All Archive Titles articles – Page 588
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Archive TitlesHop into my Spacebox
Midlands contractor Thomas Vale is pushing this colourful fibreglass structure, dubbed a ‘Spacebox’, to meet government demands for modern methods of construction. Made by Dutch company Holland Composites, the Spacebox is already used in The Netherlands for student accommodation. Thomas Vale exhibited the funky pod at a recent seminar on ...
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Archive TitlesHiggins hits right notes
Don’t worry, it’s all in a good cause! Here, volunteer Barry Childs smashes an old upright piano in East London to clear a building for renovation. Higgins Construction is providing free management for the transformation of this community centre by volunteers for the elderly residents of 24 flats managed by ...
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Archive TitlesHe’ll huff and he’ll puff
The renewed popularity of timber frames is no fairytale. In fact, with a £300m turnover, the timber-frame market is the fastest growing sector in construction. Big bad wolves beware: you won’t blow one of these high-quality homes down.
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Archive TitlesUK gas prices set to soar
Gas prices could rise by up to 80%, independent energy consultant EIC has predicted.
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Archive TitlesForward thinking
Keith Marshall, chief executive, Summit Skills.Profile in association with Ferroli
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Safety first
The increasing focus on managing out health and safety risk in design is to be welcomed (BSj 05/05). But I fear that some initiatives in this area will not make significant progress unless the design team, and process, is fully integrated.
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Steeling steel for fire
The Steel Construction Institute has published new guidance for the booming practice of applying intumescent coatings off site.It is a relatively recent technique for protecting steel elements from heat in a fire. The intumescent coating chars and swells to many times its original thickness.Steel manufacturers apply the coating at the ...
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Archive TitlesFilling station
The refurbishment of Guy’s Dental Hospital has brought the teaching centre into the 21st century – and provided Faber Maunsell with a project to get its teeth into.
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Archive TitlesFight fire with ...
...Fire engineering, of course! CM explores how a wildfire new science is being wielded in the battle between the steel and concrete lobbies
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Archive TitlesLight fantastic
South East Essex College’s new building is anything but dreary – and the success of this weird and wonderful design owes a lot to the skill of its lighting designer. We report on the landmark project that has put Southend on the architectural map
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Failing today’s students
Ever Wondered why construction has difficulty in attracting bright youngsters? The CIOB thinks its recent research may provide an answer: poor career advice and a lack of focus in teaching invaluable ‘soft skills’.
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Not in my experience
I read with interest the recent letters from RJ Oughton (BSj 03/05) and Ian Brown (BSj 04/05) on the subject of membership applications and the experience of interviewers and membership committee personnel.
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Under examination
So ‘Shanghai-based consultant’ Geoff Mills cannot believe there is no A-Level syllabus for Chinese in the UK? (Leader, May, CM). Obviously he did not look hard enough, because examinations provider Edexcel offers Mandarin and Cantonese at GCSE, AS and Advanced Level GCE.
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Tunneller of, er, love
For its installation of a major sewerage system in the heart of a sleepy Berkshire village, McNicholas Construction Services scooped the prestigious title of the UK’s Most Considerate Site 2005. Operations manager Andy Leaver explains how it was done and why he’s so cuddly and considerate (pet lovers look away ...
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Easy does it
Assessing the energy performance of buildings has never been so simple – not now that BRE’s simplified building energy model has been revealed. We reports on the software set to take the industry by storm
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Archive TitlesA hospital that doesn’t feel like a hospital
A hospital that doesn’t feel like a hospital is the tag being given to this £60m Evelina Children’s Hospital in London.
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Nuclear debate
News that the Nuclear Industry Association has set up a working group to examine capacity and resource issues surrounding the construction of a new generation of nuclear power stations has put nuclear power back on the agenda.
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Archive TitlesDealing with it
By law, you’ve got to make reasonable adjustments for disabled employees, even on a building site. But surely disabled people cannot actually succeed in construction – or can they? Here are three examples of people that have.
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Archive TitlesDysfunctional industry turns corner
CM assistant editor Olufunmi Majekodunmi caught up with Siva Reddy, senior vice-president of CIOB Africa, in Durban last month. This is what he had to say.
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Archive TitlesGround water cooling
In this month’s engineering services cost model Davis Langdon Mott Green Wall examines the use of ground water cooling systems, considering the technical and cost implications of this renewable energy technology