All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 1384
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E-nabling the buyer of tomorrow
Management companies are lining up to offer purchasers of services products and suppliers a route to buy online. Servus Facilities Management is racing to get there first.
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Introducing STaMP to building services
The influence that building services has on the cost, quality and programme of a construction project is well-known and oft cited. What is less known is the relationship between the procurement strategy of the entire project against the procurement strategy of the building services. Currently building services procurement is ...
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Two cheers for Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown s latest budget was good for housebuilders but it infuriated the Construction Confederation
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Index directs Wilcon to best sites
Homebuilder believes environmental audit software will become industry standard.
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Simply the best
This month ‘best value’ becomes compulsory for the management and procurement of local government services. Already this new philosophy is promising to take facilities management higher up the town hall agenda.
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Chubb and Bell go dot-com with security
Security will never be the same again as leading lights Bell and Chubb, bastions of traditional security providers, join the internet fray with differing philosophies.
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Seeing and believing
If you struggle to juggle tasks and files in a big project team, help may be at hand. Ove Arup’s Columbus software aims to help designers navigate through each others work and, hopefully, make close teamwork within the supply chain easier. Better still, Columbus is free.
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The baseline in business security
The Handbook of Business Security (Second Edition)Keith Hearnden & Alec MooreKogan Page£14.99Date published: 1999 Content: 226 pages Tel: +44 (0)1903 828800 E-mail: orders@lbsltd.co.ukAnyone who has a connection with the Security Management programmes at the Universities of Loughborough or Leicester will know Keith Hearnden who pioneered ...
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Building Down Barriers
The Building Down Barriers project grew out of extensive discussions inside the Defence Estates about the failings of the construction industry. One question rose above all others: What is the ideal procurement route? After some discussion, the Estates department realised the answer was for one organisation to take responsibility for ...
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Designers and planners must address the visual impact of perimeter security at project inception rather than as an after thought, argues Mike Pollard. This means understanding how they work and their aesthetic, functional and social impact.
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Avoiding hold-ups on the information superhighway
I-Way RobberyWilliam C Boni & Dr Gerald L KovacichButterworth-Heinemann£21.99Date Published: 1999 Content: 240 Pages Tel: +44 (0) 1865 888180 Fax: +44 (0) 1865 314091As I have previously mentioned, I am a security generalist and not an expert in computer and Internet security. However, I ...
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Whose role is it anyway?
The Egan report identified that 80% of components, materials and processes are common across all buildings. Supply chain management aims to harness this to achieve “real and lasting improvements in the quality and delivery of UK buildings”. So how far have we got?
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Why QSs and estimators don't get along
QSs never give estimators long enough to put together a decent tender, and estimators always leave holes in their bids. In the spirit of partnership, Steve Roberts and Geof Cartwright, partners with QS Rider Hunt, recently addressed estimators from the CIOB's north-eastern region. And here s what they found
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Private education for all
The pfi method of procurement is also making big headways in the education sector. Education was an early mover into the private finance market and by 1995 most new-build projects in higher education were privately funded. Initial moves into pfi schemes ranged from full redevelopment to replacement of heating systems. ...
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Alarming conditions
Strict adherence to the routines for testing fire alarm systems is crucial to the secure servicing of intelligent building controls. Robin Edmunds takes a look at the maintenance requirements.
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Spray it again, Uncle Sam
Concrete housing is staging a comeback in the UK with the Samuel Lewis Housing Trust’s Millennium Plus scheme going on site this month. But in the US 120 000 new homebuyers chose to ‘go concrete’ last year instead of buying a traditional timber home. Karin Stockerl of Sussex University’s Science ...
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Gear up to act ethically
As companies seek to take an increasingly ethical stance on their activities, facilities managers will begin to start feeling the heat.
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“Beammeup”
What if a quick call to Scottie could teleport you from a hot, stuffy office to somewhere cooler, with a refreshing breeze across your face? The tele-workers in Cellular Operations’ futuristic headquarters will enjoy just that, with displacement ventilation and chilled beams to keep them cool.
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Top 50 housing associations
The overall numbers might not be showing much change, but new names are appearing in the list of top housing association developers.