All Regulations articles – Page 4

  • Thermal Bypass diagram
    Technical

    Tackling Thermal Bypass

    2010-12-07T10:47:00Z

    Devereux Architects’ Mark Siddall explains thermal bypass, one of the topics up for discussion at this year’s free Sustainability Now virtual conference.

  • Ska Rating logo
    Features

    Sheppard Robson helps RICS create free Ska Rating tool

    2010-11-15T09:59:00Z

    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

  • Foster Gherkin
    Features

    New Part L: How much glass?

    2010-09-29T17:16:00Z

    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.

  • red tape on building regs
    News

    Architects seek guidance on timing of Part L regs

    2010-08-09T10:22:00Z

    Architects are calling on the government for clarification on when the new version of Part L of the building regulations will be introduced.

  • Graham Fairley - head of facade engineering at Aecom
    Technical

    The implications of the new Part L regulations on facade design

    2010-07-30T07:59:00Z

    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.

  • News

    New Part L regulations published

    2010-05-06T10:09:00Z

    The government has published new amendments for Part L of the Building Regulations, which are due to come into force this October.

  • Bond Bryan Architects’ £25 million city centre campus for Leicester College has opened to students.
    News

    Leicester leads on Part L

    2009-01-23T00:00:00Z

    Bond Bryan Architects’ £25 million city centre campus for Leicester College has opened to students

  • Technical

    Part L: the view from Building Control

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    John Neal, head of building control at Rushcliffe Borough Council, Nottinghamshire, discusses the impact of Part L 2006 on his team

  • Technical

    Is there life after Part L?

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    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

  • The fully glazed design was chosen after earlier designs with less glazing were abandoned.
    News

    FOA shatters Part L hopes

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • Technical

    Green notebook: Part L is just the beginning

    2006-04-21T00:00:00Z

    The Code for Sustainable Homes could mean even tougher rules

  • The Department of Health has confirmed that new hospitals,
    News

    Part L sends costs spiralling

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Delays in approving Barts & Royal London mean it must now comply with tough new carbon regulations

  • News

    Rushed part L forces councils to break law

    2006-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Building control officers say they will not be able to enforce new carbon-cutting legislation for six months after it becomes law next week.

  • News

    Part L law is finally published

    2006-03-24T00:00:00Z

    The government has finally published legislation aimed at cutting carbon emissions from buildings, to come into force next month.

  • Opinion

    Why Part L is set to empower architects

    2006-03-24T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • Opinion

    Rise above government's Part L botches

    2006-02-10T00:00:00Z

    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."

  • News

    Clients get cold feet over Part L delay

    2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Government delay in implementing new building regulations for environmental performance is making major clients reluctant to commission new architecture.

  • News

    Part Late

    2005-08-26T00:00:00Z

    The introduction of the new Part L building regulations has been delayed until April 2006, the government announced this week.

  • News

    Stick to Part L promise, architects tell minister

    2005-07-22T00:00:00Z

    Fears that key measure over environmental upgrades will be dropped

  • Archive Titles

    Society challenges draft amendments to Part L

    2000-11-07T00:00:00Z

    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."