All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 1391
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Challenging Conventions
Discussions about the future of public/private is as emotive as the debate about public versus private healthcare. Robert Davies, assistant chief constable of Thames Valley Police, is one senior officer prepared to stick his head above the parapet. Tom Reeve went to see him
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Cat scanning
The data network industry is growing rapidly. And the standards to govern it are changing nearly as fast. Will Jones says don't get caught Cat napping.
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Building Homes OSMA Regional Housing Forecast
Each quarter Standard & Poor financial consultancy DRI updates regional housing forecasts for the current year and the next for housing transactions, starts and prices – exclusively for plastics manufacturer Wavin. DRI then scores each region’s housing economy, marking one star for worst performer, five stars for best. DRI uses ...
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Telephony in blue
The ground floor at BT Tower was once a boring corporate office entrance. Not any more. BT is portraying itself in a new light.
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Best practice: Risk management
No construction project is risk free. Risk can be managed, minimised, shared, transferred or accepted, but it cannot be ignored. So said Sir Michael Latham in his industry report Constructing the team. What does this mean for building services engineers?
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Being supportive
In the first of a new technical q&a series Paul Sayer discusses product standards and overcurrent protection using luminaire supporting couplers.
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Beat the drum
A handful of charities and associations bang on about energy issues. One of them, the NEF, has a novel way to get the message across. Its low energy offices boast a 14 m drum.
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Field of Beams
When it comes to testing and demonstrating perimeter detection systems, nothing but real-life conditions will do. Tom Reeve visited GPS Perimeter Systems’ test site in a cold and muddy field somewhere in Buckinghamshire
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Air handling units
In this month's engineering services cost model, Mott Green & Wall and Davis Langdon & Everest's cost research departments have collaborated with ahu manufacturer McQuay to examine the selection criteria and capital costs of alternative air handling unit installations
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Big boys after your customers
Mike Lynskey's personal view on issues that really matter to installers
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Bob’s hope
Training is an emotive issue within our industry. Will Jones talks to the man at the helm of the ECA Education & Training Committee.
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Climate change – the latest analysis
Government-sponsored modelling work by the Hadley Centre shows the Kyoto Protocol is only meddling at the margins. With or without it, global land temperatures will rise at least 5ºC over the next 100 years.
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Nexus 8 Control Panel from Lynteck
WHAT THE MANUFACTURER SAYS ...The Nexus 8 was designed with the installer’s requirements paramount. It offers eight fully programmable zones, each with an individual tamper. A separate auxiliary supply per zone makes the Nexus 8 faster, neater and easier to wire. Up to four remote keypads can be used on ...
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Ultrak KC7500CP cameras
WHAT THE MANUFACTURER SAYS ...Ultrak professional CCTV cameras are designed and manufactured to provide installers with the best combination of high performance, ease of installation and competitive cost. The KC7500CP is a 1/3 inch CCD high resolution colour camera designed for general video surveillance systems. It forms part of Ultrak’s ...
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PPG3 adopts formulae and models
Urban agenda will be driven by local plans based on urban capacity assessments using patterns for density.
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1851 SITO/City & Guilds masterclass [part 25] CCTV [paper 1] - Focusing on Cameras
CCTV: paper1Welcome to the first paper on CCTV. This series of articles, twelve in all, will provide an insight into an area of security often misunderstood. There are many different elements in today's closed circuit television systems. The camera and monitor, however, are probably the most significant. The camera views ...
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The Fruit of Tories' labour
Does the massive expansion of the transfer programme mean the death of council housing? David Curry, architect of the previous government's transfer push, thinks so
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Cheaper to buy than rent
'Dynamite' figures show owner-occupation less expensive in 25 local authority areas
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Does Big Brother make a difference
Spy cameras are springing up on estates across the country. But how well do they prevent anti-social behaviour and crime?
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Councils launch bid for corporation role
Pressure is mounting on the Housing Corporation to change radically the way it operates as local authorities prepare for a push to scrap it