All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 24
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Government consults over false self-employment in construction
Legislation seeks to close taxation loophole
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Smart moves
The government’s consultation on the roll-out of smart meters comes to a close this month
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How do green retrofits stack up?
Josephine Smit looks at progress on the upgrading of Britain’s existing housing stock
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Global focus: L’Aquilla
World leaders have agreed that global temperatures should not rise more than 2C above pre-industrial levels
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Global focus: Melbourne
The Melbourne Convention Centre has been awarded a six-star green star rating by the Green Building Council of Australia
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Tanya Ross on engineers and the media
Undersold and underappreciated, engineers are saddled with an image problem. Tanya Ross considers why this is so, and what the profession can do about it.
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Energy price hike could encourage energy efficiency
Energy prices should rise tenfold to encourage greater energy efficiency, says Lucy Pedler, director of the Green Register
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Products: education
Eco-conscious students are adding to the pressure on schools and universities to be energy efficient. BSD looks at some of the solutions, including giant thermal stores
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Rapeseed-fired CHiPs
Clean energy company Blue-NG has appointed Land and Marine to build the first of two renewable power stations in London, in a contract worth £110m
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Mark Jansen on the cost of cheap fuel
Saving the planet is not as simple as making buildings and transport energy efficient, for the reductions don’t add up in the way we’d expect
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MPS to design for Wigan Life Centre
Morgan Professional Services (MPS) has been appointed to provide the civil, structural and mechanical and electrical engineering design for the £187m Wigan Life Centre
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BSD interview: David Mackay
The Frisbee-loving physicist has delivered a reality check on CO2
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Brian Mark on district infrastructure systems
The doubters need to give district infrastructure systems a second chance if Britain is to have any chance of hitting carbon targets
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McBains Cooper design green B&Q store
B&Q has tucked a store brimming with renewables onto a site less than half its usual size. Kristina Smith reports on how the design team did it.
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Soft Landings offers designers new blueprint for handovers
Designers will have a greater role after the handover of buildings under a new management process that promises to bed in systems for the users
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In pictures: best of the BSD Wiki
The new BSD wiki has already attracted top-name companies, which have added details of exciting schemes to the online showcase of sustainable design. Here are some of the best of our wiki (so far)
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Bar on union blacklists
The government has launched a consultation on regulations that will make it illegal for union members to be denied employment through secret blacklists
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Your digital world: Andrew Henderson
Young colleagues may be surprised to learn that Andrew Henderson is a Take That fan. Less controversially, Amazon and the office intranet are his most used websites and photography his favourite digital diversion
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Green bill advances
Peter Ainsworth’s Green Energy Bill has had its first reading in the House of Lords and could receive royal assent by October
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Adjudication process can also keep the money rolling in
The construction Act offers a “pay now, argue later” solution for firms eager to get their hands on outstanding payments. Sarah Wilson outlines the procedure