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The technology industry’s latest trend, the Internet of Things (IoT), might on the face of it appear as a daunting leap in the dark or as an overhyped consumer fad. Many examples of its use often look good on presentation slides or sound like the sort of thing dreamed up by overactive imaginations in
Continue reading EcoSteer: Benefits the public sector through energy measurement and monitoring
Air conditioning training equipment
Training centre
Toshiba Air Conditioning, a division of Toshiba Carrier UK Ltd, has been shortlisted for three major awards in the National ACR Awards 2015.
The company is a finalist in the Training Provider of the Year category for the creation of a nationwide network of air
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New hospital transporter buggy launch, March 31st 2014. Pictured left to right: assitant director of nursing and CQ Lesley Crosby, volunteer drivers Rolf Stobbart, Brian Rosan, Barbara Kelly and disability advisor Toni Tuthill
New hospital transporter buggy launch, March 31st 2014. Pictured are volunteer drivers Brian Rosan and Barbara Kelly
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Government and public sector organisations are under increasing pressure to provide protection and security for lone workers. John Wisdom, Managing Director of vehicle, asset and employee tracking specialist Ctrack, takes a look at some of the latest lone worker developments and innovations.
According to the British Security Industry Association, there are now more than six
Continue reading Don’t take the risk with lone worker protection
Rail College proposed site
An artist impression of the potential HS2 rail college on the site at Lakeside – created by Bond Bryan Architects
The location of the potential HS2 rail college in Doncaster has been revealed.
The 5.1 acre site at Doncaster’s Lakeside, would see the campus located close to
Continue reading Site for Doncaster’s potential HS2 rail college revealed
clos-o-mat at the Everyman Theatre
Robin Tuffley, marketing manager at Clos-o-Mat, examines why we should provide better accessible toilets…
clos-o-mat at Paddington
How often do you go the loo in a day? The average is up to eight times! Imagine how that impacts on your daily life if you
Continue reading Changing places can change lives – for all
Insped Truck
Budget 2014 – UK Companies to get Tax Relief and Export Boost ‘The Government wants UK Exports to reach £1 trillion by 2020, and for 100,000 more UK companies to be exporting by 2020. ‘We need our businesses to export more, build more, invest more and manufacture more.’ – George Osborne,
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Peterborough Town Hall
Honeywell (NYSE: HON) announced in February that it has received an energy performance contract order from Peterborough City Council to perform energy efficiency upgrades to eight facilities owned by the Council, including the town hall, swimming pools, a leisure centre, a library and a car park.
Honeywell has proposed a
Continue reading Peterborough City Council Places first order with Honeywell to cut energy costs at eight council sites
Award winning Social Enterprise Building Lives appeared as proud as punch as they picked up the Award for Best Training Programme in Feb 2014. According to Housing Innovation Award event organisers, these are the only awards to focus solely on genuine enterprise in the sector.
The 2014 winners were decided by an independent panel of
Continue reading Building Lives awarded as most innovative training provider
True Grit from Road Sweeper & Gully Waste
According to Siltbuster, leading waste treatment specialists, the newly published revised edition of the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) Protocol on the recovery of Aggregates from Waste is a major development for local authorities and their waste management companies, as it means
Continue reading Rule Changes In Aggregate Recovery A Golden Opportunity For Local Authority Road Waste Recycling
Peterborough City Council
Cllr Marco Cereste, and CityFibre CEO, Greg Mesch
London and Peterborough, 13 November 2013 – CityFibre’s vision of creating Gigabit cities throughout the UK took a significant step forward today with the official signing of a strategic partnership agreement with Peterborough City Council at a ceremony
Continue reading CityFibre and Peterborough seal partnership on Gigabit City roll-out
Rada’s expertise in delivering robust and sustainable commercial showering and digital washroom controls has been demonstrated through a project at the Ministry of Defence’s Dale Barracks site in Chester.
Refurbishment works across multiple blocks of the purpose built infantry barracks saw Rada supply a range of products including its T1 100 timed flow taps, VR2
Continue reading Rada completes MOD mission in Cheshire
By David E P Dennis FCIPD LCGI RAF – Arachnoid Articles
On clear nights it is easy to see Mars, reddish and distant. The planet is around half the size of Earth and the pull of gravity is far less than on our planet. Astronauts travelling to Mars would be weightlessly suspended in what
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UK infrastructure is a paradox. We have world-renowned capabilities in architecture, engineering and construction. Yet, with some exceptions, like the Olympics and Crossrail, our record at creating business, service and communications infrastructure is a best indifferent. There is chronic underinvestment. We need to spend around £500bn to bring the UK’s transport, energy and telecoms networks
Continue reading Chronic underinvestment in UK infrastructure claims MCA
With the annual 1st April increase in Landfill Tax, and publication of guidance by the Environment Agency, there has never been a better time to investigate road sweeper and gully waste reprocessing systems says George Anderson, Director of the Siltbuster Group.
Since it was brought into existence in 1996, “with the intention of driving councils
Continue reading True Grit
Dortech Architectural Systems is celebrating the receipt of an order from Manchester Academy that will take its sales of Dor-Strong Doors to over one hundred!
The Dor-Strong Door was developed by Dortech’s Maintenance Division as a result of the markets requirement for reliable robust commercial doors that could handle unregulated and surging pedestrian traffic. Experience
Continue reading Dortech DorStrong Centenary!
Aico Ei2110 multi sensor
Following its specification of Aico as its sole supplier of Smoke and Carbon Monoxide (CO) Alarms for its housing stock in 2010, Swansea City Council has now fitted more than 9,000 properties with Aico mains powered Multi-Sensor Fire alarms, Optical smoke alarms and CO alarms. When completed, 14,000 homes
Continue reading SWANSEA COUNCIL ENHANCES AICO FIRE & CO ALARM INSTALLATION PROGRAMME
Premier Interlink (Waco UK Ltd) has recently completed a £1.5m contract for the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOHT) in Stanmore.
The new Paediatric High Dependency Unit interfaces efficiently with two adjacent buildings and infrastructure, whilst also operating as a standalone facility.
The Brief was to provide a facility compliant with Good Industry Practice,
Continue reading Premier Interlink completes a £1.5m contract for the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
Polypipe, the UK’s largest plastic piping systems manufacturer, today (28 May 2013) hosted a special visit from the Minister of State for Business and Energy, the Rt. Hon Michael Fallon MP.
Continue reading Polypipe flies the flag for UK manufacturing by welcoming Business Minister Michael Fallon
As the East Midland’s principal unitary authority, Leicester City Council is the primary residential landlord in the area, responsible for a social housing stock of over 22,000 properties. To ensure that its properties are kept in the optimum state of repair, the Council employs a large mobile workforce of skilled trades operatives (bricklayers, carpenters, plasterers, plumbers, electricians, roofers, painters and decorators etc). This workforce undertakes all of the planned and reactive maintenance and renovation work on the properties, with job allocation and scheduling organised on a daily, and potentially, real-time basis.
Continue reading Leicester City Council improves mobile workforce productivity and customer care with GRASP
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