All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 1402
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Best practice: Briefing the team
This month Building Services Journal and the BSRIA team up for a new series: Construction Best Practice. Through a bi-monthly series of articles and case studies, we will help you improve your service to clients, raise the quality of buildings and reduce your costs. To kick off, the BSRIA's Christopher ...
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Scene to be believed
It's cost over £220 million and taken 16 years the controversial refurbishment scheme for the Royal Opera House has combined the tragedy of Verdi with the comedy of Rossini. Will the curtain rise to acrimony or applause?
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Back to the floor
Last year, in front of a BBC television audience of millions, Tony Pidgley promised change. His son has taken up the challenge with a series of management moves designed to engineer cultural revolution.
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Firm assessment
Watch out. Corporation tax self-assessment has arrived for accounting periods ending after 1 July 1999.
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Why Honda’s ‘Ode to Joy’ should matter to you
The Egan report calls for committed leadership, a focus on the customer and a commitment to people. The Japanese car industry has some fancy ways to describe the management ethos needed for such an approach - but they work.
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Regulatory changes – what impact?
The Building Regulations are a very powerful way of influencing building design. But how are changes and updates justified? This month's BRE article explains the impact assessment procedure.
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Triple whammy
With land costs rocketing, the current system is failing to deliver affordable housing in the capital
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Labour's love's lost?
Have local authorities become disillusioned after two years under a Labour government? How do they really feel about transfer? And what about housing benefit? Once again Housing Today spoke to more than 100 Labour councillors to find out
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Revised regulations give tenants funding reprieve
Thousands of sheltered housing tenants look to have won a last minute reprieve on their housing benefit entitlement, it emerged this week
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Some homeless 'choose to sleep on the streets'
Homelessness charity Shelter signalled a shift away from its roots this week by claiming that some rough sleepers "choose" to be on the streets
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Plans for overhaul of long term care 'still on track'
The government this week insisted that plans to fundamentally overhaul long term care for older people were on track, stressing that to make no changes was "not an option"
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Council admits to overcharging tenants by £1.4m
A council has discovered that it has been overcharging its tenants by £1.4m over the last six years - and has now decided to pay them back
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Questions
Should social housing have a new name? What should happen to housing benefit? In his first briefing to journalists, housing minister Nick Raynsford responded to these questions - and hinted at an overhaul of the allocations system. Housing Today took down the answers
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Preparing for meltdown...
The housing benefit system is in crisis. Housing Today looks at why benefit has become such an explosive issue
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Councils and RSLs to share Pls
Ministers plan to bring both sectors into line on Best Value
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Consultations may not be legal
Councils may be breaking the law over their tenant consultation arrangements, following a landmark ruling by the ombudsman
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Competition for services is now likely to increase
Competition is not dead for housing services, a senior government official has proclaimed
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Raynsford unveils plans for allocations shake-up
Tenants will be given far more choice about where they are housed in a revamped allocations system, the housing minister has revealed
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Commission admits new indicators have drawbacks
The Audit Commission and the government have admitted that there are "drawbacks" with the most contentious housing performance indicators in the new Best Value regime, that were launched this week