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Abbey road
Contractor John Wright Electrical Services of York is using custom-made Wiremold stainless steel floor boxes and galvanised steel trunking to ensure versatile and discreet servicing in Whitby Abbey's new £5 million visitor centre. The floorboxes should reduce installation time by 50%, helping to ensure opening on deadline by Easter 2002. ...
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Radical lease plan for stock
DTLR looks at new deal to allow councils to secure improvements but still own their homes
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No place like Dome for social housing
The chief executive of the government’s Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment has called for more homes to be built on the millennium dome site in Greenwich
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Count me in
The euro will matter to social housing staff and tenants – and not just on holidays
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MP calls for bed and breakfast targets
The Bed and Breakfast Unit must set targets and consider support packages to protect “hundreds” of children at risk of abuse or even murder, an MP warned last week
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BME tenants urged to take legal action
Black and ethnic minority communities should take legal action against social landlords who are guilty of institutional racism, a conference on black issues was told last week
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In the director’s chair
South Yorkshire managers and employees are creating controversial plays, which provoke discussion on workplace race equality
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System for online bids ‘a nightmare’
A leading consultancy has carpeted the Housing Corporation for producing a “confusing and unpredictable” bidding round for development and regeneration funding this week
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Workplace update
The Director General of the Business Services Association reviews recent changes
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Table talk
Catering for the 12,000 students and 1,500 staff at Napier University in Edinburgh keeps in-house catering operations manager Alison Smith and her team knee-deep in chips and baguettes
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The negotiators
Honest brokers or referees between two warring parties? Independent consultants describe their role as go-betweens, experts, or an extra pair of eyes at contract time. The Facilities Business reports on what they feel they can offer the sector, and how they are seen by the industry
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Who got that job?
After a career in the Civil Service, including membership of the Ministerial Advisory Board for PACE (Property Advisers to the Civil Estate), Ian Harris has taken on the role of chief executive of the British Institute of Facilities Management.
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Private finance initiative: Mowlem wins schools
Consortium wins 27-year PFI contract to build and operate seven schools in Leeds
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European firms: French woo Liverpudlians
While many UK outsourcing contractors are eagerly trying to harness European opportunities, one company is swimming against the tide — or across the Channel — from France to the UK.Vinci, the construction and related services company, has made its entrance into the UK market with Vinci Services, formerly Norwest ...
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Energy management: The emission statement
Emissions trading is the UK government's latest weapon in its strategy against climate change. The Facilities Business looks at the proposals and how companies from banks to builders can do their bit
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Multinational: IBM reappoints EMEA suppliers
IBM has restructured its facilities management operation across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) following the reappointment of three suppliers in a competitive re-tender.
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Opinion: Facilities managers need to be the drivers, not the driven
How far should facilities managers be involved in strategic change management? In this edited extract from his award-winning essay, our contributor looks at organisational change and says facilities managers should get in the driving seat
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The diary
Pan European oneThank heavens for Xerox, which is doing its bit to alert the world to the fact that there is a European directive on waste management due to come into force in the next few years. The cumbersomely entitled Waste, Electrical and Electronic Equipment directive, shortened to WEEE for ...