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A light matter taken seriously
Unite was converting old office buildings at a former gas works site at Orion’s Point, Southampton, into student and nursing accommodation.
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The knowledge
An early selection of events for your new diary includes the building schools exhibition, green stories from the us and a professor who wired his brain to the internet – enjoy
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Archive TitlesWhos on the Intercom?
The VL-G201 vandal-resistant video intercom system introduced by Panasonic (UK) incorporates an infrared LED that enables clear, accurate viewing for any installation – 24 hours per day
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Soft is the new hard...
What were your thoughts as you travelled to work on 2 January? Were you glad to be back at it after the Christmas break, or dreading the 150 unread emails clogging up your inbox?
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Suburbia’s green house
Specialised windows and doors, which can help reduce carbon emissions from a typical family home, are being used in a building research project in Nottingham. Rory Olcayto peeks through the keyhole
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Archive TitlesIt’s good to talk
New research shows that involving workers in health and safety can cut accidents, but you have to know how, say Iain Cameron and Billy Hare.
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Gateway to safer security, perhaps...
SIR – The tragic death of a ten-year- old boy who was killed by powered electric gates (a death that’s still being investigated by the Health and Safety Executive) has highlighted the security industry’s ignorance of its safety obligations under current legislation.
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Archive TitlesGame for IP surveillance
IndigoVision has been awarded its largest-ever US contract to supply an integrated IP-based surveillance system for the new casino complex at the Mardi Gras Racetrack and Gaming Centre in Florida
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Four Issues, One Voice... In support...
SIR – I have read about your Four Issues, One Voice Campaign with great interest. I and the other members of the senior management team here at Temple Security are fully supportive of your efforts to make the Home Office address salient issues like the licensing of in-house personnel, the ...
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Archive TitlesHigh flyers
Demand for skyscrapers in britain’s regional cities is soaring. Rory Olcayto meets the team behind the manchester hilton, which will be the first to complete.
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Archive TitlesHave faith in wireless integrated management
Clerk of Works Jim Vincent recently ensured that Westminster Abbey became the first of the major heritage sites to opt for Monitor AFx wireless integrated security management technology developed by Chubb Electronic Security.
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Terrorism: Face the threat
The Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St Andrews has joined forces with Informa to offer what is the first transnational e-learning course for security professionals in the study of terrorism. Professor Max Taylor outlines the course content delivered for security managers.
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There’s a time and a place for everything
SIR – Consec 2006, the Association of Security Consultants’ Annual Conference held last November at the RAF Museum in Hendon, is worthy of praise for both the amazing venue chosen and also the quality of what was an informed array of professional speakers.
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Delayed in vain
Gray was under contract to Essential Box to demolish and rebuild Number 6 Norse Road Industrial Estate in Bedford. They fell out and Essential Box repudiated the contract.
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David Kilgour to project manage SoCo
Developer Whiteburn has appointed David Kilgour to project manage a £40m redevelopment of a site in Cowgate, Edinburgh, which was destroyed by a fire in 2002. The mixture of housing, leisure and shops will be called SoCo.How did you get into construction?My father told me not to go anywhere near ...
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Standard for Security Data
SIR – APACS (the Association of Payment Clearing Services) has just launched its initiative to raise awareness of the increase in fraudulent financial activities and help safeguard UK businesses and consumers by providing salient security advice.
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Let’s give credit where credit is due
SIR – Your Editorial Leader in the November edition of Security Management Today (‘Leading by example’,) struck, if I may say so, exactly the right note about where we are with regulation and licensing, while also offering timely recognition of the enormous contribution that John Saunders has made as chief ...
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Archive TitlesContractors tackle skills gap by taking training on site
large contractors are taking further education into their own hands by setting up site-based training where students will receive a mixture of classroom and on-the-job learning.
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SIR – I would just like to confirm
that OCS Resolution Security is keen to support the Four Issues, One Voice Campaign being run by Security Management Today and Infologue.com
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Archive TitlesRIPA III “may compromise data confidentiality”
New UK legislation aimed at fighting terrorism and organised crime and which grants the police enhanced powers to decrypt files for use as evidence – could compromise data confidentiality and security.