All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 1397
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PROBE³
It's new, it's ambitious and it's what you've all been waiting for the PROBE research project is back with another series of post-occupancy surveys plus groundbreaking studies into building design and operation.
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Getting their fair share?
Does chief executives' pay reflect the market? In the most talked-about survey of the year, Housing Today looks at how salaries compare to responsibilities-and rents
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Top directors' pay goes up at double the rate of rents
Housing association chief executives' salaries rose at twice the rate of rents last year, Housing Today can exclusively reveal
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Housing funds could be cut to pay for transfers
Council and housing association funding could be raided to pay for future stock transfers, housing professionals warned this week
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Performance indicators for LAs to be cut back
Ministers admit that list of 14 was too long
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Underneath the arches...
In one corner of the capital, the government's plans to cut the number of rough sleepers on the streets are being put to the test. But do homeless people want to come in from the cold?
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Plans for 'single pot' delayed amid wrangles
The government's controversial single pot proposals for councils have been delayed by a year
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Allowances to stay frozen despite recommendation
The government has ignored one of the Social Exclusion Unit policy action team's recommendations by continuing to freeze councils' management allowances
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Video over ISDN
Following the huge amount of interest in our remote monitoring solutions supplement last month we thought we'd take a closer look at the kit. Herw we check out the VICO Alarm System and PROVI/PROVILOOK Software from VCS
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The ins and outs of VMD
The need for video motion detection has grown along with the widespread use of CCTV. It's a complicated subject, but here we explain how the various systems work
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CAN WE HELP?
Do computers benefit installation engineers? Q The CCTV equipment service requirement seems to be moving over to more computer-based diagnostics and service aids. What real benefit does this give the installer/service provider, and what special programs are needed? A Computers are gradually becoming standard issue of equipment for engineers ...
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Open for business
Gate automation can offer alarm installers a valuable source of new business ... but high standards of service and products are vital.
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Current affairs - we need a trade organisation and we need it now
My old boss in the Fire Brigade used to say: "If they were to run a course in apathy it would fail through lack of interest". He was absolutely right but that was way back in 1973. Things are different today they're ten times worse. Nowadays, people are ...
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1851 SITO/City & Guilds masterclass [part 23] - Software: for door control
Our popular series on the 1851 SITO/City & Guilds qualification, which we ran from December 96 to December 97 was a commentary on the first two modules in this off-the-job learning programme. It covered Module 1 (Electrical & System Principles) and Module 2 (Intruder Alarm Systems). In this continuation of ...
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Risking life and limb at work
They face everything from threatening complaints to savage assaults. But are housing staff adequately protected?
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Getting it right
Housing assocations are experts at levering private finance into some of the poorest areas in the country. Brendan Nevin and Alan Murie look at the lessons they have learnt
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Back to the drawing board for rejected pathfinders
Half the housing PFI pathfinders have been knocked off schedule by the government, it emerged this week
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Council under fire for raid on anti-transfer material
Trade union leaders were this week calling for a legal investigation after a council raided union offices and confiscated anti-transfer material