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NewsThe right place to stand on Rugg
One department’s acceptance of many of the Rugg review’s recommendations for private rental housing could help form a build-to-let market, if it gets some help
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FeaturesAnother expenses row: public reactions to Part L plans
The government is pondering a plan to force people to spend money on insulating their homes. So what do the public make of that?
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FeaturesAuschwitz: telling the SS I was a builder saved my life
Sixty-five years after he entered Auschwitz, Albert Veissid tells Ben King the extraordinary tale of how his fictitious construction skills helped him survive
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FeaturesSleeping beauty awakes: the St Pancras Midland Grand hotel
The fairy-tale castle that is the Midland Grand hotel has been asleep for a very long time. Now the arrival of the Eurostar has roused it, and it is once again to become the most stylish address in London
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FeaturesSpecialist cost update
In the first of a new series, the Sense Cost Consultancy team examines the toll the recession is taking on prices in three sectors: substructure, superstructure and cladding
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FeaturesTubular belge: Buro Happold's steel shopping centre
Buro Happold’s roof for Liège’s new shopping centre takes the form of a 400m-long steel snake, which undulates to dramatically different heights. Stephen Kennett finds out how it was done
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FeaturesRooflights
Roofglaze has installed more than 3,280m2 of glass monopitch skylights at Wolverton Park, a redevelopment of the former railway works at Milton Keynes
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Plastic gutters
Hunter Plastics has launched Ovation, a guttering system that offers a top-hung alternative to traditional bracket systems
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Insulated roof panels
Kingspan’s KS1000 RW trapezoidal insulated roof and wall panel is now available in a width of 2m
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Green roofs
Grass Concrete has launched a system that can be laid over new or existing flat roof membranes to create a green roof
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Mineral wool insulation
Knauf Insulation has launched an environmentally friendly mineral wool insulation with lower embodied energy. Using its patented “Ecose Technology”, the insulation has a distinctive natural brown colour – rather than yellow – as a result of a new sustainable binder made from renewable materials rather than oil-based chemicals
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NewsPlaying by the regs
This year there are more government consultations on greening the built environment than ever before
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NewsHot topic: Alternative heating systems
With heating accounting for a significant proportion of the UK’s carbon emissions, finding viable alternatives to conventional systems is vital. Jon Dedman of Davis Langdon and Ben Madden of Element Energy look at different low-carbon heating strategies for new-build housing
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NewsEco regulation: cutting through the green tape
The Code for Sustainable Homes and redefining zero carbon are well intentioned but, says Pooran Desai, we’re going to need a far more radical rethink if targets are to be met
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NewsGreen Haus: how to do Passivhaus
The UK has long admired the German Passivhaus method for building homes with rock-bottom carbon emissions. Now the gold standard has come to Sunderland
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NewsHot water heating
Alpha Heating Innovation’s FlowSmart hot water system has been added to the BRE’s SAP Appendix Q list, which allows the energy performance of new technologies and advanced versions of existing technologies to be evaluated for SAP assessments
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NewsHeat pumps
Aermec has launched the VXT geothermic heat pump, which can provide heating, cooling and domestic hot water needs for residential applications in a single unit
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High-performance composite windows
The ENERsign window and door range is now available in the UK through the Green Building Store
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Water saving devices
Product supplier the Green Building Store has launched a package of water-saving products to help specifiers meet levels three and four of the Code for Sustainable Homes