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- A building that feels good: Wellcome Trust, Gibbs Building
- An inspector calls |
- Anti-flood drainage: Building (or not building) in 'inappropriate' locations |
- Ban the ban: materials blacklists |
- Calibration report for Eurocode 1 on wind actions |
- Compost specifications for the landscape industry |
- CPIC and Uniclass – who, what and why? |
- Currency of NBS with respect to Eurocodes |
- External stairs, ramps, handrails and balustrades |
- Green specifying |
- How to specify: A century of works on building specification practice |
- How to use NBS content |
- Lofty aspirations: utilising the roofspace |
- Minimising the impact of future flooding |
- NBS and the structural Eurocodes |
- NBS products for 'small works' specification |
- Not just a timber deck |
- Powell and Moya: Oxbridge and beyond |
- Public procurement legislation in the EU |
- Public sector building: adaptable housing for special needs |
- Rainscreen cladding: letting air in to keep rain out |
- Review: Frank W Macey, Specifications in detail, Donhead, 2009 (reprint of 1904 edition) |
- RIBA Changing Practices Symposium |
- Root Causes : Building near trees requires extra deep foundations |
- Ryder and Yates: Twentieth Century Architects |
- Smart homes |
- Specifying colour |
- Specifying controls |
- Specifying for sports |
- Sustainable specification |
- The benefits of master specifications |
- The efficiently formed building |
- The fall of skill, the rise of automation
- The mail must get through |
- The role of mycorrhiza for plants in stressed environments |
- The use of historic buildings as museums and art galleries |
- Toilets for disabled access |
- When birds are banned: architectural tactics for managing birds |
- Yes! We have no specifications |
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