All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 1420
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Plastic fantastic or metal guru
What type of cable management product do you buy, metal or plastic? Electrical Contractor talks to the men in the know...
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Details
Clay interlocking tiles make for a cost-effective, quick-to-fit roof covering, that is also good-looking enough to win over planners.
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The great complainer
If you've let down a buyer and you haven't spotted just how let down they are, Chris Lorentzen might set his Watchdogs on you. The man behind the National Association of New Home Owners uses national media to demand redress.
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Cold silence
How can you get the aesthetics of an exposed concrete coffer, the cooling performance of a chilled beam and factory prefabrication of the structure? Barclays Bank thinks it's found an answer.
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A cable marriage
Believe it or not, cables are delicate souls. They respond well to careful handling. Karl Tryner of Krone has the tender touch and offers advice in the second our q&a sessions on data cabling.
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Building brains
Bluewater retail park has installed a building management system which will literally think for itself.
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The eave of something big
The timber panel is raising the roof to the top of the housebuilding agenda. Look at the 4.4 million homes debate: it makes sense to squeeze the maximum square footage out of every plot, and timber panels are the easiest way to transform useless attic to useful living space. And ...
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In your best interest
Legislation is now in place that will penalise large companies who don't cough up on time.
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Thermal Storage - Keeping cool after dark
Many old buildings have considerable reserves of thermal mass but no way of utilising it. A new retrofit technique, Airdeck, may provide the answer
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Design issues for a/c split systems
Recent research has raised questions surround the efficiency and efficacy of imported comfort cooling systems, which assume levels of humidity in excess of that found in the UK. What are the implications?
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The nation’s fifth emergency service
The service the public enjoys from roadside assistance has set high expectations for what buyers expect from housebuilders. But there is one call-out service with obvious similarities.
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The terrace that costs 5% less
Ideal Home Exhibition’s Oyster House showed what could be done with a fat budget and an expansive designer. This year’s Slim House shows how to squeeze a garden into a tight site - put it on the roof!
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The £45m bill that the industry pays for again and again
An NOP poll has shown up UK services for not carrying the flag in either Continental Europe or the USA. But does service matter? Well, housebuilding now faces the risk of losing market share as the gap between its service reputation and other consumer sectors widens. Time to invest profitably ...
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PROBE 19: designer feedback
With the conclusion of the PROBE series of post-occupancy building studies, Building Services Journal invited a group of engineers and architects to report on how PROBE is influencing building design and operation.
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30 m² room at the top
First UK trial for pitched-roof panel system designed to create quick-fix room in the roof.
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Family favourites
Unless we stop patronising people and start getting radical, attempts to create sustainable communities will fail
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Carrying the torch
As Scotland moves towards devolution, changes in housing north of the border could give the rest of the UK something to cheer
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Variations on a theme
Housing associations are no longer just landlords. But as the rush to diversify grows, Housing Today weighs up the benefits - and the risks
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Cards on the table
How would you change the law on homelessness? On the eve of Shelter Week, Housing Today asked six housing experts to rewrite the Housing Act - and these were the results
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Figure it out
Major new research for the Housing Corporation highlights the huge variations and inconsistency rent levels. Our contributor analyses the muddled pattern