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12th Aug 2010
The latest information and innovations for the design, specification, and construction of civic and public buildings and spaces.
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BSF SAMPLE PROJECTS GET GO-AHEAD AND FURTHER CONFIRMATION GIVEN TO ACADEMIES
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Education Secretary, Michael Gove, today announced the go-ahead for a series of new school projects. 33 local authority ‘sample’ school projects in 14 council regions will now proceed in Barking and Dagenham, Blackpool, Camden, Derby City, Ealing, Halton, Hartlepool, Hertfordshire, Lambeth, Oldham, Poole, Somerset, St Helens and Wandsworth. Another 119 academies – schools being given new sponsors to raise attainment for the most disadvantaged – are also intended to go ahead. Ministers have been working with sponsors to ensure they can move forward with their academies, each designed to raise standards in areas of particular need. The 44 academies at the most advanced stage in their capital planning with Partnerships for Schools will receive capital now. Capital allocations for the remaining 75 will be decided in the Spending Review. More Website
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HIGH-EFFICIENCY PRODUCT SEARCH WITH UPGRADED WILO-PRODUCTFINDER
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Wilo UK has just extended their online information services with a new optimised Wilo-ProductFinder. The Wilo-ProductFinder available at www.wilo.uk is effectively an online catalogue which enables quick and simple access to all product information. The new service provides all the necessary information about the Wilo product programme for specific fields of application as well as including all the technical details. The ProductFinder can be operated quickly and intuitively making it simple to target the products you need.
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Product Finder
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ANDY IS THE INAUGURAL ‘PEOPLE’S CHOICE’ WINNER
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Dickies innovative UK Worker of the Year programme has delivered the first recipient of its People’s Choice monthly award and it goes to mobile vehicle repair specialist Andy Rose. Throughout June people were able to vote for everyone who had been nominated for the overall UK Worker of the Year competition during the previous month and hundreds of votes were cast. Andy Rose emerged as the person with the most votes at the end of the voting period.
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Worker of the Year Launch Video
Dickies Promotional Video
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PASSIVENT TAKES THE STRESS OUT OF NEW REGULATIONS
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Ahead of the amended criteria for ventilation in dwellings coming into force in October, Passivent is already coming to the aid of specifiers and installers, with a raft of new measures aimed at simplifying the compliance process. The company, supplier of domestic ventilation solutions, is compiling a range of reference material to the implications and changes in the Building Regulation Approved Document Part F. A ‘quick reference’ guide will be easily accessible via the company’s website.
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UNDERSTANDING LEGIONNAIRES’ DISEASE – A NEW POCKET GUIDE
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Despite the fact that it was first identified as long ago as 1976, there are still several hundred occurrences of Legionnaires’ disease in the UK every year; some of them fatal. In order to put the disease into perspective Alfa Laval has produced a new edition of its popular Guide To range of pocket publications dealing specifically with Legionnaire’s disease. It covers the disease’s history, how it occurs and the best methods currently available to prevent its development. More Website
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FLAG-SOPREMA GREEN ROOFS AT ADDENBROOKE’S
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Use of Flag-Soprema’s Optigreen 'Economy' green roofs on Sanctuary Housing Association’s £20 million key worker accommodation blocks at Addenbrooke’s Hospital shows how design is being influenced by biodiversity. Stepped upper storeys on 4 buildings have low maintenance sedum planting to assist with rainwater retention and provide a 600m2 roof area as part of a balanced eco-system. Completion of the Addenbrooke’s project coincides with Flag-Soprema becoming a 'Premium Sponsor' of the World Green Roof Congress in London on 15th and 16th September.
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