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Archive TitlesBDP business school plan approved
BDP has won planning approval for the construction of a £13 million business school at Napier University's Craiglockhart campus in Edinburgh. The site is currently dominated by the B-listed hydropathic hospital building dating from 1880. The covered space between the existing building and the new flexible teaching block will accommodate ...
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Archive TitlesPositive act
Georgette Bouza's been a nurse, a pig farmer and a plumber. Site manager? Why not?
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Archive TitlesVanishing act
Insurers have been picking up the bill for stolen plant but now they are raising premiums and even refusing cover. The industry is going to have to find ways to cut down on theft
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M4I reports slow take up on Respect for People
The Movement for Innovation admits its efforts lack co-ordination as industry suffers from initiative overload
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Wilson predicts 2002 will be the year of renewables
Energy minister believes this is the year when renewable energy will get the recognition it deserves and transform alternative generation market
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Archive TitlesFrom within or without?
An in-house officer team or contracted security personnel? What’s best for today’s security manager? There are a host of variables that must be taken into consideration – including performance needs and the requirement for flexibility.
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Archive TitlesWalking on water
There must be very few shopping centres in Britain where the security staff routinely swap their regulation uniform for a life jacket, before dashing off to man a high-powered lifeboat. To the Galago team at the Princes Quay Shopping Centre, it's all in a day's work.
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Securiplan in Senate tie-up
Leading security contractor Securiplan has increased the amount and quality of training it provides for – and offers – its personnel by teaming up with specialist training provider Senate Security Training.All new officers joining the company are now required to successfully complete an enhanced three-day induction course. This not only ...
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A stitch in IT time saves nine
Hot-on-the-heels of several widely-publicised computer virus outbreaks, John Cheney rails in defence of the Internet security industry – and explains how commercial reality in the business world should never be undermined by media-driven rhetoric.
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A missed opportunity
There's little doubt that 'best price' tendering is driving down standards in the private security sector, while the specification process allows little or no time for effective consultation. How do we call a halt to such a vicious cycle?Securiplan's Paul Collis examines the need for long-term partnerships between contractor and ...
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Joined up security
As winner of the Best Guarding Company category in the prestigious 2001 Security Excellence Awards, Galago is proving that integrated security is a deliverable reality rather than a pipe dream. We talk to Galago's Neil Barron about bespoke solutions for the end user.
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Safety first in Weymouth
Specialist security systems provider the Perimeter Security Group has played an integral part in a major project aimed at refurbishing and securing Weymouth's multi-storey town centre car park.
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Fairmile outlines a secure future
Fairmile Fencing has supplied a range of its perimeter protection systems to improve security in Sheffield schools.
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Retail guarding: selling a service to the end user
Retail security has long been acknowledged as a difficult, demanding and complex area of responsibility for practising security managers. While this remains the case, it's also true to say that the personnel requirements for officers working in the sector are changing. What qualities should the end user be ...
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Archive TitlesStand... and deliver
Exhibitions and conferences can be high profile events where stringent security measures are of the utmost importance. Sadly, organisers all-too-often overlook that fact in favour of increased profits. The time has come for a more professional approach to security planning.
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Daylight robbery
Theft is a perennial problem for UK retailers, of course, but how many security managers have thought about how offenders' perspectives might help in framing their security strategies? Martin Gill, Neil Chakraborti and Martin Speed evaluate the results of a research project carried out by The Scarman Centre.
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Crimestoppers heads for Ukraine
'Zupyny Zlochyntsia' – the Russian equivalent of our own Crimestoppers initiative – has been launched in the Ukraine with the help of the University of Leicester's Scarman Centre
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Snaring the corrupter
Managing the dealings of any business that trades on the international stage is a tough job. For the in-house security manager looking to keep pace with – and crack down on – business practices of an illicit kind, the task is tougher still.We offer some salient advice to professionals in ...
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First scoops DTZ contract
DTZ Debenham Tie Leung – one of the leading property advisory groups in the UK – has awarded the guarding contract for its flagship City hq to First Security (Guards).
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Conway takes its Titans to the heart of the City
Conway Security Products has supplied its Titan dome cameras to safeguard tenants and property at Beaufort House in the City