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Britspace Invests in Modular Homebuilding
Modular homebuilder Britspace is investing £2m extending its production lines over the next two years. It is currently erecting two and three-bed homes in Chelmsford, Essex for Wimpey and its social housing partner Guinness Trust.Each two-bed home is made up of four room modules and two roof modules, which are ...
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Beware men in white coats
You are short of labour, consistent build quality is hard to achieve. Do you attack the symptom or the cause? And how do you go about it? Men in white coats may not be the best answer.
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Gleeson to sell green benefits
Gleeson Homes is to tell potential buyers how energy and water efficient their homes are by publishing environmental performance data in its sales brochures. "Environmental quality is an added value factor – it sits alongside designer kitchens," said Clive Wilding, managing director of Gleeson Homes.The developer has come up with ...
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Beazer are US
Beazer Homes Inc may share its name with the UK company recently acquired by Persimmon but there the similarities end. US Beazer is storming ahead with live/work homes.
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Beazer unit takes Zurich prize
Persimmon acquisition Leech Homes has taken the overall volume homebuilder of the year award in Zurich Building Guarantees' second annual Customer First Awards. The former Beazer subsidiary faced little opposition in taking the top prize, as Zurich only declared regional volume builder winners for two of its five British regions. ...
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Chris Bazlinton
Housing's on the up. Social elevation for two housing-related individuals as People's Peers and the re-emergence of the tower block in London as an ecologically-friendly answer to the shortage of building land in the South East.
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Maintain monitors
Many CCTV engineers automatically stop at monitor servicing and repair but it is within your scope …
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'New' SSAIB has VIP launch
The new installer inspectorate formed from the merger of the SSAIB, AISC and Integrity 2000 was due to be launched at IFSEC 2001.
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Now it's unscrambled!
After a four-month 'national tour', our ACPO Unscrambled Forums have helped to clear a lot of the confusion over that policy … and given installers a chance to air their views to the people that make decisions about their future.
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Installers offered new 'sales tool'
Approved installers can take advantage of a "unique" finance package for domestic installations.
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Infra the kill!
Fighting through the concrete jungle is the least exotic aspect of city life. But it has something in common with the green jungles of Africa: infra-red lamps
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NACOSS firms in line for Quality Mark
NACOSS approved installers will be able to qualify to use the Government's new Quality Mark designed to help householders avoid the "cowboy" companies.
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Established engineers on 'fast track'
The Fast Track route to NVQ Level 2 for "established engineers" who do not have qualifications has been launched by the Security Industry Training Organisation.
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A job well done!
From shops to stately homes …Epsom to Utrecht …here are some of the latest installations of which the installers are proud
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Keeping up the (digital) image
The increasing popularity of digital multiplex recorders means there's a wealth of new products to choose from. We look at ways of measuring image quality to help you make an informed choice
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On site demos on demand!
Panasonic is offering on-site demos of its products via two fully equipped demonstration vehicles.
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CCTV majors part company
Two of the CCTV industry's major suppliers Norbain and Baxall, both subsidiaries of the Upperpoint Group, are separating.
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Tarred with the same brush
So what gives us the right to cast judgement on the cowboys? It's the fact that all our reputations suffer
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Laptops beat screwdrivers
We look at the latest transmission technology – and some of the pitfalls which installers may find