All Archive Titles articles – Page 291
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Archive TitlesDavis Langdon sees surge in project management
12:35PM Firm's PM operations fastest growing division while overall profits up a third and turnover up 15%
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Turner & Townsend triumphant at QS Awards
10:30AM Company wins best all round and international gongs at our ceremony
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Giant vacuum cleaner to attack London’s underground
11:40AM Tube Lines invests £1m in ballast-sucking track maintenance system
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Foster & Partners helps fight the Kazakhstan weather
11:30AM Khan Shatyry tented structure to become country's highest entertainment centre
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Archive TitlesDublin Airport submits plans for terminal extension
11:20AM ADPi consortium to oversee two-storey triangular addition
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Archive Titles7/7 security officer from G4S
The “selfless bravery” of Muhammad Khalil a G4S Security Services (UK) officer who was on duty close by King’s Cross Station in London on 7/7 has won him the 2006 Sheriffs’ Award (run by The Company of Security Professionals).
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Archive TitlesCCTV? It’s academic when you’re in the City...
The new buildings that house the City of London Academy are truly impressive. Built with a contribution of £2 million from the City of London Corporation, the teaching facilities, assembly rooms, sports halls, dance and drama studios, dining rooms and teachers’ accommodation buildings are all fully-equipped with the latest in ...
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ACS – for what it’s actually worth...
SIR – We are an Approved Contractor Scheme (ACS)-listed security company that has tackled the processes required to obtain accreditation, sustaining ourselves in the belief that the time, effort and cost involved would all be justified by our increased ability to win contracts.
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Archive TitlesSamsung Techwin: not afraid of CCTV’s ‘ghosts’
The Samsung Super Noise Reduction technology built into Samsung Techwin’s latest SVD-4300 day/night dome cameras ensures that ‘ghost’ and smear-free sharp colour images are rendered at light levels as low as 0.7 lux, while monochrome pictures can be rendered at an amazing 0.005 lux @ F1.8 when operational in Sens-up ...
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Archive TitlesIP Alarm Monitoring
Travel chain Thomas Cook has taken the plunge and swapped to an IP-based solution for intruder alarm monitoring across its 600-plus High Street retail outlets in the UK. Has the process been a smooth one, and what positive outcomes have been realised? Brian Sims talks to group security manager Steve ...
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Excellence must be upheld at all costs
SIR – First of all, may I add my own voice to those congratulating you and everyone else on the Security Team at CMP Information for the quite splendid event that was The Security Excellence Awards 2006.
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Analytics under surveillance...
Content analytics is consistently being touted as The Next Big Thing in video surveillance, but is the hype going to match reality? In the first of a short series, Oliver Vellacott reviews the current state-of-play before managing end user expectations in relation to what they are about to receive.
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HLM Architects hires Karl Ruddle
Also: Law firm Pinsent Masons promotes construction lawyers, and Elmondstone creates seven jobs
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Archive TitlesSecurity Management Today wins Skills for Security Special Award
Security Management Today’s Editor Brian Sims received the 2006 Skills for Security Special Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Security Business Sector following the organisation’s National Conference, held this year at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham.
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Archive TitlesTodd Research: going back to basix for end users
Todd Research – one of the UK’s foremost developers of X-ray screening systems for use in Post Rooms – has now developed an entry-level range of equipment for company’s with smaller budgets.
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Archive TitlesThe Bargain Bin Failures
The UK’s National Audit Office has revealed that the National Programme for IT – the National Health Service’s multi-billion pound ‘mega’ IT project – is not only years behind schedule but also massively over budget. Here, Brendan Loughrey looks at why corporate IT projects are prone to such problems, and ...
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The main point is being missed!
SIR – The security industry in this country has long-needed someone (or some organisation) to grab it by the scruff of the neck and pull it away from the stereotype of its managerial ‘practitioners’ being overweight, retired police officers who spend their days drinking tea and mulling over the clues ...
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Archive TitlesThe Big Issue
Connoisseurs of pop music may recall China Crisis, a Liverpool band that enlightened us with hits including ‘Wishful Thinking’. Having read the results of research commissioned by the BSIA on the Chinese market, perhaps the group to which I refer should have been renamed China Opportunity, writes Chris Pinder.
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Big Brother: here to stay
Information Commissioner Richard Thomas stirred more than a little controversy last month when suggesting fears that the UK would “sleep walk into a Surveillance Society” have now become reality.
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Reward the Day One Boys, if you please
SIR – As one of the Top 20 security companies in the UK, the AFC Group is 100% supportive of the Security Industry Authority (SIA) and its aim of ensuring that the security industry as a whole is compliant with the Private Security Industry Act 2001.