All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 1357
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After the Millennium
General principles of security that are practised every day for material items are often overlooked when it comes to digital security. This report considers some of the dangers and suggests some sensible safeguards.
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Advice you can bank on
A Guide to Security Surveys Bill Wyllie Perpetuity Press Ltd £19.95 Date published: 2000 Content: 50 pages Tel. +44(0) 116 221 7778 Fax. +44(0) 116 221 7171 Frequently included within the security manager's job description is the required ability to conduct a security survey. The reasoning ...
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Advice you can bank on
A Guide to Security Surveys Bill Wyllie Perpetuity Press Ltd £19.95 Date published: 2000¶¶ Content: 50 pages¶¶ Details from: Tel: +44(0) 116 221 7778 Fax: +44(0) 116 221 7171¶¶ Frequently included within the security manager's job description is the required ability to conduct a security ...
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Briefing Papers - CCTV - Adopting a digital view
Digital technology is impacting on our lives through everyday items such as mobile phones, television and cameras. The benefits to the consumer are faster transmissions and higher quality sound and pictures. And now the CCTV industry is looking to digital technology to provide a much-needed path ...
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Divide and Rule
Last week the Housing Corporation revealed plans to separate its regulation and investment functions in its biggest shake up for two decades. We explain why the changes are necessary.
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Contract fears puts consortium at risk
Another member of a regional housing consortium has threatened to end contract negotiations in a new blow to the government's asylum seekers dispersal policy
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No Change on HB
Hopes that the housing benefit system would be improved in the short or medium term were dashed this week as the government put out a lukewarm response to calls for change.
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Restructuring gets blame for RSL cuts
A housing association is proposing £500,000 cuts while another has warned it may cancel £1m of community projects - both as a result of proposals to restructure rents in the housing Green Paper.
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Striking the right balance
The government has increased the resources available for social housing. But is the extra funding enough - and will it be spent in the right places?
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Audit Office pursues Medina complaints
The National Audit Office has begun investigating some of the events which led to the Housing Corporation placing Medina housing group under supervision earlier this year.
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Lack of action could hit Tory urban policy
Conservative plans to improve inner cities through new regeneration companies partly funded by private firms risk foundering unless the underlying causes of deprivation are tackled, a Tory MP has admitted.
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Workplaceupdate
Business Services Association director Norman Rose outlines the latest employment and policy developments
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Water services
The possible effects of climate change are starting to loom large in the public eye, with rising temperatures and reduced rainfall consistently quoted as causes of drought and low water supply.
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Tender process
The EU recommends at least six weeks for the return of tenders – David Pearson stresses that this should be treated as a minimum. He notes that most difficulties arise when managers ignore their company's complex decision-making processes and set unrealistic tendering deadlines. Establishing communication links with tenderers and arranging ...
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Prefabricated wiring systems
Faster, cheaper, easier to install. Flexible and adaptable. These are the benefits of prefabricated wiring systems that BRE has been exploring in a series of case study projects.
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Mass management
Exchanging project information is no fun when everyone has different computer platforms and the contractors have only just got the hang of e-mails. But the world is gradually going virtual, and would you believe it, so is construction project management. Will you be happy working on the web?
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Industrial profile
Working environments in manufacturing organisations are critical to their success. Often, however, they are taken for granted until they fail or money needs to be saved. Yet the facilities function that provides and services these working environments can play a far more positive role than merely minimising cost and risk.Tackling ...
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Green Machine
Merry Hill’s facilities manager Phil Cowling hopes that a five-star rating for environmental policy will prove that the centre is not a resource-wasting ‘monster’.
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Net gains
Once it just lapped at our shores, but in the last two years we have been overwhelmed by a tidal wave of e-commerce, and with it comes a flood of work for building services engineers. Are you ready to surf?
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Hothouse flowers
Even when the hills have soaked up the rain and the lush green grass is bent flat in the wind, the Great Glasshouse in Wales can still offer a Mediterranean haven. But how do you create and service such an environment?