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Energy Efficiency: Pilgrim Hospital slashes carbon emissions with new energy centre

A new energy centre at Pilgrim Hospital in Boston uses low carbon technologies to reduce energy costs and carbon emissions significantly.

8 Jul 2010

Burning Issue: How to make commercial sense of the MCS

The Microgeneration Certification Scheme was designed to protect homeowners by guaranteeing certified renewable products and installers meet robust standards. But MCS is becoming important for commercial buildings. Richard Evans, director of sales at Buderus, talks us through the scheme.

8 Jul 2010

Company Profile: All change for Armstrong

You wouldn't build a high performance car on the side of the M25, and so why would you build a plantroom on a construction site? asks Richard Strode, the new managing director of Armstrong's UK HVAC business.

8 Jul 2010

Contractor Profile: Hard times but construction could benefit

Rob Manning, the president of CIBSE, talks to Paul Braithwaite about Collaborate and Deliver, the theme of his term of office, how he believes in Soft Landings, low carbon emisssions, how everyone is important in the building process and why each part of construction needs to work together.

8 Jul 2010

Legal Matters: Avoid workplace World Cup penalties

It may be all over for the English team but Fergal Dowling, head of employment law at national legal firm, Irwin Mitchell, warns of the pitfalls which could impact on employer/employee relationships during the World Cup.

8 Jul 2010

Health & Safety Matters: Teamwork vital for fire safety

Safety is always compromised if the design and installation teams fail to work together, says Bob Towse, head of technical and safety at the HVCA.

8 Jul 2010

Ant Wilson: New software model for buildings other than dwellings

As we all know, the devil is in the detail. Ant Wilson, director of sustainability at AECOM Building Engineering Europe, warns that the industry needs to understand the implications of the Simplified Building Energy Model.

8 Jul 2010

Acoustics: How fan manufacturers keep noise levels under control

Fan noise is increasingly seen as a pollutant, so access to sophisticated acoustics measuring equipment, to people with training and extensive knowledge of acoustics and to an anechoic chamber is essential if sound continues to be a defining factor for designers.

7 Jul 2010

Consultant Profile: Shaping the future by degrees

World travel and a high media profile goes with the territory for the holder of the CIBSE/ASHRAE Graduate of the Year award as Ewen Rose reports.

9 Jun 2010

Legal Matters: The watercooler test of new legislation

Fergal Dowling, head of employment law at national law firm Irwin Mitchell, discussesThe Equality Bill and the legal framework which is now in place to facilitate the eradication of discrimination.

9 Jun 2010

Ant Wilson: Have you heard the one about the English...

Welsh... Scots... and Irish regulations. Ant Wilson warns designers who work on projects all over the country that the rules are different and that they should always check with the appropriate building control body.

9 Jun 2010

Residential Heating: How to solve the back boiler conundrum

With a significant volume of social housing stock still to reach Decent Homes standard, Simon Osborne, specification channel manager at Baxi, explains how the next generation of high efficiency back boilers offers a solution for some hard-to-treat properties.

9 Jun 2010

Burning Issue: New government should focus on compliance

The previous government's failure to enforce its own environmental legislation was hugely damaging to the building services industry and its clients, says HVCA president Graham Manly.

9 Jun 2010

Company Profile: M2G savings deliver for Sabien Technology

Environmental legislation has certainly given a boost to energy-saving technologies but these still have to be delivered within a commercially viable framework. HVR spoke to Alan O'Brien, founder and CEO of Sabien Technology, to see how the company has addressed these requirements.

1 Jun 2010

Fans: Continuous ventilation

Lee Nurse, marketing manager at Vent-Axia, explains how continuous decentralised ventilation can be retrofitted to help homes meet efficiency and carbon reduction targets.

1 Jun 2010

Residential Heating: Delivering heat when and where it is needed

David Garrity, managing director of Heat Electric, looks at the crucial role social housing has to play within the new government strategy for household energy management.

1 Jun 2010

Residential Heating: Grant funding boosts demand for installers

Gillian Allder, director, Grant Aided Heating Installers Network, discusses how government's recent announcement of increased funding for heating and insulation is set to boost the demand of professional heating installers in the domestic market and this, in turn, will incease sales of renewables like solar PV and heat pumps as well as gas central heating.

1 Jun 2010

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Energy Efficiency: Pilgrim Hospital slashes carbon emissions with new energy centre

Burning Issue: How to make commercial sense of the MCS

Company Profile: All change for Armstrong

Contractor Profile: Hard times but construction could benefit

Legal Matters: Avoid workplace World Cup penalties

Health & Safety Matters: Teamwork vital for fire safety

Ant Wilson: New software model for buildings other than dwellings

Acoustics: How fan manufacturers keep noise levels under control

Consultant Profile: Shaping the future by degrees

Legal Matters: The watercooler test of new legislation

Ant Wilson: Have you heard the one about the English...

Residential Heating: How to solve the back boiler conundrum

Burning Issue: New government should focus on compliance

Company Profile: M2G savings deliver for Sabien Technology

Fans: Continuous ventilation

Residential Heating: Delivering heat when and where it is needed

Residential Heating: Grant funding boosts demand for installers

Chillers: Real-time energy efficiency could cut costs for older chillers

Fans: Quiet!... it's the TD Silent fan

Air Conditioning World: Active chilled beams cut energy use by 20% in university laboratory

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