Mar28th
Friday, March 28th, 2008
Buildingtalk had its busiest ever week with 75,134 visitors accessing 412,328 pages on the website in the last seven days, giving an annual visitor rate of over 4 million. We also passed another milestone with the 25,000th story being added to the site on Thursday. This happened to be a drywall technology story about the launch of a new water and weather resistant board called Knauf Aquapanel Exterior, so it is featured below and you can follow the links to find out the full details. (more…)
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Mar20th
Thursday, March 20th, 2008
At the beginning of the year, the Government stated that new nuclear power stations will have a role to play in this country’s future energy mix alongside other low-carbon sources. The first stage in the process is a fundamental safety overview, called the GDA, carried out by HSE and the Environment Agency. The first stage in that process has just been successfully completed. (more…)
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Mar14th
Friday, March 14th, 2008
On Friday the Queen opened Heathrow Airport’s controversial GBP4.3bn Terminal 5 in a ceremony involving hundreds of airport and construction workers. This comes ahead of the opening for business on 27 March. The building itself, designed by Richard Rogers, features a number of new technologies which we have reported on previously in Buildingtalk. For example, KNX technology was used by intelligent buildings controls systems integrator Andromeda Telematics, to provide passengers with a well-lit and safe environment. This week Buildingtalk features an exclusive report from KNX on intelligent technology for homes explaining why developers need to incorporate it within new builds. (more…)
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Mar9th
Sunday, March 9th, 2008
GE UK recently launched their energy efficient lighting range with an event which Buildingtalk attended at the Tate Modern in London. General Electric is one of the world’s biggest companies with a fine pedigree in invention - remember that it grew out of Thomas Edison’s electric light company in the USA. Their response to living in a carbon capped world has been to double investment in research into clean technology. To quote GE chairman and CEO, Jeffrey Immelt, when he launched ‘Ecomagination’, GE will “focus our unique energy, technology, manufacturing, and infrastructure capabilities to develop tomorrow’s solutions such as solar energy, hybrid locomotives, fuel cells, lower-emission aircraft engines, lighter and stronger materials, efficient lighting, and water purification technology”. This strategy has helped GE gain business. Some see it as a model for how a company take an environmental lead, make a significant contribution on climate change and also answer the cynicism of some eco warriors who would prefer that we retreat to caves. (more…)
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