All Archive Titles articles – Page 641
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Pioneering spirit
It was with great interest that I read the article (BSj 02/05) about water-based heat pumps.
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M&E merger
Consulting engineers Foremans and Roberts and Partners have combined to create one of the UK’s largest m&e consulting firms.
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Archive TitlesModern medical miracle
A hospital built from scratch in only nine months? a tribute to the sheer speed of modular, this two-storey, 4000 sq m centre took just 13 days to be craned into position. Olufunmi Majekodunmi checks the progress of a smooth operation indeed
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Archive TitlesThe YES! man
Billed as the largest indoor leisure and retail scheme in Europe, the YES! project will be a nice feather in a lucky contractor’s cap next year. Rod Sweet meets developer Stephen Lewis, the guy you’ll have to impress to get it
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Archive TitlesHe likes it?
When the directors’ duties bill was first aired, the Construction Confederation voiced its dissent. But on reflection, safety boss Andy Sneddon has changed his mind. CM asks him why.
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Archive TitlesStar letter - stating the obvious
What a breath of fresh air to read an article pointing out the bleedin’ obvious when it comes to energy savings and CO2 emissions.
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Teacher must learn
Housebuilders do care. It is unfortunate that Dr Mike Murray’s experience of house-buying has tainted his view. Having recognised that there is a shortfall in good housing site management, surely he can see an educational opportunity. ‘Housebuilding’ has always been perceived as the poor relation of Construction Management, but the ...
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Not just a load of old rubbish
You may think that what the waste contractor does with your rubbish has nothing to do with you. But you’d be wrong. So it might be time you drew up that waste management plan …
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Value judgment
As a consulting engineer, how can you ensure that clients get what they want out of a new building?
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View from the interior
If Times are so good, why is the road behind strewn with the wreckage of fit-out firms Benson, Bellwater and Spectrum? Here, Andy Wates, the latest scion to ascend the wates board, gives his advice on how to predict the market
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Archive TitlesThe Ikeal home
Without modern methods of construction, the affordable accommodation promised by Prescott may never materialise. But is furniture giant Ikea’s latest ingenious idea - the flat-placked house - really the right answer? Olufunmi Majekodunmi finds an industry braced for a swedish invasion
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Archive TitlesTrying hard. Must Try Harder
11 speakers. three-and-a-half hours of talking. Here are the best new initiatives construction could come up with to improve its health and safety performance. Rod Sweet reports on an industry struggling to meet the targets it set itself last time out
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Archive TitlesWhite Young Green to supply services to Queens University
White Young Green, Belfast has been appointed to design the mechanical and electrical services for a new cancer research and cell biology centre at Queens University Belfast. The £22m research centre will have a low energy design developed in conjunction with the Carbon Trust.
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Lets get together
The merger of Be with CE may not be popular, but any consolidation is a real boon for our fragmented industry. Opinion in association with Daikin
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HVCA gains ground in turf war
The Heating and Ventilating Contractors’ Association (HVCA) claims to have had “an element of success” in its turf war with the Council of Registered Gas Installers (Corgi) over the association’s claim that the gas safety watchdog’s bidding to expand its influence.
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Archive TitlesFully Institutionalised!
Bernard Clarke, MD of Jackson Construction, recently became an FCIOB. Four of his colleagues became Fellows, too. Not only that, a further 11 staff became MCIOBs and six ICIOBs. Here, Clarke explains why membership matters
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Archive TitlesThe final frontier
How one pioneering council is reclaiming its scary spaces for luxurious living
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The idea factory
Buro Happold has transformed its London office to create an environment that will allow ideas to be shared freely between engineers. Partner Adrian Robinson tells BSj just how the firm went about it