All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 376
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Archive TitlesUN chooses winning design for eco building
The competition to design the UN's first eco building has been won by a design team including multidisciplinary engineers King Shaw Associates and Austrian architects Daniel Fugenschuh with Kirstin Rogge. The facility, to be built in Podgorica, the capital city of Montenegro, will provide office space for six UN agencies.
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Archive TitlesBSj readers get into a hairy situation
I read John Lowndes' letter regarding shaving and water conservation (BSj 05/06) with interest.
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CIBSE in-house company briefing sessions
Are you part of an organisation that is committed to enhancing the professional status of its employees? Do you employ staff who are interested in attaining CIBSE corporate membership and Engineering Council registration? Then take advantage of CIBSE's free and comprehensive in-house company briefing sessions.
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Sustainable schools boost
The BRE Trust and the Sustainable Development Commission have launched the Schools Design Forum. The new group aims to improve the way sustainability is incorporated into the design and construction of schools as well as the way project teams engage with pupils and the community to promote sustainable communities of ...
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Archive TitlesAn introduction to book-keeping
Next year, the British Library is to reveal a first edition of a different sort: the world’s first building constructed specifically for book conservation. Doug King explains its environmental design
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Climate change Bill passed
The passing of the Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill is set to have a major impact on the way government tackles carbon emissions.
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Archive TitlesGoing back to nature
This cocoon-like extension to the Natural History Museum will preserve 28 million insects and three million plant specimens - no small challenge for the services designers. Andy Pearson reports
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Archive TitlesConserving architectural treasures: the Mary Rose
A scheme to preserve and display the Mary Rose along with its artefacts for the first time marks the start of a special on design for conservation. Also featured are projects for the Bovington Museum, the British Library and the Sistine Chapel – but first, Stephen Kennett brings you the ...
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Archive TitlesConserving architectural treasures: Bovington
Doug King explains how a team of environmental engineers and exhibition staff came up with a cost-effective design to conserve and display an international collection of tanks in Dorset
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Archive TitlesConserving architectural treasures: the Sistine Chapel
Tourists can breathe easily again now that a new air-conditioning system has eliminated the biggest threat to Michelangelo’s frescos in the Sistine Chapel
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Archive TitlesRW Gregory Appointed
Consulting engineer RW Gregory has been appointed to design the building services, baggage handling and lifts on a new public funded £44m terminal building at VC Bird International Airport on the Eastern Caribbean Island of Antigua.
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CIBSE Annual General Meeting minutes
The Annual General Meeting of the CIBSE was held at the Geological Society, London W1 on 4 May 2006. Donald Leeper, outgoing president, chaired the meeting. Chief executive Julian Amey read the notice convening the meeting.
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Mayor announces radical new energy targets
London Mayor, Ken Livingstone has outlined tough new proposals aimed at cutting carbon emissions. As part of his London Plan Review he has doubled the requirement for on-site renewable energy generation from 10% to 20% and announced that all new developments must connect to decentralised local energy supplies.
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Archive TitlesAll systems go
The big IT companies are set to change the way buildings are operated by introducing a single resilient IT network that will integrate all their control and data systems. Are you ready for the challenge, asks Mike Williams?
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Archive Titles500 steps to greening your life style
As Members of CIBSE, building services engineers are bound by the code of conduct to ‘have due regard to environmental issues in carrying out their professional duties'.
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Carbon Clean-Up organisations to use TM22 publication
Organisations that have signed up to CIBSE's 100 Days of Carbon Clean-up campaign, which began on 5 June, have received a copy of TM22 as part of their campaign pack. They will use the guide to fill out their return forms and provide a record of how much energy they ...
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2006 Code for Lighting
The 2006 update to the Code for Lighting CD-ROM will be available before the end of July.
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Archive Titles100 Days of Carbon Clean-up kicks off
As many readers will be aware, the 100 Days of Carbon Clean-Up campaign was officially launched on 5 June at the Oval writes Samantha McDonough, project manager for the campaign. The campaign enjoyed a successful start, with around 100 representatives from organisations that have signed up helping to kick off ...
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Archive TitlesBSj's 100 days of carbon clean-up
Here at BSj we could hardly criticise firms for not signing up to the 100 days of carbon campaign without doing our bit to cut carbon emissions. Dermot Hughes, account manager, ISS Coflex the firm responsible for facilities at Ludgate House where BSj is based, outlines what's been achieved.
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Archive TitlesFulcrum's 100 days of carbon clean-up
Building services firm Fulcrum Consulting is well known for its innovative low energy building designs, but how well does it do at cutting down on its own carbon emissions. Following the 100 days of Carbon Clean-up campaign building physics engineer Suzie Diamond gives an overview of what they've achieved.