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Haden Young
in merger
Award winners celebrate
Balfour Kilpatrick and Haden
Young have been merged by
being among best in sector
parent company Balfour Beatty,
the international engineering, All the award
construction and investment group. winners line up
The newly formed business will
became Balfour’s electrical and
mechanical engineering arm.
The two had operated as separate
specialist businesses within the
Balfour Beatty group. Earlier this
year the Journal reported on the
redundancies being made at Haden
Young. The new company, which
will have revenues of £600m, will
offer national and regional coverage
across the UK.
Minimum design
standards sought
Homes in the UK capital may soon
have to be built to new minimum
design standards.
From 2011 all publicly funded
homes could be built to the design
guidance laid out in the London
Housing Design Guide, launched
for consultation by Mayor of n
The 12th annual Building
New Achiever of the Year Major Project of the Year
Services Awards have been Laura Bayliss, BDP New Street Square, Cundall and
London Boris Johnson. held to honour the contributions Sponsor: EAL Sir Robert McAlpine
The minimum internal space made to the sector. The awards, a Sponsor: Lochinvar
standards recommended are joint venture by CIBSE and UBM
M&E Contractor of the Year
broadly 10 per cent higher than the Built Environment, were held at the J S Wright
Project of the Year
1961 Parker Morris benchmark. London Hilton, Park Lane. The list of Sponsor: FläktWoods Lion House @ Alnwick, Haden
Eventually it could be applied winners is: Young and AECOM
to private sector homes once
Health and Safety Initiative
Sponsor: Hays Building Services
incorporated as policy in the revised
Large Consultancy of the Year of the Year
London Plan. Arup Haden Young
Environmental Initiative
The guide contains six key areas (Buro Happold – Highly Sponsor: HILTI
of the Year
of design that new developments Commended) Lion House @ Alnwick, Haden
will have to meet, including Sponsor: Space Air, Daikin
Training Initiative of the Year
Young and AECOM
ensuring homes are designed Hoare Lea (Arup and Carbon Trust – Highly
to meet climate change and are
Consultancy of the Year
Sponsor: SummitSkills Commended)
suitable for warmer summers and Beatty Flanigan Sponsor: EAL
wetter winters. Sponsor: Polypipe Terrain
Innovation of the Year
www.london.gov.uk Task Air System, Cundall and UCI
International Achievement
Major M&E Contractor
Sponsor: Polypipe Terrain
of the Year
of the Year
Cundall
Small firms get Dodd Group
Best Use of IT Award
(PHA Consult – Highly
loans help
Sponsor: Andrews Water Heaters, Hoare Lea Commended)
Potterton Commercial Sponsor: AMTECH Group Sponsor: Space Air, Daikin
Small businesses in the UK are
being encouraged to take up
interest-free loans to make their
TSB launches sustainability competitions
premises more energy efficient.
The Carbon Trust, the body which A board that encourages innovation development, enhancement and and renovation companies to
dispenses the loans on behalf of in Britain is launching two integration of building design and retrofit social housing stock.
the government, has reduced the competitions to help the building decision support tools, to help The competition will look for at
lower limit for loans to £3,000 from services industry develop low- achieve the government’s targets least 50 demonstrator whole-
£5,000, in order to make the loans impact and zero-carbon buildings. for zero carbon and low water house solutions to improve the
more attractive to the smallest The government-funded usage. performance of the entire property,
firms. The upper limit for a loan has Technology Strategy Board’s A second competition, with the goal to make deep cuts in
been doubled to £400,000. Design and Decision Tools Monitoring of Demonstrator carbon emissions.
www.carbontrust.co.uk/loans competition focuses on the Buildings, aims to enable building www.innovateuk.org
10 CIBSE Journal August 2009 www.cibsejournal.com
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