All Archive Titles articles – Page 751
-
Archive Titles
A more caring CIOB?
All chartered building companies and consultants will be pressured to register their sites with the Considerate Constructors Scheme (CCS) in plans being considered by the CIOB. “It will help us in benchmarking our members’ performance against non-Chartered companies,” said Clive Benfield, chair of the CIOB’s Chartered Building Company and Consultancy ...
-
Archive TitlesCareer girls’ college earns reprieve
Women at an all-female building college that was going bust had their courses saved by a merger with the College of North West London in Brent.
-
Archive TitlesCaption of the month
"In Lord Foster's concept sketch it was the water that sloped upwards".Congratulations to Dave Hampton. You win!(Thanks also to R.C Galloway for his raft of rib-ticklers too rude to print)
-
Archive TitlesCaption competition
Send us a caption for next month's picture (above) and we'll hand over a £20 drinks voucher for the wittiest entry.Email construction_manager@cmpinformation.com
-
Archive TitlesIf you can’t stand the heat...
...get out of the kitchen. Aziz Hourari chose construction over being a chef. We ask him why
-
Archive Titles
Draft changes to Building Regs: your views are needed
Government has invited industry to comment on draft changes to Part L of the Building Regulations, and on its recommendations for implementing the European Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD).
-
Archive TitlesAre we really ‘Spoilt Brits’?
The Government has just issued a booklet to over 25 million homes informing members of the public how they might prepare for the aftermath of a terrorist strike. Great from a PR point of view but, as Steve Goodwin argues, shouldn’t the powers-that-be concentrate on addressing our porous national borders ...
-
Archive Titles
Bring on the bright sparks
BSj has teamed up with BSRIA to launch the Bright Spark Award.
-
Archive Titles
Gunners build a bridge
Last month saw the placement of a 1050 tonne bridge that will carry pedestrians and emergency vehicles into Arsenal Football Club’s new stadium. Watson Steel Structures, with Dutch engineering company ALE, jacked the 21m bridge into place over two days.Sir Robert McAlpine is the main contractor on the £220m job, ...
-
Archive TitlesMeet the new top brass at CIOB
Martin Chambers has joined the queue for President of the CIOB. Elected Junior Vice President in July, he is one of Bovis Lend Lease’s key links to top client Defence Estates, serving as project director in the £1bn Single Living Accommodation Modernisation programme (SLAM). He’ll take over the presidency in ...
-
Archive Titles
The Big Issue
Governments of all parties and the EU have progressively attached greater importance to ‘consultation’ on proposed future legislation.
-
Archive TitlesPrevention is better than cure
Building services engineers could hold the key in the fight against hospital acquired infection, but first we need to find out more.
-
Archive Titles
Good, but could do better?
The proposed shake-up of Part L of the Building Regulations could see energy efficiency improve by 25%, but will the biggest changes make it all the way into law?
-
Archive TitlesBecome chartered
Only one big thing left to do? We ask the CIOB what you need to enter chartered territory
-
Archive TitlesEuropean Central Bank issues fake Euro warning to retailers
With counterfeiting of the new Euro bank notes increasing, the European Central Bank has issued advice to UK security managers such that they might spot fake notes without having to install special detection equipment,
-
Archive Titles
A new attitude
Get off your backsides, stop hanging on to outmoded methods and demonstrate some leadership.
-
Archive Titles
Manufacturers asked to help improve domestic efficiency
The government wants ventilation manufacturers to put their new domestic products through energy efficiency tests as part of its Energy Efficiency Best Practice in Housing Scheme.
-
Archive TitlesQCA approves SIA-endorsed guarding course
The National Open College Network (NOCN) and SITO have launched the Level 2 Award in Security Guarding – a brand new qualification tailored exactly to the requirements of manned security licensing and fully-approved by the Security Industry Authority (SIA).
-
Archive Titles
We need a case by case approach
Further to the article ‘The end is nigh for hfcs’, (BSj 08/04) the Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Industry Board (ACRIB) agrees that natural refrigerants should receive fair treatment, but so should hfcs. Statements such as ‘EU regulations signal the beginning of the end for hfcs’, are not true.
-
Archive Titles
The alternatives could be worse
The warning issued in the article ‘The end is nigh for hfcs’ (BSj 08/04) is absolutely necessary but for reasons that seem not to have been acknowledged at the conferences.