All Archive Titles articles – Page 295
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Archive TitlesYou spent hours polishing your CV and you have an interview, but how do you prepare and ensure you succeed?
Tim Cook, managing director of Hays Building Services, offers some tips:
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Training and development
Professional LearningA full range of CIBSE Professional Learning courses is taking place early next year in Manchester. The courses offer practical training to those new to building services and those who wish to further develop their competence and expertise. They can be accessed either as one-off courses or form ...
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Archive TitlesDramatic works
Collaboration between an architect and an artist has given one of London’s best-known theatres a striking facelift. As Will Jones discovers, it’s more than just a pretty face
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Essential line-up
Daikin has added the Essential range of small R-410 non-inverter heat pump splits to its line-up. They are designed for customers requiring comfort on a limited budget.
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Archive TitlesExit strategy
In years to come, lifts may be used to evacuate high-rise buildings in the case of a fire, as Gina Barney learned at a recent International Fire and Risk Management Conference
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Archive TitlesMoving too fast
Alexandra Anderson reviews this year’s two biggest changes to the Building Regulations, concerning fire and energy use
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Flushed with success
Dave Cheshire, in his excellent article on the latest standards for sustainable buildings (SPG and the city, BSj 10/06), advocated dual-flush toilets as a way of reducing water consumption. This is one of my favourite topics, which I frequently air but never get any response. Perhaps this time I will ...
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Free guides for students
Free professional guides are to be sent to all universities offering accredited building services courses as part of a new initiative to support the next generation of industry engineers.
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Archive TitlesGo for a spin
Clivet has launched the Spin Chiller WSAT XSC range with cooling outputs from 157 kW to 510 kW.
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Archive TitlesGood for the health
Bamboo extract (Sasa) is used to deactivate germs in Toshiba Air Conditioning’s latest high wall indoor units, which have six-stage air filtration.
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Archive TitlesThe nightmare is now
I read the article “Point of no return” (BSj 10/06) about the F-gas ban with interest.
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Archive TitlesSchool opportunities
In 2004, the Department for Education and Skills launched a £45 billion “Building Schools for the Future” programme. It aims to work with local authorities and the private sector to rebuild or refurbish every secondary school in the UK within 15 years.
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Questionnaire results
In the September issue of BSj we ran a questionnaire on heating and ventilation in school buildings. Here are the results
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Archive TitlesSupertrees
These giant “Supertrees” will be at the heart of the environmental strategy at a new city garden to be built in Singapore.
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Archive TitlesSurface treatment
On the face of it, glass-fronted façades don’t seem the most eco-conscious of building designs. But by making the most of the natural environment, their heating and cooling requirements can be kept surprisingly modest. A case in point is Capricorn House in the German city of Dusseldorf. Stephen Kennett takes ...
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Archive TitlesIT systems
The amount of heat dissipated within IT infrastructures is constantly growing as a result of the ever-increasing concentration of computing power, in particular blade servers. Emerson Network Power has responded to this with its new range of Liebert Hiross HPM solutions.
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M&E workloads
Workloads are growing for UK consultancy and engineering companies, but this is allied to an increasing skills shortage because consultancies sell themselves cheap
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You’re worth it
Are building services engineers selling themselves cheap? The service that they provide is certainly no less valuable than that offered by, for example, solicitors. But the fact is that lawyers create a profit margin more than 50% higher than consultants and engineers can realistically expect to generate.