May 2009

  • Elecsa has launched a Microgeneration Certification Scheme for contractors installing renewable technologies in domestic properties.
  • Rupert Lowe, a director of m&e firm Lowe & Oliver, has stood down as chairman of Southampton Leisure Holdings after the company, parent of Southampton FC, was placed in administration.
  • Philips has acquired lighting controls manufacturer Dynalite.
  • Allerton Dale & Co of Horsforth, Leeds, was fined a total of £3000 after electrician Simon Hunter, 33, of Keighley, fell 3 metres through a void on the first floor of a new sports pavilion being built at Bradford Grammar School, Frizinghall Road, Bradford.
  • GDF Suez has created Cofely, an energy, m&e and facilities management arm, by bringing together the Cofathec and Elyo divisions.
  • W Wright Electrical has won a three-year electrical, mechanical and building contract for the Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust.