All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 1335
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Government rethinks failing Quality Mark...
Lack of industry interest has led the DETR to alter the membership fee and qualification structure of its anti-cowboy builders scheme to attract members.
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Driving the field
The growing use of fieldbus technology in ac drive installations is set to save the building services industry considerable costs. But how do you choose the right fieldbus for an application? Geoff Pile offers some practical advice.
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Swedish delight
Swedish electricians are less likely to commit suicide than their fellow countrymen, according to a study.
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Summit debates partnering
"British construction clients are missing out on savings of up to 30% because the UK supply chain is failing to fully embrace partnering.
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Contracts in a crisis
With floods and fuel protests causing disruption to businesses, Sarah Townsend and Stephen Sidkin ask: are you prepared?
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Top Cat?
With Cat 5 cables being fast replaced by Cat 6, and categories 7 and 8 already being discussed, what is the future of structured cabling?
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Energy saving carrots
From 1 April 2001 the Climate Change Levy will bring higher tariffs to electricity users. One company offering advice on countering the effects is Wyko Industrial Services. Tony Rea meets its contracts director, Mike Brook.
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Schneider Electric to buy rival firm Legrand
Schneider has agreed to pay £5.1 billion for Legrand to create a major force in electrical equipment. The company enters the league of ABB, Siemens and GE.
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Strong dollar boosts Osram
Osram's sales performance was helped by the strong dollar as turnover soared by 18% to 4.3 billion euros in the year to September 2000.
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...as HVCA opts to assess
The HVCA is consulting contractors on a proposal to introduce an assessment regime for Association membership with effect from 2002.
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The 2000 Young Woman Engineer of the Year
Samantha Hubbard has won the 2000 Young Woman Engineer of the Year Award.
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Like a virgin
Northampton is at the centre of a housebuilding revolution. A new national homebuilding brand has chosen the town for its first development. Members of the public thought it so different, so new, that Richard Branson must be behind it.
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Planning Homes - Roger Milne
The High Court has pronounced that in four test cases the Secretary of State's powers to call in and decide planning applications himself are in breach of the Human Rights Act 1998. Where does this leave the planning process now?
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Prefabrication squad to fill skills gap
Industry initiative set to train housing site workers in the new techniques as early as July
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Zurich splits factory-build risks
Zurich Building Guarantees is launching a warranty for factory-built homes that splits insurance liability between the developer and manufacturer responsible for a home's structure.
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Northern Exposure
Tudhoe, County Durham is the site of a major homebuilder's trial of structural insulated panels. Mark Brinkley headed north to watch the test in progress.
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Is this the end of the road?
You've spent years building a brand position based upon a street scene that all your competitors are copying. It's turned into a creative cul de sac. You tell your agency to think outside the box - and that's what they do. How brave will you be? One of the UK's ...
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Domus plan ignites takeover frenzy
Taylor Woodrow's hostile bid for Bryant, designed to halt merger with Beazer, prompts Persimmon offer
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Doing it differently
Wilcon and Bryant are not the only homebuilders taking a fresh approach to what they do. Josephine Smit looks at three more industry mould-breakers.
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High density in, heavy sounds out
Government is making high-density urban living more attractive to buyers by demanding that developers insulate homes better against the sound of slamming doors in apartment blocks, music from neighbours' stereos and heavy passing traffic.