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WEEE Directive spells trouble
The ECA is concerned that the incorporation of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive into UK legislation could involve extra work and costs for its members.
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SWALEC returns to contracting
Energy supplier SWALEC is returning to the electrical contracting industry after an absence of almost five years.
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Construction insurance
The DTI has appointed an insurance expert to help improve cover for construction firms.The aim is to:assess how the industry currently manages insurance risk;develop best practice guidance to help firms secure affordable cover;discuss how to reward good health and safety practice.Paul Hayward of the Royal & Sun Alliance joined the ...
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Archive TitlesCompatibility questions
New technologies mean new frequency ranges in cables. Joe McCool asks: are you ready to cope with rf and emc issues?
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Cash for industry research
Electronic tagging to improve building maintenance and using the earth to heat and store water top a list of research projects announced by construction minister Brian Wilson.
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Caribbean flavour
Caribbean flavour: Visitors the Dominican Republic this year can enjoy a new night-time scene thanks to Martin Architectural. The Higuey Basilica is one of the most important architectural works in the Republic. Concepts for a lighting scheme to highlight the structure were developed by Centrolux, Martin’s exclusive distributor in the ...
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Archive TitlesCable chemistry
Maintaining the correct conditions is critical to research and development buildings – how can cable management help? EMC outlines a solution.
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Call to build a greener future
Construction minister Brian Wilson has urged all sectors of the building industry to work together to meet the 21st Century challenge of building a greener Britain.
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Budget no help to industry
While some measures in the 2003 Budget have been welcomed, the ECA has proclaimed it a missed opportunity for government to address industry issues.
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Buckle to leave ECA
Phil Buckle, the ECA’s head of technical services, is to leave the Association. He takes up the role of business
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The name's Bond
The name's Bond: It's almost time for the Building Services Awards 2003 and this year the event will have a James Bond theme. Meet Odd Job and Jaws over dinner with the industry's best. The awards will be presented at a grand ceremony in Le Meridien Grosvenor House Hotel, London ...
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BBC expands its cable channels
With BBC’s new building in White City, West London, comes major investment in new channels – for the cabling at least. Metstrut, the cable management division of Metsec, has won an £80 000 contract to supply cable ladder and channel sections for the building.The firm is supplying electrical distributor RMS ...
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Archive TitlesFull BEAMA ahead
BEAMA Installation is the new body representing manufacturers in the electrical installation equipment sector.
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Blow for campaign to abolish use of retentions
The Government has snubbed a Select Committee report that blasted the use of retentions and has refused to endorse their phasing-out on public sector contracts.
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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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Archive TitlesWaterworld
Waterworld: Developer Providus Homes is to build 170 new homes near Ipswich marina after signing a deal with Shaftesbury Housing Group. Under the agreement, Shaftesbury will buy 43 of the homes to use as social housing. The buildings will be complete in 2005. The £250m development is also being used ...
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Not such uncertain times
Your article "Uncertain times" (11 April, page 16) considered the effects on housing of an economic downturn.One of the subheadings was "Falling demand for shared ownership" and I take great exception to this. Anyone ill-informed, who only scans headlines rather than slavishly reading every line of Housing Today, might think ...
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Route one
Route one: Newcastle council has voted to press ahead with its application to transfer its 33,000 council homes – including those on the Byker estate (above) – to an arm's-length management organisation. The council's cabinet voted unanimously to continue its ALMO bid last Wednesday. If successful, tenants will get the ...
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Mortgages: missing the point
The article "New mortgage threat to low-cost homeownership schemes" (17 April, page 14), regarding a potential threat to low-cost homeownership posed by long-term, fixed-rate mortgages, rather misses the point. I am sure that many of those requiring access to homeownership in London and the South-east via shared ownership would welcome ...
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Shared-ownership scheme wins innovation prize
A shared-homeownership scheme for people with learning disabilities has won a national award.