Because of the strong demand for investment in East London Property, Cogress has managed to secure funding for a new residential and commercial property development on Tudor Road. The development is located in Hackney, which is one of the most popular boroughs in London. The project will create 4.725 sq.
The Pumping Station at Peakirk has undergone a wide spread refurbishment of their mitre gates. The Peakirk Pumping Station is located on the junction of the River Welland and Folly. The work was carried out by ECS Engineering Services, who were appointed to carry out the work by Environment Agency.
In North East Scotland, an industrial carbon capture and storage, or CCS project has been awarded a significant amount of funding in order to carry out feasibility studies over the course of the next 18 months. The project will be carried out by Acorn and will involve capturing the emissions
How every LED lamp gets an Internet address / Power supply with data cables / On the way to smart IP-based building management. Wetzikon, May 4, 2017. R&M, the global Swiss developer and provider of cabling systems for high-quality network infrastructures based in Wetzikon, supports initiatives for the digital office
Simian Skill Dubai has recently passed the CISRS Annual accreditation audit. The company has completed another year of their training in the UAE throughout the 2016/17 period. Simian Skill has been operating in this area since 2013 and the company have managed to sustain a high standard for their training
One of the leading providers of building envelope solutions, Trimo, has been shortlisted for the Offsite Construction Awards in a number of different categories. The business has managed to be shortlisted for three different categories: Best Use of Steel, Offsite Professional of the Year and Commercial Project of the year.
Because of the strong demand for investment in East London Property, Cogress has managed to secure funding for a new residential and commercial property development on Tudor Road. The development is located in Hackney, which is one of the most popular boroughs in London. The project will create 4.725 sq. ft. of office space and 19 residential units. The property developer contracted for this project is Kirk Real Estate Ltd. At the moment 7 of the 19 residential units in the development have been sold. It is thought that the London Borough of Hackney has seen a great deal of redevelopment, which in turn has led to an average house price increase of 700% over the course of the last 20 years. This massive jump in house prices in the area could be due in part to the after effects of the London 2012 Olympic Games. This “Olympic effect” means that the infrastructure in the area has been improved, making it a popular place for commuters. This popularity has been heightened because of the variety of different independent bars, shops and restaurants as well as the borough’s close proximity to London. It is thought that the project should be complete and ready for resale in September 2018 and Cogress are working to diversify their portfolio in order to offer the best opportunities to their investors. The company has an increasing number of qualified investors that are looking for opportunities in the London markets. For the assets in the company’s portfolios, the investors usually receive any profits from the portfolio on exit. The exit is planned for the Hackney development in September next year and it is hoped that the development will allow their investors the access to property investment opportunities of over £10 million. The investment company are diversifying their portfolio in order to adapt to the investor demand while the uncertain times in the market.
The Pumping Station at Peakirk has undergone a wide spread refurbishment of their mitre gates. The Peakirk Pumping Station is located on the junction of the River Welland and Folly. The work was carried out by ECS Engineering Services, who were appointed to carry out the work by Environment Agency. By carrying out this work, ECS have been able to improve the flood defenses in the station by uprating the gates at the station. The main purpose of the refurbishment works was to create an improved barrier to protect the Pumping Station in the event of flooding. The Peakirk Pumping Station works to protect a number of properties that are located further upstream from any significant changes in water level. The existing wooden miter gates that were installed at the site had visible signs of wear after being n use for a number of years. In order to carry out the refurbishment works on the gates, they needed to be removed and taken to the ECS fabrications centre which is located in Nottinghamshire. The company faced a challenge when first gaining access to the gates, because the central sluice needed to have the water removed and then dammed before the gates could be removed and the work could begin. It was thought that the stoplog would be enough to allow the isolation of the mitre gates, however on inspection, the stoplog guides were also looking worn. Therefore, in order to carry out the repairs a GEO dam was installed to hold back the water. The control system also needed to be considered for the new gates. In order to tackle this challenge an ECS blueprinted weight stack counter balancing system was installed in order to provide the controls for the new gates. This entire system was all manufactured in house by ECS meaning that a fully integrated system could be reinstalled at Peakirk. The Environment Agency chose ECS to carry out the work because they were looking for high quality engineering solutions that were carried out in a way that is environmentally friendly.
In North East Scotland, an industrial carbon capture and storage, or CCS project has been awarded a significant amount of funding in order to carry out feasibility studies over the course of the next 18 months. The project will be carried out by Acorn and will involve capturing the emissions from the St Fergus gas terminal that is situated near Peterhead and then transport and store them beneath the North Sea within the redundant oil and gas infrastructure that is there. The CCS process works by capturing waste carbon dioxide from areas that it is released in high quantities and taking it to a storage site where it is unable to enter the atmosphere, for example underground in a geological formation. This process will stop large quantities of carbon dioxide getting in to the atmosphere from sites like fossil fuels power plants. The amount of the grant that has been awarded as part of the Advancing CCS Technologies round of the EU’s ERA-NET programme has not been confirmed yet, but it is thought that the funding amounts to millions of pounds. The studies for this project will be carried out by a consortium which has been formed by the project developer CO2DeepStore; the consultancy firm Pale Blue Dot Energy; Scottish Carbon Capture and Storage, the research group; Bellona the Norwegian climate change foundation; Liverpool University and Radboud University which is located in the Netherlands. The lead partners for this research is Pale Blue Dot Energy. This consultancy company is an established affiliate of the project developers CO2DeepStore. The funding announcement is thought to allow the consortium to progress with their Acorn project for the next 18 months and will hopefully also create a more widespread awareness of the different benefits gained from CCS. The project will make sure that CO2 that is captures and stored in the North Sea will be kept separate from the gas that is feeding in to the St Fergus terminal. The project, Acorn, has been in development for a while however their progress has been hindered due to the UK’s concentration on other clean power schemes.
How every LED lamp gets an Internet address / Power supply with data cables / On the way to smart IP-based building management. Wetzikon, May 4, 2017. R&M, the global Swiss developer and provider of cabling systems for high-quality network infrastructures based in Wetzikon, supports initiatives for the digital office and room ceiling. The aim of these digital ceiling initiatives is to integrate the ceiling infrastructure into local data networks. Sensors and controls for lighting, air conditioning and surveillance could be networked more simply and safely with building services engineering and the Internet of Things. Functions and services that in the past have been run separately could now be brought together for the first time in the data network. This would make it possible to automate office and building operations. There are already energy-saving, smart LED ceiling lights available on the market featuring intelligent sensors and a data network connection. “These are fascinating new possibilities. But things are not yet working out quite so easily in the field due to the frequent lack of appropriate cabling and a solution for the power supply of end devices on the ceiling,” says Matthias Gerber, Market Manager LAN Cabling at R&M. This is why R&M has developed special digital ceiling solutions for office buildings based on tried-and-tested cabling systems. For example, R&M is supporting the combination of data connection and power supply for LED lighting with an incredibly low amount of cabling. The LED lights are fed with power via the data cable – referred to as Power over Ethernet (PoE) – and at the same time obtain their own IP address in the LAN. Surveillance cameras, smoke alarms, temperature and motion sensors or WLAN antennas on the ceiling could be integrated in the Internet of Things in the same way. The R&M U-Box is the core of these solutions. The multifunctional, flat distributor housing can provide up to 24 data network or PoE connections. “But Power over Ethernet will not be enough in the digital ceiling. High-power end devices, such as digital ceiling switches, that need greater power are coming onto the market. And that changes the requirements fundamentally. In the future we are going to be needing an adequate 230-Volt power supply as well as structured LAN cabling in the ceiling,” says Matthias Gerber. In such cases, ceilings can be accessed with the R&M U-Box as it can accommodate not only the LAN connections but also the connections for the 230V power supply. “It is crucial you plan an appropriate cabling structure for the digital ceiling at an early stage,” emphasizes Matthias Gerber. In conventional planning, the number of LAN connection points in the ceiling is not usually enough. The tried-and-tested star cabling based on a central floor distributor was developed particularly with work area access in mind. But these connections are normally in the wrong place when it comes to connecting building infrastructure applications. This is why R&M recommends positioning small ceiling distributors, called service outlets (SO), compliant with EN 50173-6 at regular intervals in all rooms. To reduce the need for star cabling, an active zone switch can be positioned next to the SO point. These can take care of LAN cabling and PoE power supply in their relevant zones. The digital ceiling solutions provided by R&M are paving the way to a plannable development of the ceiling – both for IP-based intelligent building automation and for WLAN access using structured cabling. The combination of data network and 230V power supply on one platform has been a specialty of R&M for many years, and is now finding a new application. R&M uses approaches from data cabling and work area access which have been proved millions of times over and can be adapted to suit any particular scenario.
Simian Skill Dubai has recently passed the CISRS Annual accreditation audit. The company has completed another year of their training in the UAE throughout the 2016/17 period. Simian Skill has been operating in this area since 2013 and the company have managed to sustain a high standard for their training delivery as well as maintaining the ethos of quality over quantity while working in a hard commercial environment where clients would rather avoid any forms of formal off site training. Instead their clients prefer short duration in house training or skills testing to make sure that the least amount to time is lost with training. It is thought that the CISRS Overseas Scaffolder Training Scheme is getting a stronger reputation and is receiving an increasing amount of support over the years as more and more companies notice the benefits of setting out their training like the UK standard training programmes. CISRS is the preferred training scheme for a number of different major organisations. Recently, the training centre has completed the training for a number of different blue chip organisations such as the Oil Rig Construction company Lamprell Ltd as well as Carillion and Shell Oil. The training business has also been working with some of the biggest international scaffolding companies. These scaffolding companies that have undergone training with CISRS include Hertel, SGB and Kaefer. Simian Skills has been offering a variety of different qualifications such as Level 1 scaffolder, Basic Scaffold Inspection and Scaffolding Supervisor training. The Skills company has also delivered Level 2 scaffolder courses and are the first in the region to offer CISRS Level 3 Scaffolder courses. Simian skill have aa presence in the CISRS CENTER IN Ogun, Nigeria and it id though that at some point this month the business will be working for the CISRS accreditation for a training centre that located in Chennai, India.
One of the leading providers of building envelope solutions, Trimo, has been shortlisted for the Offsite Construction Awards in a number of different categories. The business has managed to be shortlisted for three different categories: Best Use of Steel, Offsite Professional of the Year and Commercial Project of the year. These short listings are a credit to how hard the company is working to develop original solutions. Trimo’s most recent landmark project located at Aerospace Bristol, The Concorde Museum, is the project that has been nominated for the Commercial Project of the Year Award. The Project was designed by Purcell Architects, and Trimo’s Qbiss One created a façade that has a unique embossed image of a Concord on one side. For this detail Trimo has been nominated for the Best Use of Steel award. The Offsite Professional of the Year shortlisting is for the Key Accounts Director Mark Lewis for his part on The Concord Museum project. Lewis has worked in the building industry for the past 33 years and has been able to contribute to a number of the most pioneering construction projects throughout the UK over the course of his long career. The Offsite Construction Awards will be taking place on the 13th June 2017 and looks to recognise and celebrate the best aspects of precision building and delivery as well as looking to reward those who deliver the outstanding examples of prefabrication and a number of offsite based methods, products and systems in order to make the built environment more sustainable. Trimo being shortlisted for three prestigious accolades is great news for Trimo, as their hard work is receiving recognition and the Awards will help the company increase their profile through related publicity. The Awards event on the 13th June will be a good opportunity for companies to come together and celebrate the success of the offsite construction sector as well as the individuals and companies that are announced as winner of the awards.