All Archive Titles articles – Page 312
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Basing our case on hard data
As we reach the end of the 100 Days of Carbon Clean Up campaign, our horizons are naturally moving forward to new challenges and our thoughts are focused on what comes next.
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Archive TitlesSeeing the bigger picture: a green guide
CIBSE’s recently launched Sustainability Guide aims to broaden engineers’ understanding of the issue to increase their influence.
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Climate Bill
The British government is set to launch a Climate Change Bill setting out long-term targets to cut the country’s carbon emissions.
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Archive TitlesIs the future bright for PVs?
BSJ has obtained a draft report of a DTI trial of photovoltaic systems in UK dwellings: the first study of its kind. The trial, which covered 28 schemes, will be used to inform the building and energy industries about the technology’s suitability for homes. So how well did it perform?
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Archive TitlesCarbon clean-up
Participants in CIBSE’s 100 Days of Carbon Clean-Up Campaign saved an average of 93 tonnes – the equivalent of 520 double decker buses – of CO2 each. BSj reports
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Archive TitlesCold comfort
MHS Homes’ new headquarters boasts an innovative heating and cooling system, combining an adiabatic effect with thermal inertia. Could this set a new low-energy benchmark? BSj reports
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Archive TitlesHigh-wire walker for communities
Lynne Ceeney tells Karen Fletcher how as head of the BRE Sustainable Communities team her focus is all the time on people while she balances the needs of enterprise and the imperatives of responsible development
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Archive TitlesWalk on eggshells
Employers who take on workers from Eastern Europe must be careful to stay on the right side of immigration law. Jessica Halling explains how
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Archive TitlesEnergetic and impassioned
Experts at this year’s M&E Training Academy talked with fervour about the latest issues facing the industry. Topics ranged from facade design to BEMS, all under the umbrella of energy efficiency
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UK receives rap over EPBD
The UK is facing the threat of legal action over failures on the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive.
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Archive TitlesIn the public eye
A business needs to shout about its successes if it wants new clients start to pay attention to it. Likewise, maintaining a high profile or publicising a successful or groundbreaking scheme is useful to entice new employees to apply for work.The easiest way to raise your firm’s profile is to ...
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Archive TitlesM&E fees survey
A recent survey shows M&E design fees have increased by 20% since 2000, plus a round-up of the latest news for managers in the building services industry
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Archive TitlesGo Figure
The building sector uses 20-40% of all energy consumed, yet there is little investment in research into why. Studies of buildings’ energy use by José Ortiz, Christine Pout and Luis Pérez-Lombard reveal why more data is needed
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Archive TitlesGet with the program
Software developed by BRE lets designers calculate a development’s energy demand and then work out the most effective combination of renewables to satisfy demand. Matt Dickinson test drives it
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More green grants for homes
Funding to subsidise domestic installation of renewables has failed to meet demand, leading the government to divert cash set aside for other programmes.
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Archive TitlesHeat treatment
Finding the right specification for a condensing boiler requires consideration of the application. Joerg Buetow looks at the types of solutions on offer
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Archive TitlesBe hot on lagging
Stephen Wise describes the guidance that is available on how to make buildings comply with the regulations that now specify minimum requirements for insulation of building services