All Archive Titles articles – Page 283
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Research Matters
Property marking is a technique used by security managers and loss prevention professionals throughout the retail world, supply chains and in other sectors, but does it have any deterrent value for the would-be thief?
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Time and motion studies
Brian Sims talks to the directors of two private sector security contractors Ontime Guarding and Shearforce Security about their move towards a real-time, GPRS-based wireless management system that’s already proving beneficial to their own operation and those of their clients.
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Servant of the nation
Having been an officer of the Security Service for 33 years, Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller has tendered her resignation to Home Secretary John Reid.
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Archive TitlesNew year new you
If January is traditionally a time of dark days and long faces in your office, then resolve to change things this year. over the next four pages CM has assembled advice from a team of experts to help you get yourself and your team into better shape inside and out.
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Archive TitlesTomorrow’s people
In 2007, CM wants to highlight people who we think are going to influence construction in the future. To kick off our year-long celebration of talent, we have selected four people who show us a glimpse of how things might be