All Archive Titles articles – Page 1166
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Cabling twist demonstrates dramatic cost reductions
VCL used its stand at IFSEC to provide a graphic example of how its NVT twisted pair wiring technology could be used to drastically cut the circuitry and installation costs of CCTV systems while providing a superior service free of interference and crosstalk.By using NVT technology throughout the stand, ...
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Archive TitlesPerformance accolade
Norbain SD has collected an award from Ultrak naming it 'European Customer of the Year' for 2001.
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Working with DD243
Starting next month, Martin Kane will tackle some of the most frequently asked installers' questions about DD243 and confirmed alarms. As an introduction to the series, here he puts the document into perspective
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Archive TitlesThe bench test 2: What's the hold up?
senti0-50 digital video recorder from plettac SecurityDVRs oust the old technology – well, almost
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Archive TitlesThe bench test 1: The first line of defence
The Darwin 4 from GPS Perimeter SystemsActive infrared beam barrier gives impressive results
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Think Tank
A key issueWe are having problems with a tenant who has given notice on a property and handed the keys in on a Thursday.We charge rent on a Monday and terminate tenancies on a Sunday, so because he handed the keys in after the Monday we charged him rent for ...
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Spending review reactions
Jim CoulterChief executive, National Housing Federation"We are pleased that the government has listened to the federation and housing associations across the country. It's good to have a chancellor who recognises that healthy housing markets and neighbourhoods are the backbone of communities and have an essential role to play in helping ...
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Archive TitlesThe peacekeepers
When you see kids setting fire to cars and trash piled high in the streets, who ya gonna call? Community wardens, that's who. Three wardens told Mark Beveridge and Mahua Chatterjee how they go about keeping the peace.
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Policy rules ok
Mike Biles on the perils of not being clear about your tenant transfer policy
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Transfer notes
I highlighted in my first Transfer Notes the absurd allegations all too often made by opponents of transfer (30 May, page 12). It is quite ridiculous that, after well over 100 large-scale voluntary transfers, there can still be any doubt about the impact on tenants’ rights. Gone are the legalistic ...
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How would you like your stake?
The government is cooking up a way to carve social housing tenants a share in the value of their homes. Mark Lupton and Sue Regan look at what's on the menu. Mahua Chatterjee asks tenants if it's well done or a recipe for failure
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Here's an idea
Hard-up tenants get a helping hand with the cost of furnishing their homes
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Archive TitlesWhere the hart is
Where the hart is: Places for People Group chair Sebert Cox (left) shows Narinderjit Singh Thandi, the mayor of Gravesham, around the RSL's recently completed £4.7m White Hart Yard development on Gravesend High Street in Kent. The 51-home scheme was highly commended in the Evening Standard's new homes awards. It ...
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Archive TitlesThe hard sell
Wally Olins is known as the godfather of branding. But has he bitten off more than he can chew with the task of rebranding an invisible sector? Elaine Knutt wades into a sea of paradoxes and spin, only to emerge bewildered.
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Archive TitlesEric Faux remembered
Eric Faux remembered: Midland Area Housing Association has launched a five-year scholarship in memory of its former chair, Eric Faux (above), who died earlier this year aged 80. It is aimed at young tenants who are leaving school and want to get involved in regeneration and housing in the Midlands. ...
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Supervision ends at South Somerset
South Somerset Homes has been given a clean bill of health by the Housing Corporation, which has removed it from supervision.
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Smith to lead Ridgehill out of doldrums
Lily Smith has been chosen as Ridgehill Housing Association's new chief excutive.
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When egos dare
'Dear beloved partner, Sorry, the merger's off. I know we have lots in common, but I'm not prepared to share my chief executive's chair with anyone. I hope you'll find another housing association …' Why housing mergers so often end in tears.
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Key worker proposals damned as ill thought out
The social housing sector gave a cool reception to plans to boost key worker housing in the South-east.