All Archive Titles articles – Page 918
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Contractor death sparks warning
The Health & Safety Executive has warned of the dangers of handling top-heavy electrical equipment on site. The warning follows a death at Canary Wharf, London. Cormac Nordon, director of Arnold Control Systems was killed in August 2001 when an electrical panel fell on him during installation.The accident happened as ...
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Archive TitlesThe Concorde experience
When two countries successfully partnered 35 years ago to build an aeroplane, why is construction still struggling with the concept? Tony Matthews looks at what Concorde can teach the industry.
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SummitSkills close to licence
The electrotechnical, heating and ventilating, air conditioning, refrigeration and plumbing industries are close to having a new champion for training in the shape of SummitSkills.
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T Clarke man retires
Barry Buchanan, a director of T Clarke, is to retire after serving 38 years with the company. He was appointed md of the firm’s Midlands operation in 1981 and he was made a company director in 1990.
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CIS reform – your thoughts
The Inland Revenue (IR) has published an analysis of feedback to its consultative document The Inland Revenue and the construction industry: working together for a new scheme. The document and feedback have been instigated due to industry-wide concerns about the current Construction Industry Scheme (CIS).
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Archive TitlesUniversity challenge
Higher education in the 21st century brings demands for a healthy work-life balance. Alison Luke finds out how the University of Hertfordshire designed a campus for the future.
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Cheap foreign labour causes crisis
Amicus warns that european contractors are gaining an unfair advantage by employing cheap foreign labour on projects undertaken in the UK, while British firms have to work to NAECI National Agreement terms.
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ID cards to be trialled on sites
Identity cards are to be introduced to construction sites in a measure to stamp out illegal workers. The government plan will be piloted on two sites in central London and the South East in early 2004.
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Call for low energy solutions
BSRIA’s 2003 Briefing addressed the issue of how the building services industry can meet the challenges laid down in the Government’s Energy White Paper.
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Archive TitlesCable comforts
Cables need cosseting: mistreat them and they will underperform; handle them with care and they will do exactly what you want. But what is the proper way to treat structured cabling?
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Archive TitlesCounterfeiters beware
BEAMA Installation is playing a major role in the campaign to beat the counterfeiters of electrical equipment, but countries must get tougher.
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Archive TitlesCounterfeiters beware
BEAMA Installation is playing a major role in the campaign to beat the counterfeiters of electrical equipment, but countries must get tougher.
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Archive TitlesBest read
Best read: Bournemouth Library has been awarded the Prime Minister's Better Public Building Award at the British Construction Industry Awards 2003. The Kier Group-led project included IEI Building Services Engineers, who undertook all of the m&e work and Caxton FM, who will provide the facilities management for the next 30 ...
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Brindley Place bank on Quartz
A Royal Bank of Scotland branch in Birmingham is saving on air conditioning maintenance and running costs after installation of Quartz water-side fan coils.
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To L and back
With contractors still getting used to the novel idea of the introduction of electrical safety to the Building Regulations in the shape of a new Part P, readers will no doubt be delighted to know that a revision to Part L of the Regs will go out for consultation in ...
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Archive TitlesPreventing fires with aspirating detectors
Selecting an effective fire detection system for a building needs care. Peter Fox explains the benefits of aspirating systems.
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Advice on going green
In response to reports that clients are increasingly looking for environmental policies during pre-qualification, the ECA has placed an example policy on its web site. The document offers useful tips as to the possible content of a policy, but companies should only use those parts that suit their own operation. ...
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Archive TitlesAble cable
Contractors should be aware of new standards relating to the fire performance of cables within buildings.
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Archive Titles2010: electric dreams?
What do the advances in electrical and electronic technology mean for the future of domestic m&e services installations? Will our homes really have changed dramatically by 2010 and how will this affect contractors?
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Archive Titles2010: electric dreams?
What do the advances in electrical and electronic technology mean for the future of domestic m&e services installations? Will our homes really have changed dramatically by 2010 and how will this affect contractors?