All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 787
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CIBSE criteria
The letter from Dr Colin Hawthorne (BSj 04/04) referring back to the extraordinary general meeting held in December last year, reminded me of the unique status held by those CIBSE members who attained full membership of the institution by means of the 'Academic test'.
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BRE merges two divisions
BRE has merged its energy and environmental engineering divisions into a new group called BRE Environment.
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Building Controls Industry Association launched
The newly launched BCIA aims for closer ties to designers and construction companies with a view to earlier involvement of building controls experts
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Applying lessons
Thinking back to my own secondary school, it had all the architectural charm of a low security prison.
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Archive TitlesAll together now
The key to good school design is to involve the whole community from the beginning. We find out how the process works in practice.
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ACE leads calls for new insurance laws
The Association of Consulting Engineers (ACE) has warned that the costs of professional indemnity insurance are spiralling by up to 300%.
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More accurate fire modelling could save lives
Computational fire engineering should be employed more widely during a building's design stage and life cycle to improve the safety of occupants during a fire.
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CIBSE reveals Carbon 60 competition shortlist
The shortlist for the CIBSE Carbon Competition 60 has been announced.
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Archive Titles21st Century Tower services designed by W S Atkins
W S Atkins has designed the building services on the 21st Century Tower in Dubai. The 269 m high building is the world's tallest apartment block, with over 71 000 m2 of luxury living space. The building features an interoperable Tridium web-serving controls system. M&E contractor was the Emirates Trading ...
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The round-up
Big SIPsContractor Geoffrey Osborne used Vencel Resil's Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs) for the first time on three homes of a 14-house development in Sompting near Worthing for Southern Housing Group. The remaining 11 homes are timber frame.Simply put, SIPs are an expanded polystyrene filling in an oriented strand board (OSB) ...
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Thermocast revisited
The article entitled 'Running hot, cold and green' in May's CM was enthusiastic but it did contain some inaccuracies - and I would also like to clarify some other related points. Chilled beams are not powered with water of 6degC but 16degC.The system can only provide sufficient heating capacity if ...
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Archive TitlesRetail therapy
Squeaky boards? Bursting pipes? There's only so much 'character' customers can tolerate. Rod Sweet discovers why a £107m tag was not out of place at Peter Jones
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Lost leader
Rod Sweet’s editorial in April’s CM tells us that final year students require a clear, structured approach to developing their skills. I would recommend that Mr Sweet adopt this approach in writing his leader.If he seriously considers that the real image problem for the building industry is “big beefy white ...
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Watchdog praises HSE tactics - but targets are still out of reach
A top government watchdog says the HSE is doing almost everything right in its efforts to improve safety even though targets the industry set itself in February 2001 – to reduce deaths and major accidents by 40% next year – are probably beyond reach now.
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Archive TitlesWork in haste, repent at leisure
HBG's under-pressure agency workers were poorly supervised and lifting a 190kg lintel overhead. The firm now has 150,000 reasons to change its systems
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Standard fare
Last month the Treasury published an updated version of the guidance on the Standardisation of PFI Contracts. This is the third edition, heralded by the Treasury as important progress towards greater standardisation across the PFI market, and should cut the length and cost of the procurement process. The guidance informs ...
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Archive TitlesFalse starters
Why have preparations for the Olympics turned into such a world-class farce? Rod Sweet explores the bureaucratic morass of Greek public tendering that lies at the heart of the problem