All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 763
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Archive TitlesPamela abseils for MS
Pamela Bartlett, intrepid Office Administrator at hardware distributor Wagner (GB) Ltd’s East Kilbride depot, recently completed a 180-foot crane abseil to raise funds for the MS Society.
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Think Tank
Who will raid their piggybank?The police raided one of our properties at 3.30pm on a Friday. Nine officers used battering rams on the back and front doors and comprehensively wrecked both. The tenant, who was not given a chance to answer the door, was arrested and taken for questioning. The ...
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Be spec-tacular!
It’s not so much what you say as how you say it that will make your quote stand out from competitors
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On the money
Charlie Proddow on the good news for charities in the Finance Bill and the issues that remain
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Roadworks until MMIV
A film crew for ITV news bulletin London Tonight interviews archaeologists examining a Roman road, uncovered during the £28m regeneration of the Beaumont Estate in Leyton, north London. The thoroughfare is thought to be the London end of a Roman road from Great Dunmow in Essex, which has never before ...
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Archive TitlesPolice praise installers
The Metropolitan Police paid tribute to installers as the false alarm rate fell again. Annual false activations in London have now fallen from 290,000 to 85,000 over the past nine years.
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Here's an idea
Teach tenants basic DIY skills so they can fix simple problems without calling you
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Archive TitlesThe green stuff
On the Housing Corporation’s orders, more and more RSLs are trying to specify environmentally friendly estates – but as BedZed showed, a conscience doesn’t come for free. Victoria Madine asks: how can eco-homes take off when they cost so much?
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Great to migrate
How can installers help their CCTV customers migrate to IP Surveillance? … asks Dominic Bruning of Axis Communications
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Unlocking Gordons safe
It’s official: housing is to receive £20bn over the next three financial years (pages 7-9) – £2.5bn more than the 2002 allocation. And housing providers that can show the right combination of efficiency and sound management will be able to get at even more money for building homes by spending ...
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Why go wireless?
Remote CCTV monitoring is now a necessity, says Greg Conrad of Mobilcomm, a specialist integrator of wireless networking systems, who outlines to installers the advantages of combining two established technologies.
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Increasing efficiency sees RSL
Housing associations have improved efficiency and turnover this year, according to the latest global accounts for the sector.
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Editorial - Network Solutions
With major players such as Cisco and IBM starting to penetrate the IP surveillance market we can see an increasing uptake of this exciting technology.
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Archive TitlesPlaces for People sets up joint venture for Edinburgh renewal
Upper Strand Development will build 497 homes with £13m loan from Allied Irish
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Gardiner enters EAS market as installers show interest in retail
Gardiner Security is adding retail and garment security to its portfolio in a new partnership with EAS Distributors, the leading supplier of electronic article surveillance via RF, AM, FM and dual frequency systems.
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How to help elderly tenants get odd jobs done
Hire a dedicated labourer whom residents know they can trust.
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Archive TitlesJob done
Last year, Birmingham council’s backlog of 57,000 repairs seemed beyond repair. But that was before David Hucker got to work.
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Depaul Trust looks east with Slovakian subsidiary …
Homelessness charity the Depaul Trust is to expand into eastern Europe.