Contents: Issue 18, July 2010

News

Top stories include: proposals in the Emergency Budget; cuts are already biting in the industry; new Part L methodology unveiled.

Help youngsters get inspired; new government heralds ‘change of direction’.

The sudden closure of the Low Carbon Buildings Programme to newcomers leaves parts of the industry reeling.

Reasons to be cheerful amid the economic gloom; can hands-off designers really specify M&E?

John Deasy asks: is it time for a buildings’ scrappage scheme?

Hywel Davies (pictured right) looks at the recent changes to the EPBD.

How PricewaterhouseCoopers challenged its project team to potentially become one of the greenest offices in London.

Industry is waking up to the notion of embodied carbon.

Why the demolition of buildings is not such an attractive option when embodied carbon is brought into play.

How an efficiency adviser hopes to change the mood in theatre lighting.

How can wireless connectivity add benefit to building systems?

The pros and cons of fan coil units compared with chilled beams.