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Archive TitlesWebsite revamp for Engineering Council UK
Any aspiring engineers among you may be interested to know that the Engineering Council UK (ECUK) - the body responsible for regulating the UK's engineering profession - has revamped its website.
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Archive TitlesThe cool way to save energy
The Dynamic Demand Appliances Bill currently making its way through the House of Lords could have a major impact on carbon emissions.
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Concern over EPBD delay
Industry bodies "on tenterhooks" over failure to meet Commission's deadline
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Completing the circuit
BSRIA has published the second edition of its Illustrated Guide to Electrical Building Services.
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CIBSE sponsors sustainable competition in East Midlands
CIBSE recently sponsored a student prize for a competition run by the East Midlands regional assembly.
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Pedagogically challenged
the industry's sigh of relief as students flock back to construction degree courses could yet turn to dismay as colleges struggle to recruit staff qualified to teach them.
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Archive TitlesOn the buses
Disused double decker buses are being given a new lease of life as short-term living accommodation.
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Archive TitlesDo you care for your buildings?
Can anyone tell us why it is that as soon as you maintain something, it breaks down?
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Archive TitlesLet CIBSE bowl you over!
There's no need to be stumped by the new Building Regulations or the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive.
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BRE boosts information flow
BRE, the research organisation, has formed a partnership between industry and universities to make academic research more industry focused.
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Redefining best practice
I very much enjoyed reading Andy Pearson's article, Food for Thought, (BSJ, January 2006) about the innovative Tesco project at Tolworth.
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Archive TitlesGet a life before it's too late
We all know what employee burn-out is, but what causes it and can it be prevented? Helen Lingard reveals the surprising results of some groundbreaking research, which discovered that long working hours are not solely to blame. Here, she explains how construction companies can also gain by ensuring their people ...
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Archive TitlesBag to the future
Who'd have thought ordinary cloth could revolutionise concrete casting? Professor Remo Pedreschi describes how he has been using fabric formwork to create complex 3d shapes with better density, strength, durability and surface texture than conventional systems - and more cheaply to boot
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Julian Amey to leave CIBSE
It is with regret that we have to announce that Julian Amey, the chief executive, will be moving to take up another senior appointment, as chief executive of Trinity College London, from mid-July 2006.
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Archive TitlesOffice air conditioning
In this month's engineering services cost model, Davis Langdon Mott Green Wall examines the value of four-pipe fan coil air-conditioning against displacement ventilation systems incorporating static overhead cooling from chilled beams or chilled ceiling panels
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Archive TitlesCIBSE sets out climate change agenda
CIBSE has launched its agenda for tackling climate change in 2006 at a joint reception of business, government and the engineering community, where CIBSE President Donald Leeper announced an ambitious programme of activity.
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Archive TitlesAlternative action
Litigation is expensive, time-consuming and risky - so it's a good job there are other ways of resolving contract disputes.
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Archive TitlesLiverpool's low energy design academy
Planning permission has been granted for a new £23m Design Academy for Liverpool John Moores University.
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Archive TitlesRead all about it
What your peers are reading. What your supply chain partners are reading. And what you may want to read too! rod sweet takes a look at the current top-selling construction titles
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100 days of carbon clean up
This April, CIBSE will begin a new campaign - ‘100 Days of Carbon Clean-Up' - with funding from The Carbon Trust Networks Programme.