All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 127
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Design Education
Launched by the Department for Children, Schools and Families and Partnerships for Schools to spread best practice across school building and refurbishment projects, the new Standard Specifications, Layouts and Dimensions (SSLD) guidance sets out the latest designs for schools.
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Archive TitlesYou’re fired! Housebuilders take tough staffing decisions
Taylor Wimpey, Bellway and Redrow have become the latest victims of the housing slowdown, each announcing significant staff cuts.
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Praise for new DEC software
More accurate but “still a bit clunky” is the verdict on the latest version of the software for calculating display energy certificates, which are required for public-sector buildings by October.
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High cost of ignoring new tax rules
I am becoming increasingly aware of how many contractors in the construction industry are oblivious to, or underestimate, the seriousness of the rules set out by the Construction Industry Scheme (CIS), which was amended in April last year.
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Correction
In the article Life Beyond Football (BSj, 05/08), Hoare Lea stated that 200m2 of interlinked solar collector is located on the south stand roof at Highbury.
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Trigen plants may cool Tube
Excess cooling capacity from CHP trigeneration plants for office buildings could help to reduce the temperature of the London Underground.
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Contract victory for SEC Group
Amendments to construction contracts legislation to improve payment certainty for specialist contractors are set to appear in the next parliamentary session.
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Consumer protection that’s wide of the marque
New regulations have just come into force (26 May) that formalise many different aspects of consumer protection into a simpler set of regulations.
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Clients pay the price for design woes...
I read with interest the report by Stephen Cousins and Kristina Smith on problems faced by contractors due to inadequate designs (CM May).
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Archive TitlesIf you’ve seen a unicorn, you might think Egan has changed construction
The day is almost upon us when the construction industry collectively raises its arms to heaven to praise the delivery of that hallowed text known as the Egan report.
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CB Richard Ellis interview - uniting professions
When surveyors commission building assessments, the services engineers rarely get to meet the client and find out the business context. Stefan Desormeaux and David Hitchcock from CB Richard Ellis Building Consultancy took a gamble in trying to change that. They talk to David Arminas about how they are uniting the ...
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Sustainability needs cash incentives
I think we’re all agreed. Given the choice, we would prefer to work in energy efficient offices and live in energy efficient houses.
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Archive TitlesCarillion flies the green flag
Construction accounted for more than 20% of the top 50 most sustainable firms in the first Sunday Times Best Green Companies Awards announced last month.
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... but it’s nothing a clerk can’t solve
Your article ‘It looks good on paper’ in the May edition of CM suggests that architects are undereducated, inexperienced and overstretched.
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Call to ease zero carbon criteria
The government’s drive for zero-carbon new homes by 2016 is in danger of failing unless it allows the purchase of off-site renewable energy.
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UK buy for Grontmij
The European engineering and environmental consultancy Grontmij has bought Roger Preston & Partners for about £16m.
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Buro Happold help Three Gardens Housing Scheme to gain Ecohomes status
A village housing scheme is using local products, such as wool, and green open spaces to reap a top Ecohomes rating