Alistair King
FeaturesSlab happy
The inventors of SmartSlab describe it as an all-in-one, load-bearing, moving-image display slab. It鈥檚 also the only system that provides animated displays while retaining all the features associated with external cladding.
FeaturesDo you dig?
In the fourth of our series examining renewable energy technologies, Alistair King talks us through ground-source heat pumps, which provide developers with a Part L-friendly way of keeping buildings warm or cool using the ground beneath our feet
FeaturesMight as well try and catch the wind
Micro-turbines may be the height of fashion, but are they any good? In the third part of our series on renewable energy sources, Alistair King finds out more
FeaturesThe burning question
With coal and oil reserves running low, and the pressure on to reduce carbon emissions, you鈥檇 have thought the government would be eager to promote combined heat and power. So, why isn鈥檛 it? Alistair King reports, in the second article of a series on green energy
FeaturesSustainable schoolrooms: Here鈥檚 one for the kids
Willmott Dixon鈥檚 classroom of the future may sound like something made in the Blue Peter studio 鈥� with its strips of waste wood off-cuts and glue 鈥� but it鈥檚 quick to build, affordable and carbon neutral. Alistair King looks at one they made earlier鈥�
FeaturesCamouflaged solar roofing: The power slate
Solar panels may be admirable, but they鈥檙e definitely ugly. Now two suppliers have launched products that look like simple roof slates.
好色先生TVTimber frame body appoints fire safety expert
UK Timber Frame Association appointment seeks to reassure construction industry following Colindale fire
FeaturesShop lighting: A LED balloon?
They鈥檙e easy to maintain, last ages and don鈥檛 cook the food. So will LEDs knock fluorescent tubes off their pedestal in shop design? 鈥楾hat鈥檚 a laugh,鈥� detractors tell Alistair King
FeaturesGreat leaps forward
Taking a break from Blair, here are Alistair King鈥檚 top 10 technological developments
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鈥楪rave concerns鈥� over cement shortage
Precast concrete firms blast cement manufacturers for shortage as production facilities are forced to close
FeaturesAdjustable-depth pools: Out of the deep
A swimming pool contractor found itself in uncharted waters when it came up with a raisable floor system. Now all it had to do was find a suitable material
好色先生TVBurger fat to power 60,000 homes
Agri-Energy reveals plans for a 拢50m plant in Wales that will convert cooking oil and crops into electricity and bio-diesel
好色先生TVBuilders' tea hits the shelves of Asda
A percentage of profits from Make Mine a Builders tea will go towards a new charity foundation formed by the FMB
好色先生TVNHBC offers help for builders struggling with Code
Courses on the Code for Sustainable Homes courses will be aimed at developers and builders
好色先生TVPlanning to be scrapped for domestic renewables
Government proposes removing planning barriers to domestic wind turbines and PVs except in extreme circumstances
好色先生TVSix feared dead in Beijing Olympic tunnel collapse
Subway being built for the 2008 Olympics collapses and buries construction workers
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Mass market green boilers to go European
Biomass boilers could satisfy up to 40% of the UK's electricity demands
好色先生TVRenewables grants slammed despite 拢6m budget boost
The 'shambolic' low carbon building programme is suspended by the DTI as renewable firms call for further increase in investment
好色先生TVJoint venture to provide 870 HIPs assessors
www.energy-assessors.com claims it can provide a third of the domestic energy assessments required by Home Information Packs
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Trade body investigates UK cement market
High prices and supply shortages prompt British Aggregates Association investigation