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Photo-Scan has your number!
CCTVSecurity and surveillance systems specialist Photo-Scan has launched a vehicle number plate recognition system to help private businesses, the police and Local Authorities identify suspicious cars and control the flow of vehicles.INPReS comprises a network of cameras that will automatically check the number plates of stationery or moving vehicles. Such ...
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Archive TitlesA sparkling occasion!
The sixth annual Security Excellence Awards ceremony, held last month at the Hilton Hotel on London’s Park Lane, proved to be yet another glittering affair in this event’s history. Brian Sims reviews the Excellence Awards, and highlights the 2004 winners – all of whom have demonstrated great professionalism and a ...
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Separated out
The private and public sectors are populated by a rich vein of security managers, all of them highly-skilled and totally dedicated to the task at hand: protecting the people, property, assets and reputation of their host organisation.
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Archive TitlesNew Build £15m-£45m
GoldNameMike MorrisCompanyLaing O’Rourke, MidlandsProject15,750m² laboratory. Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of OxfordContract£44m, JCT 98 without quantities, 114 weeksTechnical excellence was the bedrock of Mike Morris’s achievement in building the Chemistry Research Laboratory – the largest single research building Oxford University has ever built. Instead of the four services required by the ...
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Archive TitlesNew Build £3m-£15m
GoldNameGlen ClementsCompanyDean & Dyball ConstructionProjectThree mental health wards. Salisbury Hospital, WiltshireContract£14m, GC/Works/1 D&B, over 91 weeksAll tenders for this contract came in over the client’s budget, but Glen Clements won it by showing he could make savings without compromising the brief. Three months of value-engineering cut costs by £2m, and ...
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Archive TitlesFit-out & refurb £3m-£15m
GoldNameBob HillCompanyISG InteriorExteriorProjectRefurb of 76,000ft² block with addition of new floor. 39-49 Wigmore Street, LondonContract£14.9m, JCT 98, 72 weeksThe pace and development of refurbishing this whole block of Wigmore Street was demanding and complex. Not only did Bob Hill decide to demolish and rebuild the cores to improve circulation and ...
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Archive TitlesFit-out & refurb over £15m
GoldNamePaul HardingCompanyBovis Lend LeaseProjectFit-out of 25,000m² of office space. McGraw Hill, Canary WharfContract£27m, Construction Management, 39 weeksAlthough not part of Bovis’s original bidding team, Paul Harding brought a fresh impetus to this project, recommending a modified electronic system of document control and transfer, and producing detailed flowcharts to show each ...
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Archive TitlesOverall winner construction manager of the year 2004
GoldNamePaul SimsCompanyBovis Lend LeaseProjectThree new buildings in public space redevelopment. Paternoster Square, LondonContract£166m, Joint Venture/Construction Management with GMP, 90 weeksAfter 16 years of public debate and disagreement, this massive project finally got under way, but its many ill-wishers were soon rejoicing when, six months in, the site lost its second ...
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Archive TitlesNew Build under £3m
GoldNameDavid JonesCompanyT Richard Jones (BETWS)ProjectExtensions to agricultural college. Gelliaur Farm, CarmarthenshireContract£2.9m, JCT 98 D&B, over 62 weeksSet in an environmentally sensitive area, on the flood plain of the adjacent river within a working farm and college, this unusual project set the scene for David Jones’ superb undertaking.He recovered enough stone ...
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Archive TitlesFit-out & refurb under £3m
GoldNameSteve EadesCompanySpectrum ProjectsProjectFit-out of 1500m² of office space. 123 Buckingham Palace Road, LondonContract£0.8m, GC Works 4, 10 weeksGovernment departments find it hard to turn down the lowest tender, but Steve Eades so impressed the Highways Agency with his understanding of this project, his drive and commitment, and the work he ...
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Archive TitlesNew Build over £45m
GoldNamePaul SimsCompanyBovis Lend LeaseProjectThree new buildings in public space redevelopment. Paternoster Square, LondonContract£166m, Joint Venture/Construction Management with GMP, 90 weeksSilverNameGary CliffordCompanySkanska UKProject40-storey office block. Swiss Re Tower, LondonContract£131m, JCT 98 with CDP, 146 weeksWithout any doubt whatsoever, this is the most recognisable building in this year’s CMYA competition. Translating the ...
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East London development goes ahead
London Mayor Ken Livingstone has given his approval for the £4 billion Stratford city development in East London. The scheme will create 4500 homes and 34000 jobs as well as setting high standards for sustainable development.
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Archive TitlesA world apart?
New Zealand has a reputation for one of the least prescriptive approaches to fire engineering in the world. We take a look to see how it compares with the fire engineering practices and regulations in the UK and asks is it any safer?
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Archive TitlesThe growth of Beard
Mark Beard is the fourth generation to run the family firm, EW BEARD. Since he took the helm in 1999, turnover has grown from £18m to £26m. Kristina Smith traces his steps from baby Beard to boss
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Archive TitlesModel behaviour
Climate change and sustainability have risen to the top of the political and technical agendas across the world.
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Why CIOB is best placed
The arguments raging recently in Building magazine about whether the professional institutions should merge has made fascinating reading. But debates like these tend to polarise views so much that the potential for making progress is reduced.There is truth that the professions have been guilty of having a silo mentality and ...
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Blunkett pledges draft corporate manslaughter bill
David Blunkett, the Home Secretary, told the Labour Party conference that this autumn the Government would publish a draft Bill on corporate killing “that has been awaited for so long” Mr Blunkett said: “No one should be able to get away with gross negligence and the death of others in ...
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How the Liver Bird learned to fly
I thought your piece about the regeneration of Liverpool (‘Scouse Honour’, Cover story, September 2004) was an excellent synopsis. I think, however, the trigger for regeneration was several years earlier and in some ways a reaction to the Hillsborough Stadium disaster in 1989. Locally that was the lowest point of ...