All Technical articles – Page 46
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NewsNew register to monitor building control
Government consultation paper calls for better record keeping in local authority building control offices
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Trade body investigates UK cement market
High prices and supply shortages prompt British Aggregates Association investigation
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Ikea’s flatpack homes to go ahead despite Cabe hostility
Gateshead scheme wins planning approval regardless of watchdog’s ‘significant reservations’
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Engineers campaign to become a protected species
E-petition 8th most popular on government website
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FeaturesMaximising daylight: Working on sunshine
Daylight improves productivity and wellbeing in the workplace, so theoretically it could help the brainwork at Edinburgh University’s new science facility. But how do you get a good helping of daylight in grey Scotland? Jan-Carlos Kucharek reports on an innovative brise-soleil
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Windpost-free blockwork: Tackling the block
There’s never been much call for change in the world of blockwork. But now a small contractor from London has found a way to make walls more elegant, stronger and cheaper.
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NewsBetter regs body urges delay of energy ratings
The Better Regulation Commission calls on ministers to delay implementation of home energy performance certificates
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NewsMaterials giants create OCV Reinforcements business
Owens Corning and Saint-Gobain have merged their reinforcement arms to create new global company
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NewsBlowing in the wind
The Joseph Rowntree Trust’s pioneering development – the pre-fabricated city-centre apartments for single people at affordable rents (CASPAR) housing scheme in Leeds – will be demolished.
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FeaturesEnergy rating issues: The window – a 21st century solution
Last week Building revealed that air-conditioned buildings could face a D rating when non-residential energy certificates are introduced next year. So does this mean the end of air-con? Or will tenants simply ignore the certificates when choosing their offices?
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NewsManufacturers launch zero carbon body
The Low and Zero Carbon Technologies Group will look at how manufacturers can contribute to zero carbon homes in 2016
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NewsStewart Delgano appointed chair of timber body
At 39 the managing director of Stewart Milne Timber Solutions will be the youngest ever chairman of the UK Timber Frame Association
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NewsNew test turns the screw on air-conditioned offices
Modern buildings could be given D energy ratings under legislation to be announced next month
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NewsFire brigade issues stark warning to high-rise sites
Manchester fire chief warns industry that water cannot be pumped higher than 60m
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What to remember: Floor screed
Don’t want to lay your fancy finish on that bumpy, lumpy sub-floor? You need a decent screed – but there’s more to applying one than mixing cement and sand, says Peter Caplehorn of Scott Brownrigg
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NewsTimber-frame firms defend their corner after blaze
Sales unaffected by July's Colindale fire, say manufacturers - and safer systems are on the way
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NewsIndustry to act on timber-frame site fire risk
The construction industry has acknowledged that it must deal with the risk of fire in multistorey timber-frame construction after the publication of the London Fire Brigade’s initial findings on the catastrophic fire at Colindale, north London, in July.
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NewsColindale fire questions safety of timber-frame sites
London Fire Brigade findings may lead to new procedures for timber-frame projects
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FeaturesWhat to remember: Cladding/curtain walling access
Access for repair and maintenence must be taken into account when specifying cladding and curtain walling. Peter Caplehorn of Scott Brownrigg outlines the considerations