All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 1371
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Factory made power
Heavy industry in the UK may be on a downward spiral, but light manufacturing is springing up in its place. Can the structures housing these industries have less impact on the environment?
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Envest for the environment
As the true environmental costs of buildings come under increasing scrutiny, designers need all the help they can get in assessing the various options. The BRE’s Envest program aims to do just that.
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Pressure tests and energy meters in Part L revamp
The Government is proposign major improvements to the energy efficiency standards for buildings. But does the strategy go far enough to make meaningful cuts in CO2 emissions?
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Embedded generation
‘Homes with power plants could take heat out of Global Warming’ ran the headline in the Daily Telegraph. It was generated earlier this year when the Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott went walkabout with journalists through the new Greenwich Village.Pointing to the new standards for housing of the future, the ...
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The domain game
What are the key features of time domain reflectometers and how can they be used for cable fault location?
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The Korean Disease
Herb Pelham explains why he thinks commercial security as a business function is nearly non-existent in Korea.
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A design dilemma
Contractors have a duty to point out any unsafe design flaws they find
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Whole life costing
Whole life costing is the Achilles heel of building services. Clients aren't interested and surveyors only think about capital expenditure. Can engineers devise a strategy to change peoples' minds?
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Small contractors fear NHS reforms
NHS Estates want to work with fewer contractors. Current proposals favour large national companies. With the first framework adverts due in September small contractors don't have long to lobby for changes
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Cuddly contracting and toadstools
When John Elders was appointed managing director of Birse, the company faced ridicule for sending toadstools to clients and for embracing cuddly contracting. Now Birse is regaining respect
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Computer Forensics
As the business world has moved its information from paper to computer, it has become more vulnerable than ever to espionage and fraud.
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Reheat for fan coil units
This month's cost model, prepared by Mott Green & Wall and Davis Langdon & Everest in collaboration with m&e consulting engineer Roger Preston and Partners, examines the pros and cons of specifying electric reheat as an alternative to lthw in fan coils.
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Be positive, urges CIBSE
The CIBSE has called for a more positive attitude by government to its proposals to combat the threat of climate change.In its response to the government’s consultation paper, Climate change: draft UK programme, the CIBSE has expressed concern that current government measures are “unlikely to stimulate the predicted reductions in ...
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Goodbye Mr Chips
New CIOB president Professor John Bale is no mild-mannered academic. Jenny Hampton hears his strident views on the problems with universities
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Management mantras for managing change
You accept the need for change, you are prepared to put in time and money but your dobbin of a workforce refuses to giddey-up. The problem may be how you’re trying to get there.
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Change on the menu
A government audit into hospital food promises to shake up the provision of catering services across the NHS.
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Orchard Learning Resources Centre
The Orchard Learning Resources Centre at the University of Birmingham attempted to develop the genre for low energy, naturally ventilated academic buildings. Did the design and construction team succeed?
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Tune in to wire-less CCTV
CCTV displaces crime to areas which are not covered by surveillance, but Mike Williams of Petards International believes his company has a solution which is both quick to deploy and cost-effective.
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Buildpack.com expands Wilcon web
Wilson Connolly’s buildpack.com building materials supply operation has gone live in the South East.Wilcon’s initiative to eliminate the middle-man from the supply chain and become its own builders’ merchant has been in operation for a month, and is destined to become the homebuilder’s prime procurement and distribution route. “We feel ...
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Breaking the chain
Cordless technology on trial at BT could unshackle staff from the office, writes Kate Lowe, with obvious implications for those responsible for providing accommodation