All Archive Titles articles – Page 1246
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ASIS prepares to address Act
Hot-on-the-heels of the JSIC/BSIA-led Way Forward Group ('JSIC points The Way Forward', SMT, November 2001, p11), UK Chapter 208 of the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS) has joined forces with The Security Institute and the International Security Management Association to represent the views of senior security professionals and corporate ...
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Integrate to accumulate
When Taylor Woodrow bought Bryant, it created a housebuilder with the ability to add value to suburban schemes and to tackle the higher risks of mixed use urban projects. Denis Mac Daid, the man at the helm of the new Bryant Homes, talks to Josephine Smit.
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NSI accreditation awarded to Coventry monitoring station
Diligent work by the security team at Coventry City Council's high-tech Communications Centre has resulted in National Security Inspectorate (NSI) accreditation for the Centre's monitoring of intruder, fire and personal alarm services in Coventry and across the UK.The centre was built in 1999 to monitor the thousands of emergency calls ...
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Business accommodation: Rents pay off for Workspace
Workspace Group, the flexible business accommodation provider, has announced a 40 per cent increase in pre-tax profits and a 14.6 per cent increase in turnover for the six months to 30 September, thanks to an increase in rental values
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Building facilities (pt 4)
So, you're on top of your organisation's requirements and have got your service delivery strategy sussed. And you've made it through the tender process for the supply of all those services. Now what can possibly go wrong? In this, the fourth in their series on setting up a facilities ...
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Post-derogation: guarding in 2003
For too long the security industry has fudged the issue of implementing the Working Time Directive. An end to derogation of the Directive's terms and conditions offers an excellent opportunity for the manned guarding contractors to develop their most important players – the officers.
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2001 Innovation awards
Six manufacturers were given 15 minutes each in which to present their innovations to the panel of eminent judges for the 2001 Building Homes Innovation Awards, sponsored by Zurich Building Guarantees. Then the judges deliberated. They argued over the issues raised by the manufacturers' presentations and technical literature.
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A tangled web
If RSLs are having a hard time grasping rent restructuring, how will they explain it to tenants?
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Rent restructuring a reality
Long wait over as minister releases details of reform with concessions for landlords
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Experiment to save 'trapped' owners
The Local Government Association, lenders, and the government are taking part in an experimental scheme to help owners in negative equity escape clearance areas
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Does red mean dead?
Housing Today reports on a scheme which could signal the triumph of practice over theory in regeneration and asset management
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MPs claim partial victory on reforms
Concerned MPs, councillors and tenants say they have won a partial victory after the government introduced concessions to soften the impact of the introduction of rent restructuring in councils this week
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Perry rejects race 'tick box'
The Housing Corporation is resisting pressure from race equality experts to scrap its new outcomes-based regulation for this issue and revert to a policy of detailed monitoring
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Rent cap provokes London bias claims
The £100 rent cap concession announced by housing minister Lord Falconer won a cautious reception in the sector, amid fears that a measure designed to meet problems in London could have unpredictable consequences elsewhere. The National Housing Federation welcomed the rent limit, for which it had strongly lobbied to prevent ...
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Stopping times
What can be done if protection devices cannot disconnect a circuit in time? Nick Smith continues the q&a series.
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Trade slowdown
The UK construction industry expanded at its slowest rate since February 1999 during October 2001, despite rises in orders during the third quarter of the year.
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Shoring up
Office workers in the new Lakeshore Development in Bedfont Lakes, Middlesex are being treated to a lighting display designed and manufactured by Cube Lighting and Industrial Designers. Twelve types of luminaire were used to create the energy efficient lighting scheme in the building's entrance, reception and staircase. The scheme of ...
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Northern lights
After-dark scenes in Gateshead have been transformed by the Millennium Bridge. Around 700 lamps were used to create a multi-coloured light show. The £600 000 installation included cold cathode, led and floodlighting and was co-ordinated by Syncro at its Newcastle centre. Proprietary and first-fix works were installed during construction by ...
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Value Judgement
Out with lowest tenders, roll on partnering and alliances. Andrew Brister listens in to the CLG conference on achieving better value in construction.
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Archive TitlesTools off the job
Can a new software tool prove the benefits of pre-site assembly and standardisation to the construction industry? Tony Rea visits Loughborough University to find out.