All Archive Titles articles – Page 271
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Clothes article ignored women
I was looking forward to reading your management guide (CM, January, p32). However, when I read the article entitled “Are Your Clothes Letting You Down” I was disappointed to find it was entirely aimed at men.
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Archive TitlesFine balance
Beware, pressure losses across balancing valves can ruin the control of a variable flow water system. Chris Parsloe looks at the design solutions available to maximise performance
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Archive TitlesThames barriers
There’s a bundle to be made from the government’s thames gateway initiative, but as A scheme in barking shows, it’s not for everyone.
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Countdown for zero carbon begins
The Construction Products Association and the Home Builders Federation (HBF) have teamed up to work out how the construction industry can deliver the government’s zero carbon targets for new build homes. A first draft of the plan will be issued this month.
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Archive TitlesSchools hampered by high bid costs
In a bid to counter criticism that its £45bn programme of secondary school renewal is failing to deliver, the government has made two changes to the Building Schools for the Future process.
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Biomass is go
Energy Crops Company will work with Biojoule to produce and market biomass pellets in the UK.
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Archive TitlesThe blame game
If you don’t want to end up out of pocket for disruption to a project that wasn’t actually your fault, Tim Tapper and Graham Glassey’s advice makes essential reading
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Carbon-reducing Heat pump boiler
Mitsubishi Electric has launched a VRF heat pump boiler that it claims can dramatically reduce CO2 emissions compared to traditional boiler plant.
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Archive TitlesBoilers & heating
With stuffy classrooms cited as one reason for poor educational attainment, Phil Marris looks at CO2 level management strategies
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Commercail condensing boilers
Geminox-UK has launched its latest commercial gas fired condensing boiler. The Evinox comes in six sizes with wide ratio modulating outputs up to 484 kW.
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Archive TitlesTee-off for BSJ golf event
It is your chance to tee off in style with colleagues and clients at the inaugural BSj/EMC Building Services Golf Championship.
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Archive TitlesYou can't skip this
George Colwell MCIOB was amazed at what was being sent to the skip on site. so he set up a website where you can list your waste material for others to pick up
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Standard for carbon offsetting
The government has announced plans for a voluntary code of best practice for carbon off-setting.
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Archive TitlesThe real carbon polluters
I risk losing all my green friends by admitting I had some sympathy with Tony Blair when he was challenged about his New Year holiday in Miami.
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Archive TitlesNew RSPB visitor centre
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has opened a new visitor centre on the edge of the marshes at Rainham.
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Archive TitlesUniversity challenge
A new degree course on the engineering of water supply systems could be just the tonic for the industry’s recruitment woes. Andy Pearson hopes students will sign up
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Let CIBSE take lead in climate change
I am pleased Patrick McKay raised the topic of global warming. I should like to see CIBSE and possibly ASHRAE jointly recognised as the informed source for information on the subject of climate change.
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Check out the pedigree first
Before Patrick McKay dismisses climate change as spin, he should read the proceedings of the Exeter conference in February 2005 (www.defra.gov.uk/environment/climatechange/internat/dangerous-cc.htm) and watch Al Gore’s film An inconvenient truth.
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CIBSE’s commitment to environment
The arguments around climate change are as esoteric as the existence of God, but would an atheist building services engineer refuse work for a client wishing to build a church or would he or she just crack on and do the best job?