All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 723
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IP’s taking off in Luton
Intruder International has designed and installed the UK’s largest ever single-site IP-based CCTV system to serve Luton Airport
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Hyde to run social homes in Milton Keynes millennium village
Hyde Housing Association is part of a consortium chosen this week to develop one of the government’s flagship millennium communities.
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Archive TitlesStarting gun
Derwent Living is to build housing for 600 students in this £22m project in the Gun Quarter of Birmingham. The 127-unit scheme is designed by Ian Darby Partnership and will be built on a 5200 m2 site once occupied by Midlands Electricity Board. The development, which is Derby-based Derwent Living’s ...
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How to get to the top
I have much enjoyed the recent discussion about the Housing Corporation’s efficiency index – particularly those associations quick to praise the index: Community, Bromford, Bristol Churches and the rest.Remember their names, because I suspect they may not be at the top of the table when it gets revisited later this ...
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How to get something out of your system
It’s easy to be dazzled by technical wizardry, but what if that latest computer system you snapped up doesn’t work once it’s set up? You’d better have a solid contract in place
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Archive TitlesGet with the programme
The way TV is transmitted is switching to digital, and soon – within three years for some areas – the analogue signal will be switched off. So, unless you want estates full of tenants complaining that they can’t get Emmerdale, you need to get busy.
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Archive TitlesPoacher turned gamekeeper
After almost four years at the Audit Commission, Gerard Lemos will soon be joining Notting Hill Housing Group. What makes people change sides? Stuart Macdonald and Katie Puckett asked eight people what made them jump the fence.
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Game, set… and match!
IP SurveillanceVideo Management SystemsPI Vision has provided a 36-camera network video recording system for the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club. Installed by ADT engineers, the system was used throughout the 2004 Wimbledon Championships.The system comprises PI’s Universal Video Management System (UVMS, Model 5000), the cameras recording at six ...
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Archive TitlesTalking French
If the security industry could bottle Peter French’s dedication to the cause and distribute it UK-wide, one can’t help but feel the sector would be much further along the road to a professional status. Brian Sims talks to SSR Personnel’s managing director about the continual need to challenge business processes.
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ISS pinpoints fraud increase
Leading corporate risk management consultancy ISS Group has warned security managers that the recent enlargement of the European Union (EU) could trigger a “huge increase” in international fraud within the UK.
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Wheel of Fortune
Sir - I've studied the srticle on cash-in-transit written by Graham Levinsohn in the July 2004 edition of Security Management Today (‘Winning the cash war’, Guarding Watch, pp45-46), and wish to congratulate him on the accuracy of his words.Over the years, SMP Security has written to many trade publications – ...
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The exceptions to the rules
In the last of our three-part series on the Disability Discrimination Act, we look at how treating disabled tenants differently from others isn’t always against the law
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Every picture tells a story
Visitor Management SystemsPhoto IDAccess controlSecurity managers can NOW enhance workplace security, create a visitor database and project a more professional image to the public by using a cost-effective visitor management system developed by Avery Dennison.Avery’s system photographs, logs and then tracks visitors as they register at a firm’s reception area ...
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Net good enough
Disabled access doesn’t just mean ramps and hearing-aid loops: it also applies to your website. Chris Goodrich reports on the law, the guidance and how to make sure everyone can use your web pages
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End of the Line
There’s a new phenomenon in town. One that’s already making its presence felt among the private sector’s guarding companies. In many respects this particular phenomenon is applying societal technology in security to its very limits. Step forward e-tendering. Or online tendering. Or e-bidding. In other words, purchasing online.
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End of the Line
Online tendering is a new procurement method that’s grabbing a foothold across the facilities management and security sectors. It’s a process that drives down the cost of procurement, but will the short term squeeze on contractors’ already low margins actually render the on-site service impotent? Brian Sims and Mike Nevill ...
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Running on empty
I was interested to read about the “new” proposal to create an empty homes hit squad (24 September, page 8). Surely we have been here before with the Empty Homes Agency? The agency was extremely good at publicising the blight of empty properties across the country in public, Ministry of ...
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Empty promise
London has some 40,000 long-term empty homes and councils have a hard time bringing them back into use. A new website that finds potential buyers could help.
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Pensioners may be exempt from direct-benefit scheme
Government proposal will be big concession to social landlords fearing rise in rent arrears
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Warrington signs largest new-build PFI deal
Council and Arena Housing Association clinch £20m deal for 200 rented homes