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NewsIce cream cocktails on the house at Phase One Shoreditch
Ices laced with cocktails and the tales of an Olympic fencer were the highlights of Building's latest social for new professionals
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Vadera pledges that Whitehall will become model client
Baroness Vadera, in her first interview as construction minister, has promised to make Whitehall sign up to the best practice charter originally produced for the 2012 Olympics.
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Small builders feel the chill as housing market evaporates
Construction workloads have fallen to their lowest levels since spring 2006, according to figures from the Federation of Master Builders.
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NewsFamily of dead woman calls for carbon monoxide alarms
Police and HSE investigate death of 26 year old killed by carbon monoxide in Barratt home
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What’s going where in London
The credit crunch may be tightening, but over £2.5bn of schemes are still being built in the City
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Mace boss predicts ‘healthy’ 2008 as profit rises 46%
Stephen Pycroft, the chief executive of Mace, has said the consultant will have a “healthy” 2008 despite the market downturn.
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FeaturesThink 08: a taster
Think 08 will take place at the ExCeL centre London on 7-8 May. Here’s a taster of some of the firms that will be taking part.
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Government under fire over diploma launch
Industry bodies have attacked the government over its launch of the construction diploma, saying employers have been left with little confidence in it, writes Sarah Richardson.
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Crispin & Borst’s profit boost
Crispin & Borst, a subsidiary of French construction company Vinci, has posted a 3% rise in pre-tax profit from £3.3m to £3.4m in the year ended 31 December 2007.
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Reform the Regs: The first battle is won
Building has claimed victory in its fight to reform the regs (which just leaves the small task of implementing all the tough new environmental regulations mentioned elsewhere in this supplement). Thomas Lane rates how well the government has answered our campaign demands
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NewsThe Code for Sustainable Non-dwellings
In December, the UK Green Building Council published a report into the feasibility of replicating the Code for Sustainable Homes for all other building types. Nick Cullen of engineer Hoare Lea looks at what that report recommends and whether we can expect zero-carbon non-housing any time soon …
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NewsBuilding ‘brand zero’
Just as housebuilders have realised how horribly soon the 2016 deadline for zero-carbon homes is approaching, the government is moving on to the even more problematic non-residential sector. But how feasible is a zero-carbon built environment? David Strong has some words of caution, while overleaf we analyse the report that ...
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NewsPart L: Arguing over the details
After four years of robust testing of the Part E acoustic regulations, Robust Details Limited is ready to extend its pattern book approach to Part L. But some specifiers still see it as an expensive, unfocused and unproven means of compliance. Here, we get both sides to fight it out…
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High-performance timber windows
Aimed at housing associations and developers with large-scale developments who are trying to meet the Code for Sustainable Homes and BREEAM criteria, Green Building Store has launched the Ecocontract range of timber windows.
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Heat-pump boiler
A heating system that harnesses energy from the air to provide heat and hot water in the home has been launched by Mitsubishi Electric.
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Dual-flush WC
Impulse Bathrooms has launched a dual-flush WC that is designed to cut domestic water use in homes by half.
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Grey water recycling
For designers looking to meet level three and beyond of the Code for Sustainable Homes, Polypipe Sanitary Systems has launched a micro greywater recycling system.
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Solar powered ventilation
Monodraught has launched a solar powered natural ventilation system for use in dwellings.
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NewsIntegrated photovoltaics
Photovoltaics integrated into roof and cladding panels have been launched by Arval, part of Arcelor Construction.