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  1. District Heating

    Date released
    1975
    Series name
    This Week In Britain
    Issue no
    863
    NoS ID
    329104
    Story no
    1 / 1

    COI synopsis: Alison Hawkes’ story this week is a load of old rubbish. But this rubbish provides heating and hot water for one hundred thousand people living in Nottingham. And in our pre-wrapped...

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  2. Diary of an Ecobuild (2006)

    Director
    Anne Gallagher
    Subject
    Architecture; Civil Engineering & Building
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 25 minutes), £30.00

    Charts the conversion of a terraced building in the Welsh Valleys into an environmentally friendly and energy self-sufficient building. Goes quite deeply, though in layman’s language, into this ecological...

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  3. Introduction to the Control of Legionella Bacteria in Water Systems, An (2003)

    Subject
    Civil Engineering & Building; Health & safety; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 24 minutes), £30.00

    This video looks at the two main risk systems in turn - cooling towers and hot and cold water systems and explains how the risks from exposure to legionella should be managed and controlled, specifically by...

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  4. Coal House, The (2008)

    Subject
    History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £13.99

    Three families experience life in the south of Wales coalfield of the 1920s. The families swap their modern luxuries for the harsh reality of daily life of a coalmining family, living in coalminers’...

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  5. Solar Household, The (1978 Film, Video)

    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Designed to boost confidence in the use of solar energy for providing domestic hot water. Shows an experiment to prove how easily the sun heats water, and how the heat can be trapped. Shows swimming pool...

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  6. Renewable Energy: Hot Water Sunshine

    Date released
    1975
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    155
    NoS ID
    352079
    Story no
    10 / 10

    COI synopsis: The coal and oil we rely on for fuel will one day run out; even the fuel for conventional nuclear reactors is in short supply. Yet every day the sun pumps a massive amount of energy into the...

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  7. Installation Design, Planning and Verification (1993)

    Subject
    Engineering; FE
    Distribution
    VHS (PAL, 59 minutes), subscription only

    A five-part video looking at the electrical installation in a new leisure centre. Part 1 examines the role of the installation designer and some of the planning considerations. Part 2 examines different...

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  8. Victorian House Technology (2010)

    Subject
    Architecture; Civil Engineering & Building
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 30 minutes), £75.00

    Victorian Britain was a time of rapid social and economic change. In this buoyant climate, new technologies were developed for the supply of water, for sanitation, better lighting and heating and these had a...

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  9. Can Polar Bears Tread Water? (1989 Video)

    Director
    Lawrence Moore
    Producer
    Lawrence Moore
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1993 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Examines the causes and consequences of global climate change. If the predictions in this programme come true, the heating up of the earth’s atmosphere brought about by man-made pollution could in time not...

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  10. Energy

    Date released
    1980
    Series name
    This Week In Britain
    Issue no
    1112
    NoS ID
    329353
    Story no
    1 / 1

    COI synopsis: Solar-assisted water heating in houses that were built before 1st World War... educating children to conserve resources for their own future, and seeing how Britain’s brewers make their own...

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