All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 84
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Kier unveils new facilities services business
Kier is launching a facilities services business by bringing together its building services and managed services operations.
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Little coloured boxes
Marshall-Tufflex is now producing colour-contrasting accessory boxes for its Odyssey trunking range and coloured spacers for its alternative ranges to aid visually impaired people in locating them.
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Archive TitlesBox of tricks
Is prefabrication just for the big boys? EMC looks at two initiatives that are making the benefits of off-site assembly available to more contractors
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Local authority bonanza
Powerminster Gleeson Services has won a major contract with Newark and Sherwood Homes to supply gas appliance and smoke detector servicing to more than 5000 local authority homes covering five areas in the Newark-on-Trent district.
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NG Bailey kicks off at Arsenal
Contractors score a winning goal at Arsenal’s former Highbury Stadium by helping to convert the site into 700 high-grade apartments
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Archive TitlesIt’s not all greenwash
EMC’s Sustainable Building Services Awards highlighted the superb efforts of m&e contractors and consultants in devising innovative solutions that work with the climate rather than against it.
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Archive TitlesThe Green Agenda
So sustainability isn’t really packing a punch within the building services sector. But are we really surprised?
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M&E acquisitions set to rocket
Smaller contractors ready to sell up to larger rivals in mutually beneficial move, says report
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Paxton Access launches the Easyprox keypad
This all-in-one, battery-powered, keypad, lock and access control system is geared to internal security.
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HSE warns 4000 asbestos deaths per year figure will increase
Asbestos-related diseases are taking the lives of 4000 people every year in the UK and numbers are on the increase, warns the Health and Safety Executive.
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Archive TitlesSkillElectric 2008 winner picks up his prize
Richard Sagar, a 21-year-old electrician employed by Eden Electrics, has won the UK finals of SkillElectric 2008, a challenging two and a half day practical skills competition designed to promote standards and skills across the sector.
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Birchall fits £3.2m Brum office scheme
Birchall has designed and installed a range of eco-friendly mechanical systems at Birmingham’s largest new office scheme in a £3.2m contract with HBG Construction.
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Mitie fined £300 000 for death caused by mislabelled cable
Mitie Engineering Services has been fined £300 000 after a worker was fatally electrocuted in 2005.
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Industry job losses mount amid criticism of banks
Over 71,000 jobs axed and 68,000 homes shelved in one year as banks’ inflexibility puts contractors in jeopardy
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Site accidents kill two in one week
Bouygues and Laing O’Rourke under investigation over falling masonry block and gas explosion
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Archive TitlesThe future’s green – if you’re in Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes carbon tax scheme reaps rewards while CO2 emissions payments could create heavy burden for UK cement industry
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Green Sainsbury’s store first to fit Monodraught SunPipes
Sainsbury’s new green store in Dartmouth, claims to be the first UK supermarket to fit Monodraught SunPipes in its main shop floor area.
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Haden Building Management rebrands as Balfour Beatty WorkPlace
New name forms part of plans to more than double the company's turnover within five years
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Grand Designs presenter opens Brislington Enterprise College
Kevin McCloud, presenter of Channel 4’s Grand Designs, has officially opened Buro Happold’s Brislington Enterprise College.