February 16, 2024
Because It's Your Job to Know – Quelfire Launches Campaign and White Paper

Because It’s Your Job to Know – Quelfire Launches Campaign and White Paper

In the ever-changing world of construction, staying informed is crucial. Quelfire’s campaign and white paper aim to shift the narrative and promote an open conversation about embracing responsibility. They also focus on the importance of early engagement, collaboration, and education in the construction industry. Because it’s your job to know.

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Henley secures approval for Fulham wharf development

Henley secures approval for Fulham Wharf development

Henley Investment Management has secured plans to redevelop Albert and Swedish Wharf in Fulham. Henley plans to build a cluster of six to 17 storey residential buildings with 276 apartments while also bringing the wharf back into use. Albert & Swedish Wharf is described as one of the last remaining

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Unveiling the Potential: AI-Powered Paraphrasing Tools in Content Enhancement

Unveiling the Potential: AI-Powered Paraphrasing Tools in Content Enhancement

Maintaining individuality and originality is essential to staying visible in the modern world, where content dictates the rules throughout the platforms. However, the constant demand for fresh, engaging content often poses challenges, particularly regarding timespan and resources. Creating enough articles, posts, guidelines, and other text for the audience to keep

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February 16, 2024

Because It's Your Job to Know – Quelfire Launches Campaign and White Paper

Because It’s Your Job to Know – Quelfire Launches Campaign and White Paper

In the ever-changing world of construction, staying informed is crucial. Quelfire’s campaign and white paper aim to shift the narrative and promote an open conversation about embracing responsibility. They also focus on the importance of early engagement, collaboration, and education in the construction industry. Because it’s your job to know. Since the Grenfell Tower fire and subsequent changes to legislation, fire safety has become a significant industry focus, and the importance of passive fire protection has started to be acknowledged.   The campaign emphasises the industry’s responsibility to recognise the significance of early engagement in firestopping and the selection of suitably tested details. It also highlights the imperative for manufacturers to operate transparently, providing key information to all parties involved in building projects. Following the campaign, Quelfire’s white paper delves into early engagement in more detail, exploring best practices that can save lives, reduce damage to a building and its contents in the event of a fire, and minimise construction delays and costs. Early engagement is about collaborating with the relevant key stakeholders as early as the design stage to retain fire ratings of walls and floors. This is achieved by appropriately sealing service penetrations with tested firestopping systems. It is also about cross-party communication, sharing of information and competencies, and understanding a project’s requirements before build commences.    The white paper is a useful guide for anyone designing and managing the installation of service penetration seals, from main contractors to designers and firestopping contractors. It is an invaluable resource for professionals looking to enhance fire safety in their projects. Because it’s your job to know. Craig Wells, Sales Director at Quelfire, said, “The construction industry is starting to realise the responsibility it has when it comes to protecting people and property. Though it has taken a national tragedy and subsequent legislative changes to create the catalyst for change, change is happening. We at Quelfire will continue to test, share, and educate to support this change and, ultimately, create safer spaces. It is a pleasure to launch this campaign and white paper, which seeks to provide insight into best practices concerning the passive fire protection of service penetrations. Knowledge is power.” ——————– Quelfire is a leading manufacturer and supplier of tested firestopping solutions for service penetrations in buildings. What makes Quelfire stand out is the unwavering passion that everyone, from management to production, has for what we do: Protecting People & Property.Our mission is to support all parties involved in the design and installation of service penetration seals, including architects, designers, main contractors, firestopping contractors, and other specialist trades from dry-lining contractors to mechanical and electrical contractors. Building, Design & Construction Magazine | The Choice of Industry Professionals

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Henley secures approval for Fulham wharf development

Henley secures approval for Fulham Wharf development

Henley Investment Management has secured plans to redevelop Albert and Swedish Wharf in Fulham. Henley plans to build a cluster of six to 17 storey residential buildings with 276 apartments while also bringing the wharf back into use. Albert & Swedish Wharf is described as one of the last remaining undeveloped riverside locations on the River Thames in London. Henley’s scheme will transform an underused two-acre site by Wandsworth Bridge on the north bank of the River Thames to provide a 55,000 sq ft last mile logistics facility. The development will include the new wharf and ancillary office space. The planning application approved by London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham councillors for Henley includes a new jetty to improve capacity for handling waterborne cargo. The 276 residential apartments will range in size from studio to four-bed and 35% of them will be designated as affordable, a mix of social rent and intermediate rent. Every flat will have a private balcony or terrace, the developer said. Ian Rickwood, chief executive of Henley Investment Management, said: “The redevelopment of Albert & Swedish Wharf is a truly unique opportunity to bring this site back into positive use. Not only does it provide much needed housing for London but also an operational wharf for last mile logistics, where demand remains high and having a site like this is incredibly rare. The River Thames has huge untapped potential for handling light freight and utilising the river more will help ease congestion and reduce pollution across London. “This scheme is a prime example of how underused brownfield land can be repurposed to help meet housing need in London. The development will completely transform this part of the riverfront and the continuation of the Thames Path will create riverside access for new residents and the existing community.” Building, Design & Construction Magazine | The Choice of Industry Professionals

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Unveiling the Potential: AI-Powered Paraphrasing Tools in Content Enhancement

Unveiling the Potential: AI-Powered Paraphrasing Tools in Content Enhancement

Maintaining individuality and originality is essential to staying visible in the modern world, where content dictates the rules throughout the platforms. However, the constant demand for fresh, engaging content often poses challenges, particularly regarding timespan and resources. Creating enough articles, posts, guidelines, and other text for the audience to keep them engaged while adhering to the quality standards and making them unique and original is a severe challenge for anyone. This is where AI-powered paraphrasing tools step in, revolutionizing the content creation and offering a viable solution for enhancing content quality. In this article, we delve into the efficacy of these tools in enriching content, their role in the originality AI bypass, and their impact on the digital landscape. Redefining Content Quality: The Rise of AI Paraphrasing Tools AI-powered paraphrasing tools have emerged as game-changers in the realm of content creation. Leveraging sophisticated algorithms and natural language processing (NLP) techniques, these tools have the capacity to understand the context and nuances of the original content before generating rewritten versions. By harnessing the power of AI, these tools enable users to produce high-quality, unique content that meets the standards of authenticity and relevance. Whenever you have a text you need to rewrite to avoid AI detection, paraphrasing services do it, making the machine-generated origin of the text practically indetectable. One such exemplary tool is the innovative article rewriter tool, which stands out for its ability to rewrite text without triggering AI detection mechanisms. This tool and many others stand as a practically undetectable AI rewriter, making any text longer, better, more specific, or stylized while still sounding like something human-made. Employing advanced algorithms, this tool ensures that the rewritten content maintains originality while evading detection by AI-based plagiarism checkers. This feature is invaluable for businesses and content creators seeking to repurpose existing content while maintaining its integrity and authenticity. Elevating Content Excellence: Unleashing the Potential of AI Paraphrasing Tools The efficacy of AI-powered paraphrasing tools extends beyond mere content generation to encompass a myriad of applications across diverse domains. Whether it involves refining academic papers for scholarly publications, enhancing the readability of marketing collateral, or optimizing website content for search engine performance, these tools offer unparalleled versatility and efficiency. AI paraphrasing tools empower users to iterate swiftly and tailor content to specific audiences or platforms by automatically generating rewritten text versions. In a way, AI paraphrasers serve as a prism, able to diversify and modify any original text while strictly adhering to its structure, sense, message, and even keywords, which is the go-to solution to enhance the SEO performance of any web page.  Furthermore, these tools play a crucial role in originality AI bypass of detection mechanisms deployed by plagiarism checkers and content filtering systems. By rewriting content in a manner that preserves its meaning while altering its linguistic structure, AI paraphrasing tools create content that is virtually undetectable by AI-based algorithms. This ensures not only the originality of the rewritten content but also safeguards against potential copyright issues or penalties associated with duplicate content. Unleashing Creative Potential: The Impact of AI Paraphrasing Tools AI paraphrasing tools unleash creative potential by democratizing access to advanced linguistic capabilities. Whether it involves generating engaging social media posts, crafting compelling product descriptions, or refining academic essays, these tools serve as invaluable resources for enhancing written communication skills across all proficiency levels. By streamlining the content creation process, AI paraphrasing tools enable users to focus on ideation and strategic planning, thereby maximizing the impact and effectiveness of their content initiatives. Forget about the tedious and monotonous rewriting process; let the AI do all the boring stuff while you are creating something new and unique. Moreover, the ability of AI paraphrasing tools to generate content that closely resembles human-authored text has profound implications for journalism and media industries. By leveraging AI to assist in writing, journalists can streamline their workflow, produce timely, accurate news coverage, and maintain editorial standards without compromising quality or originality. Although it is still possible to rewrite text without AI assistance, it is a tool that is made to streamline, simplify, and optimize any copywriter’s, journalist’s, or any other writer’s work. Precision Redefined: The Role of AI in Content Refinement Precision is paramount in content refinement, and AI-powered tools excel in mastering this aspect. By analyzing the semantic structure of the original text and rephrasing sentences with accuracy, these tools ensure that the rewritten content retains its coherence and clarity. Furthermore, AI paraphrasing tools can adapt to different writing styles, tones, and genres, effectively allowing users to tailor their content to specific audiences or objectives. The main issue with most AI text-generating models is that they sound alike, giving away the artificial nature of the text. However, due to the rapid development of AI paraphrasers, covering the origin of AI-generated text is becoming increasingly accessible and practical.

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Aston University to transform IT company with cyber security management expertise

Aston University to transform IT company with cyber security management expertise

Aston MBA students choosing cyber security as a pathway will gain critical, real-world insights by using BIT Group management as a working case study. Aston University has teamed up with a South West-based IT company through a knowledge transfer partnership (KTP) to transform the business into a world-leading cyber security education, training and technology solutions provider, with a focus on managing outsourced cyber security services for its customers. BIT Group is a multi-award-winning information technology company offering high-quality IT, cyber and information security services and digital apprenticeships. A KTP is a three-way collaboration between a business, an academic partner and a highly qualified researcher, known as a KTP associate. The UK-wide programme helps businesses to improve their competitiveness and productivity through the better use of knowledge, technology and skills. Aston University is a sector leading KTP provider, with 80% of its completed projects being graded as very good or outstanding by Innovate UK, the national body. The KTP will develop new income streams by enhancing and growing the range of cyber security services, training and apprenticeships and technology platforms offered through its Security Operation Centre. This involves adapting and streamlining how BIT Group operates, and embedding skills so the company’s growth and future profitability can be sustained. The project is led by Professor Vladlena Benson, an industry-recognised expert in cybersecurity risk management and director of Aston University’s Cyber Security Innovation (CSI) Research Centre, who is a member of the UK’s Cyber Security Council. She is joined by Dr Anitha Chinnaswamy, deputy director of the CSI Centre and a senior lecturer in cyber security management, who has delivered multiple research and consultancy projects aimed at supporting the cybersecurity sector. For Aston University, the industry partnership will enhance academic knowledge of cyber security management by adding depth and applied learning. In addition, Aston University MBA students, who have selected cyber security as a pathway, will have access to the BIT Group management KTP as a working case study, gaining critical, real-world insights into cyber security that will enrich their learning experience and prepare them for their future careers. Michael Dieroff, CEO of BIT Group, said: “As CEO of BIT Group, I am immensely proud of our partnership with Aston University through the knowledge transfer partnership. “This collaboration not only enriches our company with cutting-edge business insights but also marks a significant milestone in our journey towards industry leadership. “By integrating Aston University’s advanced research capabilities and our innovative spirit, we are setting new standards in cyber security solutions and redefining our market approach. “This partnership is a testament to our commitment to excellence and our dedication to delivering unparalleled value to our clients and stakeholders.” Dr Anitha Chinnaswamy, deputy director of the Cyber Security Innovation Research Centre at Aston University, said: “This management KTP allows us to leverage Aston University’s critical mass of expertise in cyber security management from our industry-aligned research and consultancy to enhance BIT Group’s services, business delivery model and go-to-market strategies.” Kumara Swamy, KTP associate and Aston MBA alumnus, said: “Having worked across a range of large businesses, and recently completed an Aston University MBA, this management KTP gives me the freedom to apply my skills, industry knowledge and creativity to develop and deliver solutions that will drive transformation in a small business.” You can find out more about the KTP here. Building, Design & Construction Magazine | The Choice of Industry Professionals

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