All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 239
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Archive TitlesBobs world
My heart sank when I opened my inbox last week. Another rousing e-mail from the chief executive. I’m not sure what offends me most about these messages: the matey tone or the contents.
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Archive TitlesStrategic thinking: get on board
A lack of strategic leadership could be preventing your organisation from performing at its best. But what is it? Kristina Smith looks for some answers
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Binding carbon targets for UK
The publication of the draft Climate Change Bill could see the UK set legally binding targets to cut CO2
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PFI bidding problems highlighted in report
PFI is not attracting enough bids, costs are too high and the tendering process is overlong.
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Archive TitlesODA chief sparks bid fear
The conspiracy theorists were at it again last month, after the director of construction for the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) hinted that its delivery partner, headed by Ray O’Rourke, might get involved in building projects.
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Archive TitlesBGS make a UK first
Glue laminated wooden frames and TermoDeck floor slabs will be used in combination for the first time in the UK on a new office building for the British Geological Survey.
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Archive TitlesAre you missing out on the best?
The Employment Equality (Age) Discrimination Regulations 2006 are designed to ensure nobody is denied a job on the basis of age
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BDP healthcare
BDP and its French partner Groupe6 have joined forces to launch a new international healthcare group.
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Government fails basics
The government is failing to meet basic targets on carbon emissions, water and waste according to a scathing report by its own green watchdog.
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Archive TitlesBanking on visitors
The Titan crane is a powerful symbol of Clydebank’s shipbuilding heritage – and a survivor of nightly bombing raids by the Nazis.
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Are we losing our balance?
Martin Durkin's programme “The Great Global Warming Swindle” (Channel 4, 8 March 2007) provided a useful and reflective background to the current debate in BSj letters. “The acceptance of the orthodox view that unbridled carbon dioxide emissions caused by humans will bring an apocalyptic future has become an act of ...
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Archive TitlesArt of gold
An iconic new art gallery going up in Colchester has has been a challenge from top to bottom for contractor Banner Arts.
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Archive TitlesThe search for a carbon alternative
It’s widely available and pollution free. Could hydrogen be a viable replacement for fossil fuels?
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Archive TitlesAlterations to the programme
How are users finding SBEM, the Part L compliance software launched by BRE a year ago? BSj winkles out the good points and the bad, and asks BRE what it is doing about the latter
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Safety audit is all in hand
Contractor Pettifer Construction wanted to improve its safety auditing process. So it set up its own software firm to develop a product for PDAs
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Archive TitlesAdvances in cooling
Air-conditioning is the theme of this month’s product focus. Dave Smith introduces the section with a look at some of the issues surrounding the replacement of old air-conditioning systems
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Archive TitlesIt’s time to act on site safety
BAA is using an interactive play to tackle attitudes to on-site safety. Rory Olcayto turns theatre critic
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ICS acquired
NG Bailey has acquired specialist controls company Integrated Control Systems.
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Archive TitlesConcerns about cables
I read with great interest the comments made by Keith Elves of Westminster District Surveyors (BSj 02/07).
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Archive TitlesC4 programme condemned
Leading energy scientist and head of BRE’s environmental division has slammed the recent Channel 4 Programme The Great Global Warming Swindle as a “tendentious anti-climate change diatribe, largely based on pseudo-scientific contributions”.