All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 1410
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Done and dusted
This month, we look at warranties, the pitfalls of contamination of contacts, and how to minimise risk.
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Details
Eternit Weatherboard 50 offers the look of weatherboard in a material made of fibre cement - it can even be woodstained. Mark Brinkley considers its cost advantages and 50-year guarantee.
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Design issues for thermal stores
Consulting engineer Atelier Ten studied the performance of the thermo-labyrinth in detail when designing the Earth Centre Galleries. The resulting simulations provide a useful insight into the sizing and operation of de-coupled thermal stores.
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Cyberhenge
Visitors to Doncaster's Earth Centre will find a theme park with a difference. No roller-coasters and white knuckle rides here this is claimed to be the world's first hands-on exhibition of sustainable living and working. Does the environmental engineering match the message?
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Data cooling for free
Like the proverbial "free lunch", there is no such thing as truly free cooling. However, British Airways' new computer data centre, near Heathrow, provided the opportunity to get as close to free cooling as possible using mechanical refrigeration water chillers.
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Cold-blooded predictions
Comfort cooling systems in the UK were worth £329 million last year. According to the BSRIA, UK plc could steal a march on foreign competition for packaged air conditioning systems.
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Natural ventilation chimneys
Stack assisted ventilation is increasingly being used to ventilate buildings. Many systems rely on chimneys to drive the ventilation, but which types work best, and how can designs be evaluated?
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Chilling heat pumps
We have until 2004 to find alternatives to the cfcs and hcfcs banned by a draft EC regulation. Five families of natural refrigerants have been pushed forward as alternatives, but there are disadvantages with each. Which refrigerant has the brightest future in heat pumps?
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Will you be a ground-breaking Tesco or a catch-up Sainsbury?
When Tesco launched its customer loyalty card Sainsbury’s management poured scorn on the idea, yet within months they were forced to follow suit. Is Westbury’s Direct operation the homebuilding equivalent of the loyalty card?
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High prices close doors on capital's key workers
Key workers such as nurses and teachers are being priced out of the nation's capital because of rapidly rising house prices and the acute shortage of affordable homes for rent
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Debt cancellation vital for urban renaissance
Task force report lists 105 recommendations
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Cold as brass
The small scale air conditioning market is continuing to grow says a new survey, which shows that there are still cool profits to be made.
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Best Value regime forsees big changes
Local authorities are already well down the Best Value road. But what about housing associations? Our new series reveals what the housing association Best Value pilots have been up to. To kick off, Housing Today asks what Best Value is all about anyway and, overleaf, an association explains how to ...
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Private firms to tender for housing asylum seekers
Private companies like hotels and property developers could provide accommodation for asylum seekers under new Home Office plans
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Assessed for success
It's a year since the ECA began periodic technical assessments of member firms.
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Arctic Edinburgh
A new exhibition exploring the development of the earth opened in Edinburgh's Royal Mile on July 3. The centrepiece of which is a growing iceberg. How was this feat of nature mimicked by engineers?
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Brave new world Amphion factory
From September, a consortium of housing associations and partnership housebuilders called Amphion aims to have a plant exploiting off-site manufacture to offer build flexibility at low cost. Tim Venables of University of Sussex’s Science and Technology Policy Research looks at Amphion’s imported technology.
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Breath of fresh Aire
Aire Regeneration Partnership, the second millennium village competition winner, grafts Yorkshire traditions in vernacular and planning onto 21st-century technology.
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Air force
If you want to get into air conditioning then certification and registration are a must, as Electrical Contractor finds out.
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Resource accounting will secure housing funding
Housing funding will be better protected from cash raids by the Treasury under the new council accounting system, it has emerged