All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 187
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CHP ‘needs financial incentives’
The Combined Heat and Power Association (CHPA) has criticised the government’s latest report on CHP for failing to create financial certainty for the technology.
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Choosing fire suppression systems
As the primary association for installers of water- based suppression systems, the British Automatic Fire Sprinkler Association was concerned about some of the content of Steven Cooper’s article (BSj 10/07).
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Archive TitlesChivers delivers MBO
Chris Chivers has just come through his second takeover at Killby & Gayford, and this time he’s at the helm. He spoke to Kristina Smith
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Charity merger talks
The Corgi Trust and the Electrical Safety Council are discussing a possible merger. The combined charity would aim to be the most influential UK body for gas and electrical safety issues.
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Archive TitlesChapter and verse
Peter Koch, author of the revised CIBSE Guide C Chapter 4, explains why it contains some radical changes
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Archive TitlesZero carbon Mission: Impossible
Changes to the Code for Sustainable Homes, as well as the SAP2005 revisions to Appendix M, have made it almost impossible sensibly to provide a zero-carbon home.
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User buy-in
Good facilities management is essential if low energy buildings are to live up to their design concept. While building services consultants and contractors are the key to delivering the main energy-consuming elements of a project, it is the facilities manager who ensures their efficient operation.
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WYG and Hilson Moran build foreign presence
Engineering consultancies White Young Green and Hilson Moran have made purchases to increase their overseas presence.
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Archive TitlesBoKlok blog
What has been taxing Gavin Skelly this month? Find out in the latest installation from the Avebury regional construction manager who is overseeing the UK’s first development of Ikea’s BoKlok Homes for developer Live Smart@Home.
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New system is a safe bet
David Faulds, safety, health and environmental director for contractor PC Harrington, was very happy with his paper systems.
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Eight firms on GLA’s energy audit shortlist
Atkins, Dalkia and Alfred McAlpine Business Services are among the eight companies shortlisted as part of the tender process for making the Greater London Authority’s buildings more energy efficient.
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Arts and graft
Balfour Kilpatrick has won a £0.6m mechanical services contract at the Mackintosh Building, Glasgow School of Art, as part of a multimillion-pound revamp.
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Archive TitlesColwyn Foulkes & Partners Architects
This four-storey, steel-framed building in Felixstowe was designed by Colwyn Foulkes & Partners Architects, with Charles D Smith Associates acting as services consultant, for China Shipping (UK) Agency and Johnson Stevens Agencies. The building is clad in glass and copper. A custom-built system using Levolux’s western red cedar timber louvres ...
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Aerial mapping specialist
Aerial mapping specialist BlueSky has produced a colour-coded temperature map of Hastings to help the council to tackle fuel poverty and climate change. The map highlights properties that are losing the most heat so the council can take steps to better insulate its housing stock and premises. It also helps ...
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ADDING UP THE CARBON BENEFITS
ADDING UP THE CARBON BENEFITS OF RAIL The article by Toby Balson (BSj 10/07) rightly draws attention to the substantial effect of air travel on personal carbon emissions. He says that switching to rail would reduce emissions by more than 50%. This may be an understatement. Sources I have seen ...
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Archive TitlesAccess and security
Central locking on cars is now commonplace. Smart home technologies make it possible to achieve the same type of functionality in the home.
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London cuts carbon by 26%
Independent study shows Ken Livingstone’s tough policies are setting benchmark for local authorities
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Sustainable approaches can make or break your bid to design new leisure facilities. Barry Redman, the head of Silcock Dawson’s energy and sustainable design group, discusses what will and won’t wash
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JIB looks to focus on m&e industrial relations
Joint Industry Board set to broaden remit.
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BSRIA highlights poor productivity
M&E industry loses one-third of the day on delays.