All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 1415
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Report calls for broader housing allocation policy
Social housing faces a "slow death" from low demand unless allocations are thrown open to more affluent groups, according to a major new report by one of the government's closest advisers
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A plague on all our houses
Abandonment, deprivation, decay. Has the grim reaper come for our great cities? Our contributor asks how we can stop urban areas slowly dying
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End in sight for new build's tax advantage
A government task force looks set to call for the levelling of the uneven tax playing field which favours new build over refurbishment, and it may even opt to tilt the system the other way
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Surefooted
Sports giant Nike hopes to win some green medals for its recently completed "sustainable" campus development at Hilversum in Holland. Do the buildings gain an environmental tick of acceptance?
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The write stuff
New certificates and forms are out, covering the revisions to BS 7671. The ECA has produced a guide to their completion.
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Pressure points
Controlling smoke in buildings by pressurisation requires careful fan selection. Help is at hand from Woods Air Movement.
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Power to the people
An extension to one of the decade's most influential low energy office buildings might be expected to take the genre onto new levels of efficiency and occupant satisfaction. Yet PowerGen's new phase 2 annexe conforms to more institutional norms. Why?
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Surge overkill
This report explains how to deal with overvoltages and electrical surges.
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Positive outlook
Positive input ventilation may be a relative new kid on the block but it is picking up fans when it comes to energy efficiency.
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Smart houses - How low can U go?
Awareness of the need for energy efficient houses has never been so high, but are low energy dwellings delivering the performance they promised, or are comfort levels rising?
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Homes for the future
The DETR's projections say 3·8 million households will be created between 1996 and 2021. How will the design of dwellings need to evolve?
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Forward thinking
Paul Brown, CIBSE project manager of the year, explains his role for T Clarke at Garrard House.
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Fire guarding
The workplace and those that work in it have to be protected from fire. This report tells how to protect your premises and generate business.
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Grape expectations
Vinopolis. It sounds like the home of a super hero with powers fuelled by wine. In fact it is London's newest tourist attraction.
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Your name's not down...
Access control is not a buzzword, it is big business. Electrical Contractor investigates an ever-advancing security technology.
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Smart houses - Digital dwellings
The smart home of tomorrow may not be a glorified mud hut bristling with high technology, it may simply be flexible as a home and workplace and capable of being adapted for a range of ages and infirmities. What role will be played by services engineers?
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Details
High cost has deterred housebuilders from using condenser boilers. But Baxi’s low-cost, energy-efficient, high-output, compact unit is about to change that.
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The mod con
Homebuilders are expert at selling a vision of Britain, but why does the product on offer invariably shun Habitat for Laura Ashley? Josephine Smit looks into housing’s black hole - the contemporary.
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Meet the new bosses
New opportunities, new focus and new pressures need new people. Josephine Smit runs through the cvs of the industry's fresh heirs.
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Building performance benchmarks
The CIBSE has just published Technical Memorandum TM 22 Energy Assessment and Reporting Methodology: Office assessment Method. It contains supplements with benchmarks for banks and agencies, hotels and mixed-use buildings. But how can such benchmarks be applied?