All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 1366
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Labour urged to act on Green Paper plans
The four main housing bodies have urged John Prescott to make housing legislation a priority in the Queen's Speech.
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Housing big winner in £1.2bn SRB boost
The government has a delivered £1.2 billion regeneration boost for some the country's most deprived areas.
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Tender template
In his articles in the May and June issues, David Pearson dealt with specification writing. This month, he presents a template for the content of instructions to tenderers. Next month, contract terms and conditions and the form of tender
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SportsCallander
The tourist town of Callander in the Trossachs is an unlikely place for a construction innovation. Yet the environmentally innovative McLaren Community Leisure Centre represents the first use in the UK of dynamic insulation. How does the system work?
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Smart Swede
“A house, reliant on proper environmental considerations, removed from rhetoric and environmental opportunism”. How did this very Swedish brief translate into a showcase for North American controls technology?
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Sip it up
You’ve only just had time to reacquaint yourself with timber frame, and now manufacturers are bringing a new variant to the market.
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Rental returns?
Is the private rented sector set to take off after the false starts of the past 20 years? Many of the right ingredients are in place. Progress may still be slow, but with big names like Norwich Union, ING and Schroders building upmarket rent portfolios, it may be that the ...
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Open systems can save you money
The rapid development of information technology is having a direct effect on the speed of development in electronic security systems. This was bound to happen, as electronic security systems are fundamentally information management and control tools. They need increasingly more powerful mediums and processing systems in with which to manage ...
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Singles minded
Richard Best, director of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, believed there was a market for affordable apartments to rent to single people, and to prove it, he developed them.
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Making a necessity out of a virtue
The case for corporate PFI, which promises to break the feudal ethos of landlord and tenant relations, is disarmingly simple. So why has it taken so long to take off? As yet more bidders join the fray, Ian Cundell thinks the rational case must be made compelling
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People make partnering work
Creating an environment in which partnership can flourish has been the Holy Grail for services buyers and their providers, but many have failed to even get near it. The answer, lies with the people involved who have the power to make or break the deal
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ISPs should open your mail
If all ISPs offered virus scanning services, the threat from e-mail viruses would be dramatically reduced.
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Innerspace
Two interiors are highlighted this month, both designed to appeal to younger people. The first is the refurbishment of a basement to provide a new educational gallery at the Natural History Museum, The second (overleaf) is a new headquarters for a computer games company designed to keep the ...
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HQ performance
The facilities function that provides and services the workplace can play a far more positive role than merely to minimise cost and risk. Tackling performance as well as value for money can create facilities that are a business asset. To help assess the relationship between cost and quality of premises, ...
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In good health
Royal Berkshire and Battle Hospitals NHS Trust, which is upgrading security as part of a massive refurbishment project, has reduced crime by a third in the past two years.
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Germ warfare
Cyber-criminals are planning their assaults. The next war zone is likely to be on a PC near you.
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Star gate
With its striking modern architecture the Düsseldorfer Stadttor has become a symbol of Germany’s new generation of commercial offices. How does it differ from UK norms?
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Game on
As the anthems signal the start of the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the last thing on spectators' minds should be the weather. The solution lay in a novel combination of natural, passive and mechanical ventilation. How did British engineers play a part?
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Foundations
Foundations is a monthly distillation of up-to-date, previously unpublished data. The information is presented regionally to help with detailed business planning. House starts, compiled by the NHBC, show trends in your area well in advance of government data. Plus, fresh figures from the Halifax.
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Going with the flow
Homebuilders are taking the plunge with grey water systems, although the technology is still developing.