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Building
- Access statements |
- BS 8300 and inclusive access |
- Education checklist - Lecture theatres |
- The future of building control |
- Lofty aspirations: utilising the roofspace |
- Nanotechnology in construction |
- NBS and the structural Eurocodes |
- Pods |
- Public sector building: adaptable housing for special needs |
- Rainscreen cladding: letting air in to keep rain out |
- Rising damp? |
- Site Waste Management Plans |
- Toilets for disabled access |
Building regulations
- 17th Edition Wiring regulations |
- 2008 changes to the Scottish Technical Handbooks |
- An overview of the changes to the Scottish Technical Handbooks 2007 |
- Approved Document F: Ventilation |
- Approved Document L: Conservation of fuel and power |
- Approved Document P: Electrical safety – dwellings |
- Building Regulations update |
- Delays to new Building Regulations Part G and Approved Document G |
- Domestic heating compliance: Solid fuel appliances |
- Draft of Building Regulations Approved Document G now available |
- Fire! A synopsis of Approved Document B |
- Fire: Understanding Part B |
- Fire safety – Approved Document B vs BS 9999 |
- Part E: Resistance to the passage of sound: Floors |
- Part H: Drainage and waste disposal |
- Part K - Protection from falling, collision and impact |
- Part M: Access Statements |
- The future of building control |
- Ventilation
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Building technologies
- A-tension grabbing structures |
- Cements – standards, third party certification, and chromium (VI) |
- Fixings and fasteners: nails and screws |
- How locks work: key facts about how to obtain closure |
- Insulation versus air tightness |
- Nanotechnology in construction |
- New standards for asphalt paving |
- New standards for specifying macadam – NBS section Q22
- Oil separators |
- Precast concrete pavement lights |
- R.I.P. British masonry product standards |
- Roof slates and BS EN 12326 |
- Specifying Reinforced Bitumen Membranes (RBMs) |
- Thatch roofing |
- The East London Line |
- Timber certification |
- Vapour permeable underlays for slate and tile roofing |
- Warm: cold; vented: unvented roof construction? |
- Wood shingle and shake roofing |
Contracts and law
- Advising clients on the appropriate form of building contracts |
- Alternative Dispute Resolution |
- CDM Regulations 2007 – What changes have the contract publishers made? |
- Classic Case Law: Teaching tort |
- Construction industry corruption |
- Dispute avoidance: stages in a dispute |
- Fire and risk engineering |
- Grade listing of buildings |
- Guide to IC05: Contract administrator's instructions |
- ICE Conditions of Contract for Minor Works (3rd Edition, as amended) |
- JCT Constructing Excellence Contract |
- JCT Major Project Construction Contract |
- Local Development Frameworks |
- NEC update |
- Public procurement legislation in the EU |
- Summary of the JCT 2009 Revisions |
- Tax and false self-employment in the construction industry |
- What's your problem? |
- Which procurement method? |
Design
- A building that feels good: Wellcome Trust, Gibbs Building |
- BDP's new Manchester studio |
- Eric Lyons & Span |
- Peter Eisenman: What makes great architecture? |
- Powell and Moya: Oxbridge and beyond |
- Restoring Carver's Warehouse |
- RIBA President Elect Ruth Reed, talks education, planning, good design and CPD |
- Ryder and Yates: Twentieth Century Architects |
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Talkback: Álvaro Siza Vieira |
Engineering services
- 17th Edition Wiring regulations |
- Biomass |
- Biomass: comparing the costs |
- CORGI loses its bite |
- Dealing with glare: improving visual comfort |
- Don't get your wires crossed: the colour coding of low voltage fixed wiring cable cores |
- Down to the wire |
- Ecobuild and renewable technologies
- Limiting false fire alarms |
- Photovoltaic modules
- Photovoltaics for dwellings - an update |
- Pools for all
- R22 – the end |
- Specifying controls |
- Underfloor heating: the cover up |
- Wastewater drainage: the real sanitary clause |
Health & safety
- CDM 2007 and in-use design issues
- CDM and other health and safety legislation
- Corporate responsibility: the duties and responsibilities under the new CDM regulations
- Designing for safer roadsides
- Lead in paint
- Pendulum, Ramp and Tortus slip resistance test methods – are you confused?
- Specifying new floors – crucial roles of the manufacturer and supplier
- The CDM Co-ordinator
- The control of asbestos
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The hidden costs of inappropriate floor covering specification
Landscape
- External stairs, ramps, handrails and balustrades |
- Not just a timber deck |
- The use of mycorrhiza to resist drought |
Planning and development
- Contemporary property development: the role of local authorities |
- Eco-towns: folly or inspiration? |
- Eco-towns update |
- Mixing your uses |
- Regenerating historic buildings - legislation |
- The future of planning |
- The Manual for Streets |
Practice management
- A client's guide to engaging an architect: project management |
- Administration in the credit crunch: a bad taste? |
- New editions |
- Older workers, one year on |
- Practising for recession |
- Preliminaries and General Conditions |
- Redundancy and the credit crunch: first bite |
Schedules of work
- Cost tracking within NBS Scheduler |
- NBS software improves use of project documentation |
- The functions of a schedule of work |
- The structure of a schedule of work |
Specification
- A code of procedure for production information |
- An inspector calls |
- Ban the ban: materials blacklists |
- Calibration report for Eurocode 1 on wind actions |
- CPIC and Uniclass – who, what and why? |
- Currency of NBS with respect to Eurocodes |
- Designing for airtightness |
- Designing for disability |
- How to specify: A century of works on building specification practice
- How to use NBS content |
- Minimising the impact of future flooding |
- NBS products for 'small works' specification |
- Specifying colour |
- Specifying for sports |
- Sustainable specification |
- Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) |
- The benefits of master specifications |
- The efficiently formed building |
- The mail must get through |
- The use of historic buildings as museums and art galleries |
- Where's the 'green' bit in NBS Building?
- Yes! We have no specifications
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Surveying
Sustainability
- Before you start building "green" |
- BREEAM Assessment methods |
- BREEAM and the Plan of Work |
- Eco-minimalism: value for money ways of making buildings energy efficient |
- Energy-using Products Directive |
- Environmental construction: methods of assessing buildings |
- Environmental permitting regulations |
- Furniture miles |
- Green roofs: an introduction |
- Green specifying |
- Lime mortar: an introduction |
- Low carbon buildings – standards, assessment systems, tools |
- Maintaining sustainability through contracts |
- NBS WRAP |
- Peak oil |
- Straw bale construction |
- SUDS (Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems) |
- Sustainability... more questions than answers? |
- Sustainable architecture |
- Sustainable housing |
- Sustainable property - does it make economic sense? |
- Sustainable (Urban) Drainage Systems (SUDS): an introduction |
- The Code for Sustainable Homes |
- The growth of living walls |
- Towards zero carbon |
- Wildlife on your roof |
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WRAP - Recycling and Waste Reduction |
General
- Bats and buildings |
- British Stainless Steel Association Conference 2008 |
- Changes to the Construction Act |
- Dispute resolution |
- Post Disaster Reconstruction |
- Preliminaries and contemporary procurement |
- Reclassification |
- Residual standards content |
- Smart homes |
- The fall of skill, the rise of automation |
- Third party certification |
- When birds are banned: architectural tactics for managing birds |
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