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Security Focus
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Product Showcase
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Cover Story
Balancing the challenges and realities
of integrated systems in 2008
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Features
Interiors
24
Interiors:Lighting
29
Power Management
31
Fire Safety
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editor:
Welcome to the latest issue of Practical Facilities Management, your
indispensable guide to what's new and what's happening in the facilities
management world.
This month has seen the usual round of contract wins, a bit of hustle and bustle in
one or two boardrooms, some upbeat market reports and more than a few items
of research.
Here are just some of the highlights:
Where better to start than with serviced offices. According to new research startup companies as well as established businesses are fuelling the demand for
serviced offices in Scotland. The report highlights 'hot spots' including Aberdeen,
which, thanks to the oil boom, has fuelled demand for serviced office space there.
Thomas Ashdown, founder of Cityoffices, said: "In the UK serviced offices account
for 1.7% of total stock; however, that is growing."
The research shows the rise in demand for serviced office space in Scotland has
come about because firms don’t want the costs or long-term ties associated with
buying or leasing property. "This is particularly attractive to start-ups because no
capital investment is required and facilities are included," added Ashdown.
Elsewhere, the Security Industry Authority announced that it has introduced a new
online licence checking facility for companies. It is linked to the public Register of
Licence Holders and instantly highlights any employees' licences that have been
suspended or revoked. The SIA is encouraging security companies to register and
start using the service, so why not give it a try?
In contract news a story broke that support services group Amey has been named
provisional preferred bidder by the Home Office and Ministry of Justice. Under the
five-year, £750m deal, Amey will provide cleaning, M&E maintenance, grounds
maintenance, catering and hospitality, portering and space management services
amongst others.
Like me you might be interested to know what drives end users like the Home
Office to select a particular contractor from the bunch?
Well, according to new research, more often than not, it's money. Deloitte found
that nearly two-thirds of companies cite cost reduction as the primary motive for
large outsourcing contracts. The second most important reason is to get hold of
valuable technology expertise.
I wonder if either played a part in this deal: Earlier in the month, Independent
facilities management company Incentive FM announced it has signed a threeyear deal with the Crystal Peaks Shopping Centre in Sheffield. As part of the deal
Incentive appointed a dedicated facilities manager, Jessica Watt, to head up the
team at the 40-acre site. Incentive will provide the centre with a fully integrated
and single-branded service.
On to a little bit about what is in this issue:- Whilst we have all been experiencing
some very welcome sunshine this week, the extremes of weather are never very
far away in the UK and along with this comes the headache of how to cope with a
serious power failure. Andrew Fentiman gives us a few tips on how to cope with
this in his article on page 33.
Building management systems have come a long way since the 1980’s, and
integrated systems are a bit of a buzz word at the moment. Integrated systems
can be confusing but David Epps of TAC might just clarify things for you on page
23.
We also have our usual round up of all of the latest news in the Health and Safety
and Security sectors.
I hope that I am covering most of the issues that are utmost in your minds as
professional facility managers, feel free to email me anne@practicalfm.co.uk if
there is something of particular interest or concern to you. I would love to hear
from you.
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news
NEWS
Cummins warms to the benefits of Union’s
Matadoor range of Hi Speed Doors
nion Industries, the UK’s marketU
leading manufacturer of the
Matadoor range of Hi Speed Doors, is
helping ‘warm up’ engine parts with its
latest installations at Cummins.
The Leeds-based Company has completed a tripleinstallation at the Cummins’ Darlington plant to
support temperature control within its production
facility.
Cummins Engines Company Ltd., Darlington
supplies engines in the mid-power range to over 200
different customers in 40 countries. These engines
are used in Automotive, Industrial, Marine, Power
Generation, Mining, Construction and Rail
applications.
Following the latest installation Union now has 13 of
its Bulldoors and Ramdoors operating to segregate
areas inside the Cummins plant and prevent heat
loss through its large external doorways.
Since 2004 Union has worked closely with Cummins
Ultima solution for
hospital kitchens
olysafe Ultima, an extra tough
P
sheet vinyl safety flooring from
commercial flooring specialist and
Contract Flooring Association
resilient manufacturer of the year
Polyflor Ltd, has been installed in the
kitchens at Wrightington Hospital in
Wigan.
Specially developed for such intensely trafficked
heavy-duty areas where enhanced slip resistance
is paramount and a number of meals are served
per day, Polysafe Ultima meets USE guidelines by
achieving a sustainable ≥40 slip resistance (RRL
Pendulum wet test — Four-S/Slider 96 rubber).
Ultima also achieves a surface roughness reading
of Rz >70pm, recommended to cope safely with
all levels of spillage of olive oil, cooking stock and
similar high viscosity contaminants in kitchens and
food processing areas.
“We selected the flooring based on USE
recommendations and are extremely pleased with
its performance,” says Brian Porter from the
hospital’s facilities department.
The product — installed by St Helens-based CMC
Flooring — has been independently tested and
results demonstrate that it inhibits the growth of
MRSA. An effective cleaning regime is, however,
the most important defence against infection.
Fully conforming to EN 13845, the European
Norm for safety flooring, and flexible for ease of
installation, coving and welding, Polysafe Ultima
offers a choice of six practical and robust colours.
Redaer Reply No: 106021
to replace a series of older doors that were
becoming increasingly unreliable with costs
escalating for general maintenance, repairs to
impact damage caused by forklifts and down time
through doors being out of action. Union’s
Bulldoors and Ramdoors are renowned for reliability
and forklift damage is greatly reduced thanks to the
Bottom Beam Crash-out facility which is a standard
feature of the Matadoor Range of Hi-speed doors.
Timing for replacing its doors was perfect as this
conveniently also coincided with the launch of
Cummins striking new corporate image. Union
specialises in producing bespoke door solutions and
had no difficulty in manufacturing its Bulldoors and
Ramdoors with a livery to match the Cummins’
house-style with Black Gloss powder-coated
steelwork and bright red door blades emblazoned
front and rear with the Cummins logo and slogan.
Steve Walton, Cummins’ Maintenance Facilities
Manager at the Darlington site, said: “Heat retention
is a big challenge for companies using large or open
plan facilities. Operating reliable door systems
ensures we can maintain a more constant and
comfortable temperature for our personnel.
“In addition, the low maintenance requirements of
Union’s doors support productivity within the facility
as they require very little attention and up keep.”
Reader Reply No: 106002
SCA tops WWF’s corporate
responsibility charts
CA’s corporate
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responsibility reporting
is the best in the pulp and
paper industry, according to
a new WWF report.
Tork parent company SCA scored
the highest marks in the latest global
review by WWF’s Global Forest
Programme.
The 2007 Corporate Responsibility
Reporting in the Pulp and Paper
Industry Review compared 49 paper
companies throughout the world.
Companies were assessed on their
reporting measures across 20
categories including the
environment, energy use, emissions,
use of fibre raw materials and water use.
SCA topped the chart with a score of 17 out of 20.
Georgia Pacific and Kimberly-Clark scored 12 and
10 respectively.
SCA was one of seven companies to be given a
special mention for their excellent reporting on 75
per cent or more of the criteria. In
the WWF review SCA was also
singled out for its exceptional health
and safety reporting and for the
level of individual production site
reporting.
The WWF compiled the latest
review by scanning company
websites for relevant information
such as annual reports, corporate
policies, certifications and press
releases.
The review revealed that more than
65 per cent of companies now have
some form of published
environmental report compared with
48 per cent in 2004 and 42 per cent
in 2002.
This is the third year running that SCA has beaten
other tissue companies to a top score with the WWF.
In 2006 SCA Tissue Europe was the only company
to receive a “green mark” in WWF’s overall
RR No: 106004
environmental assessment.
HVAC drives from ABB maintain
corporate comfort at Old Trafford
ariable speed drives from ABB are
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helping visitors to Manchester
United’s stadium at Old Trafford dine in
comfort, however overheated things
may get on the pitch.
The drives control the fans for the air conditioning
system serving the two buildings that comprise the
stadium’s Quadrant expansion project.
The new Quadrant buildings have added around
7,600 seats to the stadium by increasing capacity in
the second tier in the north-west and north-east
quadrants of the ground. The spaces underneath the
new seating house five large kitchens and 10
restaurants, offering a range of corporate hospitality
experiences, including fine dining. It is in these
corporate lounges that the stadium’s building
management system relies on 33 ABB drives to
control the comfort of diners. The drives range in
capacity from 3kW to 7.5kW.
The primary contractor for the Quadrant project was
Laing O’Rourke, which authorised the installation of
Reader Reply No: 106008
the ABB drives.
news
NEWS
New bespoke air curtains from JS
S Air Curtains is launching a new air
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curtain that can be fitted with many
different mounting or suspension
options to tie-in with an entrance’s
architecture. It has an extremely
attractive round design and is available
in stainless steel or any RAL colour.
Among the different mounting options available are
round goal post-like supports that can stand across
an entrance or suspend the unit from a ceiling or
wall. It can be positioned horizontally above the door
with chains or poles, or stood vertically at the side of
the doorway.
When mounting horizontally it will provide an
effective seal for doorways up to 3.5m high. The
bespoke air curtain can be mounted end-to-end to
accommodate very wide entrances to buildings,
such as shopping centres or sports arenas, with up
to 10 units being operated from the same controller.
It comes with 2Cm of plug and play RJ45 lead for
easy installation and can also be controlled via a
BMS system.
Four lengths are available from 1m to 2.5m with a
variety of control options including thermostats, door
open sensors, outside temperature sensors and
timers. The bespoke air curtain can be electrically
heated or water heated, with outputs ranging from 336kW, or supplied as an air only model.
Powerful double-inlet centrifugal fans provide up to
6,475m31h of airflow, whilst being remarkably quiet
in operation.
Other services can also be included into the
bespoke air curtain, such as motion detectors,
CCTV or emergency lighting, enabling these
features to be hidden or more inline with an interior
design.
JS Air Curtains supplies an extensive range of air
curtains, as well as bespoke solutions, for all
commercial and industrial applications. JS’ in-house
project management division also provides a
smooth, hassle-free installation service that walks
the customer through from design specification to
post-installed product training.
Reader Reply No: 106010
Repeat business
for Sweepex
roadwood’s SweepEx brush has
proved such a resounding success
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with the UK's leading organic waste
company, the Bio Group that the
company has purchased another.
Used at the Group’s In-Vessel Composting site in
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Broadwood’s
SweepEx is attached onto a Telehandler and is
used everyday to brush up loose compost on the
one-acre site. “We purchased another SweepEx
brush because the first one worked so well”, said
Paul Watkinson, General Manager of Material
Change, the operational arm of the Bio Group. “It
is simple to attach to the Telehandler, easy to use
and works perfectly”.
Bio Group is the UK's largest specialist organic
waste business, comprising of three subsidiaries,
CRS, the UK's leading designer and builder of
organic waste facilities, Material Change is the
operational arm of Bio Group and Global Recycling
Solution, the plant machinery division. Material
Change operates organic processing sites across
England, as well as providing contract services to
clients requiring large scale waste shredding and
screening services. Clients include major waste
operators, as well as smaller regional players.
Operational activities include greenwaste
processing as well as IVC facilities. “Before we
purchased SweepEx, we had to try and scrape up
the loose compost with a bucket, which proved
ineffectual or needed an army of men with
brushes”, concluded Paul Watkinson.
Fast Technology offers free
Nilfisk-Advance
Muratec multifunctionals
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with no cap-ex!
performance sweeping
uratec, the multifunction
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specialist company, has
concluded a partnership
agreement with Fast
Technology, the leading
document print solutions
provider.
Under the agreement
Fast Technology will
provide customers
with Muratec
multifunctional
devices for no initial
capital expenditure.
In return customers
will agree to
purchase
consumable
supplies exclusively
from Fast
Technology for the
operational life of
the Muratec multifunctional.
As part of the arrangement, full
service support for Muratec
multifunctionals will also be provided
by Fast Technology, at no additional
cost. This means that customers can
acquire Muratec multifunctionals from
Fast Technology at no initial cost and
with full service support, in return for
purchasing consumable items such as
toner for the life of the device, typically
three to five years.
With these principles of the scheme in
place, Fast Technology will agree
exact terms and conditions to suit the
acquisition needs of individual
customers. This flexible
approach will allow
customers to
acquire Muratec
multifunctionals
without any upfront cost on
terms suitable for
their particular
print output
needs.
The Muratec
range of
multifunctionals
extends from the
F-300 13 print per
minute desktop model to the MFX2700, an A3 console system. All
Muratec multifunctionals are based on
the company’s own LED imaging
technology. Unlike devices sold
through high-street retails outlets, the
Muratec multifunctional range is built
for continuous use in commercial
business environments.
Reader Reply No: 106117
nsuring today’s large
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entertainment venues,
sports grounds and leisure
attractions are kept clean
and litter-free requires a
powerful sweeping solution.
The RS 501 road sweeper from
Nilfisk-Advance combines high
productivity with a compact size for
manoeuvring around car parks,
service roads, exhibition halls and
corridors. With a 34hp engine, the
Nilfisk RS 501 is the most powerful
sweeper in its class, and the only
machine of its type specifically
designed to prevent debris coming
into contact with the fan for increased
reliability and performance.
The versatile RS 501 can be used to
sweep up after all kinds of events,
from rock concerts to trade
exhibitions and football
matches, leaving areas
clean and tidy for the next
event. It is designed for
both indoor and outdoor
use and in all weather
conditions - even on wet
surfaces - without
compromising sweeping
results or safety. High
suction power and strong airflow
enable the machine to pick up a wide
variety of rubbish, including cigarette
butts, discarded food packaging,
bottles and cans.
Suitable for use on all kinds of
surfaces, including asphalt and
concrete, the RS 501’s pivoting
suction nozzle means the brushes
float independently of the ground for
effective handling of irregular road
surfaces and gradients up to 22%.
The adjustable brush speed option
also provides even greater flexibility to
deal with different surfaces and dust
conditions.
With a tight turning radius and
compact design the Nilfisk RS 501 is
small and light enough to transport
RR No: 106024
from site to site.
news
NEWS
Searle’s efficient new
KMe coolers save 50%
on power bills
High quality entrance
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ith their energy efficient
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KMe coolers reduce
on the success of the proven KM
range to bring additional benefits in a
wide range of applications.
refrigeration power bills by
The Eurovent certified KMe range
50%. This makes the
consists of seven basic models with
versatile 5.8-28kW KMe range numerous options. All models are
ideal for cost-saving
offered with 4mm, 6mm or 8mm fin
applications in cold rooms,
spacing, HCFC, glycol or CO2
warehouses, agriculture and
refrigerants, single phase or three
the food processing industry. phase power, and a choice of electric
The new standard
or hot gas defrost systems. Axial fans
400mm,
can be fitted in place of the standard
fansets where increased air throw is
required.
All units feature the
unique Searle ‘D’ fin,
specially developed
for refrigeration – a
9 1/2 inch diameter
tube with an
extended ‘rifle bore’
inner surface. This
maximises
performance, providing high efficiency
1,400rpm fanset also saves space, so heat transfer and a secondary surface
the KMe units’ rugged powder coated for frost deposits, to extend periods
galvanised steel cases are shallower
between defrosts. Fins can be
than the KM series they replace.
aluminium, vinyl coated aluminium,
Searle Commercial Director Richard
copper or electro-tinned copper.
Reader Reply No: 106057
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architectural feature, a
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TORMAX™ circular-sliding
RONDOR™ automatic door
system has been installed to
the main entrance of Kestrel
Court, a new development of
managed workspace at
Portishead near Bristol.
Technologically advanced, the door
comprises two sets of curved sliding
doors which operate independently,
effectively minimising heat loss from
the building whilst allowing fast and
efficient access for visitors. Not only
does the RONDOR™ look impressive,
it is also highly functional, delivering
an opening space of up to 50% more
than if traditional sliding doors were
installed in the same location.
Kestrel Court provides high quality,
flexible office and studio/workshop
space catering for new and dynamic
businesses. Having successfully
installed a TORMAX TEP™ single
sliding automatic entrance at Kestrel
Court in Gloucester, TORMAX™ was
invited to tender for the main entrance
to the eight-million pound Portishead
development, which opened in August
2007. “The distinctive curved frontage
accurately reflects the emphasis we
place on high quality facilities,”
comments Nigel Brookes,
Development Director for Kestrel
Court. “It is important that the main
reception should create a good
impression with customers arriving to
meet with our tenants.
Reliability is assured with the
RONDOR™ being powered by
technologically advanced TORMAX
TEP™ operators that are neatly
housed within the circular casing. An
out-of-hours access control panel
ensures security for the site, whilst
hold-open and closing speeds can be
easily adjusted to maximise
pedestrian flow. RR No: 106059
ABB drives reduce
running costs of air
handling unit by 70%
t a block of managed
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business premises in
Monmouthshire in Wales, the
installation of two ABB
variable speed drives has
reduced the running cost of
the air handling unit from
£180 to just £50 a week. This
is set to save over £6,000
annually, reducing CO2
emissions by 12 tonnes per
year.
Originally, the fans in the air handling
unit were driven directly by the motor
via a pulley system. Speed control of
the fan was possible by varying the
ratio of the drive wheels between the
motor and the fan, but this had no
effect on the speed of the motor and
offered no potential for saving energy.
The air handling unit was recently
refurbished to meet a lower average
demand. A current tenant of the centre
had previously been engaged in the
manufacture of semiconductors, an
activity that generates large amounts
of heat and a subsequent demand for
air circulation. As this activity had
ceased, the air handling unit now had
more capacity than required.
Allan McCabe of Kier Managed
Services Ltd is the facilities manager
for the Castlegate Business Park on
behalf of owner Robert Hitchins Ltd.: “I
knew of ABB’s reputation but had only
used their motors before, not their
drives. I decided to ask their local
representative to look at the potential
for using drives on the installation,
both to save money and to reduce the
carbon footprint of the building.”
ABB Drives Alliance partner APDS
installed two new ABB drives, a 22kW
drive on the supply fan and a 15kW
drive on the air extract fan. Running
the unit according to demand and
taking account of the reduced
occupancy, the ABB drives have
brought energy costs down by 70%.
The annual saving of over £6,000 will
give a payback time of 16 months.
Reader Reply No: 106025
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Monitoring solution delivers
accountable hygiene service
ustang Hygiene has launched an
innovative new monitoring solution
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that will deliver a more accountable
washroom and hygiene service to
clients.
Powered by Service Accent, one of the new
generation of service management software
solutions, it provides organisations with proof of
service that reduces the need to check every task
has been completed and ensures that contracts
meet agreed service levels.
According to Paul Downes, Managing Director of
Mustang Hygiene: “For the first time, clients will now
be able to keep track of the level of service provided
and ensure that their washroom facilities are
consistently maintained to the highest quality
standards. This new service monitoring solution will
New hotel achieves
comfort with energy
savings
taff at Cotswold Water Park Four
Pillars Hotel can set environments
easily through operator terminal.
The new Cotswold Water Park Four Pillars Hotel
in Gloucestershire has a superb HVAC system
befitting its luxurious vision. Supplied and
installed by building control specialists P A
Collacott & Co, a Partner company to CentraLine
by Honeywell, the hotel and conference centre’s
HVAC management system uses controllers,
valves, sensors and a PC-based user interface,
all from Honeywell. It ensures a comfortable
environment for guests and conference delegates,
whatever the season.
A PC-based Honeywell SymmetrE™ building
management system interface provides easy and
clear operator access to all HVAC, water,
extractor and heat recovery plant, for day-to-day
monitoring and control. It allows hotel staff to set
the environment in each meeting room,
appropriately for the event. Energy is saved by
turning off heating or cooling to unused rooms.
Staff can view all data points on the system
through the SymmetrE terminal. It also provides
data history on all points.
HVAC plant is controlled by five Honeywell Excel
Controllers, located in separate plant rooms
across the complex.
The entire system uses a LonWorks open
network, so can be upgraded and expanded at
any time in the future. Reader Reply No: 106045
enhance our growing reputation as one of the UK’s
most innovative providers of washroom and hygiene
services.”
Supplied by VCi, one of the UK’s leading developers
of service management solutions, Service Accent
generates unique bar codes that are fixed to all
hygiene units, from sani bins and soap dispensers to
vending machines. It also automatically produces
work schedules that are sent direct to the
ruggedised Intermec PDAs with built-in scanners
carried by each engineer.
After completing each task, the engineer scans the
barcode to automatically update the central system.
When all tasks have been completed and signed off,
the client receives an electronic proof of acceptance
detailing all work carried out. This enables the
successful delivery of services under a clients’
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contract to be tracked from initial scheduling
generation through to job completion.
“Service Accent is a powerful tool that is enabling us
to monitor workloads and optimise the level of
service provided to clients,” continued Paul Downes.
“It is enabling us to handle 300 percent more work
without requiring additional manpower resources
and helping us to identify training requirements to
deliver a more effective client service.”
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Hotel and golf resort has been
setting new standards for both golf and
leisure enthusiasts.
Designed in the style of a French chateau, with
gardens inspired by Capability Brown and set in 850
acres of stunning landscape it is unsurprising that
Gleneagles has been a longstanding member of the
Leading Hotels in the World.
To maintain its edge and iconic status for its
fabulous amenities, the venue constantly looks to
improve both the facilities and the levels of service it
offers its discerning visitors. As part of this ongoing
strategy, its Club Restaurant and Spa areas have
recently undergone a £8m refurbishment.
Working with RSP consulting engineers and
Vaughan Engineering who undertook the mechanical
services installation Grundfos Pumps have provided
a wide range of energy efficient pumps, including the
award winning MAGNA circulators, members of the
hardworking TP centrifugal family and an ultra
efficient Hydro MPC 3-pump booster set, to ensure
all aspects of the new scheme deliver to the highest
expectations.
The new 20,500 sq. ft. spa is a partnership between
ESPA and Gleneagles and it has been designed to
deliver the most up to date spa services available
against a classic, yet contemporary, backdrop.
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Teupen solves tricky access
problem at Tottenham Hotspur
Teupen Leo36T tracked access
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platform has recently solved a
difficult access problem at Tottenham
Hotspur Football Club in North London.
The Premier League Club is planning to upgrade its
comprehensive sound system and the first phase of
this work requires exploratory work to be carried out
on one of the exisiting high level bass speakers of
which there are 16 located around the ground.
Unfortunately, there is very little space around the
edge of the pitch on which to
move and set-up a suitable
access platform, but specialist
hire company MBS Tracked
Access of Braintree in Essex
felt that, with a bit of planning,
it would be possible to
negotiate a Teupen machine
into a suitable position from
which to elevate an engineer to
the required 22 m height.
Firstly, the 1.58 m wide
platform was carefully tracked
along the pitch-side pathway to the desired spot and
onto a double layer of 25 mm ply sheets to provide
maximum surface protection. Then, once some front
row seats had been removed, it was possible to
safely position the four stabiliser legs using suitable
spreader plates and blocks, having had to initially
run the machine up a ramp made from sleepers in
order to clear the vertical side boarding.
The German built Teupen Leo36T is mounted on a
rubber tracked undercarriage which exerts a ground
bearing pressure of just 6.4 N/cm making it
ideal for traversing soft or delicate
surfaces. Once in position, the machine
offers a maximum working height of 35.5 m
with an impressive outreach of up to 15.2
m. In addition, the Leo36T features a ‘fuzzy
logic’ control system which provides ultrasmooth movements and hence high levels
of operator confidence which, on the
Tottenham job, enabled very precise
positioning of the basket to allow the
engineer to safely remove the speaker.
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This access control system contains everything needed to
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AS626 waterproof keypad, rated to IP68, Alpro Europrofile
deadlatches, in a range of backsets and faceplate
finishes, a quality Alpro EL900 electric strike and Alpro
power supply.
Overall the package offers superb value for money, when
compared to other products available and enables the
supplier to build in added value when offering the final
specification of the door to the end user.
With the addition of the Alpro slim line vandal resistant
keypad to compliment the more traditional product the
system is completely self contained and affords the
supplier a further vehicle for revenue generation.
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Spectra launches SHADE – a new rapid
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solutions, has announced the
immediate availability of SHADE, a new
self-contained rapid deployment
network infrastructure. SHADE
(Spectra Hostile Area Deployable
Environment), provides an effective and
unique solution to restore voice and
data communications where high
intensity conflicts, natural disasters,
pandemics or terrorist attacks may
have destroyed existing networks.
Delivered as a fully managed service, SHADE
provides a bespoke mobile infrastructure comprising
all necessary hardware and software. Using fully
trained specialist teams with extensive military
experience, Spectra can deliver rapid assistance for
disaster recovery relief efforts or tactical and
operational deployments in challenging or extreme
conditions.
SHADE uses satellite communications that link with
Spectra’s UK-based operations centre to restore
communications with the outside world via the
PSTN, Internet and VPNs. Secure communications
are assured using AES or any other government
approved encryption technology.
SHADE is available in a wide range of portable,
tactical configurations that can be rapidly deployed
anywhere in the world at short notice. It is fully
scalable and uses standard off the shelf technology
including Cisco routers and VOIP Phones.
Computing power is provided using Dell servers and
ruggedised laptops with proven levels of
performance and reliability. Everything is built into
air-checkable flight cases that meet the new 23 kilo
standard and are transportable in aircraft holds
without requiring special cargo handling.
In commercial environments, SHADE supplements
existing business continuity planning measures
enabling the rapid restoration voice and data
communications in the event of an unexpected
disaster. Using a permanent or temporary facility
close to where the organisation is based, satellitebased links can be deployed within 12 hours to
minimise the damaging effects that such a
disruption could have on the business.
The Spectra Group of companies is based in
Herefordshire, UK and provides a full range of
telecommunication services for a wide range of
defence and security clients worldwide. The
company has established an enviable reputation for
delivering a high quality, professional service often in
hazardous and hostile environments.
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Free award-winning
CPD-accredited low
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has resurrected a series of award-
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winning seminars focusing on low
carbon solutions, to ensure that all
involved in planning, designing and
maintaining the built environment
fully understand the need to reduce
the UK’s energy consumption, realise
how individual buildings can play
their part and are aware of the range
of solutions available.
The free day-long, Low Carbon Seminars are
CPD-accredited and include presentations and
break-out sessions from the GLA and Merton
Council, in addition to end users and solutions
providers.
“The events are designed to help everyone from
consultants and contractors to architects and
facilities managers understand the issues
surrounding the requirement for renewable energy
that will dominate building and planning
permission in the future,” explained Sharon Oliver,
Marketing Communications Manager for the
Hatfield-based company.
For further details on seminar dates email
Katie.McFarnell@meuk.mee.com or call 01707
282880.
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Fluid operation of Union Industries’
doors helps eradicate heat loss at Jeyes
nion Industries, the UK’s marketU
leading manufacturer of the
Matadoor range of Hi Speed Doors, is
continuing to support a programme of
environmental temperature control at
Jeyes’ manufacturing facility in Norfolk.
Jeyes’ base in Thetford is the hub of its UK
operation where it produces and distributes the
company’s bleach, disinfectant and cleaner
products.
Union had previously installed two of its robust and
reliable Bulldoors in external locations at the plant,
which aid the reduction of heat loss from the
building.
Continuous vehicle traffic in and out of the factory,
which leaves one of the building’s large access
points exposed to the elements, has led to Jeyes’
installing another of Union’s Bulldoors at the
entrance to its automatic palletiser area.
The fast-acting operation of the Bulldoors, which
open and close at 1.6 metres per second, allows
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range of workplace
solutions
forklift vehicles to enter and exit the facility without
compromising the integrity of the building as well as
providing a more comfortable working environment
for Jeyes’ personnel.
Manufactured as part of the Matadoor range of Hi-
Speed Roller Doors, the Bulldoors boast a unique
‘Crash-out’ facility, which ensures the door remains
operable if hit by a vehicle. Common to all doors in
the Matadoor range it is supplied as standard with a
fire retardant and anti-static door blade and no fewer
than 12 safety devices.
Russell Barling, Jeyes’ Engineering Manager, said:
“With thousands of cases of product travelling
through the palletiser area everyday we needed a
solution that would reduce the cold air entering the
building without hindering the productivity of our
forklift fleet. Therefore we had no hesitation in
asking Union Industries to provide another high
quality Bulldoor following the success of the first two
installations.
“Union’s Bulldoors achieve that task and have also,
through their speed of operation, allowed us to
reduce energy loss, save money and maintain a
more constant temperature inside the building,
which is beneficial for everyone working in the
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facility.”
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adds Pilkington
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workplace equipment.
Available online at www.parrs.co.uk as well as
Blue have proved that this truly
through a new 676 page catalogue, it features a
comprehensive range of recycling, smoking ban
and bicycle storage products to meet the
increasing demand from customers for solutions
that enable them to reduce their impact on the
environment. The catalogue is printed on
chlorine-free paper, farmed from sustainable
forests.
A wide range of recycling products are available,
from colour-coded plastic pedal bins through to
complete integrated recycling systems for the
commercial environment. In addition, to support
the Governments’ ‘Cycle to Work’ initiative, Parrs
offers a range of safe and secure cycle storage
units from individual cycle racks through to fully
lockable cycle compounds that can handle up to
forty eight bikes.
Parrs has also launched a comprehensive new
range of innovative smoking ban solutions
including no smoking signs and robust metal
cigarette butt bins designed for secure wall or
floor mounting. Custom-built canopies and
shelters are available in a variety of styles and
sizes with optional accessories such as lighting,
perch seats and heaters.
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innovative product is suitable for any
building of any age, of any function and
in any location!
Installing Pilkington Activ™ Blue glass on the roofs
of two primary school main entrances in the London
Borough of Newham was intended to improve the
quality of the buildings and to ease the cost of future
maintenance, as Ron Draper from the Borough’s
Design Services Building Surveying Section
explains.
“These two primary schools were built almost a
century apart,” he says. “Manor Primary School in
Stratford is a Victorian structure which had an
inadequate main entrance which we had to demolish
and build a new structure, incorporating a glass roof.
North Beckton Primary School is under 15 years old
and the school wanted to add an extension for
parents waiting area for their children and usable
space. We decided to use Pilkington Activ™ Blue for
both, because of its proven self-cleaning properties,
which would affect long-term savings on cleaning
and maintenance.”
Pilkington Activ™ Blue is basically the same as
conventional glass, except for a unique dual action
coating. Once exposed to daylight, the coating firstly
breaks down and loosens any organic dirt (such as
bird droppings), and secondly the hydrophilic coating
on the glass causes rainwater to “sheet” down the
glass to wash the loosened dirt away.
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Smurfit looks to Hörmann
for size and speed
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installed’s new oversized V10008
high-speed door at the Smurfit
Sheetfeeding warehouse in Fishergate,
Norwich. At 10,000mm wide, the door
accommodates a heavy flow of traffic
including bigger vehicles used for
product distribution.
Despite its size, the V10008 is still able to open at
0.8m/sec which is one of its major plus points
according to Kevin Notley, Director of Cooks Doors
of Norwich, who oversaw the installation.
“That fact that a door of this size is able to open and
close at high speed is hugely appealing to
customers. Any time gains in a busy working
environment, no matter how small, add up over a
longer period.”
A double tensioning belt and especially wide guide
rails have been incorporated to ensure reliable door
travel when operating a curtain of this weight.
Tandem track rollers have been added to the design
to ensure quiet door travel while also allowing for
higher wind pressures. Reader Reply No: 106123
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Nilfisk-Alto’s Poseidon goes
cruising for a clean Queen
our Poseidon cold water pressure
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washers from Nilfisk-ALTO are
cruising the world aboard one the most
magnificent ships afloat – RMS Queen
Mary 2. The Poseidon 5-31 machines,
from Nilfisk-ALTO’s extensive range of
pressure washers, are in regular nightly
use cleaning the ship’s open decks to
the high standards expected of a
Cunard luxury liner.
The Poseidon range runs from compact portable
and wheeled machines to large mobile machines for
heavy duty applications.
Brian Wattling, Chief Engineer of the Queen Mary 2,
says the machines are used by the Deck
Department to clean external decks and bulkheads
Dalkia and North
Somerset make
Perfect Partnership
alkia’s renewed Performance
Partnership contract with North
Somerset Council looks set to lead
the way in Local Authority energy
saving.
Due to the integrated nature of Dalkia’s service,
the cost savings made will be used to directly
fund improved lighting, controls and plant across
North Somerset, without the need for an
increased budget.
Dalkia’s partnership with North Somerset council
began in 2004, when the company pioneered the
Performance Partnership formula. Since then, the
combined project with national utility provider EdF
has provided combined utility supply, energy
management and M&E maintenance for the local
authority.
“This new contract will dramatically increase the
potential for energy savings across the entire
region,” explains Dalkia’s Energy Services
Director Mike Sewell, “and could provide a model
for other local authorities in the future. This
holistic approach harnesses the direct benefits of
energy efficiency for our client, and embodies the
ideas behind our Carboncare solution.”
The tender for the extended contract was based
on utility and cost information yielded from one
secondary school. With planning is now in
progress to roll out the model across the council’s
entire portfolio, including 83 schools, 18 social
services buildings, 12 libraries and the Town Hall,
the projected savings are considerable.
“The Council’s utility bill is in excess of £3 million,
so there are huge potential savings there.” Mr.
Sewell continues. “With this contract Dalkia can
make a serious impact on North Somerset
Council’s energy use.” Reader Reply No: 106101
after 9pm, when most guests are enjoying the varied
nightlife.
Nilfisk-ALTO Sales and Marketing Director Karl
Kingston says the Poseidon 5-31 machines provide
an environment-sensitive solution to the ship’s
needs. The high performance Poseidon 5-31 is a
medium mobile pressure washer with a maximum
flow rate of 770 litres an hour. It is designed for cold
water cleaning tasks in all sectors. With a five metre
power cable and a 10 metre hose, the Poseidon 531 can theoretically clean up to 350m2 around a
typical wall mounted power point. Its quiet 1,450rpm
pump with three ceramic pistons delivers water at
110bar – enough to shift most common types of dirt
and to ensure shipboard cleanliness.
A single phase 230V machine, the Poseidon 5-31 is
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rated at 3kW. Built ruggedly for long service, the
Poseidon 5-31 is also designed for easy use and
servicing. Optional XT models include an onboard
reel with 15 metres of hose, a rotary nozzle lance
and a seven litre detergent tank. The wider
Poseidon range includes both 230V and 400V
machines, and petrol or diesel options for tough jobs
where electrical power is not available.
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upgraded with the addition of “Tork
City”.
This state-of-the-art application allows website
visitors to “enter” buildings in a virtual town to see
which washroom system suits which environment.
“Tork City is an exciting interactive tool that is also
highly useful for clarifying the washroom
requirements of any building or facilities manager,”
said Tork website manager Mark Riley. “It gives an
immediate visual insight into how a washroom will
look - whether it is an exclusive, functional, average
use or high traffic facility.”
Visitors to Tork City www.tork.co.uk/torkcity are
taken to the Tork City island where there are 25
buildings including a hotel, airport, hospital,
retirement home, department store, arena and three
restaurants.
When the visitor clicks on a building, a number of
“hotspots” appear. These represent typical
washrooms for that facility. The website visitor can
then explore inside these washrooms, each of which
has been equipped with the appropriate Tork
dispensing systems. Three further dispensing
options – such as compact, capacity, basic etc –
allow the visitor to switch between alternative
systems for the washroom depending on their
individual requirements. Reader Reply No: 106077
Emirates Stadium gets hi-tech
pitch with help from ABB
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that helps Arsenal Football Club
play in all weathers, while ensuring
harmonics do not affect TV cameras
covering the game.
An ABB industrial drive, supplied by ABB Drives
Alliance partner Central Electrical, feeds an ABB
motor used to power a fan that provides air to an
under-pitch aeration system that promotes healthy
turf and helps drain the soil.
The high-tech pitch at the new Arsenal Emirates
Stadium was designed and built by John Hewitt of
Hewitt Sportsturf Ltd, with heating, mechanical and
electrical equipment provided by Arthur Pollard Ltd.
Below the turf the root system is made up of sand
and various grades of gravel to form a permeable
bed. The air pipe-work is situated in this gravel bed,
above a wet heating system.
The air system can work in two directions. In the
forward direction, it provides aeration through the
gravel bed and through the root zone. Reversing the
air system can provide drainage from the root zone
down to pull moisture away from the surface.
The air system is powered by an extremely large fan
in the plant room, which is fitted with a large ABB
motor and a 160 kW ABB low harmonic drive. Low
harmonics were essential to prevent interference
with TV cameras and possible disruption of
coverage of the games.
The plant room incorporates a micro-processor
control panel. This communicates with the ABB
drive, monitoring the air movement at ground level
and adjusting it according to pre-set variables or the
groundsman’s requirements. When no air is
required, the ABB drive powers down the system to
Reader Reply No: 106079
save energy.
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Honeywell enhances
service levels in its contract
mobilisation solution
liaise with customers and to map out an agreed,
bespoke implementation programme. This includes
the scoping and coordination of the contract,
addressing quality, planning, health and safety
issues and managing risk, people and procurement.
The SCMT also inspects the customer’s critical plant
and produces a report detailing the financial and
operational risks associated with its condition,
together with recommendations on how these issues
can be alleviated.
On completion of the set-up phase, the SCMT
introduces the client to Honeywell’s Voice of the
Customer (VOC) team – an initiative that provides
the customer with an alternative method of
oice of the Customer and online
communicating at a senior level within Honeywell
information tool create further added other than via the service contract team. VOC is
value and greater peace of mind for
responsible for reviewing Honeywell’s performance
customers
throughout the life cycle of the contract, by
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monitoring quality deliverables that are scored on a
Honeywell (NYSE:HON) Building Solutions (HBS)
customer satisfaction rating.
has made two important additions to the role of its
Once a contract is underway, the SCMT will also
Service Contract Mobilisation Team (SCMT) in order enable the customer to check on the status via
to enhance the levels of tailored service provided at Honeywell Service Online – a secure, 24/7, internetthe start of new contracts and to ensure every
based information tool that enables authorised users
contract runs with maximum efficiency.
to keep track of service status, submit service
The SCMT takes on the initial management of a
requests, check on maintenance schedules and use
service contract, using experienced Honeywell
the data to construct a variety of reports.
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Abseiling
Rope access is a form of work
positioning that allows
technicians to access work
sites using methods originally
derived from climbing and
caving.
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Hibernian Football Club have not
only been at the forefront of football in
Scotland, but have been consistent
pioneers for the sport.
This tradition continued with the recent opening of
their new £4.9m state-of-the-art training facility at
East Main near Edinburgh.
The new facility includes 5 full size pitches, a
floodlit international size synthetic pitch and an
indoor synthetic pitch, as well as a gym, changing
and medical facilities, a hydro pool, players lounge,
catering facilities, office and meetings areas; all
supported by members of the ultra-reliable
Grundfos pumps range.
This fabulous complex can be assured that the
back-up of a range of 3 twin-headed pump sets
from the flexible Grundfos UPSD circulator family
that will continue to provide all the pumping power
that will be required in conjunction with corrosionresistant UPN stainless steel circulator that will
provide the hot water services, all backed by a
Grundfos IMpress pressurisation unit. The solution
was designed in conjunction with Arthur McKay
Building Services and the pumps supplied via BSS.
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These methods have been
improved upon and implemented
into the off-shore, construction
and maintenance industries.
Rope access has an excellent
safety record that most other
sectors of the working at height
industry cannot match.
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shine into Hycrome
nergy efficient Vision radiant tube
heating from AmbiRad has
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transformed the comfort conditions for
employees at a 6,000m2 manufacturing
and production facility in Burnley,
Lancashire. Part of a major heating
decentralisation project, the AmbiRad
radiant system provides accurate
control, zoning in 6 sections and the
flexibility and fuel economy required by
the customer.
The premises are owned by Hycrome (Europe) Ltd,
a leading surface treatment and manufacturing
specialist for the petrochemical and aerospace
engineering industries. The 30-year old building had
previously been heated by a central boiler system
feeding steam to radiators positioned around the
Colt Caloris links
with GSHP for
Ramada
olt’s revolutionary Water
Refrigerant Flow (WRF) air
conditioning system, Caloris, is being
installed as part of an energy efficient
refurbishment at the Ramada
Heathrow hotel.
Chosen for its compatibility with Ground Source
Heat Pump (GSHP) technology, plus its energy,
cost and space saving qualities, Caloris will also
provide air-source back up to the GSHP system.
Colt Caloris units will be installed in all 200 rooms
at the hotel, with two outdoor units linked to
GSHP. The hotel’s re-development is due for
completion in August 2008.
In addition to its compatibility with GSHP, Colt
Caloris’ design makes it perfect for hotel
applications. Caloris offers de-centralised, local
control, adjustable by individual room occupants,
and its indoor, horizontal units are amongst the
quietest and slimmest on the market.
Unlike VRF (Variable Refrigerant Flow) air
conditioning systems, Colt Caloris units are
connected by a two-pipe neutral temperature
water circuit, resulting in a minimal amount of
refrigerant charge being used, avoiding the F-gas
regulation. The minimal use of refrigerant also
negates the need for potentially costly refrigerant
leak detection systems. At Ramada, this has
vastly increased the available space – rooms that
would have been required to house refrigerant to
water heat exchangers in a VRF system are used,
instead, to store linen.
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building.
Hycrome Director Stephen Kelly says: “The whole
system was approaching the end of its life and had
become very inefficient. Some steam radiators also
kept breaking down. The time was right to look at
decentralisation.”
Requirements for a new system were heat coverage
across the entire factory, highly economic
performance and energy saving operation. AmbiRad
recommended Vision radiant heaters for their
flexibility and effectiveness. The units were installed
by contractors Integrated Mechanical of Ripponden,
Yorkshire.
14 no. VSXE, ECA-listed radiant heaters were
installed in the 10m high roof, positioned to avoid
the high level cranes. Radiant offers significant
advantages in this application: extract fans that
Top support services company wins
contract for Walkers Stadium
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maintain air quality by removing airborne
contaminants also draw in cold air when roller
shutter doors are opened. The radiant heaters
quickly recover the interior to comfort temperature of
around 21°C. The project, including relaying of
existing gas pipework, was carried out without
interruption to production – an essential
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consideration for Hycrome.
uilding on the success of their
B
Project Five-Star programme that
recognises the need to recreate the
standards delivered by the
housekeeping teams at prestigious fivestar hotels, Leisure Support Services
has won the support services contract
at one of the country’s top sporting
venues, Leicester City’s Walkers
Stadium.
Announcing the contract win, Peter Watts, Leisure
Support Services managing director said, “This win
follows closely on the heels of our Ricoh Arena
contract and further consolidates our base in the
Midlands. I am pleased that our approach to
delivering services in the sport and leisure market is
attracting interest and that cleaning at sports stadia
is now being viewed more than ever before as an
integral part of the visitor experience.”
The housekeeping team at Walkers Stadium is given
training to deliver the customer service levels and
meticulous attention to detail expected in today’s
sporting environments. The contract also demands
a sustainable way of working and part of this means
proactively improving the recycling levels of waste
generated during events. This will be developed
inline with the successful programme that Leisure
Support Services currently employs at other UK
venues including the Brit Oval where over 50% of
waste generated at events is recycled.
Peter Watts concludes: “We are proud to be working
in partnership with Leicester City Football Club and
through the development of our staff we will bring
real benefits to the club not only in terms of
maintaining high standards but also contributing
towards improved visitor experience and repeat
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bookings for corporate events.”
Reznor Heating in the media spotlight
Reznor gas-fired warm air heating
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system at the brand new Kings
Norton warehouse of Media Control
Limited is ensuring that staff and
equipment are constantly in the
‘comfort zone’.
Media Control Limited (MCL) hires out video, light
and sound equipment for conferences and
exhibitions at major venues such as the Birmingham
NEC. All equipment stored in the 5,000m2 must be
protected from damp, while employees at work in
the production and testing areas require effective
comfort heating.
Just four Reznor UDSA43 heaters were installed to
heat these very large space premises, maintaining
an internal temperature of 19-20°C – sufficient to
satisfy both heating requirements. Reznor Maximisor
destratification fans at high level return all risen
warm air to lower levels to add to the economic
running of the heaters. The units are controlled by
SmartCom intelligent controls that keep them
operating at optimum efficiency.
Despite the extensive floor space and a roof height
of eight metres, good insulation and wall-to-wall
carpeting mean that the high efficiency heaters need
only run at low intensity to maintain all-round
warmth.
The Reznor heaters are programmed to work in
concert with external roller shutter doors. One unit
fires up automatically when the doors are opened,
and the rest follow as the air gradually cools.
Internal comfort conditions recover very quickly once
the doors are closed. Reader Reply No.: 106127
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Tilley Roofing launches
gutter cleaning division!
Four former employees of a specialist gutter
maintenance company have joined forces with DW
Tilley Ltd to form a new division totally dedicated to
the cleaning of industrial and commercial gutters on
a Nationwide basis.
DW Tilley Ltd is already a long standing national
roofing and cladding contractor with over 35 years
experience in the industry and eight offices located
throughout the UK.
The diversification into gutter cleaning is a natural
progression for a company already covering all
aspects of general roof refurbishments and provides
DW Tilley with the distinct commercial advantage of
being able to offer a truly complete roofing package,
which will appeal to anyone looking for a one stop
shop for all their roofing solutions.
David Tilley, Managing Director is understandably
enthusiastic about the prospects for the new gutter
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fm diary
DIARY
MIPIM
11-14 March 2007 Palais Des Festivals, Cannes
Functioning as a global market place, MIPIM provides a unique opportunity for
industry decision-makers to meet, develop long-term relationships and
showcase their latest development projects.
IFSEC 2008
12-15 May, NEC Birmingham
Following on from the success of IFSEC 2007, IFSEC 2008 promises to offer
even more educational and networking opportunities than ever before.Truly
reflecting the show's ability to move with the market and embrace the latest
technologies, IFSEC 2008 will host the Smartcard and RFID area for the first
time alongside the 8 other dedicated product areas.
Fire & Rescue 2008
27th - 29th August 2008 ACC Liverpool
Following on from the phenomenal success of the launch event in May 2007 at
the NEC Birmingham, Fire & Rescue 2008 returns and this time co-locates with
the World Firefighter Games. Attracting major exhibitors and 22,784 attendees in
2007, Fire & Rescue 2008 is set to take its international status even further, with
the World Firefighter Games expected to pull in 5,000 firefighters from around
the world.
Safety & Health Expo 2008
13-15 May, NEC Birmingham
Now in its 12th year, Safety & Health Expo is Europe’s leading annual health
and safety event with over 22,000 high calibre professionals attending in 2007.
The 2008 event will once again offer an extensive exhibition, live demonstration
areas, comprehensive seminar programme and awards ceremonies.
The Facilities Show 2008
13-15 May, NEC Birmingham
The Facilities Show, organised in association with the British Institute of
Facilities Management (BIFM), is the meeting place for all those involved within
the facilities industry. 2008 brings a host of new features including The
Sustainable FM Academy and The Green FM Trail
Facility Management 2008
6th-8th May 2008 Frankfut am Main
Facility Management (FM) is your and our subject. The Facility Management is
Germany’s only special exhibition focused on the subject FM. Facility
Management is an enterprise task throughout the entire life cycle of real estate
and/ or a plant, demanding a high level of managerial skills from management.
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NEMEX 2008
20-22 May, NEC Birmingham
NEMEX is the UK’s longest running and largest exhibition and networking event
for the energy and renewables industries. Delivering all aspects of energy
management and efficiency and renewable solutions and bringing together key
suppliers and buyers at the UK’s largest national forum for sustainable business.
EXPOREAL
06-08 October 2008 - New Munich Trade Fair
EXPO REAL, the International Commercial Property Exposition, is the most
ground-breaking and important trade fair of its kind. It means business
networking across the world in projects, investments and fi nance. In 2007
EXPO REAL attracted 1,823 exhibitors from 43 countries as well as 23,800
visitors from 77 countries, confirming its position as one of the most must-attend
venues for the international Real Estate sector.
Total Workplace Management
8th-9th October 2008 London Olympia
Total Workplace Management is the official exhibition of the BIFM and focuses
on the efficient maintenance and running of a building's infrastructure. It brings
together product & service providers with FM and estates professionals and will
take place from 8-9 October as part of Working Buildings 2008.
M&E The Building Services Event 8th-9th October 2008 London Olympia
M&E is the premier exhibition for building services professionals involved with
the design through to the day-to-day operation. Manufacturers exhibit their
lighting, heating, ventilation, air conditioning & electrical equipment and visitors
can also benefit from an educational programme highlighting the latest
developments & solutions.
Energy Solutions Expo
8th-9th October 2008 London Olympia
Energy Solutions Expo is the event for providing efficient, sustainable,
alternative and renewable energy solutions for working buildings. The seminar
programme allows attendees to keep up to date with compliance and the latest
innovations & initiatives which are critical to this industry.
BIFM Awards 2008
13th October, Grosvenor House London
The BIFM International Investors in FM Excellence Awards 2008 will be held at
the prestigious Grosvenor House Hotel, London on Monday 13th October. Entry
Forms and presentations to be received no later than Monday 31st March 2008.
news
NEWS
The future of BMS
AC revolutionises the Building
T
Automation market by introducing
the most efficient and versatile IP
monitoring is achieved via standard web browsers
from anywhere at anytime while the intuitive
graphical display requires minimal training ensuring
controller
that there is little impact on the routine of the
TAC is the fastest-growing and most innovative
business. The Xenta 700 is not only capable of
leader in the delivery of integrated open building
directly controlling heating and lighting systems but
controls. Working with leading brands across a
also integrating seamlessly with security and access
variety of sectors, TAC constantly evolves to meet
control systems in addition to third party products
its customers’ needs, delivering an integrated
including intelligent energy meters via onboard open
approach to building management systems. The
interfaces.
company’s latest product is the all-in-one IP based
The Xenta 700, part of the TAC Vista family, is
building automation controller, Xenta 700.
based on a totally open architecture, thus giving
The Xenta 700 has everything needed to improve
customers freedom of choice in selecting products
building performance by creating an efficient working from a wide range of suppliers and yielding true
environment and reducing operating costs.
vendor independence. TAC Vista runs on
With inefficient equipment costing companies
Microsoft(r) Windows(r) with standard LAN
millions of pounds per year, building operators are
communication on Ethernet(r) or fibre optics using
demanding more reliable and cost effective ways to TCP/IP and standard network equipment. Field bus
control and maintain efficient building performance.
communication features the open LonWorks(r)
This all-in-one IP based building automation
technology, which is used by more than 3,000
controller combines building control, web
vendors worldwide.
functionality, alarm handling and superior graphics
Simon Ward concludes: “Building management
all in a powerful compact package that can be
systems, which has previously been the domain for
accessed remotely over the internet.
larger companies, can bring long-term savings to
Simon Ward, products director from TAC, comments: any business. The Xenta 700 allows for the easy
“Businesses are now accountable for their building’s management of all building functions, in the smallest
performance, so wasted energy is wasted money.
office to the largest commercial complex.”
With this in mind, TAC has launched the Xenta 700
The Xenta 700 is just one product TAC’s portfolio of
that is designed to address BMS needs of
products aimed at improving building performance
companies of all sizes and cut building costs.”
and reducing operating costs. Last year, TAC
The controller sits directly on a buildings existing
launched EnergyEdge, a comprehensive energyEthernet network, reducing the need for additional
saving programme that helps businesses make
software and more importantly, additional costs.
energy savings at zero cost.
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Using an embedded web server, access and
G-U Launches new
catalogue
retsch-Unitas is strengthening its
position as it launches its first
G
catalogue aimed specifically at the
architectural ironmongery industry.
With over twenty years experience in the UK
marketplace, Gretsch-Unitas is today the leading
manufacturer of hardware in the door and window
industry. And with a strong reputation for quality
and innovation, G-U is entering previously
unexplored markets thanks to its development of a
new range of glass fittings.
Paul Lewis, sales manager of G-U’s door division
said: “Despite our international heritage of 100
years, and more than 20 years in the UK market
place, we are still considered to be the new kid on
the block. We are confident that our technical
capabilities combined with our commitment to
quality will give us a good foundation from which to
build success.”
Available now, the catalogue features the
company’s extensive range of sleekly designed
fittings for toughened glass assemblies including
patch fittings, door closers and locks and strike
boxes.
With detailed product information and images, Paul
is confident that the catalogue will be an invaluable
friendly point of reference for all architectural
ironmongers.
“We’ve taken extra care to make the catalogue as
useful as possible and have included glass fitting
information, as well as an overview of possible
hardware combinations and cross references to
corresponding glass preparation details.
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NEWS
Panasonic bridges temperature
gap (K)Night and Day
esidents at one of London’s most
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exclusive apartment buildings have
air conditioned comfort outside their
International hotel group. Dave Evans, Director of
Microfix Infrastructure Services which installed the
Panasonic systems for main contractor Advance
front doors, provided by highly efficient Building Systems, says reliable air conditioning was
Panasonic Urban Multi VRF systems.
needed to prevent heat accumulation in artificially lit
Six roof-mounted outdoor units generate 92kW of
corridors.
cooling to support 21 indoor units. The systems, all
Microfix installed five U5MX4XPQ inverter controlled
of which are centrally controlled, provide comfortable outdoor heat pump units of 5hp each and one
temperatures in the corridors leading off the lift
U8MX4XPQ of 8hp, which produce a total of 92kW
lobbies on the ground and nine upper floors.
of cooling or 105kW of heat. These compact units,
The Panasonic VRF systems were installed to serve supplied through Panasonic distributor Wave Air
common areas at The Knightsbridge, a high
Conditioning, are ruggedly designed for reduced
specification development that includes 191
installation time and a long service life. They are
apartments, seven penthouses and seven mews
part of an extensive range of models which can be
houses on a 1.7 acre site midway between Harrods used singly or in multiple to produce systems of 5hp
and Hyde Park. The luxurious accommodation is
to 54hp, depending on requirements. All systems
complemented by an on site health studio, a
use environment friendly R410A refrigerant, and
business suite, underground parking and a
have hermetically sealed scroll compressors. The
concierge service managed by the Hyatt
indoor fan coil units are quiet running low silhouette
New design Sontay
website is energy
efficient with simple
navigation
Ease of access and efficiency
gains with CMS anywhere
ontay, the market leader in control
S
peripheral products, has
introduced a fresh new look to its
website at www.sontay.com along
with ease of navigation, a redesigned
colour scheme and live customer
support.
Changes were made to the website after Sontay
consulted its customers and implemented a
number of the comments it received. Site
navigation was an important area in the re-design.
The most popular sections are now in easy reach
from the homepage, mostly with just one click.
There are also added features such as the ëlive
support paneí which shows the status of all
departments in one pane. The dropdown menus
have also been reorganised with a new
ëdownloadsí section which includes a wide range
of Sontay datasheets and software updates.
Previously, the colours were changed annually to
reflect the latest Sontay brochure. Now the site
has a black scheme, making it stand out from
Sontayís competitors.
By visiting Sontay’s newly enhanced and
extended website, customers can get hold of their
copy of the new catalogue and CD, find out the
latest product updates and look up their local
sales contact. There are also a number of useful
links such as conversion tools, distribution
partners, commercial information and an
interactive tour around the Sontay facility.
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duct models from Panasonic’s FM3 series, which
are designed for installation in 350mm false ceilings.
Alternative configurations of the suction and output
ducts are possible in deeper false ceilings.
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n a move that opens up a wealth of
Imanagement,
flexibility in terms of facilities and site
LiftStore, the UK based
manufacturer of lift components and
control systems has launched its
revolutionary remote access lift
monitoring software, CMS Anywhere.
In any place of work, where the function of a
building’s lifts is crucial to everyday operation - and
with KPIs dictating strict service availability levels the ability to monitor a lift’s performance and be
alerted to any potential problems and breakdowns is
vital. Now, with the launch of LiftStore’s innovative
web-based CMS Anywhere system, this has been
made a great deal simpler.
Accurate and real-time lift monitoring, which used to
involve the installation of an onsite host server
connected via the PSTN to the lift controller, can
now be achieved by providing all CMS management
information over a simple web browser, accessible
by authorised personnel from anywhere in the world.
With CMS Anywhere, the disadvantages associated
with the traditional system – the need for extra
hardware on the operator’s desk and associated
maintenance and support costs – are instantly
removed. Along with the ability to tell instantly, in
real time, a lift’s status and possible servicing needs,
CMS Anywhere also allows for remote lift testing,
reducing the need for a team of onsite technicians
for routine performance monitoring. RR No: 106082
Nilfisk-Advance gives
Hospital a clean bill of health
usgrove Park Hospital Taunton, the
M
largest General Hospital in
Somerset, has made a major investment
in state-of-the-art floor cleaning
machinery from Nilfisk-Advance.
The hospital, which employs over 200 cleaning staff,
has taken delivery of 45 Nilfisk HDS 2000 vacuum
cleaners. An ideal solution for healthcare cleaning,
the HDS 2000 is fitted with a triple HEPA filtration
system to reduce dust dispersal during operation
and ensure a clean and healthy environment. With a
sound level of just 46dB (according to BS 5415),
Nilfisk’s commercial vac is also exceptionally quiet in
use, so it can be for used for daytime cleaning in
hospitals and other noise-sensitive locations without
disturbing occupants.
Its cleaning performance is equally impressive with a
rated power of 1,250W and a highly efficient suction
power of up to 280W at the nozzle at high speed
(150W at low speed).
The HDS 2000 commercial vacuum cleaner weighs
less than 9kg and the 1.9m hose enables a wide
working radius and easy access under beds and
other furniture. In addition to being highly
manoeuvrable, this versatile vac is designed to allow
operators to perform general service tasks with no
need for special tools, thereby reducing machine
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downtime.
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COVER
Balancing the challenges
and realities of integrated
systems in 2008
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integration manager offers a new perspective on building controls that not only
deliver balance sheet value but that help companies deliver on their HSE and CSR
policies.
government’s initiative to provide every school child
First and foremost, it is important to understand
with 21st century facilities over the next 10-15 years,
what integrated systems mean. It is a term often
shrouded in mysticism and lack of understanding. In is a perfect example of how building systems have
come of age and how the reality of operating these
its essence, integration means connecting all the
systems is about assessing every need at an early
various components in a building to provide a
stage and providing solutions that have relevance to
functionality that is difficult or impossible to achieve
all stakeholders including the building manager.
via separate systems. These systems are likely to
In order to understand what the building is, what the
include the various building controls but can also
key operating parameters are and how it is to be
extend to business tools such as personnel
used, it is essential to develop a close relationship
databases or EPOS systems, and the connectivity
with the client, professional team and the users and
allows intercommunication and the sharing of data.
operators of the building to gain this necessary
Common examples of systems that are ‘integrated’
detail. Only then can the most appropriate solution
include access and lighting controls, CCTV and
HVAC but the actual systems involved should be
be developed that meets the various stakeholders
determined by the clients’ requirements and should
requirements.
provide client benefit through improving business
Lancashire BSF is committed to providing state-ofvalue - something that has been overlooked in the
the-art technology. In total, £1.4 million is being
past.
spent across three schools and brings 21st century
By encouraging clients to be more consultative in
facilities to teachers, pupils and the community.
their approach right from the very early stages of the Sustainability, energy and social responsibility are
project, a properly designed, unified solution can be increasingly important issues and pupils are
developed where benefits can be achieved at all
becoming more aware of the pressing matters within
phases of the buildings lifetime.
society. Pupils want to know what the solutions are
Building Schools for the Future (BSF), the
to creating a more sustainable future. This is the
Pendle Vale
hen Building Management Systems first appeared in the early 1980’s the
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accepted idea was that controlling HVAC and CCTV facilities was at the
height of its capabilities. Now, more than two decades on, David Epps, TAC’s
impetus behind the use of a Renewable Energy
Display Board across the three schools. The point of
this tool is that it is a dynamic visual, which shows
the amount of energy being generated as well as the
carbon emissions saved by fully utilising the
renewable technologies.
This revolution in thinking and awareness is set to
bring building systems in line with the client’s and
user’s explicit wishes and requirements rather than
finding compromise through the use of generic
solutions. Essentially, rather than getting caught up
in the technology that is on offer, first and foremost,
the industry is now aiming to offer the client real and
directly relevant solutions to their needs. By
investing the time in undertaking a true assessment
of the needs and demands of the building at the
design stage, the client can realise true business
value through both the Capital Expenditure (CAPEX)
and the Operational Expenditure (OPEX) phases of
the facility.
It is important to recognise that the pervasiveness of
the internet has very definitely benefited the world of
building systems. It has allowed the universal use of
an open, and easily understood network; one that
everyone is now using both in their work life and at
home. Having a common network encourages the
use of common languages to be used between the
various systems and hence the ability to share data
and report information in a consistent format. In
other words we have ‘integration’. However, rather
than get carried away with the excitement of new
technology and all that it can do, perspective must
be kept. Technology can now achieve most, if not
all, of the requirements in a building, but it is only
the means to achieve the ends - not the end itself.
Without the necessary preparation and
understanding about the solution that is required, the
final implementation will not achieve the client’s
expectations or objectives and hence will be
regarded as having failed.
Quite rightly, clients have always looked for value for
money solutions to their problems, and the potential
slowing down of the economy only strengthens this
further. Energy, sustainability and social
responsibility are all key issues and failure to
understand the implications of these can have wide
ranging implications including financial ones. One
high visibility issue at present is the ever-spiralling
cost of energy. There is often big scope for reducing
consumption but to be able to do this the information
of where it is being used and why must be available.
This is where an integration solution scores over the
more traditional approaches. With access to data
from a variety of sources the system can not only
report back on a regular basis but can also
intelligently optimise and control the usage that will
not compromise the use of the building or
inconvenience the occupants.
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interiors
Blueprint for the ‘green’ office of the future
ffice design specialist Morgan
O
Lovell has created a refurbished
‘green’ environment at its headquarters
located in a 1970s office building in
London – providing a blueprint solution
suitable even for single floor occupiers.
The façade to Morgan Lovell’s building in the West
End blends in with Soho’s street scene, but behind
the doors a new interior has been introduced that
embraces the latest thinking in the ‘sustainable
office’ concept.
Carried out across two floors of a five-storey
building, the new design provides a realistic
approach for the vast majority of landlords, facilities
managers and other property professionals looking
to balance a moral obligation for a ‘greener’
workspace - without significant cost implications or
undue impact on workers’ comfort.
Villa squad shower,
change and eat - on
Polyflor
ston Villa’s ultra-modern new
training complex at Bodymoor
Heath, Middleton, Staffs, features both
luxury vinyl tiles and sheet vinyl
safety floors from commercial flooring
specialist and Contract Flooring
Association Resilient Manufacturer of
the Year Polyflor Ltd.
West Midlands flooring contractor Commercial
Carpets and Interiors based in Belbroughton have
installed over 200Gm2 of Polysafe Design and
Polysafe Hydro sheet vinyl safety flooring and
nearly 100Gm2 of Expona art & design lux vinyl
tiles at the complex.
Taken from the Polysafe Design range in 2.5mm
gauge, Enamel Grey is featured in changing
rooms and toilets, Polysafe Hydro in Tempered
Steel is fitted in shower areas, and oak effect
Expona brings a rich ambience to the
development’s restaurant and corridors.
Polysafe Design, available in eight shades,
incorporates Supratec, the second generation of
Polyflor’s unique soil releasing polymer system,
now including polyurethane for reduced dirt pick
up, even easier maintenance and life cycle cost
savings of up to 6000. Also incorporating coloured
quartz, aluminium oxide and silicon carbide
particles throughout the full product thickness for
improved traction and safety underfoot, Polysafe
Design, in common with all Polyflor sheet vinyls,
can be welded at the seams and to coved
skirtings to create continuous, impervious
surfaces.
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From recycled plastic bottles for kitchen surfaces,
recycled car tyres for entrance mats and reflective
paint to cut lighting bills, every aspect of the new
office design and refurbishment has been carefully
considered to minimise impact on the environment.
Other features include a folding wall in the main
meeting rooms, which offers a flexible use of space
and doubles as a giant whiteboard – reducing the
need for paper.
The new carbon neutral office uses infrared
movement sensors to deploy lighting in zones only
where people are working - spelling an end to fully
illuminated buildings housing just a few workers.
Dimming units are also installed, which can
automatically adjust to the natural lighting
conditions, so less light is used on sunny days –
dramatically cutting energy usage.
Despite all the expertise and investment put in the
project, the office seems remarkably similar to
innovative offices across the UK – and that’s what
Morgan Lovell set out to create. The aim was to
produce a realistic solution, which can be utilised by
the business community.Reader Reply No: 106043
InterfaceFLOR lays
it out in Black & White
he new monolithic Black & White
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collection of modular flooring from
InterfaceFLOR, is destined to be hugely
exciting for the design community.
For an individual and striking effect, the Tweedle
Dee, Hound Dog, Slam Dunk and Ink Blot, along
with Jailhouse, On Safari, A Maze, On Key, French
Quarter and Sidewinder, are sure to demand the
attention of architects and designers. Black & White
features a mix of botanical florals, animal prints and
classical patterns and, whether used individually or
with co-ordinating solid colours, each range makes a
dramatic statement, especially when laid in an office
or hospitality environment.
Black & White is manufactured on the recentlyinstalled 5/64th machine at the company’s
Craigavon plant in Northern Ireland, which creates
dramatic texture with low cuts and high loops. The
collection is now available as part of
InterfaceFLOR’s PatternWorks range.
When laid with co-ordinating solid colours,
InterfaceFLOR sees its Equilibrium collection with its
structured tip-sheared pile complementing Black &
White perfectly.
In line with Interface’s environmental best practice
credentials, Black & White is made using recycled
solution dyed yard and electricity generated from
100% renewable resources. It is this sustainable
approach, stretching back some 20 years, which
saw founder Ray Anderson recently named a Hero
of the Environment by Time Magazine.
Reader Reply No: 106026
Gradus steps up safety at
award-winning new University
radus Accessories’ innovative XT
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stair edgings have been installed at
the award-winning City Campus East at
Northumbria University.
Delivered on time and on cost by main contractors
Sir Robert McAlpine, the large-scale development
won the 2007 North East Landmark of the Year
Award.
Gradus’ XT stair edgings were fitted onto the main
staircases in both of the development’s new, fivestorey teaching buildings, as a superior safety
measure to reduce the risk of slips, trips and falls, in
line with research from BRE and Approved
Document M (ADM) of the Building Regulations
2000. Jet (black) inserts were chosen to give a
visible colour contrast with the light grey floor
covering, helping to provide an inclusive
environment for all building users, as set out in the
Disability Discrimination Act (DDA).
The XT range features slip-resistant inserts that
extend around the leading edge of the step to
maximise safety underfoot. The inserts are held
securely in place by a specialist adhesive bond, with
a locking mechanism for additional strength.
The XT range incorporates 55mm treads and both
40mm and 55mm risers to meet the guidance in
ADM and help form part of an inclusive environment,
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pattern that is ideally suited
to corporate environments
and its random design
ensures that each
installation is subtly unique.
Freestyle can be laid in a random
format making the initial installation
easier and faster, and by reducing onsite cutting keeps wastage to an
absolute minimum.
“Random lay tiles offer many
advantages,” says David Smith, Sales
and Marketing Director for Desso UK.
“By using our Freestyle carpet tiles
you can achieve the aesthetic and
design qualities required but can also
help to reduce installation time,
wastage and ultimately cost.”
With no need to worry about matching
patterns or pile direction alignment,
installing Freestyle is simple. As well
as the advantage of reduced
installation time, random lay tiles such
as Freestyle enable the use of off-
cuts for infills at borders, around
support columns and room perimeters
with greater flexibility.
Individual tiles can be replaced during
the ongoing life of the installation with
little or no impact on the overall visual
effect. This combined with easy relaying can prove to be a real
advantage in the event of floor box resiting, desk layout changes or
partition moves.
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manufactured from recycled
PVC. Both Premier Plus
Tiles and Premier Track Tiles
are now being manufactured
from 80% recycled PVC,
while Premier Grip is now
made from 100% recycled
materials.
Premier Plus Tiles comprise a flexible
PVC tile (30cm x45cm) with high
quality needlepunch carpet insert that
simply clip together to cover any floor
area. The same principle applies to
Premier Track Tiles (30cm x 45cm),
the only difference being the carpet
insert which is a superior quality
nylon. Both Premier Plus and
Premier Track can be easily cut to
shape if required and fit neatly into
footwells or can be laid on the floor
surface with optional bevelled edging.
Premier Grip is also a flexible PVC tile
(30cm x 45cm) that can be used as
either an internal or external scraper
mat. The tiles clip securely together
and can be installed in footwells or
used on the surface with bevelled
edging. Raised nodules scrape dirt
from shoes and when used in
conjunction with either Premier Plus
or Premier Track, the entire system
forms an effective line of defence to
combat dirt and moisture being
walked into a building.
“We are delighted to be able to offer a
recycled product range,” explains
COBA Europe’s Sales Manager, Chris
Stanley. “The quality is excellent.
The Premier range of matting is
widely used by a variety of
commercial environments and is
especially popular for the retail trade.
Our ability to now offer an
environmentally friendly product will
make the range all the more attractive
to a wide variety of end users
requesting ‘green’ products.”
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interiors
Movinord portioning keeps facilties
costs flying low at BAA Gatwick
ET, the UK based supplier of
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sustainable office solutions, has
once again teamed up with BAA
Gatwick and undertaken an installation
of its Movinord office partitioning
system at the London airport’s ‘First
Point’ office building.
The Movinord demountable steel partitioning units
were specified by the contractor, Alfred McAlpine, in
order to create a number of cellular office spaces
within the open plan environment. Designed
specifically to be flexible and easily reconfigured, the
Movinord system is easily assembled, with minimum
disruption and can be repositioned many times
throughout its lifetime – a clear distinction from the
use of dry wall partitioning.
Ian Harding, a leading member of the project team
at Alfred McAlpine, explained the merits of the
Movinord system: “When BAA Lynton, the airport
owner’s commercial property operators, approached
us with the project brief, it was clear that both
aesthetic quality and flexibility were key
components. With the Movinord partitioning, we
were confidently able to deliver an installation that
could double as a comfortable office space for
employees and as an attractive meeting space for
visitors.”
The Movinord specification follows the successful
installation of AET’s Flexible Space Concept
incorporating Hiross underfloor air conditioning
system – which enabled the building’s initial
construction time to be cut by 25%.
BAA Lynton First Point is a state-of-the-art fourstorey office development offering almost 6,000sq.m
of lettable office space. The ability to be flexible and
reconfigure quickly, with minimum disruption and
expense was crucial to BAA Lynton which envisages
multiple tenancies from various air-related
companies.
The Movinord range of partitioning allows specifiers
to create generous glazed areas with minimal
partitioning framework for a more spacious and
lighter feel to the office environment. Its latest dry
jointed system, durable steel framing and
pioneering, shatter-proof PMMA, Polymethyl
methacrylate (as used in aircraft windows and icehockey barriers) makes for an easy to assemble and
demount, fully flexible partitioning system.
Manufactured using ultra-modern technology, the full
Movinord product range has successfully passed a
number of laboratory tests and has gained
certification to European standards in technical
aspects including sound insulation and fire
resistance.
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WRU come home to Millennium Stadium
new offices in the Millennium Stadium, a move that
is expected to save the company more than
£100,000 per year in rent and similar charges.
Covering 6,842 square feet, the new office space,
designed by Brecon-based office interior specialists,
Bbi, is located at the entrance to the stadium off
Westgate Street.
Roger Lewis, Group Chief Executive of the WRU,
said: “We have wanted to consolidate our
departments for a long time and now our goal of
creating a modern environment bringing all our
expertise under one roof has been achieved.
“We are very proud of our roots and wanted to retain
s Wales enters a new dawn of rugby, our presence in the heart of Cardiff. We are
the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) has
delighted with the end results. Bbi has managed to
come home to its national ground for
take our vision and make it a reality.”
the first time in ten years.
The new offices are open plan creating an
Previously positioned at various locations in and
environment of accessibility and transparency.
around Cardiff, the WRU will unite all key Cardiff
To reflect and reinforce the WRU brand, Bbi has
based departments under one roof at state-of-the-art specifically chosen interiors influenced by Wales and
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Welsh rugby for the new headquarters including
furniture featuring accent colours of red, white and
green, carpet details imitating rugby player
formations and rugby ball shaped work tops. For
employees having a bad day, Bbi has even installed
post protectors for stress relief!
Stephen Price, Account Manager at Bbi, said: “In
this project we were able to showcase our work and
our abilities. The brief allowed us not only to work on
an iconic Welsh building but to be creative in
designing a space that reflected the WRU’s brand
values. Where possible we used environmentallyfriendly products sourced within Wales so that the
offices are both exemplar and sustainable.”
Formed in 1989, Welsh headquartered Bbi operates
from three locations – Brecon, Leeds and
Gloucester – working for some of the UK’s leading
organisations including Zurich Financial Services
and Lloyds TSB Asset Management.
Reader Reply No: 106121
World premiere of Helvar Digidim
Router in Blenholmen Premises
wedish electrical consultants PQR
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EL and architects Strategisk
Arkitektur are the first in the world to
specify Helvar’s new Digidim Router.
The new Router features in the total refurbishment
of the landmark Blekholmen premises in Stockholm
and takes DALI (Digital Addressable Lighting
Interface) to a whole new level.
The vast Blekholmen building, home to the Swedish
Post Office and adjacent to the World Trade Center,
required a high tech lighting solution that was also
flexible and user friendly. The market leading lighting
control specialist Helvar was the natural choice.
PQR EL saw the potential of its new Digidim Router
to optimise the energy efficiency of the whole
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building.
The Digidim Router allows two DALI networks to be
connected to one Router. Only one control unit is
required for both the lighting components (e.g.
fluorescent tubes, dimmers, relays) and the function
units (e.g. keypads, occupancy sensors). 4,000
Routers can be connected to the same network
which in turn means that up to half a million
addresses can be connected to one single system.
The new system does not require a PC connection.
Key Features of DigiDim Router 910
As the Router communicates individually with each
fitting there is no need to re-rout cables if the
building is rearranged.
No pc conection and no need for electrical re-
installations when renovating – simply re-group the
lighting equipment using the visualisation function
included in the software. DALI is considered to be
the most flexible protocol available for lighting
Reader Reply No: 106020
control.
interiors: lighting
Philips ECS Lighting Controls provides flexible
lighting management system for St Pancras
oyal Philips Electronics’ has
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incorporated its fully flexible
LightMaster Modular control system
into the stunning redevelopment
programme at London’s St Pancras
station.
Without doubt its capability to link lighting in the core
operating centres of the station together and
integrate the multitude of different lamps and lighting
fixtures across the entire estate was key for Senior
Project Manager, Mark Hamill of Spie Mathew Hall,
in selecting the Philips ECS LMM system.
The new home for Eurostar, this unique London
landmark is one of the UK’s largest enclosed
spaces. Within this area the control system had to
operate not only the ticket hall and baggage area
but also the prestigious Business Premier Lounge,
and the impressive shopping complex known as
Circle Retail.
On entering the Business Premier Lounge,
passengers cannot help but be impressed by the
architecture of the interior which has now been
enhanced by the subtle layered lighting application.
Creating both accent and ambient lighting some 30
different luminaires have been used including
custom made chandeliers which take pride of the
place. The LMM system co-ordinates all of these
different elements to create a variety of scenes
should the lounge be required as a private function
facility. LED’s operated by a DMX controller have
been integrated into the welcome desk ensuring that
the distinctive branding of the Eurostar insignia is
immediately visible. Within the vaulted coffer
recesses curved white perforated panels have been
suspended housing cold cathode tubes which
illuminate and accentuate the rich brickwork. With
such a mix of different lighting technologies being
used compatibility was of prime importance for
successful operation. The LMM system provides
just that being able to handle all fluorescent ballast
types including analogue and digital ( DALI and DSI
) whether individually or in combination. Not only
that but it can comfortably cope with virtually all
lamp types including as here, LED technology, as
well as the latest innovative luminaires featuring
colour temperature mixing for dynamic lighting.
Within the imposing ticket hall LED’s have again
been integrated into the service desk panels. Along
the perimeter of the space, up/downlighters have
RIDI adds spice with
the AIDA Vario
IDI has launched AIDAR
Vario, a luminaire
specifically for the UK
corporate office market.
Designed to meet the latest demands
of CIBSE LG3a and LG7 the AIDAVario has a unique feature: a three
position gondola section that can be
lowered to maximise ceiling
illumination or fully recessed to ensure
a flush ceiling line.
“The AIDA-Vario is an evolution of the
AIDA-Mini range,” says Mike Attard,
Managing Director of RIDI UK, “and
can integrate with a range of other
matching AIDA suspended and wall
products to create a unified lighting
scheme across a project. The
adjustable AIDA gondola section gives
specifier and end-client the option of
full compliance in retracted mode or
an aesthetic choice in flush mode. It is
great for commercial offices as it has
been designed specifically around
CIBSE LG7. The tooless and easy to
adjust gondola section also gives the
user or specifier a choice of light
distribution based on their individual
requirement and room orientation.”
Each luminaire is available in a choice
of matt aluminium louvre or reeded
prismatic diffuser. Reeded aluminium
or satinised white aluminium gullwings
produce a softly diffused uplit canopy
which is excellent for vertical light
control and gives sharp architectural
styling. The AIDA-Vario also features
additional fill-in light through the
square perforations in gondola sides
for a softer and evenly spread light
diffusion. For an enhanced lighting
effect, special effect colour filters can
be specified to add feature to the
perforated areas.
AIIDA-Vario is offered with a universal
body for a variety of ceiling types. In
addition, all luminaires are equipped
with energy saving electronic control
gear for TC-L and T5 lamps with
dimmable electronic versions also
available as standard options. A 3hour integral emergency option is also
available. Reader Reply No: 106030
been positioned to reflect light onto the Victorian
architectural features whilst 600mm x 600mm
modules provide the main ambient lighting.
One of the main benefits of the control system is
that it can be housed in a location which can be
easily accessed. Operated via a user friendly
software interface, LightManager®, adjustments can
simply be made by the end user or the facilities
management provider. Its monitoring facility
provides exact information about how long lamps
have been burning. This has two major benefits
firstly by calculating energy costs per area and
secondly by enabling efficient scheduling for lamp
replacement. The software programme can also help
monitor the emergency lighting with tests being
performed automatically, day or night, per luminaire.
Whilst the station is running practically around the
clock the Baggage Hall is one area where presence
detection offered by controls have been utilised.
Here, sensors respond to the movement of body
heat within a specified zone, switching lights on or
off. A time delay can if necessary also be used to
ensure that unwanted switching is avoided if a
person is still for a period of time within the space.
Circle Retail houses 26 outlets tempting not only
travellers to shop but providing a convenient venue
for local residents to purchase goods from an array
of top quality brand names. To ensure lighting
uniformity across Circle Retail a Barrisol ceiling was
suspended lit from behind to 8000 lux.
Reader Reply No.: 106071
EcoLEDLighting gains
BSI seal of approval
coLEDLighting is
E
delighted to announce
that comprehensive and
rigorous tests carried out by
the British Standards
Institute on their range of
LED downlights,
confirm they are the
first BSI-tested
luminaries of their
type to fully
comply with Part
L 1 (A & B) and 2
(A & B) of the UK
Building
Regulations.
The tests were carried out by
BSI Product Services who perform
testing for a variety of government
departments, regulatory bodies and
trade associations, as well as
assisting companies with prototype
and pre-production testing. Two types
of EcoLEDLighting downlights were
tested; dimmable and non-dimmable,
both were assessed to determine the
following parameters:
G Rated lumen output
G Lumen per watt
G Power factor and total
harmonic distortion
G Photometric performance
measurements
The test results demonstrate
EcoLEDLighting’s MR16 fittings are
fully compliant with Part L1 (A & B)
and Part L2 (A & B) amendments to
the Building Regulations. The
EcoLEDLighting MR16 range was
shown to offer a similar light output /
footprint to existing technology but
consumed 80% less energy whilst
dramatically reducing the
radiated heat (85% cooler)
compared to a
conventional MR16
luminaire.
The EcoLEDLighting MR16
luminaire is recyclable, low
maintenance, unbreakable (no
filament exists in the unit) and
supplied with a six-year guarantee.
The complete range offers a perfect
substitute for any dichroic and halogen
downlight and they are suitable for
use in the home, elevators, offices, all
types of local authority building,
cinemas and retail outlets. There are
also fully dimmable, mains powered
variants available.
The design team at EcoLEDLighting
are now working on adding to the
range of Part L Compliant MR16 type
lighting with “Swivel”, Compact “Up –
Down” wall and feature lights as well
as “Track Type Spot / Ambient
Lighting” systems.
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Helvar’s new ray
of light for Radisson
he stunning, newly opened Radisson
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Edwardian New Providence hotel,
situated at the heart of Canary Wharf,
touch of a button.
The Helvar control system was specified by lighting
consultants DHA Designs and, as lighting designer
has been brought to life with Helvar
Peter Fordham explains, a router with expansive
lighting control.
capabilities was vital: “There was a need for
With its riverside location and views across the City, continuous lighting control in many different areas
the hotel’s interior was designed to reflect the
and the Imagine system is ideal for this type of
surroundings and a light and refreshing atmosphere multi-purpose application. We needed to provide
has been created throughout. A comprehensive
ambient lighting in the restaurant and bar, as well as
installation, Helvar’s Imagine lighting control system intelligent control of the business and conferencing
has been employed in each of the hotel’s bars and
facilities,”
restaurants, enhancing the inviting environment in
Both DMX in and out capable, the Imagine router
the public spaces, as well as setting the scene in the can support 10/100 Mbit/s Ethernet connection using
hotel’s business centre and spa areas.
TCP/IP protocol, each router having a unique IP
Capable of supporting up to 40 input devices and
address. With the possibility to network up to 16
routers in a single workgroup and through the use of
252 channels of dimming, switching or ballast
control, Helvar’s Imagine router is at the heart of the Helvar Workshop application software, up to 4,000
dimming channels and 5,000 scenes are achievable.
system and allows for versatile and effective
Helvar is a leader in digital technology. In addition to the most comprehensive range of digital control
commercial lighting control. Connected to 150
equipment that is designed, developed and
channels of rack mounted dimmers, the end result is residential lighting control solutions the company
offers specifiers, lighting designers and contractors
manufactured in the UK. Reader Reply No: 106115
over a thousand lighting scenes available at the
Simmtronic wins
major lighting
control contract at
Canary Wharf
RIDI Lighting displays
a clear vision for ARC 08
RIDI will be showcasing a raft of
new luminaires on stand M2 at ARC 08
immtronic has been awarded a
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he Red dot award-winning VISION III
contract from PIP Electrics Ltd to
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from RIDI is a suspended
supply fully addressable lighting
direct/indirect panel luminaire that’s
controls for 20 Churchill Place,
Canary Wharf.
Every luminaire in the building will be controlled
under DALI protocol by Simmtronic systems. All
emergency luminaires will incorporate DALI
control inverters to enable the lighting control
system to automatically test the emergency
installation via the DALI protocol.
This building is currently under construction and
due for completion in Autumn 2008. Designed by
Kohn Pedersen Fox, it offers approximately
300,000ft2 of office space above ground plus
ancillary space.
Hilson Moran, the M & E Consultant has specified
an energy saving lighting control scheme,
predominantly presence based and with daylight
linking on the perimeter rows of luminaires. The
offices and trading floors have a combination of
recessed modular fittings and suspended linear
direct/indirect luminaires. For the recessed
modular fittings, Simmtronic’s nine output DALI
LCMs are being configured one per port to
eliminate sub-addressing.
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designed to create a comfortable and
productive work place. A broad microprism panel and extremely shallow
profile makes for a discreet design, that
delivers eye-catching looks and a high
light output ratio for maximum energy
efficiency. Excellent quality of light and
effective glare control, make the stylish
VISION III the perfect luminaire for the
21st Century work environment.
The AIDA-Vario is a luminaire specifically for the UK
corporate office market. Designed to meet the latest
demands of CIBSE LG3a and LG7 the AIDA-Vario
has a unique feature: a three position gondola
section that can be lowered to maximise ceiling
illumination or fully recessed to ensure a flush
ceiling line. Each luminaire is available in a choice of
matt aluminium louvre or reeded prismatic diffuser.
Reeded aluminium or satinised white aluminium
gullwings produce a softly diffused uplit canopy
which is excellent for vertical light control and gives
sharp architectural styling.
Also winner of a Red dot award is DOMINO, a
stylish luminaire that combines form and function by
utilising the luminaire housing to double as an
electronic gear tray. It offers a winning combination
of practicality, performance and robust manufacture
– an ideal combination for lighting designers
specifying retail lighting applications. Available in a
12w LED version or 20w CDMT, the range can be
fitted with a range of additional lamp types - from
high voltage through to high pressure discharge
lamps.
Also on display is the VENICE Light Channel from
RIDI is a narrow rectangular light channel, available
for recessed or surface-mounted applications, and
made of extruded sectional aluminium.
The F-LINE, a trend-setting low profile direct/indirect
luminaire is now available in two and three lamp
versions. Featuring a sleek 25mm low profile, the
complete F-Line range combines RIDI’s renowned
German build quality and first class performance, in
a discreet, cost effective package
Reader Reply No: 106116
THEY SAID ONE SECOND
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Scorpion extends its standard
range of Canopy Gensets
ntegrated power solutions company,
Iexpanded
Scorpion Power Systems, has
its standard range of
Powerhouse Canopy gensets that are
now available from 5.5 kVA up to 1100
kVA. Very competitively priced,
Scorpion’s Powerhouse Canopy
gensets have generous fuel tank
capacities and are offered on very short
lead times.
Providing unrivalled power to space ratio and
superior noise levels, the Powerhouse diesel canopy
gensets are renowned for their reliability, durability
and service-friendliness making them an ideal
solution for power generation. Compact, for use in
both stationary units and mobile installations, they
are very dependable and economic to run. Larger
Merlin helps Inviron
keep generators on
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Securities
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further expanded its long-term
relationship with facilities
management and building services
provider Inviron.
This follows Inviron being awarded the contract to
manage the mechanical and electrical services of
a number of Land Securities sites in London.
Merlin has been appointed to service and
maintain standby generators at 17 sites, which
include Land Securities’ own offices in The
Strand.
The three-year contract will include 24/7-cover
with emergency response times of less than four
hours. The Land Securities buildings are
occupied by financial institutions, retail outlets,
communications companies and consultancies
which all rely on a continuous power source.
“Merlin was recommended to me by a colleague
for their previous work with Inviron”, said Paul
Horsley, Operations Manager at Inviron’s Facilities
Management & Service, London Business Centre.
“They have proved very competitive, reliable and I
have been extremely impressed with their
professionalism and the procedures they have put
in place”.
Merlin Power Management offers a range of
services that include power analysis and
consultancy, relocation and refurbishment, rental
of generators and UPS, refuelling and installation
services, generator customisation as well as
decommissioning.
Reader Reply No: 106033
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Powerhouse canopy generator sets are equipped
with engines that have been specifically designed
and developed to handle large step-load situations
whilst at the same time providing short recovery
times.
All generators, are supplied with a simple key start
as standard, but can also be fitted with fully
automatic mains failure controls to start and stop the
generator automatically whenever there is a power
failure. Also available are remote start units
enabling the generator to be started from a separate
location. Other optional extras that can be fitted to
the Powerhouse canopy genset range include
electronic governing to ensure stable output,
security locking bars, fire shutdown and retaining
bund to prevent fuel spillage. To complete the
package Scorpion is able to offer a weekly exerciser,
which exercises the generator once a week thereby
ensuring that the generator will start in the event of
a powercut and remote dial-out that detects
problems before they turn into disasters. The remote
dial out monitors the generator and if a fault occurs
automatically contacts up to four different numbers
in sequence.
Reader Reply No: 106036
Fuel Management........
diesel re-fuelling service on site, PE refuelled its
own 44 generators as well as the site plant and the
smoke generators in various display teams’ aircraft;
including the Jordanian Falcons and the Spanish Air
Force Display team.
PE is currently looking after 100+ ongoing fuel
management jobs, using remote monitoring devices
in some cases. An average month sees delivery of
120,000 Litres of diesel using in house tankers.
Additionally, a collection of trusted external
contractors are used for refuelling sites outside of
ower Electrics, the UK’s largest
the range of the company’s tankers – this equates to
independent specialist provider of
a monthly average of 160, 000 Litres.
generators for Rental and Sale, has
PE Transport Manager Alex Harris commented ‘Our
recently expanded its fleet of tankers to experience and commitment to Fuel Management
include a 12,000 Litre capacity model.
contracts ensures our customers can rest assured
This new tanker first saw active duty at the Royal
that generators they have on hire will continue to run
Reader Reply No: 106086
International Air Tattoo at Fairford in July. As the only when needed’.
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Chloride’s European agreement
with VYCON paves the way for
‘greener’ UPS solutions
hloride has entered into an
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agreement with VYCON to market
and distribute the VYCON VDC140 fully-
levitating flywheel in
Europe, for use with its
UPS systems.
This completely ‘green’ DC
energy storage solution is
an innovative addition to
the Chloride UPS product
portfolio and yet another
significant initiative in its
continuing drive to deliver
ever more efficient and
environmentally
responsible power
protection systems.
A combination of state-ofthe-art UPS systems and
advanced flywheel energy
storage technologies has a
number of attractive features for modern critical
infrastructures. It is not only a ‘greener’ alternative
for the delivery of stable and reliable DC voltage, but
also holds out the promise of lower maintenance
costs and extended equipment life span. The
VYCON VDC140 flywheel can be paralleled for
higher power applications and offers the opportunity
to replace lead-acid batteries.
Both parties to the agreement, Chloride and
VYCON, are renowned for the
strength of their respective
technologies, which makes this
such a potentially rewarding
partnership. Chloride is currently
celebrating being acclaimed Frost
& Sullivan European UPS
Company of the Year 2007.
Commenting on the agreement,
Chloride Vice President of
Marketing, Emiliano Cevenini said:
“Chloride and VYCON are very
enthusiastic about this new
strategic alliance. It will continue to
be Chloride’s aim to provide its
customers with up to date and highly efficient
power solutions. By using VYCON’s VDC Flywheel
technology, we are able to enhance our portfolio and
introduce even more effective solutions into the
secure power market”. Reader Reply No: 106083
power management
Protecting your business
against powercuts
A Look at Standby Power Solutions
by Andrew Fentiman of Powercall UK
Unacceptable Care
Imagine you are the manager of a care home and it
is a cold January night. Suddenly the lights flicker
and within seconds the whole building is plunged
into darkness. Without mains power you have no
lifts, lights, heating, hot water, kitchens, kettles,
laundry……....the list just goes on! More importantly
your residents will be dark, cold, unsafe, and
ultimately uncared for and would you have any idea
for how long?
Business Standstill
Alternatively, you run a growing, competitive
business in a building full of employees providing
services for and responding to customers, and
suddenly there is a powercut. Although you have a
UPS system it will only provide you with approx.
twenty minutes of support power; How much time,
money and business will you lose per hour without
power should the cut last longer than 1 or 2 hours?
Business Continuity
Nowadays every organisation should have an
effective power management strategy within their
‘business continuity and disaster recovery plan’ to
protect their integrity in case of powercuts. On
average we will experience around 20 powercuts
each year and, whether you are based in a city or
rural location they are not selective about whom
they affect or for how long.
The Statistics
According to Ofgem data the UK experiences
around 24 million powercuts a year, many lasting
several days regardless of location. With predictions
of more extreme weather and a less secure mains
power supply, the demand for standby power is set
to grow at 7% per annum over the next 5 years.
High winds, snow, severe flooding, accidents, and
equipment failure cause Powercuts. Finding and
curing the problem is often a major challenge, which
raises the question: – can you afford to wait?
What do I Need?
When considering what type of power protection to
install, several factors need to be considered,
namely demand, necessity, and budget. For
instance if you manage an SME or larger sized
company with a substantial computer network and/or
critical operations that require instant power
restoration in the event of outage i.e. Hospitals,
control rooms, data centres etc you will need a UPS
linked to a standby generator. However, if you
manage a smaller sized company with a limited
budget performing less-essential operations or a
company operating multiple sites such as telecom
masts, care homes, remote offices etc the most cost
effective option will be a UPS system together with a
24/7 number to call for an emergency generator.
UPS
UPS are a power protection device designed
principally to monitor and stabilise the incoming
mains supply and provide instant battery backup
power when the mains fails. This then allows
controlled IT system shutdown and an alternative
power supply to be connected. UPS only offer
relatively short run times and therefore require the
support of a generator for longer mains power
failures.
Standby Generators
A static standby generator system would operate via
an electronic control panel that senses a loss of
electricity supply when a power cut occurs and
automatically starts the generator within seconds.
Once the mains supply returns the system senses
this, monitors the supply for stability, then
automatically reconnects to the restored mains
supply. Standby generators require a large single
capital expenditure ranging from a few thousand
pounds upwards to many hundreds of thousands of
pounds depending on output, and incur ongoing
costs for maintenance and fuel etc. Often used in
combination with a UPS, standby generators are
essential for large companies with sophisticated IT
systems or critical operations as they provide
virtually immediate power supply restoration.
Emergency Callout Generators
For those companies that do not have the budget to
buy a generator or have multiple sites where
installing standby generators would be prohibitively
expensive there is now another option. Emergency
callout generators negate the need for large capital
expenditure by providing a contract whereby a
standby generator is supplied on an emergency
callout basis. They provide an effective, low cost
solution for applications where prolonged powercuts
would cause a problem and budgets are stretched.
How Does It Work?
Serviced by a 24/7-control room, a standby
generator is despatched from a local depot when a
generator request call is received from a subscribing
site. Standard service levels include a target time of
1 hour and a guaranteed commitment to a maximum
of three hours. Upon arrival the delivery engineer
connects the generator to the pre-installed generator
connection and manual changeover system and
advises the customer to switch over to the
generator. Larger buildings can be supported
through dedicated circuits in situations where the
total building load requirement exceeds the
generator’s capacity. A mains supply indicator lamp
is fitted to the changeover switch to inform the
customer when the mains power is restored.
Registration
A contract purchase involves a one-off Registration
Fee at the set-up stage which covers the installation
of a suitable connection / changeover system. The
only ongoing cost thereafter is a monthly Retainer
Fee (just like insurance or vehicle roadside
assistance cover). Depending on the type of contract
callouts, are either charged at a standard rate or
included within the Retainer Fee.
“Doing Nothing is No Longer an Option”
What with terrorist events such as 9/11 and July 7th
no organisation can assume immunity from
disruption. Disaster recovery plans need to become
a necessary and integral part of every business’s
resilience and, regardless of size, it is essential to
incorporate some form of power protection solution,
as part of the business continuity plan –doing
nothing is unacceptable in today’s overcrowded,
competitive marketplace. The type of solution
chosen is dependent upon individual requirements,
budgets, and circumstances but, whatever your
situation or size, there is now a power support
system available to ensure that all businesses large
and small can continue to operate when powercuts
Reader Reply No: 106035
occur.
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health & safety
Window cleaning Wi-Fi wins top Health &
Safety/Environmental Awareness Award
CS Cleaning and Environmental
O
Services recently received
recognition for its innovative state-ofthe-art software developed to give
window cleaning team managers and
staff instant access to a far safer and
more efficient way of working: at
November 2007’s Kimberley Clark
Golden Service Awards – the `Oscars of
the Cleaning Industry’ – OCS was given
the Health and Safety/Environmental
Awareness Award.
The age-old art of cleaning windows has been
launched into the 21st century by OCS. A new
system combining wi-fi with hand-held computers
(PDA’s) has been developed by OCS Cleaning and
Environmental Services to effectively do away with
the traditional paper-based work bill or work
instruction, so helping to protect our environment.
Electrical safety
test programs now
Vista compatible
Most importantly however, it allows continuous
review of work practices and performance by both
operational management and health and safety
teams within the company.
Developed by a project team drawn from a variety of
disciplines ranging from cleaning management to
ICT, mobile communications and health and safety
specialists, the innovative system sets work patterns
and standards in a logical and structured way and is
centred around pre-programmed health and safety
practices built into the PDA software. These must
be electronically acknowledged and signed off by
each window cleaning team manager. Regardless
of the size or complexity of a job, this acts as a
continuous prompt and records the fact that a safe
and systematic approach is being used.
Commenting on how the new working methods
would affect the company’s window cleaning
operations, Arthur Nuttall, managing director of OCS
Cleaning and Environmental Services, said,” It will
give us a competitive edge in the market but our
main focus has been on making real improvements
in safety standards for people working in the
Reader Reply No: 106023
industry.”
Electrical switches highlighted
as “dirty” areas by medics
eaward Electronic has upgraded
ospitals are missing the key
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its PATGuard software range for
sources of MRSA infection by
the management of portable appliance focusing on obvious “dirty” areas, an
test data used as part of workplace
electrical safety testing operations.
To ensure compatibility with the new Microsoft
Vista platform, all five existing PATGuard
programs have now been upgraded, with a
number of new features also added.
As a result, Version 2 editions of the advanced
PATGuard Elite program, intermediate PATGuard
Pro and entry level PATGuard Lite systems are all
now available, along with upgraded forms of the
PATGuard Work About PDA based software and
the PATGuard Time Manager field test activity
monitor. In addition, a new PATGuard Elite SQL
program has also been added to meet the needs
of large corporate database users.
As well as ensuring compatibility with Vista, the
upgraded programs also include a range of new
operating features.
These include a Preview facility that gives users
the ability to preview downloaded data and easily
correct mistakes that arise during the hustle and
bustle of testing. Then with one click, the
corrected data can be updated. RR No: 106078
expert has claimed.
Instead, cleaning should be targeted on “hand
touch” sites in wards, such as door handles, bed
rails, lockers, and electrical switches, surrounding
patients, said Dr Stephanie Dancer from South
General Hospital in Glasgow, writing in the medical
journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
Evidence showed that these were the places most
likely to harbour the antibiotic resistant MRSA
superbug. Yet they were generally poorly cleaned,
said Dr Dancer.
Crabtree’s range of anti-microbial electrical switches
and socket outlets has been specially developed in
conjunction with BioCote® to incorporate a unique
silver additive specifically to help overcome this
problem. The silver contained in Crabtree
accessories is a natural antimicrobial, with a high
efficacy against bacteria, mould and fungi. When
micro-organisms come into contact with the silver,
their ability to reproduce is inhibited and they die.
Responding to the study, the Government’s chief
nursing officer, Professor Christine Beasley, said:
“Infection control is a complex problem that needs a
range of solutions and the fact is there is no single
Reader Reply No: 106019
remedy.
Health and Safety 08 - off to
a racing start in the New Year
etails of the seminar series
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accompanying the Health and
Safety 08 event at Sandown Park in
Esher, Surrey on the 26th and 27th
February 2008 have been announced.
The programme at this regional series of events,
sponsored by DuPont™, will encompass
occupational health information and offer practical
advice as well as an exhibition.
The free seminar programme, delivered by industry
experts and by IOSH members representing the
London Metropolitan branch, proved to be one of the
most popular elements of the event in 2007 and its
content has been updated and improved for 2008.
Emphasising the up to the minute nature of the
seminar programme is the lead seminar on the first
day entitled, Corporate Manslaughter/Homicide –
The Impact. Delivered by Kevin Bridges this seminar
discusses The Corporate Manslaughter and
Corporate Homicide Act which comes into force in
April 2008.
The breadth of information available at Health and
Safety 08 is especially impressive. As well as
occupational health and the latest legislation there
are a whole host of practical seminars which discuss
the continuing problems that people face in their day
to day working lives.
Registering for the events or seminars is free.
www.healthandsafetyevents.co.uk RR No: 106042
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health & safety
Soloprotect introduces a
range of Active Personnel
Protection Services
Available in a choice of three service
levels, customers can sign up to
APPS on a pay-per-use basis to
provide access to manned security
support when and where it is needed.
Level one provides immediate reactive
response in the event of a red alert
from an Identicom lone worker device
to SoloProtect’s monitoring centre.
Level two enables companies to call
upon a trained security officer to
escort a lone worker with less than
four hours notice whilst level four
provides for a planned escorted visit
giving more than four hours notice.
When visiting a client, a lone worker’s
n high-risk environments,
risk level may increase to a point
lone workers would be far
where they would want a second
safer if accompanied by a
person to support them yet the
trained, uniformed security
situation may not warrant calling the
officer or be able to call upon Police. SoloProtect’s monitoring
an officer trained in conflict
centre can determine the appropriate
resolution.
response from the audio link, when a
Now SoloProtect, the best-of-breed
red alert is raised on their Identicom
protection service for lone workers,
lone worker device. In UK urban areas
has partnered with Reliance Patrol Net there will be at least two response
Services to introduce a range of Active vehicles on call 24/7 and more in
Personnel Protection Services (APPS) major conurbations delivering an
to improve the level of security
average response time of 31 minutes.
Reader Reply No: 106055
provided to lone workers.
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NEW
New act forces
companies to review
health and safety
very year more than 200
people are killed at work
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and in 2006 over 30 million
working days were lost to
occupational ill health and
injury accumulating in a total
cost of £30 billion.
From April 6th 2008 the Corporate
Manslaughter and Corporate
Homicide Act 2007 will come in to
force. For the first time, companies
and organisations can be prosecuted
in the event that serious failures in the
management of health and safety
result in a fatality. If a jury decides
that an organisation neglected health
and safety requirements for
employees then unlimited fines,
remedial orders and publicity orders
could be imposed.
Addressing health and safety issues
and assessing risks therefore is
something that cannot be avoided
and can save organisations time and
money, it can help reduce employee
absence and employee turnover
rates, while at the same time reducing
the risk of litigation. It is important that
organisations regularly review their
health and safety management
systems and that all possible
precautions and preventions are put
into place to protect their employees
from injury or fatality.
Slingsby, leading suppliers of
industrial and commercial equipment
have a vast array of products to assist
companies to meet health and safety
guidelines, for example Risk
Assessment Kits to help organisations
set up a risk assessment procedure,
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
to protect employees and a range of
safety equipment including ladders
with safety handrails to meet the
Work at Height Regulations 2005,
these are just some of the items
available from their 35,000 product
range. The Slingsby catalogue covers
everything you need for the
workplace; from handling, lifting and
premises equipment, to retail and
office supplies, it really is your
essential purchasing tool.
Reader Reply No: 106076
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health & safety
Rack Deflektor fits all
pallet racking uprights
cost effective, easy to
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install patented deflector
to protect pallet racking
uprights against expensive
and potentially lifethreatening structural
damage has been launched
by leading materials
handling and storage
company, the Nene Group
Plc.
Called Rack Deflektor, the moulded
protectors are quickly and easily
attached to racking in seconds with a
unique serrated clip to form a
DURA TREAD
Anti-slip Fibreglass
Floor Grating
protective bumper that minimises the
force of fork truck collision that can
damage racking frames, vehicles and
operators.
Manufactured from a high visibility,
non-fading yellow polyethylene outer
shell with rubber insert shock
absorber, the durable Rack Deflektor
will not rust or dent and has the ability
to reform itself after impact. As no
fixings are required, there is no need
to drill into the floor, making
installation simple and alleviating floor
damage on impact. In the first
instance, the Rack Deflektor aims to
avoid impact from occurring. The
deflectors’ florescent colour alerts
mechanical handling equipment
operators to their location thereby
providing them with safe operating
boundaries. Should a collision occur,
the Rack Deflektor drastically reduces
the power of the truck impact that can
easily damage the structural integrity
of racks and floors leading to health &
safety issues and expensive repairs.
The Rack Deflektor slim fit means that
there is absolute minimum bay and
aisle intrusion so as not the reduce
into safe working clearances..
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health & safety
Casella launch range of
Cool hands no sweat
application specific
for revolutionary PPE
sampling kits to aid
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COSHH compliance
o help users determine
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which sampling
equipment they require in
RR: 106065
order to undertake specific
sampling regimes for the
COSHH legislation, Casella
have developed a range of
specific sampling kits. The
first of these include:
An organic solvent sampling kit aimed
at Chemical and Industrial users.
The kit contains all the equipment and
sampling accessories required to
undertake sampling for the majority of
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organic solvents, either onto charcoal
tubes or grab samples into Tedlar
bags. The kit also includes an
accurate dry flow meter for accurate
flow calibration.
2 Kits for dust monitoring: One aimed
specifically for Construction, another
for Woodworking Industries. The kits
contains a Microdust Pro real time
dust meter and Apex sampling pump,
with all relevant sampling heads and
filters for undertaking personal and
area sampling for dusts and fumes.
This kit will allow the site occupational
health and safety managers to assess
compliance with the COSHH and
environmental legislation.
The kits will be rolling out over the
next few weeks and there are special
introductory prices on offer until the
end of March 2008.
Gary Noakes Senior Product Manager
says: “As well as supplying the best
UK manufactured sampling
equipment to the market, our new
application specific sampling kits will
offer even greater value sampling
solutions for our customers”.
Reader Reply No: 106093
he idea of controlling
temperature, perspiration
levels and therefore wearer
comfort in safety clothing
and PPE is not new to uvex,
within the concept climatec.
This month the company has
launched a new safety
glove which combines the
ideals of climatec with
recent advances and
innovation in manufacturing
and materials to produce
the most
comfortable glove
available with
level 5 cut
protection.
uvex Helix C5 is
suitable for many
different
applications and
conditions, but has a
level of wearer
comfort, dexterity and
protection previously
unseen in hand
protection. The company
has developed and
patented Bamboo Twinflex
technology which blends a
silky-feel bamboo fibre for
temperature regulation and moisture
wicking, with cut resistant hybrid
yarns to achieve high levels of cut
and abrasion resistance.
Each new uvex product is supported
by scientific research and testing, and
the Helix C5 has been developed in
conjunction with leading institutes in
Germany. To quantify the gloves’
internal climate it was
necessary to devise methods
of testing airflow,
breathability, water vapour
volume and user comfort.
High cut protection
usually involves heavier
materials and
compromises in comfort
and dexterity, but uvex
set out to develop a
product that was
uncompromising.
The Helix C5 glove is
made using recently
developed Flat Ergo
moulds which replicate the
hand exactly, give a seamless
finish and measurably improve
fit and dexterity. Newly
developed high-performance
elastomer coatings
substantially improve the
product’s breathability with excellent
grip properties in light oil or dry
conditions.
Reader Reply No: 106097
health & safety
he lighter the instrument,
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the quicker the job gets
done and this is especially
Offering simulated load test, backlight
and test lead null out feature so that
users can accurately use their own
true in high volume activities leads, the HPAT6000 is very
such as portable appliance
competitively priced.
testing (PAT).
The HPAT600 can be operated in
Martindale today launches the
easy (manual) or fast (automatic)
HPAT600, a genuine hand-held PAT
mode. In manual mode, aimed at the
measuring just 90 x 210 x 54mm, and newcomer to PAT testing, a
weighing just 600g including
connection diagram for the selected
rechargeable batteries.
test type is shown on the display.
The HPAT600 offers profitability gains Each step of a test requires user
for service companies and
confirmation by a press of the OK
productivity gains for health & safety
button. In the automatic mode, for the
officers, premises & facilities
experienced operator, the HPAT600
managers and even school
will routinely run through a selected
caretakers, for example. Supplied with
test sequence without
mains leads and a car charger, it is
any further user
crammed with features such as dual
interaction unless
insulation test voltage, user selectable
a failure is
pass levels, easy or fast operating
encountered.
Reader
mode, IEC lead test and test data
Reply No:
storage for up to 200 appliances 106125
equivalent to a whole day’s testing.
Martindale’s HPAT600 tests both
class I and class II appliances and
power cords. It incorporates a 250V
insulation tester for sensitive IT
equipment and appliances with mains
filters. A 200mA DC continuity test is
safe for all appliances and HPAT600
complies with the upcoming revised
code of practice for PAT testing.
Quiet revolution in
dosimeter technology
asella CEL, the UK’s
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leading manufacturer of
occupational health, safety
and environmental
monitoring equipment, has
added a new product to the
dBadge noise dosimeter
range, the CEL-352 dBadge
‘Plus’.
The existing CEL-350 dBadge has
been available on the market since
May 2006 and has proved hugely
popular. The dBadge is versatile due
to being cable free, is totally reliable
due to the digital technology used and
is ahead of its time with a robust,
small and lightweight (68g) ergonomic
design. The dBadge measures all
occupational noise parameters, as
well as the time history of an
individual’s noise exposure throughout
the day. A worlds first for a badge
style noise dosimeter, the CEL-352
dBadge ‘Plus’ measures the
parameters necessary for the
selection of hearing protection by the
HML or SNR methods. These are
internationally recognised methods
which use simple calculations from
attenuation values provided by
manufacturers of hearing protection.
The dBadge uses the latest digital
technology allowing miniaturisation of
the design and incorporation of a built
in graphic display. This is used to
display status information and
completed noise exposure results,
whilst the display can also be ‘locked’
during a measurement so noise level
information is not visible to the
employee wearing the dBadge.
The dBadge has integral NiMH
batteries that give an unprecedented
32 hours of operation, and can be
recharged in under 90 minutes using
the intelligent charging system.
The dBadge is supplied as a kit, in a
rugged briefcase that also includes an
acoustic calibrator, intelligent charging
system, mounting kit, windshields,
software and infra-red download
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cable.
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Fast and easy Portable
Appliance Testing
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health & safety
Kee Klamp Ltd changes to Key Safety Ltd
n a major company initiative which
Ibusiness,
reflects the continuing evolution of the
Kee Klamp Ltd has
says David Hill, Group Marketing Director at Kee
Safety Ltd. It’s a natural evolution and one that will
ensure we are better placed to meet our customer’s
requirements in the future and the challenges that lie
ahead in creating a safer environment for us all.”
The Kee® Safety group is segmented into four
business sectors with a distinct and clear focus on
product and system areas. Safety Components
incorporates the top-selling Kee Klamp®
components, the corrosion-resistant Kee Lite®
range and the DDA compliant Kee® Access range
typically used in guardrailing, handrailing and other
safe tubular structure applications. Safety Systems
covers the KeeGuard®, Kee Dome® and Kee®
Anchor systems which lead the market in effective
fall protection solutions. Safety Systems also
includes the Kee® Mark safe demarcation system
for high visibility segregation in public, industrial and
Reader Reply No: 106133
commercial areas.
announced that it will now operate as
Kee Safety Ltd.
As Kee Safety Ltd, the company will continue to
provide its market leading Kee Klamp® fittings,
KeeGuard® roof edge protection and other popular
product and system brands. This name change is
being instituted across all the Group companies
around the world in Canada, France, Germany, UAE
and USA to create a truly international safety
company. This re-organisation will enable the group
to focus its business more effectively on delivering
high quality safety solutions to its many global
customers.
“The change to Kee® Safety underlines our
commitment to providing customers with a diverse
range of effective safety products and solutions”
New remote Legionella testing and monitoring
system saves time and money
ireless and cellular telemetry
specialist Radio-Tech has
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produced a remote legionella testing
and monitoring system that delivers
significant time and cost savings to
employers.
The RTcom Legion is the only system currently
available to fully comply with Table 3 of the
Approved Code of Practice (ACoP) and Guidance,
Legionnaires’ disease: The control of legionella
bacteria in water systems (L8).
ACoP L8 stipulates that temperature monitoring
should be carried out once a month on all sentinel
taps1 in both hot and cold water systems. The
traditional method of doing so is a labour-intensive
operation requiring site attendance and associated
British Award winning
ergonomic solution
he Ergonomic Café is proud to
announce the launch of the new U
SLOPE ergonomic document
management system.
This latest addition to the U DESKING range has
been awarded The FIRA ERGONOMIC
EXCELLENCE AWARD, and is quickly becoming
the first choice solution for DSE assessors around
the country.
“The U-Slope and U-Slope Mini by Ergonomic
Café are fit for purpose as a multi-use desktop
accessory. The U-Slope is a flexible in its
functionality. It can be used as a document holder
for copy typing, a writing slope, a book holder or
folder and a laptop stand. In addition, the USlope is lightweight and easy to adjust.
It is concluded that the U-Slope meets the
requirements for the FIRA Ergonomics Excellence
Award.”
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travel costs. RTcom Legion offers a cost-effective
alternative means of monitoring individual or multiple
sites remotely, using radio technology.
Should a water system fail to satisfy the levels
indicated by ACoP L8, Radio-Tech’s monitor will
issue an email or text alert to notify the relevant
party. During standard operation test results are
stored electronically for over five years, enabling
facilities managers to prove that testing and
monitoring has been carried out in accordance with
legal requirements. This data can also be used to
save money on gas or electricity consumption by
ensuring that water heating systems are working at
their optimum level.
RTcom Legion delivers an additional plumbing cost
saving by excusing facilities managers from having
to isolate dead legs2 and infrequently-used outlets
from the water system. Such areas allow water to
stagnate, increasing the potential for bacterial
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growth.
Taking comfort in shoe revolution
vex developed the concept of
u
climate controlling clothing which
uses intelligent materials and
manufacturing techniques to
complement the body’s regulating
systems for remaining cool and dry.
The new xenova climatec footwear will
contain these properties when it is
launched next month (March) into the
successful uvex xenova range of safety
shoes.
The new xenova climatec is an extremely light
weight, anti-slip, impact and compression
resistant safety shoe that is manufactured
without metal components but has
all the strength of a much
heavier, metal
toecap product. It
is styled like a
fashionable
trainer with
green or blue
trim on an
anthracite body, but it
will be the outstanding wearer
comfort achieved with climatec materials and the
shock absorbing insole that will make it popular
across most industries.
The new product has all the qualities of a high
performance industrial safety shoe. It has a petrol/oil
resistant, anti-static/ESD, heat resistant and non
marking sole and a dual density non-metallic safety
toe cap that is clearly superior to steel or aluminium
when tested in accordance with EN12568. The
similarities with other safety shoes end when the
wearer slips into the shoe’s climatec environment,
where bamboo fibres and ventilation channels
convey heat and moisture away from the foot, and
Hydroflex GEL biomechanical
shock absorbing soles
reduces footfall impact by
more than 75% further
increasing wearer
comfort.
An eight hour shift on
a concrete factory
floor will feel very
different to a worker
whose feet are not
irritated by dampness or
heat, or chafed by internal
seams and stitching, which have been
designed out of the uvex xenova. Healthy feet
can produce moisture at a rate of 25g an hour or
enough to fill a coffee mug by the end of a shift, and
climatec lining wicks this moisture away to reduce
the risk of blistering or fungal infection, increasing
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comfort and worker productivity.
health & safety: fire safety
New Flagship School benefits
from Advanced Fire Protection
Fire Panels from Advanced
Electronics are at the heart of a new
Ifirentelligent
detection system at Bristol’s newest
flagship school. The £33 million
Redland Green School opened its doors
in September 2007 and when full will be
home to nearly 1400 students. The
central feature of the new 11,000m2
building complex is the ‘street’, a
naturally lit indoor corridor that links all
the main areas of the school.
Seven Advanced Mx-4000 fire control panels were
installed by Bristol-based MAT Fire Systems Ltd,
together with over 400 detectors and 300 base
sounders from Hochiki and 8 Airsense Aspirating
Smoke Detection (ASD) systems. A combination of 5
single loop panels and 2 4-loop panels were
installed in different locations throughout the school
Free guide to fire
system design
available for Apollo
pollo Fire Detectors has launched
a handy reference guide for
designers and installers of fire
detection systems. Available free on
request, the pocket-sized publication
illustrates the essentials of good fire
system design in order to comply with
the requirements of BS5839 Part
1:2002.
The booklet is designed to be used in conjunction
with the full BS standard. It uses diagrams to
summarise the main points of the legislation and
each one is clearly labelled with the relevant
section of the Code so that users can easily
check the detailed requirements with the
standard. Key topics covered by the booklet
include correct siting of various detector types in
different environmental circumstances and the
maximum safe distance that occupants can travel
before locating a manual call point. There’s also a
pictorial summary regarding the correct siting and
wiring of sounders and a checklist of fire alarm
and detection system categories.
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and networked together to provide a single
integrated system. The Airsense ASD units were
also fully interfaced to the Mx-4000 panels via I/O
units. The fire alarm system is fully integrated with
the Building Management System (BMS) and
access control system to ensure safe and quick
evacuation in the event of a fire or incident. The Mx4000 panels automatically initiate a plant shutdown
via the BMS and activate door retainers and smoke
dampers and notify the fire services via a RedCare
link.
“We specified the Mx-4000 range from Advanced
Electronics because of their field-proven reliability,
advanced networking features and excellent
customer and technical support”, said Mr Rick
Coles, Managing Director of MAT Fire Systems.
Advanced Electronics manufactures a
comprehensive range of intelligent control and
indicating panels, software and peripherals for fire
detection, smoke control and emergency lighting
monitoring. The Mx-4000 family of fire panels is
approved to EN54 Parts 2 & 4 and is compatible
with both Hochiki and Apollo protocols. Advanced
also manufacture the LifeLine family of DDAcompliant fire safety products for the deaf and
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hearing impaired.
Voice Sounder from
Fire Alarm Specialists
he Sonos Voice Sounder from
Klaxon Signals is a fire
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alarm that combines a
normal sounder with a
clear, synchronised
voice message to help
reduce confusion and
distress during an
active alarm.
The unique horn design
feature ensures superior
message quality over other
voice sounders available in the
market.
The Voice Enhanced Sounders
are available with either single or multi
message options. The single message Sonos is an
entry level device designed to broadcast an
evacuation message in small to medium fire alarm
installations and is preceded by a selectable alarm
tone.
The multi message sounders are appropriate for
larger installations where ‘alert’ and ‘evacuate’
messages are required for staged
evacuation. Up to four messages can be
transmitted over two wires via an interface
unit that monitors the sounder circuit
outputs from the fire alarm panel. A test
facility is available through a key switch
mounted on the interface unit which emits
an ‘All Clear’ message when the key switch
is returned to its original position.
Both Sonos voice enhanced
variants are available as
sounders or sounder-beacons
in either red or white, with shallow or
deep base (IP65) options for both indoor and
outdoor applications. A choice of 32 tones is
available, including all international standards.
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Publicans warned to check fire
safety of ‘smokers shelters’
ollowing the introduction of the
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smoking ban earlier this year, the
Fire Industry Association (FIA) is
advising the licensed trade to check
that any provision they have made to
accommodate smokers meets the
requirements of fire safety standards.
Since the introduction of the ban on smoking in
public places in England, sheltered
areas outside the main buildings of
pubs and restaurants have
become an ever more common
feature. While the majority have
been built to exacting standards,
there are certainly incidences
where they have not.
Graham Ellicott, CEO of the FIA,
comments — ‘Even if a sheltered
area has been created as a
temporary structure, it still needs
to meet the fire safety standards
which apply to the main building.
Given that the sole purpose of such structures is to
accommodate smokers, with the increased fire risk
that this inevitably represents, it is even more
important that the materials used meet the
requirements in terms of flame resistance and that
the fire fighting equipment, such as portable fire
extinguishers, are fit for purpose and approved.”
New legislation on fire safety was introduced in
England and Wales in October
2006. The Fire Safety Order
requires a fire risk assessment
to be carried out on all
businesses and this risk
assessment must extend to the
smokers shelters’ now
employed by many pubs and
restaurants.
The responsibility for fire safety
in licensed premises, as with
all businesses under the new
legislation, lies with the
employer, owner or occupier.
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health & safety: fire safety
Luxury Chelsea apartments benefit
from WAGNER Fire Protection
new development of luxury
apartments is benefiting from an
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advanced fire detection solution from
WAGNER UK.
The original building at 21 Manresa Road was
completed in 1895 and started life as the SouthWest London Polytechnic, becoming the Chelsea
School of Art in the 1930’s. The building became
part of the Chelsea campus of King’s College in
1985, before being recently acquired for the new
residential development. The finished development
combines the original nineteenth century facade with
a new modern structure at the rear.
Five TITANUS® MICRO·SENS® addressable air
sampling smoke detection units were installed by
Titan Fire & Security in a number of the apartments.
The unique addressability of the system allows each
apartment to be individually monitored and identified
as the source of a fire alarm in the event of an
incident. Each MICRO-SENS® unit can monitor up
to five different rooms or areas. Very early smoke
detection, adjustable sensitivity and very reliable
false alarm protection make MICRO-SENS® an
Fire alarm
encourages quick
response
he Nexus Voice Sounder from
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Klaxon Signals is a fire alarm that
combines normal sounder signals
with a clear, synchronised voice
message to provide authoritative
instruction that eliminates confusion
after an alarm sounds.
Units are available with 4 pre-programmed
messages, selected from a message library that
covers an extensive range of applications, and
bespoke messages are also available on request.
The unique horn design feature ensures superior
message quality over other voice sounders
available in the market.
Combined with an interface control unit, the
Nexus voice sounders can transmit up to four
messages over two wires - making them suitable
for fire alarm systems. A USB interface allows
special messages in WAV format to be
downloaded onto the sounder from any PC,
providing users with the flexibility of adding and
removing messages in-house.
They have a high 110 dB output, are
weatherproofed to IP66 and can be installed in
almost any location. A choice of sound outputs
means there is a model to overcome most levels
of background noise. Reader Reply No: 106049
ideal solution for the majority of fire detection
applications.
WAGNER’s discreet sampling points were fitted
throughout the building to ensure that the all
sampling pipes were hidden from view. The impact
on the interior aesthetics was therefore considerably
less compared to that of traditional point type smoke
detectors.
MICRO-SENS®, like other ASD units in the
TITANUS® range, incorporate PIPE·GUARD and
LOGIC-SENS. PIPE-GUARD is a unique monitoring
system that detects if a sampling hole is blocked, a
pipe is ruptured or if the air sampling unit has failed.
This feature is vital in areas where access is
restricted and identification of individually blocked
sampling points is essential. LOGIC·SENS is an
advanced signal processing technology that
analyses the smoke sample and provides the
earliest possible smoke detection whilst safely
eliminating false alarms such as cigarette smoke
and diesel fumes.
The TITANUS® range has been developed by
WAGNER as a simple and low cost air sampling
system replacement for point smoke detectors. As
well as applications where aesthetics are important,
TITANUS® ASD can provide significant benefits for
buildings with large open spaces, in areas where
future access is likely to be a problem (in voids,
shafts, locked rooms, etc) or where the environment
is too harsh for traditional smoke detectors.
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Another brigade require human
confirmation of automatic fire
system alarms: COPTIR will help
n 2006, Greater Manchester fire crews
Ithespend
over 97,000 hours dealing with
13,500 false alarms from automatic
fire alarms. In an attempt to slash the
£2m cost of false callouts to business
premises, crews will no longer respond
to automatic fire alarms if there is no
sign of a blaze. In future, any alarm
generated by an automatic detection
system will be ignored unless it is
confirmed as a real fire after human
investigation. The move is primarily
aimed at commercial premises;
hospitals, hotels, prisons and other
high-risk buildings will be excluded
from the new policy.
False alarm management at protected premises is
an increasingly important issue; the Fire Service are
working closely with facility managers to improve
procedures when an
alarm is triggered.
System Sensor, the
world’s largest detector
manufacturer, is
approaching the issue
through technology
development by stopping
false alarm generation in
the first place. The latest
detector, COPTIR, uses
cutting edge technology
to produce the most
stable fire detector in
existence, preventing a
false alarm from being
initiated by the detector
while simultaneously
being ultra sensitive to
the many different fire
threats in any building.
In exhaustive testing under both laboratory and
simulated real-life conditions, the COPTIR multisensor, multi-criteria detector outperformed all
alternative detection technologies in 21 different
false alarm tests and 29 different fire alarm tests.
System Sensor Europe marketing manager, Stuart
Ball, said, “COPTIR combines four independent
sensors: a carbon monoxide sensor, a photoelectric
smoke sensor, a temperature sensor and an infrared light sensor. By using the highly sophisticated
embedded intelligence in the detector continually to
monitor for four elements that will be present in a
real fire, we are able to ensure that conditions that
might give rise to a false alarm will not be passed to
the control panel. In an automatic fire system that
exclusively uses COPTIR detectors, the only
realistic reason for a false alarm would be malicious
activation of a manual call point.”
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health & safety: fire safety
Isle of Rum goes wireless
the type and location of the initial fire
alarm. Senior managers are also
issued with pagers that alert them
instantly to any fire alarms, allowing
them to quickly react to the situation
day or night. The complete system
was installed and commissioned in
less than one week by Initial Fire &
Security. This was achieved in part by
the close collaboration between EMS,
Initial and Scottish Natural Heritage
(SNH), the owners of the island.
The system protects all the island’s
buildings which are concentrated in
the North East of the island, an area
of over a mile long - an exceptional
distance to be protected by a single
he entire island-wide
fire protection solution. As well as
infrastructure and
Kinloch Castle, an historic building of
community on the Isle of
immense importance to the island, fire
Rum is being protected by a
protection is provided for the
single networked wireless
community hall, library, school, power
fire detection solution from
station, boat house, Estates Office
EMS Group.
and all the local residences which are
The system consists of 6 radio
networked control panels from EMS
protected to an L1 standard. Both the
Group’s 5000 FirePoint range,
Estates Office and Castle Office have
together with 4 radio transponders and master panels and act as monitoring
over 300 radio devices, including fire
stations for the entire system. The
sensors, call points and sounders.
system can also be monitored from
Sophisticated cause and effect
the mainland via a modem to allow
programming in the control panels
remote diagnosis in the event of a
ensures safe and phased evacuation
fault or problem.
across the community depending on
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New FIA website goes live
he Fire Industry
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Association (FIA) has
launched a new website
(www.fia.uk.com) which is
set to become an invaluable
point of reference for
anybody involved in the fire
protection industry.
The website was developed in
response to the formation of the new
trade association, created earlier in
the year from the amalgamation of the
BFPSA (British Fire Protection
Systems Association) and FETA (Fire
Extinguishing Trades Association).
www.fia.uk.com replaces the two old
association websites — FETA and
BFPSA.
The new site is packed
with new features
providing benefits to both
members and the general
public alike. Visitors to the
site will be able to use the
secure payment facility
allowing them to book and
pay online for training
courses and events, as
well as purchasing
publications such as fire
safety log books and
market research reports.
The search facility,
enabling prospective
customers to find details of
members for their fire
safety systems and services, has
been streamlined and a new section
giving meanings to the hundreds of
acronyms used in the industry and
expanded FAQ pages will be a boon
to visitors, as will the facility to sign up
to ‘breaking news” which will
automatically send emails on topical
news items. The members section has
been completely revamped and
expanded. Members will now have a
unique password giving them access,
amongst other things, to a document
library where they can access reports,
minutes, meeting agendas and other
information pertinent to their activities
within the FIA.
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Dorgard provides safe
solution at Sutton
Coldfield College
utton Coldfield College is one of the largest and most
successful colleges in the UK, providing first-class
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education and training for some 20,000 sixth form pupils
and adult learners, including many disabled and
wheelchair-bound students.
Because such a vast complex demands the highest standards of fire safety,
the college has installed Dorgard fire door hold-open devices to enhance
access for disabled students in busy areas throughout the campus buildings.
Dorgard is the wireless solution from Fireco Ltd. that offers the simplest and
most cost-effective way of legally holding open fire doors in any position and
automatically releasing them should the fire alarm sound. Dorgard offers
significant cost advantages as it can be
retrofitted in minutes, with no wiring required.
A spokesperson for the college said:
‘Dorgard offered the best solution because
no hard wiring was required, so there was no
disruption for staff or students, and we did
not have to take apart the fabric of the
building. Dorgard’s automatic night-time
release facility means that we satisfy the
requirements of our fire safety risk
management guidelines.’
There are more than 250,000 installed
across the UK, making the Dorgard range
the accepted solution to the illegally wedged
open fire door problem, in any environment.
Dorgard complies fully with all relevant
British Standards, EU Directives and UK Fire
Regulations. RR No: 106070
Klaxon to Make
a Stand at Firex
laxon Signals will be
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showcasing the flagship
ranges of Sonos and Nexus
easy installation, reliable performance
and low maintenance. To discuss any
of Klaxon Signals’ products or take a
electronic sounders,
closer look, please come and meet
beacons, and
the team at Stand B8 who are happy
sounder/beacons at the Firex to help with all signalling
South exhibition in Sandown requirements.
this year.
Klaxon Signals Limited is one of the
The Sonos range has been designed
world’s leading manufacturers and
for small to medium fire alarm
suppliers of sound and vision
installations whilst the high output
signalling equipment for fire and life
Nexus range is suitable for larger
safety, industrial and security
commercial and industrial applications. applications. Part of Halma p.l.c.,
The stand will feature a ‘Live’
Klaxon offers an extensive range of
demonstration area for the recently
fire alarm sirens, electronic sounders,
launched Voice enhanced fire alarms
buzzers, beacons and bells, in
so visitors can experience first hand
addition to innovative evacuation
the superior message quality and
technology and software.
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technically unparalleled features of
Klaxon products. The
demonstrations will
show visitors how the
Voice enhanced
sounders can be
integrated into new or
existing fire and gas
extinguishing alarm
systems via interface
controller units without
extra cabling or
commissioning costs.
The Klaxon range of fire
and industrial alarms
has been designed for
security
Secom trains CCTV cameras
to guard unstaffed stations
lectronic security solutions from
Secom plc are part of a £250,000
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project to improve facilities and safety
The Secom solution includes pole mounted camera
arrays at Longton, and cameras fixed to the
buildings at Longport. Less obtrusive anti-vandal
at unstaffed railway stations on a key
dome cameras are fitted to the Grade II listed station
Midland route. Digital CCTV
building on Longport’s southbound platform. Both
installations and associated
systems have 30-day recording equipment, and
improvements have deterred acts of
provision for offsite monitoring if required.
vandalism – helping to boost public
The NSCRP links local authorities, businesses and
confidence in rail travel and increasing
voluntary groups with the aim of promoting and
passenger numbers by 20%.
improving the Crewe-Stoke-Derby line for local
Working with the North Staffordshire Community Rail people and visitors. The line links tourist attractions,
Partnership (NSCRP) and the train operating
business centres and airports, and has connections
company, Secom installed digital CCTV recording
to mainline services between London, Birmingham
systems at Longport and Longton stations on the
and the North.
outskirts of Stoke-on-Trent. Both stations are served Secom plc installs innovative tailored security
by a regular service on the strategic Crewe-Stokesolutions for commercial, public sector and domestic
Derby line.
customers throughout the UK. Its ongoing quality
Firex South
The Conference
Firex South 2008 - 11-12 March 2008 Sandown Park, Surrey
Firex South 2008 will feature a fire safety
conference for the first time, when it takes place
at Sandown Park Exhibition Centre, Surrey from
11-12 March 2008. The high-level conference will
take the form of four three-hour modules, each
focused on a different area of fire safety.
Module A will look at compliance with the
Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order (RRO).
AXA Insurance and Browne Jacobson Solicitors
will explain the consequences of non-compliance,
which can include possible imprisonment,
increased insurance premiums and loss of life,
and advice on how to accurately complete risk
assessment forms.
Module B will cover emergency evacuation and
will include a presentation about the evacuation of
disabled people, with advice on complying with
the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) from the
Association for Specialist Fire Protection (ASFP)
the Building Research Establishment (BRE).
Module C focuses on sprinkler management and
includes a presentation from Steven Mills, Senior
Officer at West Midlands Fire & Rescue Service.
Steven will be looking at warehouse sprinkler
installation, in light of the recent Atherstone-onStour warehouse tragedy.
Module D is the “Installers Market Master Class”
specifically concentrated on new developments
within the installers market. Topics of interest will
include the RRO, BS 5839 Part 1 and special
considerations for voice alarm systems.
Mr Mills comments, “Firex South will, I am sure,
provide a stimulating, informative and diverse
platform for all with a concern for fire safety within
the UK.”
The conference is priced at £195 per module and
discounts are available for those who book more
than 1 module. Please visit
www.firexroadshows.co.uk for more information.
Entry to Firex South is free and visitors can
register online at www.firexroadshows.co.uk,
where the latest event information, news, and full
conference programme are available. Attendees
who pre-register will receive a complimentary
race-day ticket on arrival. Anyone interested in
exhibiting at this year’s event should contact Peter
Poole on +44 (0) 207 921 8342.
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service includes 24-hour monitoring of intruder and
fire alarms, and video surveillance systems. Secom
plc is the UK arm of a major global electronic
security group, established in the 1960s. The group
operates in 12 countries and its 38,000 employees
serve more than a million customers.
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Bell Security to
rebrand as Niscayah
ell Security, the specialist provider
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of high security systems for many
kinds of business - and market leader in
protecting UK and Ireland retail bank
properties - has recently announced a
change of name.
Later this year the company will become Niscayah
Ltd, as it adopts the new branding strategy about to
be implemented internationally by its parent,
Swedish-listed Securitas Systems AB.
Established for over 20 years, as Bell Group plc the
company was fully listed on the London Stock
Exchange from 1999 until its acquisition in 2004.
Bell says the change is being made primarily to
strengthen the group’s position from an international
perspective. It reflects a growth in requests from its
increasingly multinational customer base to be able
to demonstrate consistent and unified support
internationally.
UK Country President Bjorn Lohne said:
”Adopting this new name, alongside our overseas
sister businesses, will allow us to promote, with
greater clarity, the strengths we offer as a business
group, particularly to customers requiring our skills
and competences internationally. As we change we
don’t leave Bell’s history and achievements behind.
They are the essence of many of the drivers at the
heart of our new brand strategy.”
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Screwfix addes even
more security items
crewfix has added even more
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security items to its latest catalogue
(issue 90) including more
branded locks and more
security options for a wider
variety of vehicles such as
caravans and motorcycles.
The new items joins hundreds of other
locks, alarms, safes, CCTV cameras
and accessories, door and garage
security equipment, access control
systems and perimeter control
hardware which form part of a
complete security solution for
domestic, commercial and
industrial applications.
Each of these high quality,
low cost items can be
accessed 7 days a week
via a call to Freephone
0500 414141, a click onto
screwfix.com, or a visit to one of the
growing UK network of Trade Counters (85 as at
14 December, 2007), each offering thousands of
items in stock for immediate collection. (Full
address details can be seen at
screwfix.com/tradecounters).
New items within the vehicle security section, for
instance, include Caravan Hitch Locks for just
£49.99 (all prices include VAT).
Suitable for a range of tow
bars, they can be found
alongside Trailer Locks
to fit 48,50 and 60mm
diameter couplers for just
£24.99, and Wheel and
Vehicle Clamps from only
£84.99 each. Heavy duty
boron alloy Chains in
Sleeve have also been
added. Rated gold secure
for motorcycles, they are
priced at £109.99 complete
with padlock and from £74.99
without.
Found in the latest Screwfix
catalogue (issue 90), which boasts
more brands, more deals and more
new products, the new items are
part of 2,100 new additions to the
1,100+ page catalogue.
Reader Reply No : 106085
security
Secom takes school
security to new highs
ith an upgraded Secom intruder
alarm system featuring advanced
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personal attack (PA) buttons – plus
CCTV, a well-rehearsed emergency plan
and special training for staff and pupils
– a London school has set new
standards in educational security.
Electronic and physical security solutions from
leading provider Secom plc are the backbone of a
comprehensive security plan introduced at The
Japanese School in London, to deal with all
eventualities. Commissioning the new alarm system
included a mock intrusion, enabling staff to try out
their PA buttons and test the emergency plan.
Secom plc Managing Director Minoru Takezawa also
spoke to pupils about being safe at school and in
the community.
The new intruder alarm system from Secom gives
each member of staff a PA button, so they can
summon help in the event of an intrusion, or any
other type of school emergency. The system is
normally monitored at the school. A central display
shows exactly where a distressed teacher is located,
so that colleagues can respond rapidly, according to
plan. Once a threat is confirmed as genuine by the
staff on site, the incident is instantly relayed to the
Secom Alarm Receiving Centre (ARC) for police
response. Earlier, Secom installed a multi-camera
CCTV system, monitored at the ARC, and an
automated gate system to control access to the
school.
The privately run Japanese School in London,
established 31 years ago, now serves a large
expatriate community in London, and offers the full
Japanese national curriculum for primary and
secondary pupils aged six to 15, accommodating
450 pupils from Monday to Friday. Many live locally,
but about 30% are bussed in from elsewhere in
London. The school’s philosophy is to encourage
wide-ranging learning among healthy and lively
pupils.
School Secretary Shuichi Sugano says prior to
installing Secom CCTV and automated gates four
years ago, the school had experienced several
incidents of minor crime, including thefts of laptop
computers.
Secom plc installs innovative tailored security
solutions for commercial, public sector and domestic
customers throughout the UK. Its ongoing quality
service includes 24-hour monitoring of intruder and
fire alarms, and video surveillance systems. Secom
plc is the UK arm of a major global electronic
security group, established in the 1960s. The group
operates in 12 countries and its 38,000 employees
serve more than a million customers.
Reader Reply No: 106090
Kasp® 180 Series –
Villagers issue DNA
new, improved and now
warning to burglars
A
rekeyable
asp®, the UK’s leading
K
brand in security, has
launched a new rekeyable
Designed at every level to provide
peace of mind, key features of the
padlocks include a 12mm hardened
version of its tried and
steel shackle offering extra protection
trusted 180 Series Hardened
against hacksaw and cropping attack,
Steel Padlock, combining the double ball bearing locking
security of a heavy duty
mechanism for maximum strength to
padlock with the versatility of resist torsion and pull attack, a
a rekeyable cylinder.
rekeyable five pin cylinder with antiAlong with keyed alike, keyed to differ pick mushroom pins and also a
and master keyed options, the new,
paracentric keyway to defy
improved 60mm 180 Series can also
manipulation. Recognising that attack
be manufactured to operate any
is not just manmade, its chrome
number of padlocks with a single
plated, hardened steel body
existing key, so
also
is guaranteed
defends
to offer an
against
option to
natural
satisfy every
corrosion.
security
Although
situation.
designed
As Kasp®
to afford a
manufactures
distinct technical advantage over
its keyed alike padlocks
competing products, the premium
to demand, exclusivity of
quality padlock does not demand a
the suites is virtually guaranteed,
premium outlay and is, in fact,
unlike many competitive products,
extremely keenly priced from £34.99
which create common keyed alike
inc vat for the keyed to differ and
suites with many thousands of locks
rekeyable open shackle versions to
all opening with the same key.
£39.99 inc vat for the Keyed Alike
Working to a rapid one to two day
open shackle version. Closed shackle
turnaround on the manufacture of the padlocks are also available in the
180 Series Padlocks, Kasp® is also
range.
able to offer a pinning kit comprising
Kasp products have been designed
Bottom Pins, Mushroom Pins, Cylinder and manufactured to the highest
Retaining Clip and Bitting Gauge for
standards and undergo rigorous
customers wishing to rekey the
testing.
Reader Reply No: 106106
padlocks in their own workshop.
picturesque village near
Cannock in South
Staffordshire has been
selected by local police as
the perfect location to run a
pre-Christmas anti-theft
campaign.
Homes in the historic village of
Shareshill, which has a church tower
dating back to the 14th century, have
been subjected to a spate of thefts
over the past year where valuable
items have been stolen. The church
has also suffered from thefts.
However, residents of Shareshill are
teaming up with local police to fight
back against theft by using the latest
in DNA forensic technology to protect
their homes and possessions.
Around 100 properties have been
permanently marked with a new
product called SelectaDNA, which
irrefutably links criminals to burglaries
and break-ins. The forensic markings
are impossible to remove and
identification can be made from tiny
specks the size of a pin head.
Thieves should be aware that similar
police marking schemes in other
residential areas across the UK have
reduced break-ins by up to 80%.
PC Andy Heaton, who organised the
scheme, said: “On dark winter nights,
when theft is traditionally on the
increase, we want to help residents
protect their properties. Forensic
marking will be a major deterrent to
thieves in the first instance – but if
items are stolen, it is much easier for
us to catch the perpetrators.”
Whilst crime levels in Shareshill are
considered by police to be “moderate”
at present, the fact that the village has
quick and easy ‘getaway’ access to
major roads is thought to have been a
contributing factor to its appeal to
thieves in the past.
Metal street signs are being erected
at the entrance and exit points into
and out of Shareshill, warning thieves
that houses are DNA protected.
Reader Reply No: 106130
people
OCS welcomes new
Finance Director
CS, the £630 million
international property
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support services group,
recently appointed Alastair
Lewis FCMA as finance
director of its UK trading
subsidiary OCS Group UK
Ltd. Alastair’s current
responsibilities as the
group’s commercial director
will be combined into the
new role.
Alastair has broad
experience of many
industry sectors having
worked for BAA Plc,
Amex, Alliance &
Leicester and Thomson
CSF amongst others. His
career has also involved
him travelling in Europe,
the Middle East and Africa,
including a period of 3 years
as managing director of
the group’s Dutch
subsidiary.
Commenting
on his new
role within
OCS,
Alastair said, “I am delighted to have
been given the opportunity to expand
my current role, particularly at this
time of significant development with
SAP implementation and centralisation
of back-of-house activities driving
change throughout the group.
“I have always believed that finance’s
primary role should be as a service to
the business, bringing focus to
business specific issues that
require the attention of
operational management
and driving
performance
improvements. We
plan to re-engineer our
finance teams under
the SAP project to
bring this change of
emphasis throughout
the group.”
Reader Reply No:
106022
Bell appoints
Syd Heals
to Board
Syd (Peter) Heals has been appointed to the
Board of Directors of Bell Group Limited and Bell
Security Limited. This Board oversees Bell’s UK
security and fire systems businesses within the
corporate structure of parent organisation
Securitas Systems AB.
Syd Heals has been Chief Operating Officer of
Bell Security’s Commercial Security and Fire UK
systems operations since January 2006. He
entered the industry in 1978 and joined Bell
Security in 1990, where he has gained extensive
commercial and technical
experience particularly
pioneering
networked/IP
solutions in the
UK and
internationally.
In mid-2007 Syd
became one of
the founding
directors of
CameraWatch, the
organisation
dedicated to
promoting
understanding of
CCTV systems and
their compliance in the
UK.
Reader Reply
No: 106007
Marketing Manager for
Baxi Comercial Heating
new technologies that address this
problem and offer viable solutions”.
According to Paul Hardy, Managing
Director of Baxi Commercial Heating,
Marketing Manager from
Rolls-Royce, Civil Aerospace. ‘The changing face of the H&V
industry as it embraces the
Rebecca has over seven
renewables sector, places a greater
years experience in a
emphasis on effective
professional marketing and
communications and marketing
commercial capacity gained
activity”.
in predominantly
scientific,technological and
Reader Reply No: 106052
engineering environments.
Rebecca will be responsible for
ensuring that both Andrews Water
Heaters and Potterton Commercial
sales teams have effective data
systems, market intelligence, technical
knowledge and promotional materials
in place to fully support both the field
and office-based customer interface
so that every competitive advantage
may be maximised. “It was obvious to
me that this is an industry with an
important contribution to make
towards the global challenge of
reducing carbon emissions”, says
Rebecca. “I am excited to be
involved with one of the leading
Groups committed to pioneering work
in the development and production of
ebecca Johnson Bsc
MBA moves to the Baxi
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Commercial Heating team as
Andrews water heaters
appoint Jeff Morris
eff Morris recently
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joined Andrews Water
Heaters as Area Sales
manager for Southwest
and Wales. Jeff is a fully
qualified mechanical
engineer and has been
involved in the HVAC
sector for most of his
working life.
Early on in his career Jeff gained
valuable experience on the
merchant side at Wolseley UK
Control Centre before moving out
into the field where he has worked
for two companies in technical
sales.
“I was attracted to this position
because Andrews Water Heaters
is the market leader and is part of
the Baxi Group, one of the largest
heating groups, providing plenty of
scope to further my career in a
forward looking environment”,
says Jeff. “Real innovation doesn’t
come along all that often in our
industry, but there is no doubt that
MAXxflo thoroughly deserves its
Queens Award and it is a first for
me to have such a product to offer
customers”.
Reader Reply No: 106089
Belsten promoted to Phoenix Board
Mike Belsten, formerly contracts manager with
Phoenix Interiors, has been promoted to project
director and appointed to the board of the company.
Mr Belsten said: “I am thrilled that the senior
management team have displayed their confidence
in me with this promotion. I have several plans for
the future, but the first thing I want to do is put in
place a set of processes and procedures that will
further strengthen the interface between the financial
and operational aspects of the company.”
Mr Belsten began his career as a contracts manager
at Special Acoustic Services (now SAS) in Reading.
He subsequently worked for a ceiling company in
Australia before returning to SAS in the 1980s.
He then worked for Oakwood Building Services in
Harlow as contracts manager and then Carlton
Ceilings in Slough before moving to Phoenix
Interiors on a freelance
basis as an estimator
in 1991.
Later he left to join
partitioning company
Teeway, based in
Walton-on-Thames,
before rejoining
Phoenix Interiors in
2000.
Reader Reply
No: 106119
people
Watts Industries
appoints two regional
sales engineers
atts Industries has
appointed two regional
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sales engineers for south
east England and the
Midlands.
Jon Neal, who takes on the role in the
south east, has joined Watts from
within the industry and has a track
record of growing the business while
Matt Baxendale already has extensive
product knowledge having been
promoted from an internal sales role.
Commenting on their appointment,
sales manager Arthur Hawker said,
“We’re confident that Jon and Matt are
the right people to realise the
enormous potential of the Watts range
with a market that is still unaware of
the full extent of our offer. They have
just the right blend of experience and
youthful drive to make them a
success.”
Watts Industries is
the European
division of USbased Watts Water
Technologies, a
global manufacturer
of products that
contribute to
comfort and safety
in the area of water
quality for
domestic,
commercial and
industrial use.
Reader Reply No:
106060
Ramatu wastes no time
in progressing at PHS
he graduate development
programme at PHS
T
Wastemanagement, the UK’s
leading waste management
company, continues to thrive
with its latest recruit, Ramatu
Bapulah, making great
strides in just a few months’
tenure.
Pharmaceutical science graduate
Ramatu joined the programme in
September 2007 and will not
let a little thing like
gender stereotype
slow her down, instead,
she urges like-minded female
professionals to follow a
career in science.
Ramatu commented: “PHS
has made my transition
form university to corporate
life seamless; I feel like I
have learned so much
in such a short
space of time.
“The potential
here is vast;
I have been
involved
with ongoing
Office and General cleans up
after management buyout
ffice and General Environmental
O
Services Ltd, one of London’s
leading independent cleaning and
support services companies, has
successfully completed a management
buyout (MBO), and announced plans to
extend its current cleaning operation
into new environmental support
services areas such as recycling.
The company will continue to be led by the current
Managing Director, Grae Scott, who founded the
business in 1985, and Operations Director Steve
Trew. Jonathan Smith has joined the business as
Business Development Director.
Commenting on Office and General’s future plans,
Grae Scott said: “I have seen the company grow
considerably since 1985. We’ve
always had an enthusiastic workforce
and over the years we’ve built up
excellent relationships with London’s
leading property agents including
Cushman and Wakefield, CB Richard
Ellis and property owners such as
Land Securities. This puts us in a
very positive position to develop our
service offering.
“Our newest area of focus is
environmental services, including
waste and recycling, which will be a
main focus for our business in the
coming months. We are offering
solutions to maximise the value of
waste whilst minimising the cost of
disposal, making sure that all legal
requirements are met, and ‘best
practice’ environmental standards
are upheld.”
Office and General is also making
investment into accreditations,
working towards ISO 14001 (the
environmental management
standard) and the Investors in
People Standard.
Reader Reply No: 106029
projects that are backed all the way by
support from my peers and managers.
Long gone are the days when this
environment was dominated by males,
there is scope to progress here at
PHS regardless of gender.”
Ramatu is currently enjoying working
with new stock control management
software that ensures waste can be
brought in, safely sorted and disposed
of quickly. She has even
made sure that the
company vehicles
comply with the
emissions regulations
coming in to force in
February in London.
Living proof that the
graduate scheme offers
opportunity for progression
is Clare Noble, a veteran of
the scheme who is now
managing director for
PHS
Wastemanagement
division.
Reader Reply
No: 106108
GSH tackles the
skills shortage
head-on
SH Group plc has been working in
partnership with local
G
Staffordshire school Clough Hall
Technology School in tackling the
skills shortage facing the industry.
Providing hands-on support in signing children
onto the new curriculum construction course, GSH
has not only donated various supplies, but has
also taken an active role in actually teaching the
students.
GSH representatives give regular talks on health
and safety issues that are demanded in industry,
teach them about the how’s and why’s of different
health and safety regulations and illustrate
opportunities within the industry.
David Leese, GSH Health and Safety Compliance
Manager, said: “We are delighted to be supporting
such an initiative that is so beneficial to both
young people and the future of the industry. We
are pleased that we can use our expertise to
educate others and knowing that we are
instrumental in giving pupils the chance to gain an
insight into working life. The relationship we have
formed is mutually beneficial in teaching the
engineers of the future with the hope of them
becoming future employees at GSH.”
Reader Reply No: 106084
business
Stroud College awards
Sontay’s 2008
7 Day Catering contract catalogue now available
troud College in
S
Gloucestershire (SCG)
has awarded 7 Day Catering
a five year contract to
manage the catering and
hospitality services at their
main campus in Stroud.
The contract, which has a turnover of
around £215,000, will be operated
initially by a team of six 7 Day
Catering staff.
Facilities include a light and airy
cafeteria, extensive shop and
attractive patio eating area outside for
use in the summer months. 7 Day
Catering provides a wide range of hot
and cold snacks, meals and
beverages, including
vegetarian and healthy eating
choices for students and staff,
as well as providing working
lunches, buffets for training
events and governor lunches.
The contract also covers four
vending machines to clean
and fill, and the busy team
will be required to deliver the
services to an extremely high
standard.
Stroud’s new £18m college,
which currently has over 1,000 full
time and 2,500 part time students,
was officially opened in July 2007.
The college offers an extensive range
of courses to a wide variety of
learners with students ranging from 14
year-olds experiencing their first taste
of college life, to mature students
looking for a new challenge.
7 Day Catering undertook a
competitive tender exercise and one
of the key reasons that SCG chose
them was that they demonstrated a
really good understanding of the
college’s requirements.
Reader Reply No: 106069
Interserve powers
into Sierra Leone
nterserve has been awarded a
contract with the National Power
IAuthority
of Sierra Leone for supply
and installation, repair and
construction of the Western Area
transmission and distribution
network.
The contract, which continues Interserve’s
successful work in Africa, was awarded due to
Interserve’s exceptional team work and support.
This circa £3.5 million contract includes the supply
and stringing of 13km of 33kV, double circuit
overhead line from steel lattice towers, including
the construction and completion of missing and
damaged towers; the complete construction of
11km of 11kV wood pole overhead lines, the
supply/replacement, installation testing and
commissioning of 5km HV copper cables, 33kV
panels, a new 33/11kV transformer and other
installations.
The work is to be carried out, during a 12 month
period, with Interserve providing full accounting,
commercial, procurement and quality support.
Interserve has been working in Malawi, South
Eastern Africa, since 1996.
RR No: 106120
ontay, the market leading
manufacturer of control
S
peripheral products, has
announced that its 2008
catalogue is now available to
order via its website,
www.sontay.com.
Available in hard copy,
CD-ROM format or as
a downloadable pdf,
the catalogue details
product features,
service improvements
and competitive
pricing information
on the company’s
extended and
comprehensive
range.
Among the new and
enhanced devices added
to the catalogue are the company’s
latest range of gas sensors; compact
heat meters; water and heat meter
integrator packages; water leak
detection alarm systems; and the
Echelon LonWorks portfolio of
automation infrastructure products for
energy and building control
applications. Alongside the existing
range, these new products are all
supplied with an extended two year
warranty.
Other service improvements the
company has made include a new
telephone system that enables
monitoring and measurement of
service standards on
incoming calls to ensure
quality levels are
maintained. Sontay’s
experienced UK and
international sales and
customer service
teams offer a breadth
and professionalism
of service, backed-up
with sound product
and technical
advice and an
efficient sales and delivery service.
Recognised as the industry-standard
reference for all HVAC control
peripherals and environmental
measurement equipment, the
catalogue reflects Sontay’s ongoing
commitment to excellent customer
service and support and is considered
a key part of the engineer’s tool-kit.
Reader Reply No: 106006
Chloride Group is Frost &
Sullivan European UPS
Company of the Year
hloride Group is the recipient of the
Frost and Sullivan UPS European
C
Company of the Year Award 2007 for the
exceptional growth in all aspects of its
business.
This award is presented each year to the company
that has most clearly demonstrated excellence
within the UPS industry. This is judged on an
extensive range of key business criteria
encompassing product innovation, competitive
strategy, business growth, service and leadership.
Chloride is a leading supplier in the European
medium to large UPS market and holds the second
largest market share in the European three-phase
market. It is also a market leader for industrial UPS
systems. In 2007 its European business grew by
three times the market average growth rate of 7.0%.
During the past year the Company has increased
the power range of its highly successful 80-NET
transformer-free UPS systems. It has also extended
the scope of its industry leading LIFE.net UPS
remote monitoring and diagnostics service to offer a
remote monitoring capability for standby generator
sets and multi-vendor UPS. Other important
developments and initiatives have been the
introduction of Power Lan Green, a UPS with an
energy efficiency of 97% in AC/AC mode, and the
entering into strategic working partnerships with
suppliers of alternative energy storage solutions
including flywheel and fuel cell technologies.
Indeed, Chloride was particularly commended by
Frost & Sullivan for its green strategy. It was the first
and, to date, the only UPS company to sign the
European Code of Conduct to improve energy
efficiency and minimise energy consumption of the
UPS. Chloride even recycles the energy used in
UPS witness testing at its Bologna facility.
Environmental responsibility and sustainability are at
the heart of its core values.
A major element in Chloride’s winning
formula is its commitment to provide an
exceptionally high standard of customer
support and service. The Company
boasts over 250 highly experienced,
factory trained technical service
engineers in Europe and over 500
engineers worldwide. It has direct
service support in 18 countries and
authorised service providers in another
60 countries ensuring prompt provision
of services.
Reader Reply No: 106005
business
Spitfire receives Avaya
Gold award
continues to meet Avaya’s
benchmarks for partner
performance including
customer service levels
and staff training for Avaya
products and solutions.
Spitfire can supply a
comprehensive service for
customers, that extends
from designing and
implementing a
communications network
including telephony and
Internet access together
with line rental, call billing
and complete after sales technical
pitfire, the leading voice
support and customer service.
and data solution
provider, has received a Gold Commenting on the Gold
Accreditation, Susie Ward, Marketing
Accreditation award in
recognition of the company’s Director for Spitfire said, “Our
continued high performance as an
status as a leading Avaya
Avaya reseller partner is very
solutions partner. The Gold
important to us and it is very gratifying
Accreditation reflects
to receive official recognition for this
Spitfire’s competence to
supply and maintain Avaya’s from Avaya. We aim to offer our
complete telephony solutions customers the best communications
solution for their business needs and
range, including phone
the Avaya product portfolio is a crucial
systems, terminals and
peripherals.
part of our service offering.”
Reader Reply No: 106009
The Gold status confirms that Spitfire
S
FMs at ease with
moves and relocations,
says PHS survey
espite the fact that most
office moves happen with
D
less than three months
notice and with no
formal process
to guide them,
most are also
well managed
by FMs and are
completed
quickly and to
budget,
according
to the 18th
P
H
S
Quarterly
Facilities
Management
Survey, which was published
in January 2008.
Half of the facilities professionals
interviewed also said that they couldn’t
have improved on their last move,
suggesting that FMs are comfortable
with this regular process.
The Survey, in which 202 facilities
managers were interviewed by
telephone
in
October
2007,
investigated the role of the FM and
others in the planning, management
and implementation of office moves;
encompassing all types, ranging from
whole premises moves to internal or
departmental moves within the same
building and site closures.
It revealed a good degree of mobility
within the UK business community, with
well over half of surveyed
organisations having
moved three times or
more in the past three
years, and nearly half
expecting another
move within 6 months.
Respondents were
questioned
about the most
recent moves
carried out by
their organisations; the most
common of which were internal or
departmental moves (carried out by
66% of respondents), followed by
moves to new premises within the
same area (25%). Less than 5% of
moves involved a major geographic
relocation; while the most popular
reasons for moving were expansion
(38%) and internal reorganisation
(31%).
Encouragingly, nearly half of all
respondents (48%) had recycled or
reused furniture and other office items
internally following their move, while
over a third (37%) had used external
suppliers for recycling or disposal.
Reader Reply No: 106118
Performance & support
wins for Armstrong
hen laundry equipment
gives many years of first
W
class performance and the
company that supports it is
‘exceptional’, decisions at
replacement time are easy.
So when the Glynhill hotel in Renfrew
decided to replace the Primus and
Huebsch equipment, supplied and
supported by Armstrong, the same
brands were selected, again from
Armstrong.
‘Our two 20 kg Primus washerextractors had worked upwards of
nine hours a day, seven days a week
for over eight years and so, of course,
had the complementary Huebsch
dryers’ says Executive Head
Housekeeper Debbie Vernal. ‘We had
no serious problems in all that time
and the support from Armstrong was
beyond expectations, even turning out
late at night if needed.’
The laundry handles everything from
the 145 rooms, the kitchen, the
function linen and the towels from the
spa. Given a £3 million improvement
programme in three years, the
Glynhill, seven miles from Glasgow
and a mile from the airport, has a high
occupancy rate. The luxurious spa, in
particular generates a lot of work for
the laundry.
The hotel has replaced two 20 kg
washer extractors with two 16 kg and
one 10 kg Primus to give greater
flexibility. A rotary ironer from
Armstrong and one of the three
original 529 litre (50 lb) Huebsch
dryers are still working flat out and the
other two dryers have been replaced
with current models.
Reader Reply No: 106011
Vicinitee expands
into new markets
he pioneering website
vicinitee.com
used
T
across a property portfolio of
more than six million square
feet in major commercial and
retail developments – has
launched a new service to
support
landlords
and
property
management
professionals.
Reflecting the greater role technology
plays in the management of property,
Vicinitee Services comprises of three
core modules, Innovate, E-Procure and
Source, all designed to unlock
significant ‘non rental’ revenue from the
asset.
Innovate provides the tools to develop
and commercialise the ‘virtual estate’ –
the area above and around the built
environment, which puts landlords and
property owners in control of WiFi
airwaves within the space they own.
E-Procure provides a gateway to a
range of products online, using the
economy of internet-based trading,
while Source utilises the combined
negotiating power of Vicinitee’s huge
property portfolio.
Offering significant economies of scale,
it is able to deliver competitively-priced
products and services to occupier
customers, including furniture, interior
design and post occupancy services,
such as move management and FM.
Furthermore, Vicinitee Services
provides a simple and transparent
revenue share scheme to landlords.
Launched in 2001 by Broadgate
Estates Limited - a subsidiary of The
British Land Company plc vicinitee.com has a particularly strong
presence in the City of London, where
it is used in buildings including 30 St
Mary Axe, Paternoster Square,
Broadgate and Plantation Place. It is
also used at shopping centres across
the UK including Meadowhall in
Sheffield and the new development
Silverburn, in Glasgow.
Bob Flood, managing director of
Vicinitee, said: “The development of
Vicintee Services links in with the
greater role technology plays in the
management of commercial buildings.
“The process we have introduced
enables us to help our customers to
capture some of the lost revenue and
recycle it back into the asset, ultimately
helping to reduce occupancy costs.”
Reader Reply No: 106124
new products
Feature Rich & Affordable – The Zebra P100i from DED
Simple to use, flexible and the most affordable in its class, the Zebra
P100i single sided plastic card printer is now available from DED
Limited. The P100i features a single feed design which is perfect for
printing individual custom cards on demand or for quick and easy
personalisation of pre printed cards.
The Zebra P100i is available in two versions; firstly as a field
upgradeable model which can be modified at any time to include
magnetic stripe, Mifare or chip encoding options - all upgrades are
plug n’ play. A lower cost alternative is available with or without
magnetic stripe encoder but cannot be upgraded with the other
options. Flexible and powerful, the P100i prints in colour or monochrome and on a variety of card types and
stocks. With its small footprint, the P100i is ideal for card printing applications on reception desks in hotels,
gyms, leisure clubs, offices and retail environments. With built in storage for up to 100 cards and 3 cleaning
rollers, consumables are kept close at hand, clean and ready to use. The Zebra P100i uses Zebra’s easy to
use ‘Load-n-Go’ ribbon cartridges and comes with drivers for Windows 2000/XP and Vista.
For more information call 01797 320636 RR: 106001
Rugged, reliable thermal imagers integrate IR and visible light images to help pinpoint
problem areas Fluke, the global leader in handheld electronic test and measurement
technology, has introduced the Fluke TiR1 and TiR Thermal Imagers, designed as
affordable and complete solutions for building diagnostic and roofing professionals,
and restoration and remediation specialists. Both models incorporate IR Fusion®, a
patent-pending technology that integrates infrared and visual (visible light) images in
full screen or picture-in-picture views for enhanced problem detection and analysis.
Built to withstand harsh work environments, and starting at under £3k, the new
thermal imagers are easy-to-use for applications including detection of wet areas in
roofing surveys, for energy audits, and other moisture and mould issues in walls,
ceilings and floors. The Fluke TiR1 and TiR feature a three-button menu designed for intuitive operation and
navigation with the push of a thumb, plus the ability to record and save voice comments with every image taken
(TiR1 only), and on-screen emissivity correction (TiR1 only). With a widescreen full colour LCD display,
optimised thermal sensitivity, and a temperature measurement range of -20°C to +100°C, the thermal imagers
are suitable for most building diagnostics applications.
For more information call 0207 942 0700 445532 RR: 106112
Smile for versatile heating control
Honeywell ‘Smile’ provides weathercompensated heating control in buildings
too small for a building management
system, too large for domestic controls.
For users, Smile is stylish and simple to
use with many comfort-enhancing,
energy saving features. Its ingenious
user panel has a large display and a
single rotary control. This makes it easy
to select, change and confirm set values
and times – and difficult to make
mistakes.
For installers, its versatility satisfies the
needs of many applications, yet provides excellent value for money. It can be used
as a stand-alone controller or combined with other Smile units in a small network.
For fiat roof applications where cold-applied
liquid waterproofing is the product of choice,
Kemper now offer the UK’s only solvent-free
version — Kemperol 2K-PUR — which has
BBA certification and is classified with an
expected working life of at least 25 years.
The solvent-free formulation reduces harmful
emissions, with the practical advantage of
allowing use on occupied buildings without the need for evacuation, minimising
disruption and inconvenience. Like all Kemperol waterproofing it is applied ‘wet on
wet’, a method that consistently outperforms other liquid-applied systems for
durability and adhesion. Unlike single ply it gives a fully bonded, seamless
membrane that copes easily with complex details on site.
Information on this and Kemper’s solvent-free surfacing products for balconies and
car parks are contained in a new brochure.
10 new air
curtains from JS
JS Air Curtains has
updated its range with 10
new units being added to
its 2008 catalogue. The
range is now the widest
available in the UK and
includes air curtains for
all applications from
economic electric units to
powerful
industrial
models that will seal huge
doorways up to five
metres high.
The new additions to the
JS Air Curtains range
includes the economic
HeatScreen, which has a
hand held remote control
and starts at less than
£300, the Mini Optima, an
attractively styled low
noise air curtain, the
Rotowind for use on
revolving doors and the Kool, an industrial unit for use on cool stores and freezers.
The 2008 catalogue features an easy-to-use selection guide that allows users to
shortlist the most suitable models for their requirements based on their door height,
preferred mounting option and heating type.
As well as an extremely wide range of standard air curtains, JS also offers a
bespoke design service. JS works with clients to produce individually tailored air
curtains that can blend-in with the architectural style of an entrance or stand out as
a feature. They can incorporate other services like motion detectors, CCTV or
emergency lighting enabling these elements to be hidden.
JS’ in-house installation division also provides a smooth, hassle-free installation
and commissioning service that walks the customer through from design
specification to post-installed product training.
For more information call 01925 445532 RR: 106111
For more information call 01903 858656 RR: 106037
For more information call 01344 656443
RR: 106044
Solvent-free liquid
RR: 106012
New Fluke Thermal Imagers for building diagnostic applications for less than £3k
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National Energy
Management Exhibition
20-22 May 2008 NEC Birmingham, UK
part of Sustainabilitylive!
www.nemex-energy.co.uk
NEMEX: The UK’s largest gathering for energy and renewable energy professionals
Seek solutions to your
energy and renewables
questions
NEMEX, part of Sustainabilitylive! provides you with
the largest networking event to meet the leading
companies of energy efficient products, renewable
technologies, metering controls, wind power, building
management systems and much more…
Don’t miss the chance to meet the faces
behind the products and services, register
for FREE today at www.nemex-energy.co.uk
Discuss you future requirements and come up to
speed with innovative technologies and services
through free seminar sessions and master class
programmes – at the same time providing you with
cost effective solutions for your business.
Register for
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RR: 106134
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