All Archive Titles articles – Page 95
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Archive TitlesCCTV: know the essentials
Gerard Honey goes back to basics in his look at developments in the expanding world of CCTV
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Get CCTV system goes digital
GET has introduced a CCTV system with a compact digital video recorder (DVR).
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Archive TitlesLean, green cable machine
Brian Pigott looks at the issues of sustainability, from product manufacture through to site installation
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Archive TitlesCable management: the unlikely innovator
With three core product groups you could be forgiven for thinking cable management and innovation don’t go hand in hand, but Nigel Leaver believes they do
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Kier unveils new facilities services business
Kier is launching a facilities services business by bringing together its building services and managed services operations.
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Little coloured boxes
Marshall-Tufflex is now producing colour-contrasting accessory boxes for its Odyssey trunking range and coloured spacers for its alternative ranges to aid visually impaired people in locating them.
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Archive TitlesBox of tricks
Is prefabrication just for the big boys? EMC looks at two initiatives that are making the benefits of off-site assembly available to more contractors
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Local authority bonanza
Powerminster Gleeson Services has won a major contract with Newark and Sherwood Homes to supply gas appliance and smoke detector servicing to more than 5000 local authority homes covering five areas in the Newark-on-Trent district.
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NG Bailey kicks off at Arsenal
Contractors score a winning goal at Arsenal’s former Highbury Stadium by helping to convert the site into 700 high-grade apartments
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Archive TitlesIt’s not all greenwash
EMC’s Sustainable Building Services Awards highlighted the superb efforts of m&e contractors and consultants in devising innovative solutions that work with the climate rather than against it.
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Archive TitlesThe Green Agenda
So sustainability isn’t really packing a punch within the building services sector. But are we really surprised?
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M&E acquisitions set to rocket
Smaller contractors ready to sell up to larger rivals in mutually beneficial move, says report
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Paxton Access launches the Easyprox keypad
This all-in-one, battery-powered, keypad, lock and access control system is geared to internal security.
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HSE warns 4000 asbestos deaths per year figure will increase
Asbestos-related diseases are taking the lives of 4000 people every year in the UK and numbers are on the increase, warns the Health and Safety Executive.
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Archive TitlesSkillElectric 2008 winner picks up his prize
Richard Sagar, a 21-year-old electrician employed by Eden Electrics, has won the UK finals of SkillElectric 2008, a challenging two and a half day practical skills competition designed to promote standards and skills across the sector.
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Birchall fits £3.2m Brum office scheme
Birchall has designed and installed a range of eco-friendly mechanical systems at Birmingham’s largest new office scheme in a £3.2m contract with HBG Construction.
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Mitie fined £300 000 for death caused by mislabelled cable
Mitie Engineering Services has been fined £300 000 after a worker was fatally electrocuted in 2005.
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Industry job losses mount amid criticism of banks
Over 71,000 jobs axed and 68,000 homes shelved in one year as banks’ inflexibility puts contractors in jeopardy
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Site accidents kill two in one week
Bouygues and Laing O’Rourke under investigation over falling masonry block and gas explosion