All Regulations articles – Page 4
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Technical
Tackling Thermal Bypass
Devereux Architects’ Mark Siddall explains thermal bypass, one of the topics up for discussion at this year’s free Sustainability Now virtual conference.
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Features
Sheppard Robson helps RICS create free Ska Rating tool
Sheppard Robson has helped develop a free tool to enable architects and interior designers improve and rate sustainability of office fit-out projects, says associate Daniel Winder
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Features
New Part L: How much glass?
With the latest revisions to the building regulations going ’live’ on October 1 Mark Taylor, technical director at Allies and Morrison and Ant Wilson, director of building engineering at AECOM, uncover the mystery of how much transparency is allowable on non-dwelling facades.
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News
Architects seek guidance on timing of Part L regs
Architects are calling on the government for clarification on when the new version of Part L of the building regulations will be introduced.
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Technical
The implications of the new Part L regulations on facade design
In the first of a series of videos about facade design, Graham Fairley, head of facade engineering at Aecom, talks to Anthony Gell, CEO at The Business Voice about some of the hot topics in the industry today.
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News
New Part L regulations published
The government has published new amendments for Part L of the Building Regulations, which are due to come into force this October.
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News
Leicester leads on Part L
Bond Bryan Architects’ £25 million city centre campus for Leicester College has opened to students
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Technical
Part L: the view from Building Control
John Neal, head of building control at Rushcliffe Borough Council, Nottinghamshire, discusses the impact of Part L 2006 on his team
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Technical
Is there life after Part L?
In March, our panel of experts answered your Part L questions. Four months after implementation, Elaine Knutt asks architects how Part L is affecting their work
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News
FOA shatters Part L hopes
The ability of Part L of the building regulations to cut carbon emissions was thrown into serious doubt this week with the unveiling of a fully glazed, 900,000sq m City office development by Foreign Office Architects.
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Technical
Green notebook: Part L is just the beginning
The Code for Sustainable Homes could mean even tougher rules
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News
Part L sends costs spiralling
Delays in approving Barts & Royal London mean it must now comply with tough new carbon regulations
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News
Rushed part L forces councils to break law
Building control officers say they will not be able to enforce new carbon-cutting legislation for six months after it becomes law next week.
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News
Part L law is finally published
The government has finally published legislation aimed at cutting carbon emissions from buildings, to come into force next month.
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Opinion
Why Part L is set to empower architects
Building legislation in the UK is finally coming into step with what the scientists have been telling us since the 1970s: that global climate change is unavoidable and fossil fuel supplies are in demise.
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Opinion
Rise above government's Part L botches
Here is Tony Blair speaking last month after a government report said there is only a small chance of greenhouse gas emissions being kept below dangerous levels: "It is now plain that the emission of greenhouse gases… is causing global warming at a rate that is unsustainable."
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News
Clients get cold feet over Part L delay
Government delay in implementing new building regulations for environmental performance is making major clients reluctant to commission new architecture.
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News
Stick to Part L promise, architects tell minister
Fears that key measure over environmental upgrades will be dropped
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Archive Titles
Society challenges draft amendments to Part L
The Society of Light and Lighting Technical Committee's detailed response to the DETR's proposals for amending Part L of the Building Regulations states that, as they stand, "some of the proposals are neither understandable nor enforcable."
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