All Archive Titles articles – Page 212
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Profits up at NG Bailey
NG Bailey has announced a 37% rise in operating profit, from £9 million to £12 million, for the year to 2 March.
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Archive TitlesModel behaviour
If you want a school, hospital or retail scheme to achieve Part L, design time may be most usefully spent on certain services. Andy Pearson reveals how
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Archive TitlesBetter by degrees
The most striking architectural feature of City Campus East at the University of Northumbria also helped it to achieve new standards in low energy use.
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Defence Estates: Putting bidders through their paces
Soldiers on patrol in Basra find themselves unexpectedly under fire. No one knows what to do because they’ve never been in this situation before. Panic breaks out…
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ODA soft on olympic bids
When the Olympic Delivery Authority wanted to select its construction partner it looked to Defence Estates for inspiration and decided to adopt its assessment methods.
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Archive TitlesThe redevelopment of Birmingham’s New Street station
The redevelopment of Birmingham’s New Street station has been on the cards for some years.
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Archive TitlesBullivant’s tough bit
Kristina Smith reports on an alternative to mini piles, a cheap solution to retaining a slope, Europe’s largest struts and an impressive new drill
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Archive TitlesBoKlok Blog
CIOB member Gavin Skelly, regional construction manager with Avebury, is overseeing Ikea’s first foray into the UK housing market. Ikea is delivering its Boklok homes in partnership with developer Live Smart @ Home. Here’s the story so far…
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M&E bodies discuss “convergence”
The HVCA is consulting members this month on its proposed convergence with the Electrical Contractors’ Association (ECA).
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Treasury moots tax relief on brise soleil
Tax relief could soon be offered on integral building fixtures such as brise soleil and active facades, if the Treasury's consultation document Business Tax reform – Capital Allowances Changes is formalised.
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Archive TitlesNetwork Rail: Building tolerance
A normally pleasant colleague is curt with you. Rather than saying ‘Hello, how was your weekend?’ he launches into a series of requests and leaves without so much as a wave.
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The client's call
Your recent articles (06/07 BSj) on the Tower Bridge kiosk and the Laban Centre made good reading as we were the engineers on both.
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Archive TitlesCome down a carbon shoe size
Everyone’s talking about CO2 emissions at the moment, but how do firms go about reducing their carbon footprint?
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Cash lure for students
The CBI is urging government to hand out £1000 a year to science and engineering undergraduates to double the number of students entering the sector.
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Archive TitlesData centres
In this month’s engineering services cost model, Davis Langdon Mott Green Wall reviews the principles of data centre design and look at the implications for the services costs
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Archive TitlesChain reaction
Corporate giant Tesco aims to halve the carbon emissions of its stores by 2012 and James Dorling is the man charged with making it happen. He outlines his plan to Stephen Kennett
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We're part of climate change process
I write in response to Patrick McKay’s letter, “A load of hot air” (03/07 BSj).
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We like Cheap
Despite recent turmoil in the stock market, confidence in City of London construction continues to soar. Historic Cheapside is a sea of tower cranes as one of the Square Mile’s main thoroughfares is transformed. Major projects on the go include a £500m shopping centre at One New Change, where McGee ...
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Reality check
BSj’s and the UK Green Building Council’s debate on the best way of calculating the carbon intensity of grid electricity established one thing for sure: there are no easy answers.