What Specifiers Want 2017 articles
Here we share some of the articles that feature in What Specifiers Want 2017.
Adrian Cave explores a range of factors to be considered when attempting to make historic buildings inclusive.
Like Nero's Domus Aurea, little remains of Ian McGlinn's Maison d'Or – though a legal (rather than archaeological) legacy lives on. John Gelder looks at what this legacy tells us about specification.
01 January 2007
A look at the role and function of Part M: Access Statements.
Austin Williams, provides a general assessment of the needs for disabled access to toilets, in the first of the NBS Shortcuts series.
Approved Document Part F: Ventilation contains more guidance on domestic mechanical and natural ventilation systems than the previous ADF L: 1995.
We explore the new Part F: Means of ventilation, which came into force on 6 April 2006.
We look at how schedules of work are organised.
Andrew Wilson, NBS Scheduler coordinator, clears up our thinking on how schedules of work work.
We have recently had a couple of queries about materials blacklists, which we had thought were a thing of the past. Clearly this is not the case, so John Gelder revisits the issue.
There is a veritable rainbow of standards for the generic specification of colour. John Gelder, Content development manager, looks for the pot of gold.
We examine the scope of Production information: A code of procedure for the construction industry and assess the guidance offered.
The colour coding of low voltage fixed wiring cable cores changed on 31 March 2004 . These changes affect not only electrical contractors, but also specifiers, builders, do-it-yourself
enthusiasts and anyone who carries out work on electrical cables.
