All Archive Titles articles – Page 271
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Retentions still a major issue
Contractors have hit out at the time it takes retentions to be paid in BSRIA’s latest KPI survey. Over one third of contractors taking part in the survey awarded one out of 10 – the worst possible score – for ‘satisfaction with timely release of retentions money’.
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Archive TitlesPlugging the hole
A recent conference hosted by the BRE discussed strategies to get the message across to the public on changing their attitude towards water consumption
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Archive TitlesGuidance
Specifying the required boiler for a particular situation has never been more arduous for the designer. Specialist knowledge of the significant regulation or requirement is vital.
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Missing the point of global warming
I imagine Patrick McKay’s letter raised a few eyebrows other than mine and I think that he represents a view just as much the subject of brainwashing as the opposite position, which he so mockingly derides.
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Archive TitlesWorking girls
An all-woman building team? Does this mean handbags at dawn or lots of group hugs?
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Hocus focus
Latest construction innovation from Japan… human block cutters.Congratulations to David Heard
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Wires and fires
Working as a district surveyor I’ve become aware of the number of engineers who don’t seem to know the new standard that defines performance requirements for various types of cables required to have resistance to fire. BS 7346-6 2005 Components for Heat & Smoke Control Systems – Part 6 Specification ...
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Power at your fingertips
Riello’s ‘Power protection guide’ provides detailed information on how to design and implement secure power continuity plans to protect critical organisational processes and systems. Aimed at building services designers and contractors, as well as IT and facilities managers, it contains 290-pages of best practice advice split into ten key topics. ...
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Feel the force
Lochinvar has launched the EcoForce+ range of high efficiency gas-fired condensing water heaters.
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A lift for everyone
Steven Cooper expressed an opinion (BSj 01/07) that lift designers should be given the opportunity to design systems to be used in an emergency. Well, the lift industry has done that ages ago (see BS5588-8: 1998). Also please read your CIBSE-Guide D, Chapter 6.
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Archive TitlesE-learning
TutorialsSteve Hextall is a design manager for Miller Construction, responsible for 16 new schools which will be built in the next five years under the Leicester Building Schools for the Future programme. He is also studying a construction management degree by distance learning.Hextall logs on three or four times a ...
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The ‘E-factor’
John Morton has probably got one of the toughest jobs in engineering – encouraging more young people and more women into the profession. Andy Pearson went to meet him
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Housebuilding: it’s as easy as taking a holiday
I joined the CIOB a few years ago and have worked for a number of homebuilders and developers.
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HVCA Publications has launched its ‘Guide to good practice: Mothballing and re-commissioning of buildings’ – claimed to be the first of its kind in the UK.
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Archive TitlesPure ease for purewell pipe kits
Hamworthy Heating’s new pipework kits for its Purewell VariHeat range of boilers simplify and speed up installation for contractors.
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Down to Earth
There were a lot of letters in the BSj postbag this month, the majority in response to one particular reader's letter in the January edition of this journal warning readers against being "duped by the 'global warming' spin".
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Let’s have a healthy debate
You may be quite shocked to learn that cocaine is no longer the preserve of the Tara Palmer Wotsits and the Robbie Williamses.
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Cyber management
The CIOB is one of the partners behind a scheme to develop a huge virtual reality simulation theatre for training construction managers in Coventry.
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Archive TitlesFalcon cranes
Following the collapse of a crane in Liverpool, which killed a worker and seriously injured the driver, the HSE has served a prohibition notice on Falcon Crane Hire.
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Coventry revives degree course
Coventry University is to resurrect its degree course in building services engineering following demand from industry and further education colleges.