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Contracts in a crisis
With floods and fuel protests causing disruption to businesses, Sarah Townsend and Stephen Sidkin ask: are you prepared?
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Schneider Electric to buy rival firm Legrand
Schneider has agreed to pay £5.1 billion for Legrand to create a major force in electrical equipment. The company enters the league of ABB, Siemens and GE.
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The 2000 Young Woman Engineer of the Year
Samantha Hubbard has won the 2000 Young Woman Engineer of the Year Award.
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Strong dollar boosts Osram
Osram's sales performance was helped by the strong dollar as turnover soared by 18% to 4.3 billion euros in the year to September 2000.
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KPIs hit suppliers
Contractors will soon be able to select product suppliers based on their benchmark scores in areas such as product quality, delivery and aftersales service.
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Swedish delight
Swedish electricians are less likely to commit suicide than their fellow countrymen, according to a study.
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Summit debates partnering
"British construction clients are missing out on savings of up to 30% because the UK supply chain is failing to fully embrace partnering.
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Government rethinks failing Quality Mark...
Lack of industry interest has led the DETR to alter the membership fee and qualification structure of its anti-cowboy builders scheme to attract members.
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...as HVCA opts to assess
The HVCA is consulting contractors on a proposal to introduce an assessment regime for Association membership with effect from 2002.
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Time to go for green
The construction industry has been attacked for failing to deliver energy efficient buildings.
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Peckham wry
Award-winning Peckham Library has hit the headlines again, this time for all the wrong reasons
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Green Light
Richard Lafferty contemplates the significance of the Government's Climate Change Levy on the lighting aspect of electrical contracting.
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Savoy Place
Lower waste, lower labour, lower costs…are the theoretical benefits of prefabrication realistic? Alison Luke reports from an on-site trial.
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Modular Wiring - Wired for play
While standardisation and off-site construction is becoming common with building components, it has yet to become a force in the electrical wiring market.
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Trade Secrets
Going back to the classroom can be a touch demeaning for time served electricians. All the same, with structured cabling, there are some vital new lessons to be learned.
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Top Cat?
With Cat 5 cables being fast replaced by Cat 6, and categories 7 and 8 already being discussed, what is the future of structured cabling?
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Driving the field
The growing use of fieldbus technology in ac drive installations is set to save the building services industry considerable costs. But how do you choose the right fieldbus for an application? Geoff Pile offers some practical advice.
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Testing, testing
Our latest technical q&a series focuses on inspection and testing. This month Robin's Mike Ferris looks at earth loop impedance measurement.
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Flights of fancy
The new addition to Newcastle Airport is being hailed as a triumph of construction and teamwork by all the parties involved.
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Lightening the moods in Helsinki
Helsinki may not be the first place you'd think of for that perfect luxury holiday.
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Point for the future
Birmingham's new Millennium Point, currently under construction, is using Britmac underfloor power track and floor boxes to distribute power and communications cabling throughout the building.
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Quality fibre
Richard Lafferty examines a lighting technology which is now beginning to make an impression in the UK.
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The pro prefab MEDIC
Tony Rea reports on an industry project to improve health through off-site prefabrication of services.
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Energy saving carrots
From 1 April 2001 the Climate Change Levy will bring higher tariffs to electricity users. One company offering advice on countering the effects is Wyko Industrial Services. Tony Rea meets its contracts director, Mike Brook.
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