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Legal Eye: The Green Deal
Roger Knowles looks at the likely ramifications of October's introduction of the Green Deal, from a legal perspective.
Accessibility: Adjustable for all
Andrew Lowndes looks at why height-adjustable bathroom products benefit all users, including carers who need to be protected from the risks of back pain.
Floors & Floorcoverings: What lies beneath
The quality of a subfloor can dramatically impact upon the durability and aesthetics of a new floorcovering. Stephen Boulton looks at how to avoid the common mistakes made in specifying products.
Ceilings, Partitions & Boards: Board level agreement
Lafarge Plasterboard has launched a campaign to better inform specifiers on application of thermal boards in retrofit, in an attempt to clear up confusion resulting from the recent proliferation of products in the market. James Parker reports.
Ceilings, Partitions & Boards: Phased approach
Jeremy Sumeray looks at the evolution of phase change materials and how they could revolutionise ceilings' contribution to passive energy conservation in the UK, as shown in recent research.
Ceilings, Partitions & Boards: Cool customers
Recent years have seen chilled ceilings emerging as a viable alternative to traditional air conditioning systems. Here, Malcolm Stamper explains how they can meet demands of office environments in terms of occupant comfort, energy efficiency, and ease of maintenance, but also full flexibility.
HVAC: From the ground up
Chris Dale says that demand is increasing for ground source heat pumps as their potential to increase new homes' sustainability becomes more widely known.
The CIMCIG Column: sell the benefits not the features
In our second online column from CIMCIG (the Chartered Institute of Marketing's Construction Industry Group), David Mycock says that this maxim of marketing should be at the heart of all communications.
Project Focus: Passive responsive
A contractor committed to sustainability has put its money where its mouth is, by making its Leicester office the first Passivhaus-certified building of its type in the UK, aided by 'intelligent' solar shading. Building Products reports.
HVAC: Trouble at home
The delay to the introduction of the Renewable Heat Incentive for domestic properties has created much consternation across the renewables industry. Hannah Krol looks at the prognosis for the RHI, and the effect that the delays are likely to have on this attempt to 'green' the heating of UK homes.
Design Brief: Sustainability
Gavin Todd explores the issues building product manufacturers are facing in aligning the supply chain to achieve higher levels of sustainability.
Industry Advocate: CE marking
John Denyer warns of the danger of product manufacturers being misled by the implications of CE marking, following the 2013 introduction of the Construction Products Regulation, saying that the change is less far-reaching than some may fear.
Bricks, blocks and lintels: Thin end of the wedge
Increasing demand for high quality, greater productivity, improved thermal performance, air-tightness and waste reduction means that alternative systems such as thin joint blockwork are being explored. Chris Hirst explains further.