All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 1417
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Movers and shakers
Are frequent movers to blame for decline of inner-city areas? Or are they just the victims of a lack of love? Housing Today reports on a new study
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A long way back
As the crisis in Kosovo continues, our contributors explain how local authorities and RSLs can help prepare for the arrival of large numbers of refugees
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Homeless not hopeless
Can the government's target of reducing rough sleeping be met? Our contributor says local solutions are the answer
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Facing an uncertain future
The government is to press ahead with its plans for funding supported housing. Housing Today speaks to housing providers who claim their warnings have been ignored
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Sustainable for a year?
A thousand years of cultural, social and economic progress has led to a paradox: humankind teeters on the brink of environmental disaster. Is the dome a shameful celebration of waste and excess? Or is it the cutting edge of sustainable construction?
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In a tight spot
The Confined Spaces Regulations were introduced last year to tackle fatalities when working where space is at a premium. Electrical Contractor looks at how to assess the risk.
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Simply the test
If you want to get the best out of your testing equipment, there are many courses on offer. Seaward explains why you should attend.
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Servicing a site
A 180 acre site to house a two year exhibition is handed to engineers for servicing. Schedules are fixed, but funding and contents are not. How can they cater for all possible eventualities?
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Tanya Ross
She's the nearest thing the building services profession has to a media star. She is as comfortable on radio as she is being a project manager on the Millennium Dome. She is the ebullient Tanya Ross.
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Underground resistance
Frost and dryness can increase the resistance of earth-rod electrodes. This report explains how to check soil conditions when taking measurements.
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Taking on the regions
As the new regional development agencies are born, regeneration minister Richard Caborn tells Housing Today how they will have an impact on low social housing demand
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Plane thinking
When Chase Manhattan decided it wanted to eliminate all possible points of failure in its power supplies and control circuitry, it turned to solutions developed by the aeronautical industry triple redundancy.
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Named and shamed
In the week that the Housing Corporation "named and shamed" five housing associations over their rents, corporation chief executive Anthony Mayer says there is no room for complacency. But Bill Payne asks what "ambushing" associations in this way can possibly achieve
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Route master
This month we look at the role of route planning and management for data cabling systems.
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Space invaders
The business of keeping out intruders is rocketing with both high tech and traditional methods in demand.
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Greenwich meantime
If the Dome is finished by the September deadline, NMEC project manager David Trench will take the credit. If it isn't...
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No-go to go-go
The potential to transform inner-city wastelands and attract a broad church of buyers is shown on a large scale at Hulme, Manchester. Sales now outstrip the programme.
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Service game
Working hard to let you play hard. Electrical Contractor investigates one northern m&e contractor's winning ways in the fitness sector.
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Foundations
Foundations is a monthly distillation of up-to-date, previously unpublished data. The information is presented regionally to help with detailed business planning. House starts, compiled by the NHBC, show trends in your area well in advance of government data. Plus, fresh figures from the Halifax.
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Fire guard
Which way would they run? Consultants needed a sophisticated computer model to get a handle on how people would behave in the Dome if there were a fire. Enter the Exodus computer program.