All Archive Titles articles – Page 944
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Keeping IT cool
BSRIA's Cooling solutions for IT is an integrated design guide for the building services and information technology industries.
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'Talk through the chink of a wall'
Thanks to all who entered the competition from last month's CM. We asked you "What is the Pyramus and Thisbe club, and how did it get its name?" Congratulations to Chris Guest, who was first out of the hat with the correct answer. He wins a copy of Paul Chynoweth's ...
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Take our chance
Our president Terry Wyatt is not a man to overstate a case where it's not necessary.
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Archive TitlesRising to the challenges
We explain how underfloor air conditioning can create more flexible office space options for tall building occupants, while cutting construction and running costs.
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Caption of the month, September winnner
Barry’s dream of a seat on the board was not taken at all seriously by his colleaguesThanks to Mike Taylor
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Caption 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@buildergroup.co.uk
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Archive TitlesBuildings that build themselves
In the future, tiny robots will assemble huge structures guided by code, rendering construction management obsolete. Are we serious? It's not just science fiction.
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Brave new world
"You mean we used to build buildings ourselves?" says little Johnnie, reclining on his morphable body support, protected from the radiation pouring through an ozone-depleted sky by the walls of your house, thin membranes of polymer composites, stacked, molecule by molecule, by billions of molecular machines."That's right, and your great-great ...
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Las Vegas comes to Birmingham
If Styles & Wood make a success of the UK's first super casino, the firm could be in line to build more. The stakes are high and time is tight at star city.
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Must do better
Last night I attended my first School Governors' meeting of the year. I sit on the Sites and Premises Committee. I suppose working for the CIOB means people expect me to know something about buildings.
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Part F set for overhaul for better ventilation
Part F of the Building Regulations is set to be revised in order to improve the provision of ventilation to people in buildings.
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Take responsibility for better working
CIBSE's champion for Rethinking Construction, Don Leeper, made a direct link between personal responsibility and better teamworking.
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Archive TitlesA better way
We learn early in our lives that co-operation and teamwork get us further than operating alone. We say the same can be done in construction.
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Archive TitlesThe calm before the storm
CIBSE President Terry Wyatt was in no mood to mince his words when opening the joint CIBSE/ASHRAE conference in Edinburgh.
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Archive TitlesFueling the argument
Fuel cells are climbing up the political agenda but does this guarantee their commercial success?