All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 1361
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Swinging both ways
It's been a busy summer for transfers. Alongside some notable successes have been some high profile casualties. Housing Today traces progress to date
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Meltdown in training body's boardroom
A publicly funded organisation set up to promote the training needs of the housing sector has been running without a director after a board level fallout, Housing Today can reveal.
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Arm's length bodies will be 4P's priority
A high profile body set up to introduce private finance into local government activities is to focus its attention on arm’s length housing bodies.
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Sizing solution
With chp being pushed hard as a ‘green’ energy technique, a means of specifying plant becomes increasingly important. A new sizing program aims to help designers get it right.
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A question of scale
All eyes are on the groundbreaking multiservice contracts being pioneered by a handful of local authorities. Success could mean more money for cash-strapped public services, but there are no guarantees
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The staging process
Summit delegates were divided into groups by profession – manufacturers, designers, clients and developers – to discuss how their sector viewed the staging process. The tables overleaf show how their flip-charts compared on the major issues.
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Notice to quit
In the first of a new series on property management issues, solicitor Graham White, an expert in landlord and tenant legislation, explains the complexities of the law that governs when a tenancy period actually ends
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Making mixed mode ventilation work
A new CIBSE guide on the advantages and pitfalls of mixed mode ventilation offers a fresh insight into the popular servicing strategy of combining natural ventilation with mechanical ventilation and/or cooling. Mixed mode ventilation is not new, but although the systems involved will already be familiar to building services specialists, ...
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Repair and maintain
The fall in construction orders throughout 1999 warned of lean times in 2000. But how bad have the last six months been? Is there growth on the horizon, and if so, where?
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The industry responds
The analysis and debate was broken into two sessions with parallel working groups. The first session covered the measures as they affect building design and operation, and the second session a discussion on DETR’s proposed staging of the proposals over the next eight years.
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Index on the industry
Recruitment and retention of staff is just one of the challenges highlighted by facilities managers in the first of a new industry index launched by Citex Group. The study also asked facilities managers how they expect the cost of providing services to change in the year ahead.
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Playing at the working game
The only way to attract staff these days is to offer them room to play while they work, or so management thinking goes. But the psychology of play is so different from work that mixing the two in the office is counterproductive.
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Standard form
Marc Hanson outlines changes afoot for the only model form of contract so far available for facilities managers, plus plans for a public sector model
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The food mixers
The merger of Granada and Compass Group has created a contract caterer that is more than double the size of it’s nearest rival.
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Fire safety
In the second of his two part article on fire safety, Barbour Index on-line health and safety service managing editor David Denton looks at arrangements for people with disabilities, fire appliances and staff training. His article is adapted from an item by Colin S Todd Associates which appears in Health ...
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Lord of the Files
Nearly 20 years after it was ordered by Parliament, the £230 million parliamentary building is ready to welcome its inmates: 200-odd constituency MPs and their staff. Does the building's controversial luxury extend to the engineering services?
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Archive TitlesTeleworking - Had a good day in the front room dear?
Statistics show teleworking, the subject of a major conference this month, really has arrived. This homeworking revolution spells big challenges for facilities managers
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Data surprise
Friendly materials and use of colour have helped the designer of the largest data and server centre in Hong Kong make a harsh warehouse environment more people-friendly
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Contract terms
In the second of his two-part article on tender documentation, David Pearson outlines what must be considered when drawing up contract terms and conditions and the document on which the buyer wants tenders to be submitted – the ‘form of tender’. He also provides a model ‘non-disclosure or confidentiality agreement’.
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Sustainable construction
The adoption of sustainable techniques in construction and product manufacture will no longer be a soft option, but a hard, legal requirement. What will this mean for the building services industry?