All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 250
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Archive TitlesMan with a plan
Allan Jones cut CO2 emissions from public buildings by three-quarters in his last job. Now he has big plans for new developments in London. Andy Pearson meets a man with the energy to make change happen
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Archive TitlesSchool lessons
Analysing energy use across a range of educational facilities has helped one PFI agency pinpoint just how and where savings can be made, as Tom Lawson reports
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Setbacks for LCBP
The government’s small-scale renewable energy funding scheme ran out of its monthly grant allocation less than 12 hours after it opened in February.
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One for the ladies
Stuart Bridman is right (Flushed with Success, BSj 12/06). There are tremendous water savings to be made from a cistern-less loo.
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Archive TitlesInterviewing for success
Don’t let the ideal candidate slip away from you with a sloppy interview. Be prepared – and show the company at its best
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Archive TitlesTrade slams WWF report into illegal timber imports
A WWF report claiming the UK is the third largest importer of illegal timber, after Japan and China, has been blasted as ‘statistical nonsense’ by the Timber Trade Federation.#
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Waste management plan guide online
From next year all projects will have to produce Site Waste Management Plans.
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Guidance
When specifying IT systems and software for building services, you must allow for implementing Part L compliance that will include for the services software to be interfaced into a BMS.
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Growth in renewables
There has been a significant rise in the installation of renewables in homes and commercial building, according to government figures.
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Archive TitlesGround-up
Kristina Smith reports on a knotty problem in Bristol, a tricky piling operation in Liverpool and a developer’s novel approach to specialist contracts
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Archive TitlesThe government is switched on
I refer to the BSJ article “At your disposal” (BSj, 01/07), concentrating on industrial/commercial recycling schemes for lamps and luminaires.
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Global warning
I am writing in response to my “fan-mail” (BSj, 02/07). As has been said, “repeat a lie often enough and the people will believe it”. So it is with global warming and, for that matter, overpopulation. The world population density is 48 people per square kilometre. I should think there’s ...
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Free waste training
Government agency Envirowise is offering free construction waste training to small building firms across the north-east, north-west, Yorkshire and Humberside, following a successful pilot project in London and the south-east. Companies employing 50 people or less are eligible for two 30-minute training sessions, delivered on-site.
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Archive TitlesThe tallest tree in the forest
If the proposed new visitor centre for Sherwood Forest gains lottery funding, it will provide a carbon-neutral landmark with space for a restaurant, shop, exhibitions and even conferences
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Archive TitlesSetting a green example
The new HQ building for the Irish Office of Public Works, designed with low energy in mind, kicks off this month’s IT product focus
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Show us the evidence
The proponents of “green” or sustainably built buildings and spaces are quick to promote their benefits. Yet they almost never provide factual measured data to support the claims. Before publishing stories about these buildings, editors should require the following facts to be printed.