All Archive Titles articles – Page 848
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Riverside living to come to Rotherham in £8.2m scheme
Rotherham could get a city waterfront under a plan that may get the go-ahead now that the South Yorkshire pathfinder has been granted £71m.
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Combined buying scheme 'could save landlords £1.5bn'
Housing associations could save £1.5bn on their annual £5bn repairs and maintenance costs if they join a purchasing club launched on Wednesday.
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Sheffield steel
Sheffield steel: Thorn Lighting has helped future tv crews while creating a lighting scheme for a new English Institute of Sport facility in Sheffield. The £24 million centre designed by architect Faulkner Brown includes a 200-m indoor running track and facilities for a wide range of sports from basketball and ...
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Archive TitlesThe White Van Roadshow
The White Van Roadshow kicked off its tour in March. Sponsored by the HSE, the roadshow will deliver important health and safety messages to small construction sites throughout the country. It will include a 15 minute video, provide an opportunity for employees to try out safety equipment and give them ...
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Retentions rights
I read with great interest the letter from Roger Coonie of ATLAS on retentions (‘Use your vote’, EMC, Feb 2004). As an ECA member I, with Rudi Klein and John Nelson of the SEC Group and my MP Claire Curtis Thomas, recently met with Paul Boateng, chief secretary to ...
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Presidential VIEW
The importance of the Electrotechnical Certification Scheme (ECS) in providing the basis for certification schemes within the electrotechnical industry has been underlined by its recent extension to two new industry sectors: fire and security and datacomms.
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Retentions rife at MoD
The Specialist Engineering Contractors’ (SEC) Group is challenging Defence Estates over the continued use of retentions across the department’s contracts. Complaints from members reveal that more than a year after the SEC Group initially raised the issue, Defence Estates is still turning a blind eye to its main contractors holding ...
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Archive TitlesTimothy Lambert
Our new series kicks off with a peek into the diary of Timothy Lambert, the busy head of the industry's charity, the EEIBA.
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Archive TitlesSay yes to integration
A fully integrated cabling infrastructure makes sense to corporate tenants, but too few schemes make use of the benefits.
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Institution merger talks stop
The proposed merger between the UK’s three m&e engineering institutions has been suspended due to concerns over differences in existing working methods and internal structures.
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Archive TitlesHidden hazards
Do you know how to protect yourself and your installations against the hidden risks of fibre optics? Alastair Waite outlines the things you need to know and the pitfalls to avoid to stay safe.
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It’s got to be Gordon’s
It’s fair to say that Gordon Brown has his knockers among the m&e contracting community. Too much red tape, is the battle cry regularly heard from the lobbyists, yet few could argue that Brown’s eight years of Budgetary pledges for real increases in infrastructure, education buildings, new hospitals and social ...
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Archive TitlesProtecting the environment
What environmental aspects affect contractors? Chris Ottaway explains in the first of a new series on ISO 14001.
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Archive TitlesEgg plant
The new Reading Sewage Treatment Works is, at £80 million, Thames Water's biggest current investment. An open book approach helped ensure the fast track project was completed on time.
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Archive TitlesEfficient troubleshooting
Finding and diagnosing faults in a cabling network costs time and money. Therefore, field technicians should be equipped with troubleshooting capabilities as a routine enhancement of their test/certification process.
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New rules for disabled
From 1 October 2004, Part III of the Disabled Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA) will require service providers to make ‘reasonable adjustments’ to their premises to allow access for the disabled. This will apply to all companies who provide a service to the public.Under Part III, features including stairways, curbs, entrances, ...
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Putting up a light defence
A 30% saving in energy consumption has been achieved with a 37% increase in lumens at the Defence Logistics Organisation in Andover with new lighting.
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Fire deaths decrease
Statistics released by the ODPM reveal that there has been a drop in the number of fire-related deaths in the year to March 2003 – from 602 in 2002 to 574 in 2003. The trend continues a favourable year-on-year trend: 623 in 1999, 613 in 2000 and 606 in 2001.The ...