All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 1421
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Question and answer
What's the last thing we need? Some would say yet another housing project, claims our contributor. But here, in his first article as chief executive of the Empty Homes Agency, he explains why a major initiative to tackle the scandal of empty homes is desperately needed
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Serious fraud officer
Local authority "sharp practice" has no place in fighting fraud. Instead councils and government must work together
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Plan for demand
Homes which people just don't want to live in pose one of the greatest challenges for the government in its crusade against social exclusion. In the third of our special series, our contributor, a member of the Social Exclusion Unit's action teams on unpopular housing, suggests landlords need to get ...
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Switch on
Have you enrolled in the Lightswitch programme? If not you could be missing out on an important business opportunity.
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Service rules
Retail giant Marks & Spencer is the latest major client to experiment with socially responsive architecture with this office building for its financial services division. Has it been possible to reconcile energy efficiency with the company's business objectives?
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Powers to the planners
A new draft PPG3 aims to give planners the right to dictate density, design and mix. It is expected this month as part of a raft of prescriptive guidance. Are we looking at an interventionist programme for handing officers new powers?
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Warsaw pact
Lorne Stewart is going abroad, with the formation of an International Division. Will Jones talks to Roger Causer about his plans with a difference.
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The only way is up
Two storeys good, three storeys better! Townhouses are becoming the popular alternative to flats for brownfield sites.
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Tar very much
Derelict fag factory repackaged as landmark des res - Mark Brinkley smokes out the specification in Wimpey Homes' conversion.
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Midnight mass
Troubled by noises in the night? Some new homes with beam and block floors are having sound transmission problems; others aren't. With the BRE set to take months before it can explain why some work and others don't, housebuilders are turning to mass as one solution.
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Sustainability in practice - Learning from the past
For over 30 years architects and engineers have been grappling with sustainable buildings, attempting to define a set of construction details which are durable, repeatable and low in environmental impact. What can we learn?
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Laying separate lives
Ensuring electromagnetic compatibility is crucial to avoid interference from and to other electrical equipment.
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School of hard rocks
For a country with limited resources, Zimbabwe needs to embrace passive solar design rather more than most. Could thermal rock storage be an answer?
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Greenwich lean time
Sir John Egan's lean construction techniques are alive and well on site at the Millennium Dome. Andrew Brister looks at shared databases, paperless offices and productivity bonuses.
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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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Novel forms of refrigeration
The regulation of ozone-depleting refrigerants is pushing design towards environmentally-friendly refrigeration systems. But can the industry afford them, and how effective are they?
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Regional Housing Forecast
Each quarter Standard & Poor financial consultancy DRI updates regional housing forecasts for the current year and the next for housing transactions, starts and prices – exclusively for plastics manufacturer Wavin. DRI then scores each region’s housing economy, marking one star for worst performer, five stars for best. DRI uses ...
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Floor rates
Calibre, the BRE's invention for benchmarking site productivity, is getting its first major trial at Pegasus Court in Oxford. So is it any good?
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Same old story - different ending
Can listening to your customers really make a difference? Malcolm Pitcher visited the USA to interview five housebuilders with high loyalty, satisfaction and referral scores to find the common factors behind each success story.
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Details
If you are building a shower without a tray or a cubicle, the floor has to be detailed to drain water away. Mark Brinkley outlines the essentials for making a showerproof wet floor.