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Towering ambitions: transforming high rise housing into sustainable homes
Posted on: 14 December 2012
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The Green Alliance has published a report which examines how sustainable living in high rise housing can be realised. It concludes that people who live in tower blocks are missing out on the chance to make energy savings and live greener lifestyles. Green policies, like those encouraging energy and water saving, more sustainable transport and recycling, are mostly designed with individual, street level properties in mind, so high rise residents can’t take full advantage of them. To address this, the report makes recommendations for what various actors, from national and local government to landlords and residents themselves, can do to make the most of existing policy to enable tower block living to become more sustainable. Alongside the report the Green Alliance has published a toolkit, A better place to live: a toolkit for high rise green living, which aims to help high rise residents take actions to make their homes better, greener places to live. Additional resources, as well as tips for residents on how to bring people together and how to use meetings to come up with a plan of action, can be found here.
Exploring construction industrialization in China: The status quo and the challenges
Posted on: 14 December 2012
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Construction industrialization is considered as a feasible tool to support the Chinese construction industry to achieve sustainable development in the current process of rapid urbanization. However, few studies have investigated whether large-scale construction industrialization is possible and what are the obstacles. This report therefore aims to review the historical development and status quo of construction industrialization in China. Content analysis was adopted to examine relevant governmental documents, as well as researches on construction industrialization, prefabrication and off-site production in China. It is found that construction industrialization once developed rapidly from 1950s to 1990s while it remains at a relatively low level as compared to traditional building construction approach at present. Although the research project focuses on China, the research methods and conclusions would be a good reference for similar studies in other countries and regions.
Heat, air and moisture transfer terminology: Parameters and concepts
Posted on: 14 December 2012
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Commission W040 – Heat and Moisture Transfer in Buildings is one of the oldest groups of the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB) and was officially created in 1969. This publication compiles the heat, air and moisture transfer terminology existing in books, standards and other reference documents. A small introduction is provided in Chapter 1 summarises the Commission’s activities since its formation in 1969. Chapter 2 indicates the guidelines for the use of this document. In Chapter 3 both parameters and concepts are presented, their definition according to the literature and the symbol(s) and unit(s) that are commonly used to describe it. Finally, Chapter 4 lists all the reference documents that were taken into consideration to develop this document.
Analysis of fires in buildings of timber framed construction, England, 2009-10 to 2011-12
Posted on: 14 December 2012
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This analysis focuses on the amount of heat and flame damage in building fires identified as being timber framed, compared with fires in buildings recorded as not being of special construction.
A client’s guide to health and safety during a construction project
Posted on: 14 December 2012
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Foremans Relocatable Building Systems, the UK’s largest supplier of refurbished Portakabin buildings has published a new paper on health and safety during a construction project.
Green Construction Board: One year on report
Posted on: 10 December 2012
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The Green Construction Board has published its first annual report. This sets out the progress the Board has made on a broad range of issues, and outlines what has been achieved and future priorities. The Green Construction Board was established in October 2011 to provide strategic leadership to the sector on this agenda as well as own and monitor the implementation of the actions in the Low Carbon Construction Action Plan. It draws together Government and industry to discuss the business opportunities (both domestically and internationally) which will be created by the transition to more sustainable economy and how best to take advantage of them.
Planning for custom build housing: A practice guide
Posted on: 7 December 2012
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This Guide is intended to help all those involved in making it easier for people to build their own home in England, including local authority planning and housing officials and their elected members, housing associations, developers and self build community groups. The Guide is not intended to be prescriptive as each area or site will have its own particular set of circumstances, so each will require a bespoke approach. The Guide therefore provides some pointers and ideas as to how the subject could be approached and, above all, it aims to inspire action to grow the self build sector. This is the first edition of the Guide, which is intended to be a ‘living document’ that will be updated regularly with examples of new, emerging policies and practices.
Pre-conditioning for success: Characteristics and factors ensuring a safe build for the Olympic Park
Posted on: 6 December 2012
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This research, published by the Health and Safety Executive, has looked to identify factors which have contributed to the London 2012 Olympic Park being delivered on time, on budget and with an exemplary health and safety record. Where other research has captured ‘how’ things were done, this research has explored ‘why’ and focused on the underpinning human and organisational interactions.
A Practical Guide to BREEAM
Posted on: 4 December 2012
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Off-site specialist Yorkon has published a new technical paper to help construction clients and contractors better understand and implement the latest changes to the BREEAM process.
Changing perceptions in off-site construction
Posted on: 4 December 2012
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Yorkon has launched a new video to help change the perception of off-site construction and to demonstrate what is now possible with the latest developments in modular technology.
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