All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 768
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Birmingham Sandwell pathfinder gets 50m despite criticisms
The Birmingham Sandwell pathfinder is to get £50m of government funds despite an Audit Commission report that called the body’s proposals to boost the area’s housing market “underdeveloped”.The commission’s report into the pathfinder, Urban Living Housing, was used by the ODPM in assessing the plans to improve the market in ...
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2nd opinion: Get the message?
Writing reports isn't enough: we need not just words but action to promote them.
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Archive TitlesWait not want not
New research suggests workers spend far too much time hanging around for deliveries. A new logistics method, inspired in its simplicity, is already slashing this wastage. why Is the industry so reluctant to adopt it?
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Why did they specify that?
Because it cleans itselfArchitects wanted Pilkington’s self-cleaning glass for windows at the Museum of the Earth, in Ithaca, New York State, to save on maintenance costs. All it needs is an occasional hosing down. The 18,000 sq ft site houses 650 specimens from the ...
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Teamwork: the route to success
The world of sports has a lot to offer the construction industry, especially when it comes to building a good team.In association with VIESSMANN
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Archive TitlesTony’s top trio praise plans for sustainability
prescott and co back green building code
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Outnumbered?
Just a note to say how much I enjoy reading Construction Manager, especially the Month in Numbers feature. However I was slightly bemused to see the 7.1m “number” in the June issue. I thought at first you were talking about 7.1 metres, only to discover you were referring to 7.1 ...
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We need to play it safer
The UK construction industry's health and safety record is nothing to write home about. So what should they be doing to make improvements?
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Upgrading membership
I read with some interest Dr Hawthorne's letter BSj 04/04); particularly his comments regarding the route to CEng, which is now available to non-qualified people.
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Archive TitlesMaster of the Universe?
'AHA!' you think. I'll do a masters and propel myself into the big league: a better job with more corporate clout and a heroic pay packet to boot. But wait. Do you really think your employer will support you in that? There is a way.
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Prefab journalism
So “prefabrication came along in the 1960s” did it? (‘Cure-all concept?’ Construction Manager, June, p25). Well, well, well! So what were the cosy little aluminium bungalows we put up just after the war? We called them prefabs.And how come I joined, at the beginning of 1960, a well-established company with ...
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It's a supervision thing
"This is a tragedy I think about 365 days a year," said defrocked engineer Jack Gillum to the Kansas City Star 20 years after two skywalks at the Hyatt Regency Hotel fell onto a packed dance floor. He admitted it was the kind of mistake any first-year engineering student would ...
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Archive TitlesSlice of inspiration
Here's time-saving, fine-finshed concrete with no formwork and barely any fixing. John Doyle's innovative sandwich system uses concrete as the bread, wrapped around a filling of lattice girders. Kristina Smith gets to grips with a radical offsite solution
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STAR LETTER - Where are the inspectors?
Both domestic and non-domestic buildings account for around 40% of all the energy consumed in the EC.
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Too hazardous to handle
From July it will cost you seven times more to dispose of hazardous material in a landfill. And that's if you can find one.