All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 1395
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'Use spending to tackle housing problems'
Excitement surrounding the housing green paper has made housing professionals "take their eye off the ball" and forget about a crucial review of government housing funding, it was warned this week
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Health risks kept under wraps in rush to transfer
Councils have been selling homes to housing associations without revealing the health dangers of nearby plague pits, asbestos dumps and animal graves riddled with anthrax, it has emerged
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LAs will have more scope to build outside their area
New ways of working across the social housing sector were revealed this week as both councils and associations were given new tools to improve estates
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Judge rules against LA's homeless exports policy
Local authorities will have to examine their policies on exporting homeless people after the High Court ruled against Newham council for doing so
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Untoward Violence
A&E departments are magnets for violence. Now the Government has set NHS Trusts tough new targets to combat violence against staff, which despite measures already being taken is growing steadily.
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Velvet underground
From meat store to cattle market in one fell swoop. Will Jones gets on down as London's newest nightclub, Fabric, opens in Smithfield.
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Trickle treat
A new building for Barclays sees water trickling into the building fabric to absorb heat, while air trickles in for natural ventilation. Will this add up to a treat for the office workers inside?
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Summerfield time
Competencies, inspection regimes and multi-skilling. Andrew Brister looks at the year ahead for HVCA president David Summerfield.
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Smalls talk
Washing machines and fridges are to be linked to the utilities and shops on the Internet. Will smart links favour new-build?
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Ready tech
Where the market will pay for it, developers are adopting commercial techniques. They outflank the crafts crisis, but you need real skill to maximise the speed and quality advantages.
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In pursuit of wow
The family house is the last bastion of traditional design and building methods but some homebuilders have begun to dictate rather than follow fashion.
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Power to the workers
One very large factor of workplace efficiency, worker productivity, is often overlooked in the design of the area and its services, with negative effects. The DUCOZT system aims to tackle this problem and shift environmental control back to the workers.
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Stick this in your pipe
Push-fit plastics first deskilled drainage and new improvements look set to convert water supply and central heating. Mark Brinkley visits a Westbury site to review one of Wavin OsmaGold’s first applications.
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A past master, worth reading
Corporate Fraud, third editionMichael J ComerGower Publishing Limited£65.00Tel: +44 (0) 1235 827730 Fax: +44 (0) 1235 400454 Date Published: 1998 Content: 704 PagesThere are some books which, although they are less recently published, are none-the-less deserving of a review. This is due to their status as standard ...
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A guide to fire prevention
The Prevention and Control of ArsonFire Protection Association (FPA)£15.00Tel. +44 (0) 208 207 2345 Fax: +44 (0) 208 236 9701 Date Published: 1999 Content: 180 PagesCompared to other sources of risk, the threat of arson in relation to your organisation may be perceived as being low or ...
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Fan power
A recent BRE survey makes encouraging reading for manufacturers of humidstat-controlled fans.
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Entry level
The pace of technology may gather momentum more publicly in areas like the internet and music, but security is not far behind. Many experts claim access control is also enjoying a quiet revolution.
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Sting pulled from energy tax
The highly praised 'climate change levy' unveiled in Gordon Brown's last budget in March this year, will be watered down in the next one. Some changes, though, are a step forward.
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From risk to disk
Richard Lafferty examines a new CD-ROM which makes sense of complex fire risk assessment legislation, something the Government has so far failed to do.
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Working with dinosaurs
Some firms are evolving a customer-focus, others not. Some say current build methods are doomed, others not. Here we ask some industry leaders to identify the changes they foresee up to 2010.