All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 724
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Let me count the ways
During New Labour’s first term the talk was of “the third way”, an exciting compromise between central government control and rampant free market economics. It has all now been quietly forgotten. Over the past three years, all references to this laudable but ultimately unachievable philosophy have been dropped.
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Council of Mortgage Lenders predicts house price soft landing
The housing market is heading for a soft landing with the rate of house price growth slowing over the next two years, the Council for Mortgage Lenders has predicted.
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Reach for the Sky. Continued ...
Access readers and CCTVOnce you’re inside the building, what about the internal card readers? How do they work, exactly? “They’re proximity readers,” described Mangham. “Again, Legic technology with a Wiegand interface. In this way, the details they hold can be taken directly to the NexWatch access controllers. The system reads ...
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What is a ... community support officer
Marion Gilchrist takes the place of a family for many tenants, as Eleanor Snow reports
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Making the CitySafe
Digital CCTVPeterborough City Council has procured one of the largest and most advanced digital video systems of any Local Authority in the UK by way of upgrading its CitySafe town centre scheme.Designed and supplied by Tyco Integrated Systems, the networked surveillance operation upgrades an older ...
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The NHF got it right, for a change
It’s rare that the housing co-op sector agrees with the housing association sector. However, on In Business for Neighbourhoods, the associations have spelled out correctly what needs to happen. Of course, registered social landlords have a long way to go to implement In Business, but the National Housing Federation and ...
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Dialler programs: don’t be caught out
If 2004 has seen one major change to the Internet security landscape, it’s that a significant proportion of today’s malware installs software that opens up your computer for others to control. There’s money to be made from compromised PCs, it seems. Alex Shipp dials-in to the latest software scam.
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Learning for a security career
In this month’s missive from The Security Institute, Stewart Kidd discusses the development of higher education in the security sector, and examines the areas still to be reviewed before clients reap the true benefits from practitioners entering (and then progressing within) the profession.
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Archive TitlesCareer coaching: the way forward for managers
Specialist security recruitment concern SSR Personnel Services has launched a new service for managers designed to help them develop their careers “while remaining focused”.
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Call that efficient?
I wholeheartedly agree with my colleague Ian Munro [group chief executive, New Charter Housing Trust Group] that performance-related data about the sector should be available for public consumption, though I do not think as he does that the aim should be to “name and shame” the weaker-performing associations. But in ...
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Threats “not matched by security budgets”
The latest research carried out by Group 4 Securicor highlights a growing disparity between increasing security threats and the money spent by corporate concerns to counteract them.
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Archive TitlesHello birdie
Four of the weirdest birds ever seen landed outside the Dawn Homes development scheme in Queen Elizabeth Gardens, Glasgow, last Tuesday.The bird sculptures form the Birdcatcher Clock, the latest work to be unveiled as part of the privately funded Artworks Programme: Gorbals. On the hour one of the birds moves ...
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Three-star councils ‘may get to bid for Corporation housing grant’
Councils and registered social landlords could bid against each other for £3.3bn of social housing grant under plans unveiled by John Prescott.
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Axis tilts into view
IP SurveillanceAxis Communications has launched a new PTZ network camera. Designated the 213, this model replaces the ever-popular 2130. Offering superior image quality, the 213 is designed for advanced remote monitoring tasks and is capable of operating under all types of lighting conditions (rendering the cameras suitable for installations that ...
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Associations pave way for Islamic shared ownership
Group to develop ways to bypass Sharia restrictions on interest payments
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ASBOs: a first line of defence
Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) brought in by the Government have met with conflicting responses from those in the security sector. Some practitioners feel they are all spin and no substance, while others believe they really do make a difference in helping to prevent retail and town centre crime. Nigel Forbes ...
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All-in-one matrix solution
Bewator’s V3i matrix is ideal for a wide range of applications, including airports, retail centres and town centre surveillance schemes
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An inspiration to us all
I was interested in your article celebrating 40 years of social housing (17 September, page 36), not least because this association is this year celebrating its 40th birthday.We are lucky to still have one of the inaugural eight committee members on our board: Constance Harvey.Her physical health has prevented her ...