All Archive Titles articles – Page 262
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Archive TitlesGround-up
Kristina Smith reports on a knotty problem in Bristol, a tricky piling operation in Liverpool and a developer’s novel approach to specialist contracts
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Growth in renewables
There has been a significant rise in the installation of renewables in homes and commercial building, according to government figures.
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Guidance
When specifying IT systems and software for building services, you must allow for implementing Part L compliance that will include for the services software to be interfaced into a BMS.
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Waste management plan guide online
From next year all projects will have to produce Site Waste Management Plans.
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Archive TitlesTrade slams WWF report into illegal timber imports
A WWF report claiming the UK is the third largest importer of illegal timber, after Japan and China, has been blasted as ‘statistical nonsense’ by the Timber Trade Federation.#
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Archive TitlesInterviewing for success
Don’t let the ideal candidate slip away from you with a sloppy interview. Be prepared – and show the company at its best
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One for the ladies
Stuart Bridman is right (Flushed with Success, BSj 12/06). There are tremendous water savings to be made from a cistern-less loo.
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Setbacks for LCBP
The government’s small-scale renewable energy funding scheme ran out of its monthly grant allocation less than 12 hours after it opened in February.
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Archive TitlesSchool lessons
Analysing energy use across a range of educational facilities has helped one PFI agency pinpoint just how and where savings can be made, as Tom Lawson reports
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Archive TitlesMan with a plan
Allan Jones cut CO2 emissions from public buildings by three-quarters in his last job. Now he has big plans for new developments in London. Andy Pearson meets a man with the energy to make change happen
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Archive TitlesNew ways of working together
One of the consequences of the introduction of the revised Part L of the Building Regulations is closer collaboration between disciplines. But when will we begin to see the synergies of truly integrated design?
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Non-cognate pilot scheme is a winner
In the 173 years of the CIOB to date , there has been a number of events which, in retrospect, have helped define what the CIOB is about. Normally it is only possible to draw such conclusions in hindsight after a number of years.
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Open sesame
Netherlands-based wireless innovation company Waleli has developed a GSM doorbell. It allows people to answer the door, talk to visitors and even open the door, whether they are at home or not, via telephone over the GSM network.
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Archive TitlesTall order
The new Beetham Tower has a simple elegance. But building the requirement for natural ventilation and a single-stair fire safety solution into Manchester’s tallest residential building had its complications
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Archive TitlesPDAs save trees
Kier Building Maintenance has given 300 of its workers PDAs so that they don’t have to come into the office to receive instructions in the morning, or to fill out paperwork in the evening.
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Archive TitlesPolished performance
Inside knowledge of the Chinese market – as well as construction know-how – helped Szerelmey deliver a top-class flooring job at Plymouth’s Drake Circus.