All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 396
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Archive TitlesDesigner depots or woolly mitt
The ‘Designer Depot' project (BSj 04/06) is an example of building services engineers taking their own hype seriously and failing to understand the building owners' needs.
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Archive TitlesWas criticism too harsh?
As a chartered building services engineer, CIBSE membership committee member and staff member of English Heritage, I felt I had to respond to last month's feature about The Devonshire (BSj 05/06) and the unnecessarily emotive language used.
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DTI criticised for NPL fiasco
A report by the National Audit Office has found that the DTI's failure to correct design errors made by PFI suppliers Laing and Serco led to the government terminating the contract to build the £140m National Physical Laboratory.
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Archive TitlesGet creative
Do you look round your office and see tired, blank faces? then it could be time to throw out the dress code and listen to junior members of the team. Danny Coyle finds out how Whitbybird fosters a culture of innovation that has won it the Queen's Award for Enterprise
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Archive TitlesHoare Lea consults on The Cube
Hoare Lea has been appointed by Birmingham Development Company as M&E consultants on The Cube, a mixed-use scheme that forms the final phase of the Mailbox development.
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New Part L Compliance Toolkit
The new CIBSE Part L Compliance Toolkit is out now. The Toolkit sets out what documents are found under the second tier of Part L, explaining what they mean to those in the industry and how both members and non-members can find the information.Outlining what is contained in each publication, ...
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U-turn undermines CHP
The government has withdrawn £10m of additional funding set aside for developing community heating systems. The announcement was made in the revised Climate Change Programme report, where it was announced that DEFRA would not be extending its Community Energy Programme.
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Charter topper
Birmingham City Council's Local Authority Building Control (LABC) office is the first to be awarded Chartered Building Consultancy status in the UK.
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Archive TitlesPart L and Cat-B
While studying the new Part L documents, I noticed that the General Guidance Notes provide some important points.
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Archive TitlesOne ‘L' of a carry on
The introduction of the new Part L of the building regulations bears all the hallmarks of a classic British farce. So spare a thought for the building control officers who are supposed to be enforcing it. Kristina Smith surveys the chaos.
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CIOB membership must carry more clout
Regarding Gordon Henderson's letter ‘CIOB fails members in Scotland' (CM, April 2006), as an aspiring member and subscriber to your magazine I can recall Mr Henderson's rallying letter of last year ‘CIOB, sorry that just won't do' (CM, May 2005) highlighting where the CIOB appeared to fail members in Scotland.
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Archive TitlesCIBSE provides tools to cut carbon emissions
100 Days of Carbon Clean-Up started on 5 June, and organisations throughout the UK are now working to cut their buildings' carbon emissions. At the time of going to press, over 400 organisations had signed up to the campaign and the list was growing daily.
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Carbon crash
A keystone of the EU's campaign to combat climate change is in tatters after critics claims that energy users groups had hoodwinked it over generous pollution permits.
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Archive TitlesDid you win February's caption competition?
The winner of the February edition caption competition has been chosen.
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Archive TitlesCaption competition
If you can provide a caption for this picture about what the man in the painting might be saying, send it in to Hanny Abuzaid at habuzaid@cibse.org. You could be the next winner of our caption competition.
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Archive TitlesCaption of the month
Caption of the month"Rex thanked the company on behalf of his master for his new pooper-scooper" Thanks to Mike Murphy... once again
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Archive TitlesCaption competition
Caption competitionFancy seeing your name in the pages of CM. Send us a caption and we will (eventually) hand over a £20 drinks voucher for the wittiest
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Natural ventilation for city centre buildings
22 June 2006, CIBSE, 222 Balham High Road, London SW12 9BS
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Green Building Council moves one step closer
Plans to set up a UK Green Building Council have moved a step closer following a feasibility study carried out by Cranfield University.