All Archive Titles articles – Page 312
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Archive TitlesThorn Lighting
Thorn Lighting has won a £2.1m order to supply lighting to the new Beijing Airport extension.
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UKGBC launch
The UK arm of the Green Building Council is set to launch in spring 2007, following the inaugural meeting of the UKGBC in London on 13 October where the organisation’s 20 founding members each pledged £30,000 over the first two years.
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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
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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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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 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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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 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 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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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 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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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 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 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 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