All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 839
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Archive TitlesWhose fault is it anyway?
EMC looks at the testing of residual current operated devices: why is it necessary and how should it be carried out in practice?
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T Clarke buys again
T Clarke has acquired Derby-based electrical and mechanical contractor Mitchell & Hewitt. The privately owned ECA company was bought for £5.9 million, of which £1.5 million was satisfied by the issue of new shares in T Clarke.
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Heathrow Terminal 5
Eaton MEM is supplying low voltage distribution equipment, along with project management services and start-up support for the new Heathrow Terminal 5. The contract, valued at over £8 million, includes temporary site distribution services equipment and distribution equipment for the Central Terminal Building Concourse A and Concourse B, the energy ...
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ECA fights 48-h week
As the spectre of a compulsory 48-hour working week hangs over the construction industry, the ECA is consulting members and other industry associations before presenting its views to UK and EU officials.
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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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Salaries by size
Thank you for the interesting article on salary levels ("The rising sum", 5 March, page 26). In previous years you have published some indication of the way in which chief executive's salaries varied with the size of the housing association. This was very valuable to us as board members of ...
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Tenants on rent restructuring
The following is a letter being sent by Winchester council's tenant representative body, TACT, to the ODPM: We write as representatives of the tenant body to underline those issues that we believe should be investigated in the review of the rent restructuring process that we understand is currently under way.Property ...
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We're working on recruitment
The National Housing Federation, Chartered Institute of Housing and Housing Corporation are working on an initiative to encourage new people into the social housing sector, encouraging career advisers to take housing seriously and encouraging employers to be more receptive to candidates ("The rising sum" 5 March, page 26). Bright Futures, ...
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Public & private
Simon Randall asks: could PIFs be a way to get institutional funds into rented housing?
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We cannot save our wardens
Our neighbourhood warden scheme is one of those set to be closed because of the end of ODPM funding– we are a partner in the Hyde scheme in Islington (19 March, page 11). This is causing anxiety to residents and seems to fly in the face of government rhetoric about ...
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Opinion: An overstayed welcome
We should kick out the tenants who could afford to rent or buy elsewhere.
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Now, you have the power
The new Antisocial Behaviour Act includes extended powers for councils, registered social landlords and housing action trusts to tackle racial harassment
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Archive TitlesSpot the key workers
The government's £690m key-worker housing programme, launched this week, sets strict criteria for those who qualify for help. But does it exclude too many of the people the public services and the economy rely on?
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Who will join me in the revolution?
We need young people in council housing departments to inject a dynamic buzz that's missing from local government
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Salford's star rises in management inspection
A troubled city council that dropped out of a government funding programme last September because of its poor performance has managed to raise the quality of its housing services.
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Transfers and refinancing push lending to record high
Banks lent £6bn to social housing sector last year amid busy transfer market
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The unsung heroes of repairs and maintenance
One of the advantages of having a column to oneself is the ability to bang a particular drum loudly and hope that people may be listening.
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Archive TitlesThe school of hard knocks
Katie Puckett spends a day at the Home Office roadshow for staff tackling antisocial behaviour and finds herself at a school for superheroes.
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Archive TitlesWhat price happiness?
Happy employees are hard-working employees, but how much should you spend to keep them satisfied? Kate Freeman asks the experts – the housing companies rated among Britain's best employers – for their secrets
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Where have the receipts gone?
Re: "Right to buy sales could plug the decent homes gap 10 times over" (12 March, page 14). A new factor that needs to be considered is the shift in policy between the Tory governments up to 1997, and New Labour since then.This government has allowed capital receipts to be ...