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New chair at the ODA
Last month the Olympic Delivery Authority appointed John Armitt as its new chair. Armitt’s cv includes a 27-year stint with John Laing and chief executive roles at Costain and more recently, Network Rail. He will work 3.5 days a week and replaces acting chair Roy McNulty, who stepped up to ...
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Fast track green certificate
Want to get environmental management accreditation but are daunted by the enormity of it?
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Smart metering could slash carbon emissions
The use of advanced metering for energy consumption could save UK's small to medium size enterprises (SMEs) £300 million a year and up to 2.5 million tonnes of CO2 emissions, equivalent to the entire carbon footprint of Bristol.
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Archive TitlesWant to be part of the team supporting this car at the Porsche Mobil Supercup in Hungary?
SAS International is offering one lucky building services engineer the chance to learn all about teamwork from the experts at the Hungarian Porsche Supercup/F1 Grand Prix in August.
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University campus
City Campus East, part of Northumbria University's £136 million investment in its Newcastle city centre site, is set to be 40% more energy efficient that similar UK buildings.
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Load calculations
A new standard that establishes minimum requirements for performing load calculations has been published by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers.
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Archive TitlesNo butts
The new smoking regulations come into force at 6am Sunday 1st July 2007. Howard Prosser - chair of the CIOB H&S committee - asks Fiona Andrews, from the Smoke free England Campaign how these will affect the construction industry.How did the new regulations come about and what is hoped to ...
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Device presses the right button
If you send workers to survey buildings or carry out repair work alone, you can help protect them (and yourself against litigation) by supplying them with a ‘mobile panic button’.
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The importance of CPD in the building services industry
In an industry such as building services, which is highly susceptible to legislative and technological developments, ongoing learning and development are prerequisites for both individual and collective success. Updating and enhancing skills and competencies, as well as improving personal performance have positive effects throughout an organisation. It is important that ...
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Archive TitlesBobs world
The big question this month is: who will break the news of the smoking ban to Hymac Bill?
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Diploma fits the bill
I read with interest Bernard Blain’s call for the national curriculum to offer vocationally orientated qualifications which appeal to the full spectrum of students (CM May). I am pleased to be able to inform Mr Blain that just such qualifications, in which applied learning is integral, are on their way.
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Archive TitlesBidders shun Mailbox
More evidence of contractors giving complex jobs the cold shoulder emerged last month, as the Birmingham Development Company (BDC) was forced to create its own construction firm to build the second phase of the Mailbox.
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Archive TitlesBetter plan for change
A small housebuilder had negotiated options on some land and put in a planning application for 13 homes.
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Work has begun on the Warwick
Work has begun on the Warwick Digital Laboratory building, part of a £50 million project that will allow researchers to develop mass production processes for a vast range of future products.
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‘It’s become a political tool’
Our planning system dates back to 1942 when the Uthwatt Committee recommended nationalising all land, construction, and materials production
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Archive TitlesBack to school
Mechanical services engineer Morwenna Wilson found that the best way to inspire schoolchildren to consider a career in construction is to build structures out of food
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Archive TitlesBack to the physics textbook
I decided to find out the actual physics of how CO2 gas in the atmosphere causes global warming. If you cannot get to sleep at night this is the stuff for you.
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Extra: New Ash Green – building it and living there
My reading of the obituary of Ivor Cunningham who died earlier this year led me to recall my start in the construction industry and caused me to reflect upon the issue of housing in the countryside and an approach taken by Cunningham and his colleagues some forty years ago.
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Archive TitlesHerzog & de Meuron’s RIBA prize-winner Laban suffers for its art
Laban dance centre swept the critics off their feet when its gleaming facades were first unveiled. But for the school, poorly functioning services mean it's just a pretty face
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Archive TitlesAn argument that holds water
I read with interest Jeff Kirton's challenge to female CIBSE members regarding the “enormous waste of water” in ladies’ washrooms (BSj 03/06).