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New Zealand seeks engineers to fill the gap
New Zealand has issued a call for UK construction and property professionals.
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Archive TitlesLife on the edge
In the final part of Security Management Today’s perimeter protection system ‘Design Primer’ for end users, we review how sensor technologies may be combined, assesses the importance of regular system testing and evaluates how much a given type of installation is likely to cost.
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Dress your home up in a watertight skirt
In August 2000 shopfitter John Lockwood was laid up with a bad back watching stories about flooding on daytime TV. Inspired by his kids’ paddling pool, he thought: if a membrane can keep water in, why can’t it keep water out? FloDef (pronounced “flow deaf”) was born.
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Archive TitlesIngenuity that opens doors
It was a grey January morning up in Stanley, County Durham and Phil Bull, a director of Ronco Engineering had just got “a right kicking”, as he puts it, from one of his customers.
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Dont look up, look down
You can’t control your clients, but you can change the way you work with suppliers. And that’s a great start.In association with VIESSMANN
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Preparing for disaster
The UK’s apparently overstretched postal system has been placed under even greater strain of late thanks to the Government’s distribution of some 25 million booklets designed to teach us all how we might prepare for an act of terrorism and/or a declared state of national emergency.
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Ignorance is no defence
Lawyers are circling over UK plc as new e-mail-based compliance and Duty of Care legislation introduces unprecedented levels of corporate and personal liability. Minimising both exposure and legal bills demands an aggressive strategy for monitoring, identifying and investigating e-mail abuse.
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Archive TitlesHealthy criticism
We talk to Peter Woolliscroft, head of construction at NHS Estates who calls for building services engineers to show clients the way forward.
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Drive cowboys out of town
I had a distressing letter in August from a member who has been badly treated by a cowboy client. The member is a contractor who carries out repairs and alterations to domestic property who has worked for many years for decent clients. But recent years have seen a big change.
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Think tanks moot plans to converge
The Chief Executives of three big construction think tanks — Constructing Excellence, Be (Collaborating for the Built Environment), and CIRIA — have met to talk about converging.
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STAR LETTER - True consultancy
Unfortunately, the writer of the star letter in the May issue of BSj, Nigel Read-Bone, passed away recently. He called for greater emphasis on the value of early consultation with professional services engineers.
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UK will be too hot for comfort
Research from consulting engineers Arup shows that before the end of the century global warming will mean that many homes and offices in the UK will become unbearably hot for a significant proportion of the year.
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Come together
We began researching construction activity in the North West in general, but the turnaround in Liverpool’s fortunes has been so profound that it felt necessary to just tell that story.
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ISO offers non-compliant port security managers an ISPS Code lifeline
Formal guidance on how port security managers should implement the ISPS Code that came into force on 1 July has been issued by ISO
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Archive TitlesClear thinking
Pupils at Kingsdale comprehensive have a bright future thanks to the translucent etfe dome that’s been used to transform the 1950s building.
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Henderson heads CIC
CIOB past president Stuart Henderson has been appointed as the new Chairman of the Construction Industry Council, having been elected at the AGM in 2003. Henderson is Group Commercial Director of Amicus Housing Group, a Registered Social Landlord covering Kent, Sussex and London. Amicus is overseeing new development, community regeneration, ...
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Archive TitlesGreat expectations for CIBSE
CIBSE President Graham Manly will open this year’s National Conference on 29 September. Speakers will be examining the effects of global warming and solutions to the problem.
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Archive TitlesClimate change in context
Anyone lamenting the current British summer weather should take time to check out Brian Fagan’s latest book The long summer: how climate changed civilization.
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New certificate for good pools
UK swimming pools will be able to carry a plaque certifying that they conform to a code of practice.
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Archive TitlesCash injection
Doctors surgeries are in a bad way. Old buildings, restrictive tenancies and lack of investment have driven doctors away from where they’re needed most. The new LIFT initiative aims to change all that.