Rethink the absolutely prefabulous

Article Abstract:

Prefabricated building systems bring to mind the image of failed high-rise flats and the assumption that concrete is a dangerous material. Tudor and Elizabethan timber frame houses are early examples of off-site process. The whole area of prefabrication is being reviewed, with the Clasp system getting a new lease of life. The Peabody Housing Trust is also considering the use of a Japanese building system for housing blocks. Progress in this way lies in computer technologies, standardising the process.

Methods, Modular construction, Prefabrication

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Time for a policy on architecture

Article Abstract:

The Labour party has recently been revising its policy on architecture, and has been encouraging participation from architects in drawing up its industrial policy. It is vital that all political parties promote high design standards, and they must therefore set down procedures which encourage these standards. Within these procedures, a competitions policy has an important role to play.

Editorial, Standards, Architecture

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Light at the end of CABE's tunnel

Article Abstract:

Commissioners and senior staff at CABE had a thoroughly miserable time in 2004. A complaint came from an obsessive who bombarded staff with requests for information of ever increasing complexity, which involved hundreds of hours of staff time to search files of past five years.

General services, Forecasts, trends, outlooks, Venture Analysis, Usage, Forecasts and trends, Market trend/market analysis, Company systems management, Information management, Business enterprises, Time management, Search commands

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