All Archive Titles articles – Page 531
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Archive TitlesThe new seekers
This year’s Sir Ian Dixon scholars are looking for answers on sustainability and customer satisfaction
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Does private vigilance mean vigilantes?
Recent discussions on a range of issues – including the rights of the householder to protect his or her family and possessions, in addition to the wider role of private security and public participation in ‘policing matters’ – overlook one vital matter. The whole of western law enforcement philosophy – ...
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Archive TitlesPushing the limits
How do you design the world's tallest building so it can resist a typhoon? Where did the design inspiration for Beijing’s Olympics aquatics centre – perhaps one of the world's most unusual looking buildings – come from? What will the homes of the future look like? Answers to these and ...
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Archive TitlesThe ultimate jailbreak
£110 for a night in a cell? It’s a steal, given the design challenges overcome in this ambitious hotel development
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Archive TitlesIP’s on the menu
The inflexibility associated with coax cable-based CCTV meant that, when the time came to specify a surveillance solution for the company’s new Kirkham premises near Blackpool, Kepak Convenience Foods’ IT manager Chris Whelan opted for an IP-based system. As Brian Sims reports, the end result has more than vindicated Whelan’s ...
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Institute re-draws regional map
After an 18-month consultation, the CIOB has approved the restructuring of its regional organisation to match the boundaries of the devolved governments of Scotland, Wales and the English regions. This follows similar moves made by other professional institutions such as the RICS, ICE and the Construction Industry Council. There will ...
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Archive TitlesPart L a let-down, says industry
The government’s revision to Parts L and F of the Building Regulations deliver some welcome changes, but pass up the opportunity to make a significant contribution to energy conservation requirements
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Sector set for growth
UK consultancy and engineering firms are predicting mixed workload performances, according to a report by the Association for Consultancy and Engineering. In its State of Business survey, almost one third of firms said their UK workloads for the first quarter of 2005 had increased by more than 5% on the ...
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A small but growing theat
There is a small but not insignificant threat that select senior security management roles may be awarded to non-security professionals. In many ways, this trend follows that within the Human Resources profession in general, where outsourcing and a restructuring of roles have witnessed a marked change within the sector across ...
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Archive TitlesHealth and safety first
Design engineers are under constant pressure to reduce space for services – but at what cost, asks Richard Tudor?
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Plan to ‘shame’ firms
Construction companies breaking industry guidelines could be named and shamed, if new measures get the go-ahead. The Scottish Construction Forum wants disreputable companies excluded from public sector tender lists to clean up the industry’s image. The forum is calling for a partnership to include Audit Scotland and industry bodies to ...
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Archive TitlesHow to manage security on the firm’s network
As is the case with the wider discipline, IT security strategies need to move from being a reactive model to one that is proactive. In the same way that a company has real-time monitoring tools for watching over its network, systems and applications, its managers also need to actively monitor ...
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Fair play
It might have been delayed by several months, but at long last the Government has published the revised version of Part L of the Building Regulations, albeit as a draft document.
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Archive TitlesFace the future
Retina scans, vein prints – it may all sound a bit sci-fi, but biometric technology can cut fraud and secure vulnerable sites. Rod Sweet says you may recognise its benefits
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Archive TitlesTime for a sharp exit
Portsmouth’s Spinnaker Tower is one of the first tall buildings to use lifts in its evacuation strategy, in a move that is likely to become the norm
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Archive TitlesFootball stewards exempted from licensing by Home Office ministers
Officials at the Home Office have announced that in-house football stewards will not be subject to licensing by the Security Industry Authority under the PSI Act 2001