All Archive Titles articles – Page 224
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Archive TitlesWin a camera with Zumtobel
Zumtobel Lighting is offering BSj readers the chance to win a top-of-the-range camera.
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Carbon help
A new advisory committee on carbon abatement technologies has been announced by secretary of state for energy Lord Truscott.
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Archive TitlesCarbon copy
Have you yet to be convinced that zero-carbon homes can actually be built? BRE's new show home, intended as a blueprint for future new builds, might just change your mind. Stephen Kennett takes a tour
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Archive TitlesZero carbon: it can be done
Rory Olcayto found visitors to Offsite 2007 all talking about the same thing – a family home that had achieved a sustainability rating of level 6
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Archive TitlesCharity challenge leaves you with a mountain to climb
Here’s an idea which ticks two corporate social responsibility boxes: entering your team for the COINS Three Peaks Challenge. You’ll be teambuilding and at the same time raising money for a very worthwhile charity.
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Get used to it – climate change is here to stay
As far as climate change goes, I believe the Blythe household is doing its bit. But recently a couple of incidents have put my resolve to the test.
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CIOB upgrades online library
The CIOB has revamped its online library. It now has more than 60,000 publications from around the world. Some journals will also be available online. Non CIOB members can access the system, but only institute members will have full access and functionality. Go to www.ciob.org.uk/resources and select library and information ...
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Climate initiative
Honeywell has joined the Clinton Climate Initiative in a global effort to help cities around the world improve the energy efficiency of buildings.
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Archive TitlesAt the coal face
A subtle lighting scheme involving cool white lamps and dimmable fluorescents has helped transform Zollverein colliery’s coal washer into a sleek but authentic museum space.
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Croydon crane joins string of collapses
There was another crane collapse in June: the jib of a Comedil tower crane on Haymills’ Altitude 25 site in Croydon, south London, collapsed while being extended.
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Energy figures are not comparable
In James Thonger’s article (BSj 05/07) he assumes that the government’s assumptions for the analysis of combined heat and power (CHP) are valid, and that the assumptions made by the London Climate Change Agency are invalid.
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A concrete relationship
Careful organisation and control of formwork and falsework has been vital in keeping an M1 widening project on track. Rory Olcayto reports
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EPBD consultation is shelved
Plans to introduce energy performance certificates are descending into chaos as the government retracts
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Archive TitlesRadio control
System Sensor’s Series 200 plus wired fire detection system has been enhanced with a radio communication between the detectors for installing at heritage sites.
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Archive TitlesControlling interest
It's arguably the most important detail of any design – yet often completely overlooked. Roderic Bunn challenges engineers to stop invalidating all their hard work by neglecting to specify a user-friendly control panel
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Daywork costs revised in latest publication
Anyone who thinks dayworks is a simple concept better get their hands on Definition of Prime Cost of Daywork Carried Out Under a Building Contract – all 16 pages of it. The document has been produced by the Construction Confederation and RICS and it will supersede the last definition, which ...
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Employers crucial
Tony Mells suggests the need to bring back a financially supported national apprenticeship scheme (letters, CM June).
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Dissatisfied customers
It’s good times for contractors – and not so good for clients, if the latest set of key performance indicators from Constructing Excellence in the Built Environment are anything to go by.
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Archive TitlesA new cycle
One-time Olympic biker Peter Bonfield tells Stephen Kennett why he has more than a sporting chance of doubling BRE’s turnover and pushing sustainability to the fore