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Top form ventilation
On-demand ventilation, coupled with high efficiency energy recovery successfully manages air quality as well as reducing a sc...
UFH - leaner and greener
Underfloor heating can help provide the Priority School Building Programme with much needed certainty over long-term energy a...
A first-class solution to school heating needs
The Government's Priority Schools Building Programme (PSBP), brings opportunities for HVAC contractors. However, they also fa...
Carbon Trust urges schools to invest in energy efficiency
The Carbon Trust is writing to all schools and Local Education Authorities in England urging them to take action on energy ef...
DSL wins Kent school contract
Delron Services (DSL) has secured the design and installation contract for the building engineering services refurbishment wo...
Valuable lessons in water conditioning for schools
Water conditioning within school heating systems is important because it makes a vital contribution towards achieving efficie...
Breath of fresh air for Southwark school
The Notre Dame Catholic girls' school in Southwark, Central London has been based on the same site for over 150 years. The ex...
Learning valuable lessons in school ventilation
With the right heating and ventilation system in play, teachers, parents and students can be assured of an effective and heal...
A first-class solution to building control
A plentiful supply of fresh air is essential in a school environment in order to aid learning. Trevor S. Palmer examines the ...
Jobs crisis threatens young people's access to industry careers
Industry employers are less likely to recruit school leavers due to the greater availability of more qualified and experience...
Integrated climate controls help cut carbon emissions
Whether offices, shops, schools, civic buildings, hotel and leisure or healthcare facilities, the pressure to change the way ...
Lower carbon emissions using dynamic simulation
Park View Community School in Manchester is one of the most energy efficient designs in the UK with no cost penalty compared ...
George Birchall Service bolsters commitment to school leavers
Staffordshire building services maintenance company George Birchall Service has bolstered its support for local school leaver...
Downgrading vocational qualifications in schools 'threatens skills'
The specialist awarding organisation for industry qualifications, EAL, has condemned the cull of vocational qualifications fr...
GDL Air Systems
Introducing cost effective ventilation for large buildings and schools
School carbon emissions are on the rise
New research finds typical CO2 emissions from schools in England are rising, despite reductions to their heating demands, bec...
BBES awarded Hertfordshire £14.3m BSF contracts
Balfour Beatty Engineering Services (BBES) has been awarded two Building Schools for the Future (BSF) contracts in Hertfordsh...
Willmott Dixon offers jobs for school leavers
Willmott Dixon Partnerships has launched a scheme to offer youngsters vocational training across the country.
Acoustics: Peaceful classrooms rely on cross-talk
The correct specification and scheduling of cross-talk attenuation is crucial to ensure effective school design, says Mark Ba...
BBES wins education projects valued at £10.5m
Balfour Beatty Engineering Services (BBES) has been awarded two schools contracts within the Oldham Building Schools for the ...
Silver CREST awards presented to high school pupils
Nine high pupils have received awards for a project to design an eco-classroom.
Biasi gets creative with schools competition
Biasi is inviting local schools to get creative by using radiators as 'blank canvasses' for an educational art competition.
HVAC in Education: School gets 'excellent' marks for sustainability
Teachers and staff at the Manor Primary School in Swanscombe, Kent have had to go through a steep learning curve as they get ...
Work Practice Focus: School building projects are back on the menu
The Government has thrown a lifeline to school building projects, and small-scale refurbishment work in particular, as part o...
Balfour Beatty Engineering Services backs Go4SET challenge
Balfour Beatty Engineering Services (BBES) has sponsored and mentored high school pupils taking part in a science and enginee...
Acoustics: Natural ventilation for Newham schools
WindowMaster is supplying natural ventilation systems for two of the schools being constructed by the Newham Learning Partner...
Underfloor Cooling: Cool alternative to air con!
Underfloor cooling is becoming increasingly popular among clients and consultants chasing low SAP and high BREEAM ratings for...
Underfloor Heating: Warming to UFH technology
Underfloor heating technology is now sufficiently advanced to not only equal, but exceed the cost-effectiveness and efficie...
Health & Safety Matters: Asbestos - the threat that will not go away
A surge in the amount of refurbishment work in schools has brought an old foe back into the spotlight, says Bob Towse, head o...
Top of the Class: A broad curriculum for building services design
Anyone involved in the design of sustainable schools needs to take account of a wide range of different factors and guideli...
Top of the Class: Old school with innovation
Maidstone-based DSL provides service and maintenance for hundreds of school buildings, including the world's oldest school.
Top of the Class: Lessons in how to create the right atmosphere
Increasingly airtight school buildings can lead to a build-up of carbon dioxide in classrooms which can affect the concentrat...
Top of the Class: It's a testing time for CO2 in schools
Monitoring carbon dioxide levels to adjust and control heating and air conditioning ventilation rate depending on the occupan...
Top of the Class: Education - Something missing in school buildings
Mike Malina, director of Energy Solutions Associates, and an energy auditor, urges schools to forget the green bling and conc...
Top of the Class: Learning with biomass
Biomass offers a very effective heating solution for many schools but it's important to address the key practical issues that...
Top of the Class: Natural ventilation in class is up in the air
Growing pressure on school budgets means more are looking towards natural ventilation as a way to meet indoor air quality tar...
Top of the Class: Salix offers schools funding for energy efficiency
Alastair Keir, chief executive at Salix Finance, looks at how schools can reduce their environmental footprint by minimising ...
Heat Pumps: Performance and carbon saving
This case study, provided by Neil Hudson of S&P Coils, is based on the use of heat pumps as the heat source and banks of radi...
Fan Coil Units: Score high marks
The latest fan cool range enables schools and colleges to benefit from cost-effective energy efficient and healthy air contro...
J S Wright appoints operations director
Birmingham-based building services provider J S Wright has appointed its first operations director for London and the South E...
IMPRESSIVE SUNPIPES PROVIDE NATURAL DAYLIGHT FROM DAWN TILL DUSK AT GOODMAYES PRIMARY SCHOOL
Goodmayes Primary School, Ilford, is a co-educational day school with a 26-place part-time nursery unit. The school, which ce...
Vaillant Group declared 'master of manufacturing'
Vaillant Group has won two accolades at the Best Factory Awards 2010. The annual awards, supported by the world renowned Cran...
Majority of local authorities satisfy asbestos management rules in "system build" schools
The majority of local authorities in England with system-build schools have procedures and precautions in place to manage asb...
Henderson Green goes back to school to build the team
Employees at a leading south coast building services engineering consultancy shut down their computers and picked up a paint ...
Briggs & Forrester completes Cressex School contract
Briggs & Forrester has recently completed the Cressex Community School in High Wycombe, working in partnership with BAM Const...
Pre-2010 BSF spending decisions face the axe
The chief secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander has announced the projects being suspended or cancelled as part of a re...
ELGA Process Water closes the loop at Big Wood School
ELGA Process Water has just completed the cleaning and filling of over 5km of hot water system piping in a new building at No...
Mike Malina votes for building services party
Mike Malina, director of Energy Solutions Associates has put forward a manifesto for building services and suggests the gover...
Kershaw achieves high score of school contracts
Kershaw Mechanical Services has been awarded a 1.3 million school contract to design and build the mechanical services for a...
New school skills workforce for London's games and BSF
A construction plant training centre has opened its doors to help Londoners develop specialist training, unavailable elsewher...
COFELY wins major BSF contract
COFELY has been awarded a 14.5m contract to install mechanical, electrical and public health services at three schools withi...
Crane build schools for the future
Commissioning valves, check valves, ball valves and strainers from Crane Fluid Systems are being installed in the heating and...
Used cooking oil heats Norfolk schools and homes
Two schools, an FE college and more than 20 existing homes are among the Norfolk buildings to be heated with used cooking oil...
Underfloor Heating: Green schools for the future
There has been a 3billion investment in the education system. Malcolm Jaques of Warmafloor discusses how UFH can be used alo...
Sustainability is at the heart of the design of a new school building in Newark
A new building for Bowbridge Primary School in Newark will incorporate a range of sustainability features including a Hoval b...
Green grant's a lifeline for industry and public sector
Schools, hospitals, council offices and even police stations are being offered an energy grant to buy renewable energy produc...
Skerritt wins £3.8m school contract
Nottingham-based building services contractor Skerritt has won a contract worth 3.8 million to carry out M&E services at one...
Airco given £500,000 air conditioning contract
Hull-based firm Airco Group has landed a 500,000 contract to service and maintain air conditioning units in 153 schools, lib...
22 contractors named in academies shortlist
A shortlist of 22 contractors has been announced to procure the design and build of academies in local authorities not yet pa...
Dunham-Bush supplies Freshvector to The King's School
The innovative Freshvector combined perimeter heating and natural ventilation system from Dunham-Bush is being used to provid...
Southwark schools give Balfour Beatty BSF work
Transform Schools, which manages Balfour Beatty Capital's schools schemes, has secured funding for Southwark's 200 million B...
Collapsed heating duct, injures 14 school kids
Fourteen children were injured when heating ducting in a school sports hall collapsed.
Britannia's in the army now
A military training school has been refitted by Britannia Kitchen Ventilation to better equip military chefs wanting to feed ...
New consortia gets green light for Diploma places
Schools minister Jim Knight announced this month that 57 new consortia groups of employers, schools, colleges and training ...
£4 billion for academies signals more work for contractors
A 4 billion plan is now out to tender to get academies designed and built in local authorities, not yet involved in the Buil...
York City Council opts for Hoval's renewables
As part of its strategy for meeting challenging carbon emissions targets, York City Council is making use of biomass boilers ...
Eighteen firms named as BSF advisors
Eighteen firms have been picked as technical advisors to help deliver the Building Schools for the Future programme (BSF).
Dimplex heatpumps make the grade in Ealing schools
Ealing council's decision to use Dimplex ground source heat pump at a new school has produced good results, prompting the cou...
Rok solid support for National Maintenance Week
National Maintenance Week runs from November 21-28 and Rok is using it as a timely opportunity to advise schools and other bu...
Henderson Green devoted to UK Sikh school
The UK s only state-funded Sikh secondary school is to be expanded with the help of Henderson Green which will conduct a sust...
O'Toole leads Balfour Kilpatrick's build for schools projects
Tony O Toole is the newly-appointed operations director for Balfour Kilpatrick s Building Schools for the Future (BSF) contra...
ACW: Making school less cool
Mike Elver, national accounts sector manager at Andrews Sykes Hire, discusses the need for students at schools to keep their ...
ENER-G generates ready workforce at new school
ENER-G Switch 2, the energy metering and control specialist, has opened a training school to teach its engineers how to insta...
School grades heatpumps top of the class
Pupils at a Milton Keynes Primary school are enjoying the benefits of renewable energy, in particular a heat pump system supp...
HVAC students attend Second Life school
HVAC students at a UK college were stunned when their gas and heating lecturer Martin Biron rented 4,000 m2 of space in the o...
Barnados gets Balls rolling with construction school
Ed Balls has praised Barnados for its new construction school designed to halt the rising number of NEETS (those Not in Educa...
BSE class proves a hit with teenage girls
A group of teenage girls from the North West got schooled in the benefits of joining the building services engineering (BSE) ...
Buderus gives lessons in efficiency
A cascade boiler system has been installed as part of a Manchester school refurbishment. The system is making savings on runn...
School leads way to future
Phil Moore, managing director of Eco Heat Pumps, says we could learn from a school that is a green star
Industry's ambassadors go back to school
Four individuals who had picked up gongs at the National Training awards 2007 went back to school to educate and inspire pupi...
PTS take STEPS towards schoolroom makeover
Plumbing and heating merchant PTS, has donated taps, sinks, pipes and fittings to help makeover a school room in Leicestershi...
Biofuels -the Nu-way to cut carbon emissions in UK schools
Burner and combustion firm Nu-way is conducting biofuel heating trials to determine the effectiveness of biofuel adoption in ...
