All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 741
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The alternatives could be worse
The warning issued in the article ‘The end is nigh for hfcs’ (BSj 08/04) is absolutely necessary but for reasons that seem not to have been acknowledged at the conferences.
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Archive TitlesStrategic thinkers who act on the Act
Most projects to bring buildings up-to-date with the new Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) are bitty little things. A ramp here, a wider door there, some tactile paving, a special toilet.
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Archive TitlesIndustry leaders launch The Academy of Security
A new centre of training excellence has been launched to help private sector practitioners prepare for SIA licensing and regulation
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Archive TitlesProcure 21: Fast & Effective
It’s a customised cure for the ills of new-build health projects. And trials show it works. But too few NHS trusts are taking the medicine.
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Archive TitlesSMT: ‘going live’ at Securex 2004
A ‘live’ version of Security Management Today (SMT), The SMT Forum takes centre stage at Securex 2004. We report on the industry’s major end user exhibition, and the journal’s next phase of development
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Appointments
Security Management Today keeps you up-to-date with all the latest people moves in the security sector
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Wickers world
It’s Social Animal that needs to check its facts, not Boris Johnson (27 August, page 19). A replacement wicker man has been towering over the M5 for more than two years.
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X-ray vision
The current level of terrorist threat means that the role of the X-ray system operator in corporate office buildings and airports has never been more important. However, the degree of skill such a role demands is all-too-often overlooked. Here, we discuss the central issues affecting the performance of X-ray system ...
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Vital statistics
RSLs practically have to be fitness freaks to keep up with all the demands on them to be trim and efficient these days. But how can they measure how healthy their service really is?
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The real problem
The Housing Associations Charitable Trust is right to point out that behind the falling asylum statistics lie more pressing issues such as the need for more short-term homes (“HACT: asylum application fall disguises continuing problems” 27 August, page 9). Centrepoint also urges the government to lift the barriers to employment ...
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On the money
Adrian Carter takes a second look at the new funding guidance, and he’s still not impressed
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Archive TitlesWhats in store for the Law?
The Government has far-reaching plans for employment law in the remainder of 2004, including a root-and-branch review of the Employment Relations Act 1999. Here, we pores over the main regulations as they’ll affect security managers and their officers.
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Archive TitlesNomad’s land
At last, the government is taking steps to ensure that Britain’s Gypsy population gets the permanent, legal sites it needs. So what does this mean for the RSLs that will have to provide them? Eleanor Snow found out.
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League of its own
I love league tables, whether they are for football, Olympic medals, Eurovision songs or registered social landlords’ performance. It’s a system with which everybody is generally familiar: Arsenal is the best, Leeds gets demoted.So, in principle, I have no gripe with the Housing Corporation’s first, laudable effort to produce an ...
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Archive TitlesThe hell of high water
When flash floods hit the Cornish village of Boscastle, the council’s housing department was transformed into an emergency service. Mark Beveridge finds out what it was like for staff forced to become rescue workers
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Archive TitlesWho got that job?
Eleanor Snow meets Mela McGregor, a housing officer who works with vulnerable women
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Thompson out as LGA drops housing post
The Local Government Association has denied that housing is being moved down its agenda despite the sudden departure of its programme manager for housing this week.
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A turn for diverse
Having looked through a number of local government and housing association publications recently, it dawned on me that there has been a radical change: there now seems to be a complete absence of white men in any of these publications.The pictures show women, disabled people, black and minority-ethnic households, older ...
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Developing the softer skills
In the second instalment of his two-part series on tomorrow’s security managers and their core skills, David Cresswell examines the key responsibilities of the role, and how it’s vital to be able to turn strategy into working results. Apparently, the art of persuasion and a subtle approach are absolutely essential.