All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 164
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Foreign workers outnumber British on London sites
UCATT claims migrants make up half the workforce, English-only safety tests mooted
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Archive TitlesThanks, but no thanks
More affordable homes, eco-towns and new business and leisure development to foster economic regeneration: all this and more is planned for cities, towns and rural areas across the UK. The government calls it sustainable development. The communities in whose backyard such schemes are destined to be built have a different ...
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It’s not just a load of rubbish
Here are 10 lessons on how to promote recycling on an estate near you
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Archive TitlesLiving in the Goldilocks zone
We want our homes to be neither too hot, nor too cold, and the ones we build today will have to be just right for an uncertain future climate. So how do we get the balance right? Terry Keech tastes the porridge.
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Archive TitlesFuture urban forms
The old ways of measuring urban density are too crude. We need new measures that take into account living, leisure and workspace, says Paul Clarke
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Archive TitlesThree million is not enough
The government’s target for new homes is too little, too late, says George Galloway
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Sustainability: no one said it was going to be easy
Had a glass of wine lately… or a chocolate or three? If not, then you are one of a tiny minority of people across the country who have managed to stick to their new year’s resolution beyond the first four weeks of 2008.
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Down but not out
So what’s going to happen to the housing market in 2008? Fewer housing starts? A fall in prices? A slowdown? A crash? Richard Donnell reads the runes
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Archive TitlesDigest
This month: housebuilders take a hit, first staff for superagency, zero carbon offices, and more
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Couldn’t we be a little more social?
The social dimension of urban regeneration remains an area of uncertainty and controversy. Tim Dixon and Andrea Colantonio look at the reasons why
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Right place, right time, right cost
Social infrastructure needs are an integral part of planning for sustainable communities. Here’s an approach that will help you address them in timely fashion
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Archive TitlesCompetition for eco-towns hots up as top players join forces
Private sector dominates list of more than 50 bids
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Archive TitlesWhat’s working - sustainable communities
Government policy has promoted the village as the sustainable way of living, but that has dramatically changed the way housebuilders develop, as Josephine Smit finds out
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Archive TitlesIs this the end of build and bugger off?
Most developers don’t hang around long once their homes are up. But English Partnerships has come up with a scheme that makes the housebuilder responsible for the long-term management of the community.
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Archive TitlesWhy housebuilders are footing the bill for renewable energy
With few energy companies keen to get involved in renewables at a local level, housebuilders are having to sort out their own energy needs. Vikki Miller looks at the hard realities hitting the zero carbon homes dream
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Archive Titles‘Unflappable’ head of Homes and Communities Agency sets out vision
April 2009 may be the official date Sir Robert Kerslake takes up the top job at the Homes and Communities Agency, but 20 March is when Sir Bob, as he is popularly known, starts to put flesh on the bones of the government’s new superagency, writes Josephine Smit.
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Archive Titles‘I love London, and I want it to be here long after I’m gone’
Dig the new hair cut? It’s just part of the Boris Johnson makeover – from bumbling Tory toff to earnest contender for London mayor. Vikki Miller grilled him about the theme of this issue, sustainability, to see how seriously we should take him