All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 1405
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Chain lighter
Budapest's Chain Bridge is 150 years old this year. GE Lighting has relit it to mark the anniversary. Electrical Contractor goes down the river.
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Card tricks
The Electrotechnical Certification Scheme is designed to cut out the cowboy. Here's how it intends to do it.
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Book reviews
SMT kicks off its new review page with a review of books by Richard Aixall, security consultant and member of the Loughborough University Security Research Group. Next month: equipment reviews by the well-respected team of testers on Security Installer
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Energy use put to Bed
With rising populations competing for limited inner city accommodation, suitable ways of dealing with the problem must be found. One scheme planned for south London proposes a possible blueprint solution.
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Colour me bad
European harmonisation means changes for British industry. One is the cable colour coding.
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Alien encounters
In this month's data cabling q&a, Karl Tryner explains cable crosstalk and noise and how to guard against such problems.
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Airlit pv
The BRE is bringing together the latest thinking in solar control, natural ventilation, daylighting and pv. Its goal is to cut solar and internal gains so cooling is not required.
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In the can
The British Film Institute's showcase London Imax cinema has just opened its doors to an expectant public. Complete with a 20 m-high screen and 14 tiered rows of seating, the largest Imax auditorium in the UK needed a very special design solution when it came to the m&e services.
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Fears of north-south rent split
Institute research highlights likely impact of Green Paper
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Imposing quotas on LAs 'will destroy goodwill'
Government moves to impose quotas of asylum seekers on local authorities have been branded "unworkable" and a "knee-jerk reaction" by councils and associations
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The defining issue
Government has been forced to think again after its top consultants failed to come up with a definition of housing management. Housing Today asks, what's in a word?
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Council may erect prefabs in parks to ease homes shortage
Hundreds of emergency prefabs look set to be thrown up in a London borough to cope with the rapid rise in homelessness and the acute shortage of supply
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Council's plan for mass sell-off confirms trend
The trend towards mass transfer of council stock in major English towns and cities was confirmed this week as another authority revealed its transfer plans
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Housing Committee will take government to task
Government ministers are facing tough battles with Scotland's powerful new housing committee over forthcoming housing policies and plans to reform housing benefit
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Active tenants reveal all
From noisy neighbours to meeting fatigue - what's it really like to be an actively involved tenant? For the past three months a tenant group has used a daily diary to record its work on a Gloucester estate
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Learning zone - Training initiatives for installers
New schedule from TK consultants T.K. Consultants have just published their latest schedule of training courses, which embody a number of changes suggested by past students. The intruder alarm installation course has had an extra Hands-On Day added to take full advantage of the workshop facility and the extensive ...
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When customers will not pay up
I think it's time to expose a neat little insurance scam that has been running for quite a few years. It all started when the insurance companies decided that they would specify the class of installation company (if not the exact company) that they would accept to fit the intruder ...