All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 1390
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Licence to strip
Asbestos stripping is not normally in the remit of a mechanical and electrical contractor. But for one company it is big business.
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Training is Key
The value that end-users place on training security staff was highlighted in a recent survey by the BSIA
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Licensed to improve security
Now that the industry has had some time to consider the Government’s proposal for regulation of the security industry, which first appeared nearly a year ago, BSIA chief executive David Fletcher takes a fresh look at the likely impact of this legislation and some of the key issues arising from ...
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Can We Help
PAUL SCOTT, TECHNICAL SUPPORT MANAGER AT DEDICATED MICROS, ANSWERS YOUR QUERIES ON CCTV
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Sound guidance
The CIBSE is revising several key sections of CIBSE Guide B relating to air conditioning ventilation and acoustics. The BRE and Oscar Faber are looking for ideas, and late last year a workshop identified the scope for change.
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Guarding gets Technological
Businesses’ growing use of technology has placed new demands on security manpower to be It literate.
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The generation game
Photovoltaics may be the sexiest 21st Century technology open to architects and building services engineers, but it's still very difficult to justify on cost grounds. So how do you go about making a case for its application?
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Foundations
Foundations is a monthly distillation of up-to-date, previously unpublished data. The information is presented regionally to help with detailed business planning. House starts, compiled by the NHBC, show trends in your area well in advance of government data. Plus, fresh figures from the Halifax.
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Two faced
Traditional enough to blend into the streetscene at the front; clad in radical curvy glazing at the back, this is Mullion Homes’ prototype for its future product.
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Train to Excel
Thoughts on the recruitment, retention and development of security officers.
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Low energy toolbox
The Energy Performance Indicator Method (EPIM) and the Energy Analysis Reporting Method (EARM) are both building energy assessment procedures. But what are they, what do they do, and why do we need both?
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Net in the dock
In the first of a two-part feature, Rex Parry puts the legal issues concerning E-commerce under the microscope.
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Triple-e for developers
In the centre of an employment blackspot, the use of energy efficiency and conservation measures are being applied in an attempt to reverse the trend. ESD is working on behalf of the DETR's Energy Efficiency Best Practice Programme (EEBPp) managed by BRECSU, to help promote energy efficiency in speculative development.
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Details
Light bulbs and on-off switches will one day be as out-moded as a gas lamp. The latest mood-sensitive programmable lighting system even doubles as security - and its take-up has been surprisingly strong.
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The debate
Delegates at the workshop not only discussed the problems that each of the ETSU studies threw up, but proffered solutions of their own. Naturally, the alternative solutions were relatively back-of-envelope calculations, but often differed only marginally from the conclusions of the real design teams. The important issues and problems became ...
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Proving your worth with database intelligence
IRIMS (Incident Reporting and Information Management System)Moose Systems LtdDate produced: 1999 Content: Software based Programme Price: (For a standalone system) IRIMS Gold o2,999, IRIMS Silver o1,999, IRIMS Bronze o699 Tel: +44 (0)1977 668525 Fax: +44 (0)1977 723948How much easier our task might be if we ...
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Outsmarting the criminals
It’s the only security product to win the Prince of Wales Innovation Award, and the first to achieve Millennium Product status. The product, also rated as one of the top six inventions this century in the National Science Museum, is called Smartwater, and it’s increasingly being used by both police ...
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Concealed weapons revealed
The Manual of Prohibited and Concealable WeaponsPardigm Partners for PSS Limited£275 + VATTel: +44 (0)161 482 7800 Fax: +44 (0)161 482 4964 Content: 200 pages Date published: 1999Horror was my response when, while employed as a security officer, we arrested a shoplifter who was found to be ...
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The ten commandments
Designing intrinsically safe products for potentially explosive atmospheres can be difficult.
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Managing change in security
Issues in Security ManagementRobert R. RobinsonButterworth-Heinemann£22.50Tel: +44 (0)1865 888180 Fax: +44 (0)1865 314091 Content: 194 Pages Date Published: 1999“A manager is not managing, unless he’s managing change”. This phrase was said to me by a much respected former employer, his meaning being that a manager should continually ...