All Archive Titles articles – Page 1258
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Schneider blocked
Competition officials have recommended that the European Commission block the merger between Schneider and Legrand.
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Big brother is watching you
CCTV surveillance is a massive growth industry, but what is the potential for electrical contractors to get a slice of the action?
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Balfour loses dismissal case
M&E contractor Balfour Kilpatrick has lost an unfair dismissal case relating to the sacking of electricians on the Pfizer pharmaceuticals site in Sandwich, Kent in April 2000.
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NAPIT trials assessment scheme for testers
The National Association of Professional Inspectors and Testers is to launch an individual competence assessment scheme for electrical inspectors.
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All together now
In June 2001 the ICE published a partnering agreement which serves as an alternative to the PPC 2000 contract. We outline the working arrangements.
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MEM all over flats
A design and build electrical contract at a prestigious housing development on the banks of the River Don in South Yorkshire has used MEM electrical installation equipment from top to bottom.
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LG swims ahead
A fully packaged rooftop unit from LG Electronics is providing close control of the internal conditions of the Hilton Aviemore hotel's swimming pool area.
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Workplace update
The Director general of the Business Services Association surveys support for staff
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Table talk
Nick Gillespie, the man in charge of the kitchens at Chesterfield Hospital, talks to Facilities Business about the challenge of feeding doctors, nurses, patients and their visitors
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Street wise
GlaxoSmithKline has opened a new £300m global headquarters in Brentford, West London. GSK House is home to all the firm's corporate functions. It features a street, with shops, a bank and health and exercise centres. Contractors include Johnson Controls for M&E, ISS for cleaning and Initial for security
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Safety in numbers
As European Health and Safety Week gets underway, HSC commissioner and TUC safety expert Owen Tudor tells The Facilities Business that business should seize the opportunity of a new round of health and safety legislation to enter into the spirit of the law.
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Newsmaker
We ask Steve Mackintosh of Jones Lang LaSalle about his mission to be an integrator
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Property law: Heading for trouble?
It's not the small print to watch out for in lawyers' letters, it's the big stuff. The words at the top of the page may be in big black print, but this does not necessarily make them any clearer
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Who got that job?
Emma Ellis is Chesterton Workplace Management's first European business development manager. Ellis, who speaks French, Dutch, German and Spanish, joined CWM from Serco in Paris where she was business development manager.
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Technology: Work's future is mobile
The potential of wireless communication is much greater than imagined, futurologist James Woudhuysen told delegates to the conference.
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Teleworking: Europe takes to telework
IBM Europe is developing a New form of teleworking, with employees in Paris working from six satellite offices on the ouskirts of the city, delegates at the 'Think Global, Act Local' workshop heard. Peter Wingrave, IBM design and workplace strategy manager said the company has 80,000 employees across Europe, most ...
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TV dinners
Spectrum Projects has completed a major refurbishment of digital TV channel QVC's staff restaurant and kitchen at the company's headquarters in Marco Polo House, London SW8.The project included full strip-out of the existing facility back to the shell, installation of new M&E services and full architectural works including furniture.It was ...
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The diary
What's in a name, part oneAt the recent RICS Facilities Faculty conference a bizarre lexocological trend was unearthed. Eagle-eyed Howard Bibby of Arlington Business Services noted a number of facilities companies with an X in their name. They include Citex, Coflex, Sodexho, Axima (formally known as CBX), Cardax, Kardex, Axiom ...