©Reuters The interim report said that customers were overcharged £1.7bn a year between 2009 and 2013 Power supplies will be sufficient to keep the lights on this winter, the operator of Britain’s electricity transmission system has forecast, but only because of emergency measures introduced to avoid blackouts. National Grid predicted
Britain’s house-building industry has committed to stepping up the number of new homes that are built by the end of the decade. Members of the Home Builders Federation (HBF) pledged to raise levels of new housing in 2019 to more than double those seen in 2010. In a statement of
Lockton Companies International Limited (LCIL) have recently announced their commitment to using Solo Insurance Services Ltd to advance their industry base in construction. The unison of Lockton with the well-grounded and prolific Solo squad will help to ensure that the building company will help Lockton to enhance its reputation as
On the 22nd February of this year, Manchester will witness a useful new lesson in how to maintain the values of health and safety in an increasingly digitized workplace universe. The event, organized and implemented by the British Safety Council, whose unbridled authority on the subject of health and safety
A worrying sign for the building and construction industry is the constant and excessive demand for PIR insulation materials, which has resulting in an increasingly alarming shortage in the material. The constant demand for the product has inevitably resulted in an increase in manufacturing costs to cope with the demand
One of the most prominent space provider companies in this country, Broadstock are cracking open the champagne to celebrate a vital new contractual agreement with Tata Technologies, a business with a glowing record in the world of designing the technological future of this world. Having been picked over four other
Mister Stuart Cooke the Head of Utility at PwC has today released his thoughts on the current government’s strategy to deal with issues of sustainability and green energy. There are clear worries that the conservatives’ intentions to unite and collate several different departments into one has signaled that they are
The successful lighting manufacturer Philips Lighting has today revealed its new plans to work with light-emitting diode (LED) technology to develop better products that will satisfy their demanding and prolific customer fan base. The plan to go ahead with the plans to implement the GreenPower LED system has been greeted
©Reuters The interim report said that customers were overcharged £1.7bn a year between 2009 and 2013 Power supplies will be sufficient to keep the lights on this winter, the operator of Britain’s electricity transmission system has forecast, but only because of emergency measures introduced to avoid blackouts. National Grid predicted the buffer between supply and demand during the winter months was likely to average 5.5 per cent — similar to last year’s margin — and said this was “manageable”. More On this topic IN Energy However, the margin would have been just 0.1 per cent without spare capacity that power generators are paid to keep on standby, as well as a scheme to pay industrial users to reduce demand at peak times. National Grid has handed lucrative contracts to several energy companies to keep mothballed coal-fired power stations available for use at short notice as Britain’s creaking electricity network has come under increasing strain. Cordi O’Hara, director of UK market operations for National Grid, said she was confident “that we have the right tools and services available, including extra power we can call on if we need it, for times of highest demand”. Fears of blackouts have been heightened by a series of headline-grabbing supply crunches caused by breakdowns and fires at UK power stations in recent years but Hugo Chandler, director of New Resource Partners, an energy consultancy, said National Grid deserved credit for making the system robust enough to cope. “We are moving towards a decentralised, flexible grid with a diverse mix of generation capacity, and increasingly smart methods of balancing supply and demand,” he said. However, in a longer-term outlook issued earlier this week, National Grid made clear that big new sources of capacity were needed in years ahead to keep the UK adequately supplied with electricity as dirty coal-fired plants are phased out to meet climate change targets. Amber Rudd, energy secretary, wants to end UK coal power by 2025 — the same year that the first of a new generation of nuclear plants is scheduled to open at Hinkley Point in Somerset. We’re dealing with a lot of old, creaking kit and the government needs to start taking strategic decisions if we’re to replace it in a sensible manner – Paul Massara, North Star Solar EDF of France, which is planning to build the Hinkley facility, said this week it remained committed to the project despite the UK’s vote to leave the EU but has yet to make a final investment decision amid concern among unions and other critics over the £18bn cost. Until new nuclear arrives, the UK will become more dependent on inherently unreliable wind power as well as electricity imported from continental Europe by interconnectors. National Grid said demand management had an increasingly important role to play, with growing numbers of industrial users signing up to its scheme to incentivise lower power consumption at times of high demand. “It’s very unlikely that the lights will go out this winter,” said Paul Massara, former chief executive of Npower, one of the UK’s “big six” electricity suppliers, and now head of North Star Solar, a green energy company. “But we’re dealing with a lot of old, creaking kit and the government needs to start taking strategic decisions if we’re to replace it in a sensible manner.” Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2016. You may share using our article tools. Please don’t cut articles from FT.com and redistribute by email or post to the web. Source link
Britain’s house-building industry has committed to stepping up the number of new homes that are built by the end of the decade. Members of the Home Builders Federation (HBF) pledged to raise levels of new housing in 2019 to more than double those seen in 2010. In a statement of intent published by the HBF, house-builders promised to work closely with the Government to boost output. The firms also said they would invest more in training and provide more information on build-out rates. In addition, the HBF announced the launch of a land-exchange scheme that will allow larger builders to sell sites to smaller businesses. The HBF made the announcement following months of talks with the Government aimed at finding ways to raise Britain’s housing stock. It comes as the Government seeks to build one million more homes by the end of the current parliament by 2020. Research carried out by the HBF has shown that build rates on large sites have already doubled since 2010. It also indicated that housing supply reached 180,000 in 2014-2015, with this figure set to be even higher in 2015-2016. Talks between the Government and the HBF are expected to continue over the months ahead. They will look at further ways to ramp up the number of new homes in Britain, in a bid to tackle the housing shortage gripping the country. One area of concern is said to be the planning process, which the HBF is hoping to speed up to allow homes to be built more quickly. Housing and Planning Minister Brandon Lewis said: “This statement of intent shows house-builders are committed to continuing the growth in supply we have seen under our administration – building more of the homes that this country needs. “We have already seen a strong upwards growth in new homes delivered since 2010 and I welcome developers’ plans to share with councils how quickly they will get homes built on sites. “I’ll continue working with HBF and house-builders to see rates of building increase further and look forward to seeing the results of their review of larger sites.” HBF and CITB recently announced the Home Building Skills Partnership – a £2.7 million initiative which will to help tackle the nation’s housing shortage. Steve Radley, Director of Policy & Partnerships at CITB, said: “The Homebuilding Skills Partnership will deliver the infrastructure, the tools and the funding to meet the industry’s skill needs. We look forward to playing an active role in the partnership to create the skilled workforce that Homebuilding needs.” Source link
Lockton Companies International Limited (LCIL) have recently announced their commitment to using Solo Insurance Services Ltd to advance their industry base in construction. The unison of Lockton with the well-grounded and prolific Solo squad will help to ensure that the building company will help Lockton to enhance its reputation as one of the thriving business enterprises in the construction industry. With 90 experienced and committed insurance employees at Solo’s disposal, LCIL representative Mister Richard Owen is extremely pleased to let them through the doors of Lockton in the hope that their business success will soar to even greater heights. Lockton’s utter commitment to ensuring that its customers receive the best possible advice and attention that they require is compounded by their deal with Solo. It is hoped that such a relationship between the two companies will help to cement their client base and sterling reputation as an incredibly credible service provider. The shared ethics of excellent customer service and dedication that Lockton and Solo share together have made the transition into partnership a particularly smooth and predictable one, as Judith Cooper Solo’s Chief Executive Officer explains. Indeed, the partnership between both business enterprises should be particularly lucrative, and with a base of 6,000 insurance employees dealing with 50,000 different customers all over the globe,Lockton will need all the help that they can get from Solo to ensure that they remain one of the most successful insurance businesses working today. Having been awarded the prestigious “Best Place to Work in Insurance” for a record number of eight times in the last eight years by the magazine known as “Business Insurance,” it is plainly clear that the presenting of Solo to Lockton will prove to be mutually beneficial to all concerned, from potential future clients to the CEOs of the Kansas-rooted company itself. By seizing this division of Solo, Lockton hope to expand themselves greatly in the future years ahead.
On the 22nd February of this year, Manchester will witness a useful new lesson in how to maintain the values of health and safety in an increasingly digitized workplace universe. The event, organized and implemented by the British Safety Council, whose unbridled authority on the subject of health and safety is key, will be useful to members from a wide variety of trades and work backgrounds from all over the country. Running for half a single day, the event is catered to those who wish to be made more aware of the pitfalls that can occur in the workplace, from work hazards to maintaining one’s own physical and mental health in the workplace. With the increasingly alarming statistics revealing the unhappiness and discontent of individuals in the workplace, it is more important than ever that those workers in the building trade and indeed in any other are made fully aware of the variety of different kinds of solutions to problems that are open to them. The event will involve talks by individuals from a variety of different working environments, from spokesmen for the police force to transportation methods and even the governing bodies of this country. Ms Louise Ward, who herself will be delivering the initial welcome and introductory talk to individuals to kick off the event at 09:30, has highlighted such colossal events as the EU referendum result and the inauguration of Donald Trump as President of the USA as having a huge impact on workers’ sense of worth and wellbeing in their environment. She emphasizes that it is more important than ever for the British Safety Council to show what it can do to help workers and individuals in need of support, and to design and construct new ways and methods of implementing safety along with progress in all working environments around the country. The event is set to be a success for all involved.
A worrying sign for the building and construction industry is the constant and excessive demand for PIR insulation materials, which has resulting in an increasingly alarming shortage in the material. The constant demand for the product has inevitably resulted in an increase in manufacturing costs to cope with the demand for it, explaining why the overall costs of the insulation material have soared by a staggering total of no less than 22 per cent. Whist some building and construction companies are so vastly affluent that they are able to cope with this staggering rise in prices, this often results in smaller manufacturing outlets being put out of the loop and having to seek alternative means and methods to keeping the home fires of their clients burning, so to speak. One of the alternative methods of providing insulation materials to clients is a plastic known as “expanded polystyrene” or EPS. Used in a huge variety of different contexts ranging from home insulations in roofs and walls to giant structures such as monolithic bridges, EPS is a favorite alternative over PIR to many manufacturers around the world. This is due primarily to its flexibility and ability to withstand all kinds of conditions, but is also cheap being a plastic as well as relatively easy to produce for clients, in contrast to PIR. Manufacturing enterprises and individuals interested in the product are therefore warmly encouraged to get in contact with SPI (aka Styrene Packaging & Insulation Limited) which is a company that specializes in the making of EPS around the country. Having worked with making and dispatching this product for more than 30 years since the enterprise’s birth in 1976, SPI are confident that EPS are the brilliant alternative to insulation material shortages around the country, and urge those interested in communicating with them to telephone them on 01274691777 or alternatively to check their online site out on www.styrene.biz to find out more about the services that they provide.
One of the most prominent space provider companies in this country, Broadstock are cracking open the champagne to celebrate a vital new contractual agreement with Tata Technologies, a business with a glowing record in the world of designing the technological future of this world. Having been picked over four other different companies in the country, Broadstock Office Furniture have won the bid to buddy up with Tata, and will be expected to supply them with all the furnishing items that they will need in order to make their Warwickshire office shine like the best of them. Located specifically in the town of Leamington Spa, Tata Technologies plan to use the location as their new meeting point in Britain and have agreed to sign a contract that is set to be valued at an impressive 740 thousand pounds. Broadstock will not however be alone in their endeavor to please Tata, and will collaborate intensely with Thuja, specialists in home and interior design, in order to satisfy the affiliates of Tata and show to the world what Broadstock can do. With these exciting developments to take place from April this very year, it is more important than ever before for Broadstock to maintain its cool and work ethic in order that it may satisfy its new and very successful customers. Mister Lee Woodwall of Broadstock is not daunted by the prospect of working for such an illustrious client as Tata Technologies and feels that the company will embrace the challenge and demands with open arms, reflecting Broadstock’s success over the years with various different businesses around the world. What is clear from this lucrative contractual deal is that companies like Broadstock are moving the right way forward when they plan ahead for the future and commit themselves to achieving better targets and objectives over the years, and Broadstock’s agreement to deal with the furniture demands of Tata Technologies clearly indicates that hard work and investment does indeed pay off in the end
Mister Stuart Cooke the Head of Utility at PwC has today released his thoughts on the current government’s strategy to deal with issues of sustainability and green energy. There are clear worries that the conservatives’ intentions to unite and collate several different departments into one has signaled that they are less committed than before to addressing the various and impending dangerous issues of climate change and reducing Britain’s status as one of the largest carbon-impacting countries in Europe. On the other hand, the initiative today for Theresa May and her cohorts to process the all-new Industrial Strategy to cope with these issues is, to Mister Cooke at least, a sure sign that such worries should not be taken too seriously now. Mister Cooke is equally optimistic that the government will devote (through the implementation of this all-new department) much more attention than ever before to the problems and alternatives to Britain’s impact on the environment and the atmosphere. Changes to the country’s attitudes structure, industry initiatives and technological possibilities will be needed so that the government can act upon their decision and announcement to commit to resolving issues that are of growing concern to environmentalists and green activists all around the country and indeed the rest of the world. Mister Stuart Cooke also states that more collaboration will be required between companies, heads of staff and executives to ensure that businesses and construction companies are well aware of the new things that need to be done in order to ensure that Britain becomes a greener and more environmentally friendly place than ever before. Ensuring that the costs of energy production as well as securing the green future of the country are just two of Westminster’s objectives to achieve and it is up to the government to work closely and get involved with independent and private businesses so that all can work together to making Britain a cleaner, greener place to live and thrive in.
The successful lighting manufacturer Philips Lighting has today revealed its new plans to work with light-emitting diode (LED) technology to develop better products that will satisfy their demanding and prolific customer fan base. The plan to go ahead with the plans to implement the GreenPower LED system has been greeted with much excitement and anticipation for the future of Philips Lighting’s relationship with new forms of lighting and technology. Indeed, with a lighting capability of 3.0 micromoles per Joule, the new lights will be of fantastic use to Philips’ German client, who require for the lighting of their extensive greenhouse that they use in order to monitor their plant produce for trade and commerce. By using this new form of lighting technology, Philips will be able to satisfy their customers, who require the lights to have as little negative impact on their food product as possible. Certainly, controlling the conditions of a greenhouse are especially crucial to the survival of plant produce, and LED lighting is ideal for this particular working environment. Specifically tailored towards businesses that want to reduce the installment costs of the lighting, Philips will implement the lighting system using malleable cables and tools to ensure that the crops in the greenhouse themselves are affected as little as possible by the alterations. Similarly, the LED system will be able to require very few maintenance or alteration needs, meaning that Philips’ client can concentrate on producing record amounts of new produce and harvest with the new lighting successfully in place for the year. Having produced a staggeringly high amount of produce, weighing up to levels as high as 107 kilograms, Tomaline from Belgium are more eager than ever to implement the new lighting system to ensure that their crop is well looked after and yields even better results for them this year. Philips’ new LED lighting system is sure to keep the crops bright.
