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Archive TitlesFraudulent behaviour
The Fraud Advisory Panel has developed a checklist to assist small and medium-sized firms. We outline an action plan.
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Blown away
Is blown fibre an expensive solution for restricted niche markets only? We investigate whether the mass market can benefit from the technique.
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Archive TitlesAutomatic for the people
Tony Cheeseman, md of ECA firm A&A Co-ordinated Services is urging contractors to get involved with home automation systems.
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Research to ascertain industry skill requirements
SummitSkills and BSRIA are to conduct comprehensive research to develop accurate statistics on the sector's skills and requirements.
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Compulsory operative safety tests arrive
The ECA has introduced a compulsory JIB-recognised health and safety assessment for all operatives applying for new or renewed Electrotechnical Certification Scheme cards.
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Archive TitlesTaking a Flexicon approach
Cable management specialist Flexicon has opened a new factory and headquarters next door to the firm's former site in Roman Way, Coleshill near Birmingham. Since 2000 the company had expanded onto five separate sites in Coleshill in order to meet demand for its conduit products. Flexicon now manufactures 95% of ...
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Archive TitlesUp in the air
Olson Electronics' mains power distribution panels are installed as standard in Thales Training and Simulation's static and full-flight simulators.
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Clarke pledges action on training
Education secretary Charles Clarke has urged contractors to engage in the education agenda.
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ABB wins Olympic glory
ABB has won a US$13 million order as part of a consortium that will provide power to the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.
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Latham to host Think 2010
Think 2010, the pan-industry brainstorming conference aimed at setting a new agenda for the building services industry, is to be chaired by Sir Michael Latham.
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Think tank
Refugee dilemmaI am aware that there are a number of refugees with positive decisions to remain in the UK, but whose national insurance numbers have not yet come through so they are not eligible for benefits and are staying with friends and relatives in my housing association's properties, often sleeping ...
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Archive TitlesPublic & Private
If you've set up an arrangement to save VAT as part of a transfer, watch out. Customs & Excise could soon be on your tail.
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Out with the old
Out with the old: Housing Corporation chair Baroness Dean visits a development in the Higher Openshaw area of Manchester. The corporation gave £5.5m to the scheme, which bought and demolished 142 obsolete properties to make way for 130 new houses and bungalows. The scheme is part of a regeneration programme ...
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Transfer notes
There are always problems in getting beneath positive spin, and it is never easy deciphering the code and spotting the new as opposed to the old money; but the Communities Plan deserves more than wary cynicism. There is now a genuine challenge for all involved in securing funds for council ...
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Leader
As if all the trials and tribulations with DD243 weren't enough of a challenge for installers, we now have the second part of the double whammy ... the European Standards or Euro 'Norms'.
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Outside the law!
Only one in ten CCTV schemes complying with the Data Protection Act, nationwide sample shows
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Opportunity knocks
The sector is well-placed to take advantage of key areas of the Communities Plan
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Keeping the peace
Conflict in Iraq is likely to impact on race relations in the UK. Mahua Chatterjee and Saba Salman look at what landlords are doing to keep neighbourhoods harmonious
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What social housing can teach the rest of the public sector
Since the Railtrack debacle of winter 2001/02 and the subsequent formation of Network Rail, the government is increasingly keen to move away from public service organisations governed by shareholders or by Whitehall. Instead, it is looking to public-interest companies.