All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 567
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Sustainability - A guide to reducing carbon emissions from existing housing
Ever more stringent Building Regulations are ensuring that new homes are built to high energy-efficiency standards, but little in the regulations deals with existing housing stock, which are the source of one-third of all the UK’s carbon dioxide emissions.
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Archive TitlesBygone, they’ve done it
The race to get the first ‘C’ rated window confirmed by the British Fenestration Ratings Council (BFRC) is over – with Masterframe’s Bygone Collection first past the post.
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A bunch of fives for John Prescott
Property developers and investors think of life in terms of decades and a particularly important 10 years will begin in April next year, because April 2016 will be when much of what John Prescott has pledged to change through his £40bn sustainable communities plan starts to come to fruition.
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Can the BSIA tell us where we’re going?
SIR – My brief comments follow on from Lt Col Richard Evans’ Letter To The Editor in the March edition of Security Management Today (SMT) (‘Where is the SIA taking us, exactly?’, pp15-17).
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Archive TitlesMorgan breaks ranks to call for no confidence vote
Construction faculty chairman attacks RICS’s management as arrogant and undemocratic
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The bigger picture
Reading the debate about the correct measurement of length for the hip rafter makes me realise that those outside the QS profession (particularly non-Brits) who often refer to us by the derogatory term of brick or bean counters might have a point.
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The Big Issue
Biometric technology is back under the spotlight thanks to a recent trial of current technologies commissioned by the UK Passport Service, the Home Office Identity Cards programme and the Driving and Vehicle Licensing Agency
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Two tenders better than one
Two leading QSs are pushing ahead with changes to the procurement of future City Academy projects
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Security is definitely being under-sold
SIR – If there is one key area in which the private sector needs to sharpen up its act it’s in the selling of security guarding services.
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Roger Blitz bangs the drum for London’s Olympic bid
6 July will bring to a close an important chapter in the history of UK regeneration.
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Back in our day...
In 1943, with 16 year old childish optimism, we chanted, “Since Operations Have Commenced Adolph Has Taken Oxalic Acid.”
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Funding - An A-Z of the key terms and issues
Funding remains one of the key barriers to the effective implementation of regeneration initiatives.
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AYH finalises Dutch sale
Shareholders in QS and project management firm AYH have agreed to the sale of the company for £21m to Dutch consultancy group Arcadis.
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Newton scoops Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the North West
Mike Newton – chief executive of Warrington-based CCTV specialist AD Group, and the founder of Dedicated Micros – has won EN magazine’s prestigious North West Entrepreneur of the Year Award for 2005, having earlier this year scooped Management Today’s Award as Leading UK Entrepreneur from a list of 100 candidates.
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Archive TitlesThe system description – make it work for you: avoid confusion and over-complication, says consultant
Mike Gaillard, Technical Director of CEN Solutions Ltd, explains the importance of the System Descripiton document in helping insulating glass manufacturers to maintain their quality systems
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Archive TitlesSelfridges on AutoDome
Security at the new Selfridges store in Birmingham’s Bullring complex is first class thanks to Bosch’s AutoDome cameras
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Archive TitlesAuthentication: fighting the fraudsters
Online credit card fraud is a growing problem for finance houses, card holders and retailers alike. Armed with only a few personal details, a fraudster can run up huge debts in someone else’s name. Thankfully, the IT security software developers are fighting back.
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LETTER: Aren’t windows mostly white?
I am not surprised you ask ‘Aren't windows mostly white?’ (GA May ‘05 Comment), as it is one of the symptoms of Chasing volume, losing profit described by Mark Atkinson.
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Archive TitlesIT could make traditional QS role redundant, claims architect
BDP chairman champions computer system that can automatically work out quantities for building projects