All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 234
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Code for sustainable homes goes live
Technical guidance to help the building industry deliver key improvements to the energy efficiency of new homes has been published by Communities and Local Government.
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Bridging the office divide
The refurbished space did not previously benefit from air conditioning, having been built in the late 1980s with a perimeter wet heating system. Thankfully, this inefficient set-up has been scrapped in favour of a comprehensive environmental control system, designed to deal with the high solar gain in the substantially glazed ...
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Prison break
Bowker has sentenced Legrand’s cable trunking, tray and ladder systems to a long stint behind bars by specifying its products for two new custodial centres in Lancaster and Preston.
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ECA supports climate bill
The ECA backs government pledge to cut carbon emissions by 60% by 2050.
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Archive TitlesBaskerville House
Shepherd Engineering Services (SES) was recently commissioned by Hoare Lea to provide the M&E services for one of Birmingham’s most prominent buildings.
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Awards revamp
JTL has launched its new style national Best Apprentice Awards. The awards have been redesigned to incorporate the four key elements of the training framework – practical, theory, key skills and industry test scores.
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Archive TitlesElectrotechnical Craft Operative of the Year Award
Terry Pauls (pictured centre) of Bailey Rail has won the Electrotechnical Craft Operative of the Year Award at the Building Services Engineering National Training Awards 2007 organised by SummitSkills. This award category was jointly sponsored by the ECA and Select.
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Archive TitlesAngie Turner
The ECA's Eastern regional manager Angie Turner (left, with the EEIBA’s Bryan Lovewell) is one of four industry figures to become EEIBA Ambassadors. They will help to raise the profile of the EEIBA by promoting the work that the charity does to alleviate distress and suffering as well as raising ...
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10 000 diploma places available
New Diplomas related to Building Services Engineering (BSE) are to be available from September 2008. There will be two types of Diploma for the BSE sector: Engineering, with more than 6000 places available for the first delivery, and Construction and the Built Environment, with almost 4000 places.
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Piccadilly Place
The Manchester office of SES has been awarded the £6.5 million m&e installation contract at the new Piccadilly Place 3 office development in the heart of the city.
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Inviron
Inviron has begun managing the m&e services at 14 prestigious sites in London for property firm Land Securities, including Greater London House, pictured above.
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Composite crackdown
The Chancellor Gordon Brown attacked composite, or managed service, companies in his recent Budget.
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Confident T Clarke lifts dividend
Electrical contractor T Clarke has announced a 4% drop in revenue and a 23% dip in profit before tax in its preliminary results for the year ended 31 December 2006.
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Planning to be scrapped for domestic renewables
The government is proposing to remove planning barriers on renewable technologies such as domestic wind turbines and photovoltaics.
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Havell’s buys SLI Sylvania
Indian lighting and electrical equipment supplier Havell’s is to buy the SLI Sylvania Group for 227.5 million Euros. The deal is financed by an international consortium led by Barclays Capital.
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Plant theft down
Plant theft is down for the first time in 12 years, according to a report from the National Plant and Equipment Register (TER).
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New CDM regs come into force
Revisions to the CDM regs aim to clarify responsibilities, improve planning and risk management and lessen paperwork. The new laws came into force on 6 April.