All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 1017
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Archive TitlesTough on climb
St Pancras & Humanist Housing Association has launched a campaign to discourage children from playing on scaffolding. The landlord has arranged for its contractor, TH Kenyon, to give talks in schools and is organising a poster competition for young people on the theme of scaffolding safety.
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Clarke decides to play it SAFE
Raymond Clarke – the creator and long-time chief executive of SITO – has re-entered the security industry after a short sabbatical as a director of an all-new organisation entitled Security and Facilities Education (SAFE) Ltd.
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Archive TitlesThe changing face of security
The annual showcase for the security industry opens its doors on May 19 to face a changed world
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Archive TitlesCorporation fights to get its extra development cash
ODPM is holding onto promised £97m to fund local authority social housing grant
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Archive TitlesVicon captures a piece of history
One of Vicon Industries' Kollector digital recording units has been installed at the Public Record Office in Kew, south west London
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Archive TitlesCanaries' Nest
Norwich City Football Club is kicking off plans for a redevelopment of its Carrow Road stadium and 330 flats. The £6m scheme, which got planning permission last week, will include 49 affordable flats next to a new 9500-seat south stand. The one-, two- and three-bedroom flats are being built ...
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Archive TitlesBusinesses "can do more" to combat terror threats
NOP research suggests only a third of employees know that their company is putting measures in place to combat the terrorist threat
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Security: everyone's business
In a world where security concerns are at the top of every organisation's list of priorities, the launch of 'Security: Everyone's Business' could not be better timed.
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Archive TitlesBSIA supremo welcomes SIA
As a fervent supporter of industry regulation, BSIA chief executive David Dickinson has welcomed the official launch of the Security Industry Authority (see our in-depth report 'From aspiration springs reality' on pp20-26 of this month's SMT).
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Archive TitlesBrian Geary (md, Broadland Guarding Services)
We continue our series of one-to-one interviews with key players in the contract security sector by chatting with Brian Geary, managing director of security company Broadland Guarding Services.
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Archive TitlesBoogie on clown
Nottingham Community Housing Association treated two of its longest-standing tenants, Ronald and Joan Bashton, to a visit from Joe Speare (centre), who is currently appearing in Boogie Nights at Nottingham's Theatre Royal.Speare serenaded the couple with Barry White's classic My First, My Last, My Everything as part of celebrations for ...
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Archive TitlesBoard and Stakeholder Committee join the SIA
Home Secretary David Blunkett has finally approved the operational Board and Stakeholder Advisory Committee for the SIA
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Police chiefs blast plans to extend powers of community wardens
Police unions in scotland and England have warned against extending the powers of neighbourhood and community wardens
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The Big Issue
The security equipment manufacturers who are members of the BSIA have always supported the introduction of harmonised standards across Europe, but are concerned with the costs and other implications associated with the quick introduction of the 50131 series.
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Archive TitlesEuropean best practice: Euro stars
Struggling with demand, funding, planning gain, outdated stock or off-site manufacture? You're not alone. Housing providers in other countries have to deal with the same stuff – and many could teach us a thing or two. We look at what we can learn from four countries with similar situations ...
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Rotherham to trial benefits link-up scheme
The government is funding a radical pilot scheme to link up benefit systems, allowing claimants to access all services from a single point.
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Without communities, we'll never beat crime
The sedate corridors of the House of Commons were shaken up a little recently by an event I was delighted to sponsor – a conference for the Young Black Police Association.
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Information security awareness: the what, why, when and how?
It's all very well installing the latest IT security systems and secure networks, but if you don't communicate your core information security policies to members of staff then those 'rules' will be next to useless. We examine the what, why, when and how of knowledge development in the data arena.