All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 731
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Barclays ups individual housing association loan limit to 150m
Bank increase takes account of concentration of housing grant on preferred status RSLs
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Archive TitlesToll on the tills
The opportunity for installers to get into retail security is greater than ever before. Chip and Pin is set to reduce retail fraud significantly but CCTV till monitoring presents a big potential profit area … if installers have the confidence to get involved
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Archive TitlesSounding off
The humble sounder is the face of commercial and domestic security and a great advertising opportunity for the installer...
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On the road
Axis Comminucations and four other companies in IP-surveillance and digital CCTV have joined together for Network CCTV, a three-day free roadshow across the UK. The other companies are Remsdaq, PI Vision, Impath Networks and Barco Control Rooms. Dates are: October 20, Manchester; 21 Birmingham; 22 Twickenham. Register at www.networkcctv.biz
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Police should practice what they preach
Would it not be a good idea if the police (ACPO) reacted to burglaries and the general call for help from the public in the same manner as they expect the industry to respond ... i.e. within a maximum of four hours? Paradoxically, as often happens now, they request ...
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Picture this
South Londoners were given the chance to admire art by homeless people at the South London Art Gallery on 2 September.
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Archive TitlesWhat is a... sustainability officer?
Eleanor Snow meets Rebecca Miller, who keeps her housing association in the green
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Archive TitlesNow we are one
In Business for Neighbourhoods is one year old this week, but is it a happy birthday? Victoria Madine finds out what the sector’s rebranding campaign has achieved so far and what still needs to happen
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Recycle your mobile
It occurred to me recently that many of your readers will have an old mobile phone or printer cartridges tucked away in a drawer at home or at work. Their unwanted items can benefit the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation. These items can be recycled and the proceeds will be ...
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Light and life
I found the article “Green house effect” in the 27 August edition interesting but I was shocked that the “experts” think low-light bulbs are a straight replacement for the standard filament bulb.
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Invisible for neighbourhoods?
Ineffective, unhelpful and poor value for money – that’s what many in the sector think of the National Housing Federation’s In Business for Neighbourhoods rebranding exercise, according to a Housing Today survey
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Motor homes site’s remote protection
Cleveland Motor Homes has signed a three-year deal with Remguard Visual Management for remote CCTV monitoring of the dealership’s extensive retail site near Teesside airport.
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Archive TitlesNew head of sales for SBT
Ray Hodges (above) has joined Siemens Building Technologies (SBT) from Pinkerton Security to become UK head of sales and marketing for security systems. When Securitas acquired Pinkerton in 1999, as part of its plan to create an electronic security division in Europe, Hodges took sales from zero to £8.5 million.SBT ...
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Gun-blazing we are not
To imply that RSLs blindly accept the allegations made against individuals and unilaterally act on some kind of gun-blazing whim is naive to say the least.
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Gooooal!
Five-a-side football was just one of the attractions at a late summer fun day for families in Mercian Housing Association homes.
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Personal security - a global response
Personal attack alarms are a familiar part of hard wired intruder alarm systems but how far will installers become involved with extensions of this technology, asks Gerard Honey
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Archive TitlesWere getting it right on nuisance
Re: “How well-behaved are you?” (Second opinion, 10 September, page 23) – I’d have thought the word “social” in the name “registered social landlord” would have given a clue to RSLs’ attitude to tackling antisocial behaviour.