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The official magazine of LABC |
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| Beeston reigns Supreme |
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Scooping top prize in the Best Educational Building category as well as receiving the overall Supreme Award at this year's LABC Building Excellence Awards, the Phase 2
redevelopment of Beeston Campus at Castle College in Nottingham is a genuine exemplar of design and construction at its best. |
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Beeston reigns Supreme
Scooping top prize in the Best Educational Building category as well as receiving the overall Supreme Award at this year's LABC Building Excellence Awards, the Phase 2
redevelopment of Beeston Campus at Castle College in Nottingham is a genuine exemplar of design and construction at its best.
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Sunderland scores with top healthcare award
For the second year running Sunderland City Council has come out top in a category of the prestigious LABC National Building Excellence Awards. An award for Best Healthcare Building for Washington Primary Care Centre was received
jointly by the City Council, P+HS Architects and contractor Laing O'Rourke
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Camden focus on quality construction
Camden Council has shone the spotlight on some of the most
innovative and sustainable construction projects completed in the borough over the past two years
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Breaking the Code in Bangor
Eithinog in Bangor, a model social housing development that combined modest, good design with ambitious targets on
sustainability, took the Best Social/Affordable Housing Project accolade at the 2009 LABC National Building Excellence Awards in October
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Tackling rural regeneration
The current economic climate is doing little to help those families in the predominantly rural areas of the South West
who are looking for their first home. The challenge for planners and local policy-makers is to retain the skills of local people who grew up in the West Country, and at the same time provide for the needs of the many people who are predicted to want to settle in the region in the coming decades. Anthony Woodburn talks to Fliss Morey, Projects Director at Exeter and East Devon Growth Point, about the partnership’s ambitious development plans which are designed to tackle these issues
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CPD compliance for external doors and windows mandatory from March 1st
Chiltern Dynamics has issued a free guidance sheet of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on CE marking, with a step-by-step guide on how to ensure external doors and windows covered under the European Standard EN 14351-1:2006 comply with the Construction Products Directive (CPD).
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Concrete facilitates reuse and renewal
Taken literally, regeneration is the act of physical renewal.
The adaptation and recycling of a 1950s office block in
London's West End demonstrated that concrete structures
lend themselves to renewal and rebirth reports Guy
Thompson, head of architecture at The Concrete Centre
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Cambs survey proves enforcement of Part L
Enforcement of Building Regulations for the Conservation of Fuel and Power (Part L) 18.25% is running a close second behind Structure (Part A) 22.47% and ahead of Fire (Part B), recent research from LABC Cambridgeshire shows
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LABC President reflects on extraordinary year
The 2009 LABC President's Reception was held at the historic Trinity House in London in September. The event was hosted by Jeremy Hall, outgoing LABC President and Building Control Group Manager at Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council, who looked back on an extraordinary year for the construction industry
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Pay heed to new Part L demands on party walls, TRADA Technology warns
TRADA Technology Ltd has warned that the thermal performance of party walls will have to be considered for the first time when the revised version of Approved Document L (ADL) of the Building Regulations England & Wales (Conservation of fuel and power) is released later this year.
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