11 May 2016 | Herpreet Kaur Grewal OCS has been awarded a six-year contract to provide catering, vending and hospitality services for North West Regional College in Belfast. The contract commenced on 1 April and includes service provision across all three campuses in Derry-Londonderry, Limavady, and Strabane. The college
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has today (29 July) announced the winners of the RIBA Research Trust Awards and the RIBA Boyd Auger Scholarship. The RIBA Research Trust Awards are offered annually to support independent architectural research. The RIBA Boyd Auger Scholarship supports architecture students or recent graduates
The exciting plans are going ahead for the improvement of traffic movement and speed up the journey prediction times along the M60 and M62 motorways in the vicinity of the city of Manchester. Workers under contractual deals with the company Highways England have just completed the crucial task to transfer
The city of Romford, in the East End of London, will be investing in a new leisure center for its citizens valued at a grand total of 25 million pounds, which REL Electrical will now be able to contribute towards. The family-run electrical installation business has just signed a contract
Sika Limited are forever dedicated towards providing new and ever innovative solutions and radical alternatives to the current chemical materials that are on offer to the building and construction industries. Their product, Sikafloor-262AS, has been used by independent contractor firm Zircon Flooring in order to enable the floor surfaces of
11 May 2016 | Herpreet Kaur Grewal OCS has been awarded a six-year contract to provide catering, vending and hospitality services for North West Regional College in Belfast. The contract commenced on 1 April and includes service provision across all three campuses in Derry-Londonderry, Limavady, and Strabane. The college provides further and higher education, and skills training to a student population of more than 20,000 across its three campuses and seven academic departments. Patrick McKeown, director of finance and economic engagement at North West Regional College, said: “We are very happy to welcome OCS as our new catering supplier across our three main college locations. Our students and staff want quick access to high-quality, value-for-money foods with excellent service.” The contract covers six catering locations and comprises OCS’s Just Dine, Just Deli and Just Café packages. The offering allows the delivery of restaurant, sandwich bar and café services across the college campuses. Source link
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has today (29 July) announced the winners of the RIBA Research Trust Awards and the RIBA Boyd Auger Scholarship. The RIBA Research Trust Awards are offered annually to support independent architectural research. The RIBA Boyd Auger Scholarship supports architecture students or recent graduates by providing an opportunity to undergo a period of imaginative and original research and travel. The 2015 recipients of the RIBA Research Trust Awards are: RIBA Research Trust Awards • Mhairi McVicar & Neil Turnbull, ‘Practicing Engagement: the value of the architect in a Community Asset Transfer’ – £10,000• Jorge Rodríguez Alvarez, ‘A Case Study Handbook on Sustainable Housing Design. Feedback from London Residential Schemes’ – £10,000 • Urmi Sengupta, ‘Language of disaster: exploring the altered architectural fabric of Durbar Square, Kathmandu’ – £10,000 The 2015 recipients of the RIBA Boyd Auger Scholarship will receive £5,000 and is: RIBA Boyd Auger Scholarship • Matthew Eberhard (Part 2 Architectural Assistant at Rick Mather Architects), Lucy Paton (Part II Architectural Assistant at Witherford Watson Mann Architects), Benedetta Rogers (Part 2 Architectural Assistant at Featherstone Young Architect), and Anthony Staples (Associate Architect at Jan Kattein Architects), ‘Learning from Accra and the Global South’ The applications were assessed by the RIBA Research Grants sub-committee which comprises: • Professor Robert Brown, Plymouth University (RIBA Council member)• Dolan Conway, past RIBA Council member • Professor Murray Fraser, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (Chair) • Robert Mitchell, Mitchell Taylor Workshop • Alan Jones, Queen’s University • Dr Alexandra Stara, Kingston University• Victoria Thornton, Open City • Meryl Townley, van Heyningen and Haward Architects (RIBA Council member) RIBA President, Stephen Hodder said: “It is always a pleasure to support innovative projects through the RIBA Research Trust Awards. This year, there’s a real potential to deliver considerable benefit and impact to the profession and wider society more generally. Furthermore, the fresh approach demonstrated by the RIBA Boyd Auger Scholars in bringing together architecture, sociology and anthropology will no doubt produce equally interesting results.” RIBA Research Grants sub-committee Chair, Professor Murray Fraser said: “The quality of applications this year to the RIBA Research Trust Awards and the RIBA Boyd Auger Scholarship was again at a very high standard, resulting in some very difficult decisions for the judging panel. As my last year as chair of this judging panel, I am delighted that we have been able to grant four very different awards, all of which I am confident will lead to useful contributions to their distinctive subject areas. It has been a privilege to be able to facilitate the direction of research funds towards such worthy projects over the years, and I have no doubt that the RIBA Trust Awards panel will continue to do so in future.” – Ends – Notes to editors 1. For more information members of the press should contact: Gagandeep Bedi, Press Officer, RIBA: gagandeep.bedi@riba.org 020 7307 3814. 2. The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) champions better buildings, communities and the environment through architecture and our members www.architecture.com 3. Follow us on Twitter for regular RIBA updates @RIBA Posted on Wednesday 29th July 2015 Source link
The exciting plans are going ahead for the improvement of traffic movement and speed up the journey prediction times along the M60 and M62 motorways in the vicinity of the city of Manchester. Workers under contractual deals with the company Highways England have just completed the crucial task to transfer the area along the M62 by Rochdale from a hard shoulder zone into a regular traveling line for motorists. Following this development, these hardworking contractors will then begin to implement their work on the central networks of the motorway. This will entail the use of a large amount of concrete (over 7,000 tons’ worth in fact!) that will be set in order to put a barrier in place. It is widely hoped that this initiative will help to reduce the amount of accidents and frequent bottlenecks along the motorway. Furthermore, the fact that it will be made using a hardy material such as concrete means that very little repair or maintenance work will be needed for it to remain in its initial state. This equally will once again help to reduce any possible added congestion and traffic along that route. It is hoped that the implementation of these measures will result in the motorway being able to hold 33 per cent more vehicles, and will mean that there is more space for vehicles to navigate. It is clear that through all of these initiatives vehicles will be enabled to travel more safely, quickly and easily than ever before. The success of this project will be a huge step forward for Highways England and Mister Stephen Hill, one of the project managers at senior level, is very confident that the scheme will be a success. Drivers travelling along the M62 however will have to bear in mind that there will be closures during the night in order to permit for these renovations to take place
The city of Romford, in the East End of London, will be investing in a new leisure center for its citizens valued at a grand total of 25 million pounds, which REL Electrical will now be able to contribute towards. The family-run electrical installation business has just signed a contract to organize the installation and construction of the networks at Romford Leisure Center, which will be overseen by property management business Willmott Dixon, themselves under the watchful eye of Havering Council. The electricals will be designed to eventually enable for the installation of the brand new facilities, among the many which will include such features as a pool for swimmers containing no less than 8 lanes. This will enable those wishing to swim to be able to go at their own comfortable pace, whilst those perhaps wanting to burn more calories will be able to launch themselves bravely and boldly into the faster lanes without knocking into the slowcoaches. In addition to these state-of-the-art pool facilities will be a new fitness suite, a specially built-in rink for ice skaters, as well as an assortment of other sporting activity appliances that the people of Romford will be able to benefit from. At a cost of 2 million pounds worth, REL Electric will plan, install and supervise the entire installation of the electronic side of affairs for the leisure center: this is estimated to take up to as long as an entire year. REL’s MD Mister Toby Buckley has expressed his happiness in being affiliated with the new center, which it is hoped will revitalize and invigorate life into Romford’s infrastructure. Mister Buckley is adamant that the technical conundrums of the installation process will be challenging, but with an already impressive portfolio in developing leisure center space, it seems clear to all involved that REL Electrical are well suited to fulfilling the potential of the new Romford center. If anyone can do it, it’s REL.
Sika Limited are forever dedicated towards providing new and ever innovative solutions and radical alternatives to the current chemical materials that are on offer to the building and construction industries. Their product, Sikafloor-262AS, has been used by independent contractor firm Zircon Flooring in order to enable the floor surfaces of a car factory to be completely secure and slip-free for workers there to carry on the important work that they are doing to make one of the most luxurious products known to man: the Rolls Royce. The Sikafloor product was used in order to renovate an expanse of the manufacturing plant floor, a space that covered a grand total of 14, 000 meters square. This was clearly an ambitious task for the combined efforts of the Sikafloor product and the workers of Zircon Flooring, since not only did this particular customer require the work to be installed without having a significant impact on the production rates of the Rolls Royce firm, they also insisted on an early date for the flooring project to complete. This would mean that Zircon Flooring would only have 18 days (less than three weeks) to complete the task that they had been set to provide a smooth and textured floor finish for the manufacturer: they were therefore wise to use the products of a company like Sika Group Limited, who indeed specialize in providing products that are relatively simple to apply to the foundations of the material and that are also relatively easy for contracted workers to use and get the hang of. Fortunately, the Sikafloor-262AS was successfully applied to the surfaces ensuring the smooth and quality aesthetic finish that the client had demanded and what is more was so simple to apply that Zircon Flooring managed to complete the task even quicker than the swift deadline of 18 days. Yet again, Sirka Limited products have proved themselves effective and easy to use to the building and construction industry.
