities management training should focus on operational skills
Operational services engineers will be most sought after in an industry already beset by skills shortages
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Archive TitlesEndless Summer
Fitzpatrick is overseeing hundreds of workers and complex earthworks to build 92 ha of greenhouses that will supply tomatoes year round.
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Eco-towns may be wide of the mark
Question: When is an eco-town not an eco-town? Answer: When it’s an eco-town.
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Landlords get eco subsidy
Rented homes are set to become more energy efficient after the government’s plans to extend the Landlord’s Energy Saving Allowance were approved by the European Commission.
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Filling the gap in guidance on drainage in residential high-rise
Britain is building taller, but a lack of guidance on high-rise residential drainage issues is hampering services designers.
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Virologists don’t do downpipes
I was very disappointed to read the article “Science faction” (BSj 05/08) in which the author assumed it was a virologist’s responsibility to find the source of an infection, let alone SARS, which at that time did not even have a full case definition as it was a new and ...
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FIRElink is a new high-sensitivity smoke detection system by Hochtik
Hochiki Europe has unveiled FIRElink, a high-sensitivity smoke detection system.
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Why projects are delayed…
Complex construction projects are likely to finish more than six months late because of poor time control, according to research by the Chartered Institute of Building.
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Tackle deadlines – if you have time
‘Busy, busy’, ‘time is money’, ‘there aren’t enough hours in the day’ – these are just some of the phrases you’re likely to hear in offices everywhere.