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    The Swiss children’s hospital based on healing principles

    Denise Chevin explores the children’s hospital that is revisiting what we consider to be a healing environment.
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    EMCOR UK wins award

    EMCOR UK has received the Health & Safety Award at the Considerate Constructors Gala Awards. Notably this award was handpicked by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.
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    Helping to support people out of homelessness

    Taking the view that built environment professionals should help to improve society, Wienerberger UK & Ireland has partnered with Emmaus UK.
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    Water safety audits should be welcomed, not feared

    The Water Hygiene Centre says an independent water safety audit is a way to establish everything is in good working order and should not be feared.
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    Landlords’ responsibility to tenants’ wellbeing

    Stuart Fairlie, Managing Director of Elmhurst Energy, says landlords have a responsibility for their tenants’ wellbeing
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    Lithium-ion batteries: canned heat

    Use, handling, storage and charging of lithium-ion batteries is an everyday occurrence. Socotec considers how this can be managed safely.
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    Broad shoulders: the health and safety workload

    Health and safety workloads have never been more demanding – and don’t facilities managers just know it.
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    Howzat! Maintaining the roof at Lord's

    Rope access specialists from CAN, an RSK company, have been maintaining the Warner Stand roof of Lord’s Cricket Ground, which is suspended from a height of 20m.
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    Do building engineers know enough about overheating?

    Zehnder Group and CIBSE find a worryingly low understanding of overheating regulations and mitigation measures among building service engineers – so what needs to be done?
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    Buyer beware

    BSIF CEO Alan Murray discusses how the Registered Safety Supplier Scheme can help those responsible for buying PPE and safety equipment
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    Duty of care

    Two companies have been fined after a 16-year-old worker was exposed to asbestos.
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    PPE inclusivity: what lessons can we learn?

    Alex Minett, Head of Global New Markets at Veriforce CHAS, considers what lessons the UK can learn from how the US approaches the issue of PPE inclusivity.
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    From heatwaves to heat domes

    The climate crisis is causing temperatures to rise exponentially, so we’re all going to need to get better at living with the heat.
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    75% of rivers are polluted, citizen tests reveal

    Citizen testing of rivers across Britain has found 75% are polluted from water companies and agricultural runoff.
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    Leicestershire’s newest purpose-built community

    Broadnook Garden Village – Leicestershire’s newest purpose-built community – has a range of initiatives to improve wellbeing and the standard of living, including more than 50% open green spaces, almost 12 hectares of land designated to woodland planting, 500 trees planted with thousands more planned, car-free pedestrianised zones and planned allotment spaces.
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    Mental ill health: duty of care

    Employers need to make a habit of addressing mental health as stress, depression or anxiety now account for almost half of all cases of work-related ill health
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    The positive effects of biophilic design

    Vanessa Champion, Editor and Founder of the Journal of Biophilic Design, discusses why a connection to nature could be the answer to many of the problems in the built environment
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    Mental health in construction survey

    Insurer QBE surveyed 362 UK construction workers about their mental health at work. The results indicate that even with the increased risk of injury due to poor mental health, they are likely to continue to work.
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    Classroom acoustics

    Zentia says inspiring young minds needs effective acoustics in all learning environments, but especially for SEN schools.
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    Mould in properties: enough is enough

    Ventilation and mould are still putting properties and homeowners at serious risk – enough is enough, says the Property Care Association (PCA).

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