All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 653
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Security… with no snags
Retail securityTagging systemsLIBERTY IS ONE OF THE UK’S BEST known brands for high quality fashion and fabrics. However, like many other retailers, the company is prone to stock ‘shrinkage’. Until now, the difficulty in tagging garments has always been the weight of the hard tags, which could often pull items ...
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Revisionist theory
It’s never easy to gauge public opinion on issues that are in any way contentious. Now and again, the outcry of angst is almost unanimous – the introduction of the Community Charge springs to mind – but at times peoples’ views will be divided. The Labour Government’s decision to ...
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Archive TitlesQuestion time
John Prescott’s announcement last week that housing association tenants will be able to buy a share of their home at a discount prompted as many questions as it answered. So how will the scheme work, what are its implications - and do we really have reason to fear it? Housing ...
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Archive TitlesPersistence of time
It seems like barely a year can pass by without a new proposal emanating from either the European Commission (EC) or the UK Government regarding the former’s Working Time Directive or the latter’s implementation of that Directive in our own Working Time Regulations 1998. What’s the current state of play? ...
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Archive TitlesTied up with paperwork
I was encouraged by Tony Soares’ article “Not good on paper” (21 January, page 21).
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Archive TitlesIn your own time
You might have heard of flexible working, but what does it really mean?
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Archive TitlesSecurity on the network: pitfalls and prizes
Running an access control system over the corporate network can lead to security managers unknowingly bypassing all of the data network security provisions already in place for their organisation. Peter Goodenough suggests that ‘migrating’ security managers ought to ask tough questions of their system suppliers prior to any transition.
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Archive TitlesOn the move
Clare BuddenClare Budden has been appointed managing director of PLUS Housing Group subsidiary CDS Housing. Clare was previously deputy chief executive at South Liverpool Housing.Martyn PearlMartyn Pearl has been made managing director of Medina Housing Association. He was head of housing and community support at Isle of Wight council.Vivian SchaperRegistered ...
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Archive TitlesMillbank: the right message
Public Address systemsVoice Alarm systemsChubb has collaborated with Public Address (PA)/Voice Alarm (VA) specialist Millbank to provide multi-purpose integrated systems for the Welsh National Assembly Building in Cardiff.The £50 million building, designed by Lord Richard Rogers, is scheduled for completion this coming August.For this project, Millbank has designed-in a sophisticated ...
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The measure of what we do
Our indicators of success say very little about the contribution we really make
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Archive TitlesListen without prejudice
Four years ago, Bill Muskin determined to establish a security company that could deliver a client service second to none. Today, the Vision Security Group (VSG) turns over £42 million, boasts 300 satisfied, regulation-savvy customers and is about to branch out into remote monitoring. Brian Sims visits VSG’s Northampton hq ...
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Archive TitlesOut on a limb?
Physical assaults and verbal abuse are growing threats to Health and Safety in the workplace. Security officers – and in particular those manning sites on a solo basis – are very much at risk. What, then, is being done to protect them from harm? Patrick Dealtry, Brian Sims and Michael ...
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Archive TitlesLicensing for security officer
As any regular reader of Securiyt Management Today (SMT) is no doubt aware, licensing of the security guarding sector by the Security Industry Authority (SIA) began on Monday 10 January.
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Keep screening in Securi-Check
Following on from December’s Opinion by Security Watchdog managing director Terry O’Neil (‘Raising the bar beyond BS 7858’, p11), Phillip Ullmann firmly believes that the quality of reference checking should be far more important than the quantity – which is why Securi-Check (a brand new screening regime devised in conjunction ...
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Heres an idea
Encourage tenants to take advantage of the government’s new Child Trust Fund
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Archive TitlesID upgrade scales new heights
Access controlID card managementIdentity verification specialist TSSI has upgraded the enVision ID card production and management system used by Westland Helicopters at its manufacturing facility in Yeovil, Somerset. The new system – which makes use of SQL Server technology – is “faster, easier to use and has greater storage capacity ...
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Archive TitlesTurning up the heat
The pressure is rising. From April, all new homes have to to meet the EcoHomes ‘good’ standard to get Housing Corporation funding, and councils are now obliged to tackle fuel poverty by helping tenants save energy and money. Energy efficiency is no longer a luxury – it’s a necessity. Luckily, ...
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The government must learn to mmingle more socially
It’s not bad; But it’s not exactly ambitious either.
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How To.. get an honest opinion
An estate’s appearance is best judged by people who don’t work on it
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Nsurers issue new flood warning for Thames Gateway
Cost of clearing up damage could increase by £55m unless action is taken, says study