All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 721
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Software, not staff fuels leap in turnover
Leeds firm Yorkshire Building Services (YBS) increased its turnover from £9.8m to £16.8m in three years without taking on any more staff. How did it achieve such a feat? Finance director Paul Harrison says it’s all down to a £40,000 investment in software, Navision from Microsoft Business Solutions.
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Playing on a level field
The law is encouraging cartel members to spill the beans, while recognising the cost of competitive tendering
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Disclosure and display
The Energy Performance of Buildings Directive will introduce labels for buildings based on their energy use. Robert Cohen explains how this could work, and why we all need to stay ahead of the game.
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If you must dig, dig safely
Trench collapses have killed three people since April, prompting the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to push for trenchless techniques such as directional drilling or impact moling, both of which can avoid the need to dig a trench in the first place. But if you have to dig, the HSE ...
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Archive TitlesCrunch time
It seems like madness to take out the built-in time buffers between tasks. but it can mean you finish the whole job early.
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Models of whole life costing
There is an increasing interest in whole life costs of buildings and the systems within them.
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Archive TitlesWest Midlands shopping complex
West Midlands shopping complex Merry Hill is the first retail development to be certified under the new BREEAM Retail scheme. The development was assessed by the Sustainable Development Group at FaberMaunsell for its existing operations in May 2004 and achieved a rating of ‘Very good’.
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Archive TitlesWhere does your wood come from?
Following its invasion of HBG’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, Greenpeace is targeting 10 more lottery projects to find out if they are using timber from sustainable sources.
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Combined heat and power
This month Davis Langdon Mott Green Wall examines the current combined heat and power market, with an overview of the procurement options available to end-users.
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Archive TitlesChurch services
After 60 years of itinerancy The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra has found a permanent home in a former church. We visit Cadogan Hall to find out just what the transformation involved.
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CHP proves popular with health and social services
Two health and social services trusts in Northern Ireland have adopted mini combined heat and power (chp) technology.
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A catalyst for new design
A new integrated approach to building design funded by the Carbon Trust aims to help building services engineers, architects and quantity surveyors to work together to meet client needs and the demands of legislation.
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Caption of the month
“They call me Lautrec, ‘Two-loos’ Lautrec...”Thanks to Rob Falconer
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Caption competition
Send us a caption and we’ll grudgingly hand over a £20 drinks voucher for the wittiest entry. It has to be darned good to make us part with the dough, mind...Email construction_manager@cmpinformation.com
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Archive TitlesNature called
SUDS drainage systems mimic mother nature by slowing down rainwater flow.
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Archive TitlesWhy you should build it up to knock it down
Let’s design for easy dismantling, says new CIRIA book
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Tories declare war on red-tape Britain
Bureaucracy, regulations and high taxes stifle the UK’s competitiveness and construction will feel the effects sooner or later, a bullish Conservative shadow chancellor Oliver Letwin warned an industry audience last month.
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‘Bored’, but Rogers will stay on
His two-year term as chairman of the Strategic Forum is up now, but Peter Rogers has agreed to the board’s request to stay until the end of 2005. A deputy chairperson will join him early in 2005. That person will take over the reins when Rogers, a director of Stanhope, ...