All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 12
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Business: free courses on offer to recession-hit building professionals
A free course is on offer to building professionals cast adrift in the recession
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Revisions to Part G of the Building Regulations put on hold
Revisions to Part G of the Building Regulations, which covers water use, have been delayed at the 11th hour
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Capita designs quietest building in the world
What is claimed to be the quietest building in the world has opened
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News in Pictures: Pinewood Studios to build working replica streets
Pinewood Studios Group is turning property developer with plans for homes and workspace integrated in film and television sets that replicate the streets of cities such as Paris, New York or Amsterdam
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BSD interview: M&E Sustainability chairman Jim O'Neil
Greener working practices make good business sense, the chairman of contractor focus group M&E Sustainability tells BSD
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News in brief
Dim the lightsPhasing out of incandescent and halogen light bulbs has begun under EU regulations that came into effect last month. Retailers have until 2012 to sell their stock. Coloured lamps are not affected. Power boostEnergy secretary Ed Miliband is proposing to revamp the way power plants get connected to ...
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News in brief
Richard Sagar has won gold for the UK in electrical installation at WorldSkills.
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Archive TitlesA bridge over the River Clyde
When a UK lighting firm was set the challenge of illuminating a landmark Glasgow bridge, it turned to a product recently rolled out in Copenhagen
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More brains into our buildings
Simon Inwood argues it’s time the m&e industry embraced truly integrated building controls
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Archive TitlesBack to basics
Ken Tracey looks at the essential elements required to form a contract
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Win the last ever AVO tester
Late in 2008, production of the iconic AVO 8 analogue multimeter finally ceased. Its final withdrawal was forced by the impossibility of obtaining the components needed to build it
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Austin Williams explains the proposed changes to Part G
The revised Part G puts the emphasis on efficiency. An explanation on the part played by the new water calculator
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Bennetts Associates' Hampshire County Council HQ green refurbishment
Once an inefficient 1960s eyesore, this county council HQ proves refurbishment can be low energy and look good
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Karl Wallasch and Boris Stock on Germany’s regulatory approach to single-stair high-rise buildings
Germany’s regulatory approach to single-stair high-rise buildings makes good sense
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Fläkt Woods design air handling services for "Scent Opera"
Air-handling became an art form in New York this summer, with the premiere of an opera in which scent was the star
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EDF Energy Contracting fined after worker is killed in fall
The Health and Safety Executive has successfully prosecuted EDF Energy Contracting after the death of a worker at a school in Worthing, West Sussex
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NICEIC takes action on rogue traders
With a rise of 33% in bogus tradesmen attempting to gain more business by falsely using the NICEIC logo, the organisation has been successful in helping to prosecute a number of rogue traders
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Environment Agency office achieves highest BREEAM rating yet
The Environment Agency’s new corporate office in Bristol has achieved the highest BREEAM 2006 rating yet awarded
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Design primer part 5 - solar shading
In this regular series of articles Professor Doug King explains the principles of environmental building design. This month he considers how to use solar shading
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Restructuring forces T Clarke profits down 43%
Two subsidiaries divested, London redundancies and regional boss departs