All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 765
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Archive TitlesBest Security Manufacturer
The winner of this category in the Security Excellence Awards is voted for by the UK’s top 40 installation companies and top 40 security consultants.
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Archive TitlesExcellence Awards finalists line up
The finalists in the Security Excellence Awards 2004 have been announced following the deliberations of a distinguished panel of judges. The event, now in its sixth year, attracted a record number of entries, making it a daunting task for the panel of judges. Here are this year’s finalists in alphabetical ...
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Bank holiday protection assured
BT redcare has moved to keep ahead of new European standards by introducing higher frequency polling when GSM becomes the primary path and maintaining it over a longer period.
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Kilburn NDC hopes to become community-based association
The board of South Kilburn New Deal for Communities has called for the organisation to be turned into a community-based housing association as part of the £715m regeneration of the area.
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Archive TitlesCash blow for low-demand areas that aren't in pathfinders
They miss out on major investment as the chosen nine regions get two-fold boost
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ARCing into IP!
Alan Hyder speaks to Initial Electronic Security about their involvement in IP technology and their own software development
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Camden tenant faces fine for anti-ALMO posters
A Camden man is facing prosecution for putting up posters that urged tenants to vote against the council’s arm’s-length management proposals.Alan Walter, a council tenant on the Peckwater estate, stuck the posters up in a bus shelter three months ahead of the ALMO vote in January 2004, which the tenants ...
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Where are all the techno-homes?
The Challenge Fund was supposed to bring us swathes of gleaming homes built using the most up-to-date construction techniques. It didn’t quite turn out that way. Joey Gardiner finds out what happened
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Archive TitlesHull housing staff threaten strike action after bungled pay review
Housing services in Hull could be hit by a staff strike over a pay review that will cut some salaries by £10,000.Les Dobbs, convenor of union GMB, said mistakes the authority made in the review had added to staff’s concerns over the package, which will also remove bonuses.Some had been ...
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Archive TitlesAndy Ludlow Award 2004
Training prisoners to help their fellow inmates keep or find homes is a winning system for all concerned – and that’s why St Giles’ Trust scooped this year’s £10,000 prize. Zoe Cacanas visited one of its schemes.
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Brown pledges £20bn in three years for housing
But target of raising housebuilding by half depends on providers making efficiency savings
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Archive TitlesThe bench test 2: More than meets the eye
DCT keyboard controller from VideotecIt’s difficult to not be impressed!
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2nd opinion: No solid foundation
Making hospital trusts central to regeneration is about creeping privatisation.
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180m pot for negative-value transfers too small', say experts
The government has fired the starting gun on a race for £180m to plug funding gaps in stock transfers.The money, trailed by the ODPM in May and announced in Monday’s comprehensive spending review, will allow transfers to go ahead at councils whose homes are valued at less than the amount ...
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Lloyds TSB tailor-makes 11m loan for Access Homes
Access Homes has signed an £11m loan with Lloyds TSB that will allow it to build 100 key-worker homes.
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Archive TitlesThe bench test 1: Tough, neat and stylish
Auto deadbolt lock from Miwa Lock CoHotel guests will feel safer
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Archive TitlesTreasury and ODPM demand £1.5bn savings from councils and RSLs
Social housing providers must make almost efficiency savings of almost £1.5bn in the next three years.
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Think Tank
Flat out of places to buyI have lived in King's Cross all my life and I currently live in a one-bedroom housing association flat, which cannot be bought because it belongs to a charitable association. We are trying to start a family and the flat is on the fourth floor ...