All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 362
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BRE responds
Dr Sturrock is indeed correct when he says that supplying heating though ventilation systems is nothing new. The fundamental principles of PassivHaus design are nothing new either: reduce the demand and then meet that demand using a smaller, more compact heating system. However, these principles are often forgotten. There ...
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Archive TitlesCould do better
Encouraged by our achievements in the first month of CIBSE’s 100 Days of Carbon Clean-up campaign, the BSJ office called in the experts to give our building an energy asset rating. That soon brought us back down to earth
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Archive TitlesWhat lies beneath
Not only will this scheme boast the UK’s first geothermal cooling and heating system for a luxury residential development, this will work around a tunnel situated underneath the building. Could this provide a blueprint for the future?
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Archive TitlesAussie tools
Australia is making good progress in water reduction at last – and it’s all down to clever use of benchmarks
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Archive TitlesPay now, argue later
In the second of a series looking at the various forms of dispute resolution, Niall Lawless explains why adjudication is a highly satisfactory process
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Archive TitlesCIBSE Board appoints new chief executive officer
The CIBSE Board is pleased to announce the appointment of Stephen Matthews BSc(Eng) CEng FIMechE as chief executive officer from 17 July 2006.
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Archive TitlesPart L and air handling units
This month, Davis Langdon considers the implications of Part L, with its emphasis on energy use of building services equipment, on specifying air handling units
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Minutes of the 2006 Benevolent Fund AGM
The Annual General Meeting of the Fund took place on 4 May 2006 at The Royal Society, London W1. Retiring CIBSE president Donald Leeper opened the meeting and welcomed members before passing the chair to Bryan Wright, chairman of the Benevolent Fund.
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100 Days of Carbon Clean-Up: themed days
It’s Clothes Off and Lift Off for the 100 Days campaign…
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Archive TitlesDisney pays $17.8m for cost overruns
Local contractor, Mortenson wins 41% of its claim for Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall construction cost overruns
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Archive TitlesSavant ups turnover by 50%
Firm wins slew of new work across Europe to increase sales for first half of 2006
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John Anderson becomes development director at Parkview International
Also: Jacqueline Hall and Catherine Germai join SPPARC Architecture
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Green buildings in demand
Occupiers willing to pay more for sustainable buildings, report finds
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Location location: heading South?
Is the UK construction industry witnessing an unprecedented movement in terms of jobs from North to South?
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Video-over-IP
Sanyo has launched a digital video recorder which makes use of JPEG 2000 compression
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Archive TitlesTime stand still
Should you employ time lapse or event-based recording? What about hard disks? How do they stack up against digital tape? What makes for a great CCTV image and how (and why) should the end user back-up their surveillance system? Brian Sims answers all of these questions and more in Security ...
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Simply a question of trust, perhaps?
Sir – most organisations do not possess an effective security policy. If they do, it is usually out of date and only changed as and when something goes wrong. Even these reactive changes are often made simply by way of addressing the symptoms rather than the actual causes.
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Mixed results posted at Reliance
Financial results for the Reliance Security Group plc as at year ending 28 April 2006 show turnover up 2.3% to £317.5 million, with profit before tax standing at £13.1 million (£2.5 million down on 2005).
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More than one Inspectorate
Sir – On reading the July edition of Security Management Today, I noticed your News Update item on the Metropolitan Police Service Alarm Performance Awards 2006 (‘False alarm attendance costs fall by £24 million over last decade’).