All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 1423
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A fish stinks from the head
Malcolm Pitcher helped turn Wimpey Homes from housebuilder to retailer. In this month's column, the marketing consultant crosses the pond to discover how one consultancy is boosting the fortunes of US housebuilders by talking to their customers.
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The IT expert
Want to reconfigure your home security? Want to shop from your kitchen? Want to fill the garden with digital audio? Integer's intelligent services do IT all
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The design expert
Project director Nick Thompson of architects Cole Thompson explains how his design team faced up to the challenge of building one of Europe's most innovative homes - without a budget or a builder.
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Can we rethink co-ordination
Design co-ordination is often a contradiction in terms. The quality of information varies substantially from project to project. Contractors are left to guess, arguments break out and litigation hovers in the wings. What can be done to resolve these problems?
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Click to fit
New BSRIA research has found that pre-assembled building components can slash construction time and cost, while improving site productivity by 35%.
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Lights Cameras Piling
How do you schedule a very fast construction programme around filming a tv programme?
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The right Calibre
Integer's build was monitored by Calibre, the latest in productivity tools.
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The building services expert
Renewable energy sources - wind, sun and even heat generated from below the earth's surface - cool the Integer house and warm its water for washing
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Portland Building
Hampshire County Council has a deservedly high reputation for imaginative, low energy educational buildings. In 1995, County Architect Sir Colin Stansfield-Smith worked his magic for Portsmouth University. Has the mixed-mode solution for the Portland Building done the trick?
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Using cordless sensors in building services systems
Cordless sensors require no power or signal cables, offering lower system costs while making installation and refurbishment far less disruptive. But what is their real potential for use in the buildings of tomorrow?
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The construction best practice programme: key facts
The Construction Industry Best Practice Programme has been developed in the wake of the Latham report and Sir John Egan's Rethinking Construction to help any construction-related organisation achieve greater efficiencies through improved knowledge and a change of business practices, writes Brian Sims. Based at the BRE, the Best Practice Programme ...
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Apres moi la deluge
Bathrooms in the house tapped into new technology waiting to flood the market.
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All things equal
A fully-accessible building which disabled people can use on the same terms as the able-bodied is up-and-running in Middlesex. The design of the ASPIRE National Training Centre treats everyone as equals, so what lessons can services engineers learn from this pioneering project?
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Egan: the way ahead?
Rethinking Construction set out to revolutionise the construction industry. In this introductory article to our extended feature on Sir John Egan's initiative, we reveal the strategy for building's New Deal.
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Probe 9: Energy and Engineering
Eight buildings were studied under the PROBE research project four offices and four non-commercial buildings. In the penultimate article in this PROBE series, we focus on the engineering and energy issues of all the study buildings to draw some conclusions on building performance. How well do lighting controls ...