Slips, trips and falls are the biggest cause of unintentional injury in the world today. This 2 day international conference will share the latest research and ideas to help develop solutions to reduce the incidence and impact of this ongoing problem. Slips, trips and falls on the level, stair falls
dhf (Door & Hardware Federation) has announced it will soon welcome a new member to its training team. Mike Lee will join the organisation as a full-time trainer at the beginning of July. Mike, who has extensive experience in the installation and maintenance of automatic gates, will deliver safety courses
The Conveyancing Market Tracker for Quarter one of 2017 has been released. The results for the tracker has shown that the conveyancing market has stayed static, with only minor improvements when compared to Quarter four of last year. The research was put together for the Market Tracker by Search Acumen.
Fusion Building Systems has successfully passed its transfer assessments to the ISO9001 and ISO14001 2015 revisions without incurring any non-conformance remarks, making them a top quality company to work with. The ISO standards specifically for quality management and environmental systems are key to Fusion’s work in the offsite construction industry,
The Glass and Glazing Federation have been celebrating their 40th anniversary by commissioning and installing a historic timeline. This timeline will be located at the Federation Head Offices which are in Southwark in London. The GGF have been carrying out a marketing plan in order to recognise their 40th anniversary,
Simian Skill are working in collaboration with Tough Scaff to create a Construction Industry Scaffolders Record Scheme, or CISRS and an Overseas Scaffolder Training Scheme, or OSTS training centre. This training centre that has been formed through the partnership of the two companies is located in Chennai, Southern India. The
The most influential people in international architecture have been announced as a new Super Jury. This new Jury, will be who decides the award winners at the tenth World Architecture Festival. The Festival is being held this year in the Arena Berlin, Germany between the 15th and the 17th November
The Glass and Glazing Federation, or GGF, released their new Health and Safety Guide last week. The news was announced that the newly updated guide consists of an easy-to-use reference guide for people who are working with glass or in the glazing industry. Health and Safety is essential to all
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has today (Wednesday 11 February) launched its 2015 General Election campaign, #BuildaBetterBritain. All parliamentary candidates will be called upon to focus on the built environment issues that are important in most constituencies – building more good quality homes; ensuring we have well-planned places;
Date, time and location 10 May 2016 through to 24 November 2016, 9:00am start and 12:30pm finish, multiple locations across England. Locations: Date Location Date Location 2016 10 May 2016 Birmingham 16 May 2016 Warrington 17 May 2016 Cambridge
Slips, trips and falls are the biggest cause of unintentional injury in the world today. This 2 day international conference will share the latest research and ideas to help develop solutions to reduce the incidence and impact of this ongoing problem. Slips, trips and falls on the level, stair falls and falls from height will all be addressed and updated with the latest thinking. The Conference Co-Chairs are Steve Thorpe, Chair, United Kingdom Slip Resistance Group and Richard Bowman, Chair, Slips, Trips and Falls Technical Committee, International Ergonomics Association. WHO SHOULD ATTEND? THE EVENT WILL BE OF INTEREST TO RISK AND SAFETY MANAGERS, ARCHITECTS, DESIGNERS, SPECIFIERS AND FACILITIES MANAGERS ACROSS A WIDE RANGE OF SECTORS. Retail Catering Food Leisure Health Clubs Hotels Manufacturing Transport Source link
dhf (Door & Hardware Federation) has announced it will soon welcome a new member to its training team. Mike Lee will join the organisation as a full-time trainer at the beginning of July. Mike, who has extensive experience in the installation and maintenance of automatic gates, will deliver safety courses across the UK and Ireland. He will join a training team of three at the organisation’s head office in Tamworth. The new post has been created as a result of the unprecedented uptake of dhf’s training courses, with more than 1200 individuals having now successfully completed the organisation’s Safety Diploma scheme. dhf pioneered the Safety Diploma scheme in September 2013, with the introduction of training for those responsible for the safety of automated controlled powered gates. At the beginning of 2016, it then expanded its training offering with courses for personnel employed by industrial door companies and garage door companies. The courses, which cover specific elements relevant to the industry, are currently delivered throughout the UK at various locations by the dhf training team. More than 1000 people have now completed the two-day automated gate training course, more than 180 have qualified on the two-day industrial door training course and more than 65 on the one-day garage door training course. A further one-day industrial door training course will be launched later this year. Representing the key players in the industrial/commercial door, garage door and automated gate sectors, dhf says the on-going uptake of its Safety Diploma scheme is a key part in its ambitious plan to continue to significantly raise safety standards. “We look forward to welcoming Mike to the organisation,” says dhf Chief Executive, Bob Perry. “With a vast amount of knowledge in the automated gate industry, he joins a very experienced team. dfh is committed to raising standards through its extensive range of training programmes and the increasing demand for these fully demonstrates our commitment to improving safety. Specifiers, contractors and end users are increasingly recognising that the level of safety, quality and compliance offered by our member companies is reinforced through comprehensive training. There can be no place in our industry for inexpert personnel who supply and install unsafe, illegal products.” For further information on dhf’s training courses, visit www.dhfonline.org.uk/training.aspx
The Conveyancing Market Tracker for Quarter one of 2017 has been released. The results for the tracker has shown that the conveyancing market has stayed static, with only minor improvements when compared to Quarter four of last year. The research was put together for the Market Tracker by Search Acumen. Data has also been taken from the Land Registry which reveals that despite the flat market, there is still a healthy amount of competition in the conveyancing market. Last Year the Conveyancing transactions reached 245,275 in the final three months. From January to March this year, the figures recorded were 245,738. These numbers show that there has been a tiny improvement of 0.2%. These conveyancing levels include a dip in activity which occurred in February 2017. February saw the lowest levels of activity since April 2014. The significant increase in sales at the start of 2016 I the rush to beat the changes to stamp duty changes has also added a bleak tone to the slower market. This slowing of the conveyancing market is illustrative of the slowing taking place across the property market. For the Building and Construction market this could be bad news, with the number of property sales also flat lining. The future is unclear at the moment with the announcement of a snap election, although the property market is staying stable. This stability is good news, property is still selling, there just isn’t an increase in the number of properties that are selling. In the short term, the stable market I better than a shrinking one, but it isn’t a pattern that would be helpful in the long term. It is thought that because of the uncertain economic climate, property transactions are moving on slowly. The addition of the snap election doesn’t help the market. For the conveyancing market, challenger, or middle sized conveyancing firms are starting to outperform larger firms due to their flexibility and efficiency.
Fusion Building Systems has successfully passed its transfer assessments to the ISO9001 and ISO14001 2015 revisions without incurring any non-conformance remarks, making them a top quality company to work with. The ISO standards specifically for quality management and environmental systems are key to Fusion’s work in the offsite construction industry, where developers can be severely penalised for not demonstrating due diligence. Revised in 2015, the new standards require an organisation to demonstrate the use of a continual improvement-based management system, supported by that organisation’s senior personnel. Over the past 18 months, Fusion has done just that – for example, by training many of its employees in the recognised ‘Six Sigma’ techniques and tools for process improvement. And, by re-assigning one of its key personnel Adrienne Clark, from purchasing manager to continual improvement coordinator, making her solely responsible for the operation of Fusion’s Targets to Improve (TTI) system. Under Fusion’s TTI system, each department is required to present ideas for improvement projects and provide justifications which consider financial, health and safety and environmental implications. If ideas are accepted, implementation teams are set up and progress monitored against set targets. This system has proved so effective, it has now become a fundamental and permanent part of Fusion’s operations. Drew O’Mahony, Fusion Building Systems’ head of technical quality, said: “As it states on the ISO website, International Standards make things work. They provide an assurance of quality, services and systems and our business certainly couldn’t have achieved the success it has without these stamps of approval. “We challenge ourselves on a daily basis to improve the way we work, to innovate our products and to find ways of developing new solutions which can help drive the offsite construction industry forward. Having our working practices recognised and approved under the latest revisions of ISO9001 and ISO14001 means as a team we can be satisfied that we’re amongst the best in the industry, and our clients can have peace of mind that we continue to be worthy contractors.” To view the full requirements of these ISO9001:2015 and ISO14001:2015 visit www.iso.org www.fusionbuild.com
The Glass and Glazing Federation have been celebrating their 40th anniversary by commissioning and installing a historic timeline. This timeline will be located at the Federation Head Offices which are in Southwark in London. The GGF have been carrying out a marketing plan in order to recognise their 40th anniversary, and part of these celebrations are the new graphics and branding designed in to the interior of the Federation offices. This interior design has been a vital part of celebrating the heritage of the Federation. Throughout the GGF headquarters, visitors will be able to see the growth of the group and their plans for the futures. It is thought that the installation also works as a tribute to all of the members of the Federation that have helped the company adapt and expand in to the GGF it is today. The timeline installation in the Southwark offices is made from six different graphic panels. Each panel depicts a different section in the Federation’s history. The panels extend up until the most recent accolades for the company, including being awarded with the G16 Derek Bonnard Award for Unrivalled Excellence. Also depicted in the panels is GGF’s move to their new facilities and the availability of meeting spaces for their members. The GGF’s heritage spans back past their recognition as one of the earliest trade membership body to the Guild of Glaziers which was formed in the Pre-medieval era, in London in 1328. The GGF Timeline has also been created on a digital platform. As well as the new installation at the headquarters, in order to celebrate the anniversary, the Federation are having a “Life Begins at 40” party. This party will take place at The FIT Show on the 24th May, with drinks and live entertainment on offer in order to celebrate.
Simian Skill are working in collaboration with Tough Scaff to create a Construction Industry Scaffolders Record Scheme, or CISRS and an Overseas Scaffolder Training Scheme, or OSTS training centre. This training centre that has been formed through the partnership of the two companies is located in Chennai, Southern India. The centre is expected to offer the Level 1 Scaffolder Training for the CISRS certification and a Basic Scaffold Inspection Training Scheme. There is also the option of fulfilling a Scaffolding Supervisor Training at the training centre in Chennai and it is hoped that going forward there is the scope to expand their offerings and establish the right levels of accreditation so that the centre can offer Level 2 and 3 qualifications. The expansion of the training scheme will take place as the level of demand for the courses increases. The training centre has been praised during their Accreditation and it is hoped that the facility will be able to provide the correct level of training by Tough Scaff and Simian Skill in order for the training scheme to be a success. Simian Skill is a training provider that is established in the UK and on an international scale. With Simian Skill’s already established reputation, it is hoped that the training programme that has been set up in Southern India will be a success. The facility started operating quickly, and the first training programme took place the same week they were awarded the accreditation. On the first course were seven scaffolder working to complete the CISRS OSTS Level 1. Of the seven that attended this training course, five of the scaffolders worked for Cape PLC. During the training process, Cape also sent a delegation from their operations located in the Middle East in order to oversee the training programme. The training centre also offers some on-site accommodation as well as some welfare facilities that offer food for the people on the courses. This allows the delegates to travel from all over in order to go through the training courses.
The most influential people in international architecture have been announced as a new Super Jury. This new Jury, will be who decides the award winners at the tenth World Architecture Festival. The Festival is being held this year in the Arena Berlin, Germany between the 15th and the 17th November 2017. The Super Jury will be judging the entrants of the World Architecture Festival Awards. These awards are at the heart of the Festival as they look to celebrate the excellence shown by architects in projects around the world. The Super Jury for the 2017 festival includes Robert Ivy, the Chief Executive Officer for the American Institute of Architects. Robert Ivy will be the chair of the Super Jury at this year’s festival. Robert will be joined by The Director and Co-founder of MVRDV, Nathalie de Vries; Ian Ritchie, founder of his eponymous Ian Ritchie Architects and Christoph Ingenhoven, who created Ingenhoven Architects. The World Architecture Festival Awards consists of 31 different categories, where the entrants that have been shortlisted will be competing for prizes. These awards have been called the Oscars of the Architecture world and winning an award at the festival will be great publicity for the project and the architectural firm. These Awards are expected to take place over the course of the first two days of the three-day Festival. On the final day of the festival, the winners of each category will then have to present to the upper Jury who will then select the winners of the World Landscape, Future Project and Completed Building of the Year Awards. The deadline for the Awards programme has been extended until the 2nd June, which will allow more architects to enter their final projects in order to receive global recognition. This extension was announced as there was a significant number of applicants who wanted more time in order to complete their entry.
The Glass and Glazing Federation, or GGF, released their new Health and Safety Guide last week. The news was announced that the newly updated guide consists of an easy-to-use reference guide for people who are working with glass or in the glazing industry. Health and Safety is essential to all workers fulfilling their roles in a safe and correct manner, and those within the glass and glazing industry have now been provided with an updated reference guide for safe working. The GGF believe that the key to obtaining a safe work place and procedures is educating those in the sector and making sure the proper leaders and power is in place to enforce the various Health and Safety policies and processes that are in place. The new reference guide has been created to be easily accessible to those working in the Glass and glazing industry and offers a range of different advice about what to do when faced with a hazard as part of a working day and a simple list of directions about what you should do. The new guide also accommodated for the new changes to legislation around Health and Safety. Part of these changes includes focusing on the ability for those in the industry to work together as a team and to individually notice assess and manage any risks or hazards they come across. The new easy to navigate reference guide that has been released by the GGF look more at the practical application of a number of different safety practices. The guide also looks at how practices can be put in place by small and medium sized businesses, who are normally more proactive when implementing Health and Safety procedures. The new guide offers insight in to the practical applications as well as the legal aspects of Health and Safety practices. Alongside the handbook published by the GGF, there is also an online assessment where employers are able to be more aware of their employee’s safety knowledge and improve the effectiveness of their own protocols.
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has today (Wednesday 11 February) launched its 2015 General Election campaign, #BuildaBetterBritain. All parliamentary candidates will be called upon to focus on the built environment issues that are important in most constituencies – building more good quality homes; ensuring we have well-planned places; developing flood-proof communities; delivering energy efficient buildings and retrofitting those that are not; providing a good quality built environment to accommodate our ageing population and encourage a healthier population; and addressing the dilapidation of our school buildings. RIBA’s network of more than 35,000 UK-based members are being encouraged to get involved with the campaign, engage with other constituents and lobby their candidates to sign-up at www.architecture.com/BuildaBetterBritain to the pledge: ‘I promise to champion a better built environment for every community in my constituency to #BuildaBetterBritain’ The #BuildaBetterBritain campaign calls for: Better Homes TodayThe next Government must respond to the desperate need to build homes and make sure that we build homes that people want to live in and that enhance their lives. We built just 107,000 new homes in 2012/13 but need to be building 300,000 every year; in the next parliamentary term we need to build 1.5 million new homes. Happy Healthy PlacesThe next Government must look at ways to adapt to the needs of an ageing society, and promote healthier lifestyles. This means creating homes that are right for older people so downsizing is a desirable option and encouraging healthier transport options with a focus on active travel such as cycling and walking Creative Inspiring SchoolsSchools need to be fit for purpose and able to meet Britain’s sustained population boom – 256,000 extra school places were needed in England for the 2014 school year alone. We need to build creative and inspiring schools by taking advantage of standardisation and economies of scale to help create timeless, but better value buildings. Smarter Greener BuildingsOver the coming years, investment in new, lower carbon energy sources will mean that energy bills will continue to rise. At the same time, many of the UK’s buildings are poorly maintained and expensive to heat. The impending UK energy crisis can be countered by smarter greener buildings. Flood Proof CommunitiesFlooding isn’t going to go away. 1 in 6 properties in England – around 5.2 million homes – are at risk of flooding (from all water sources: rivers, sea, surface water). The total value of assets under flood risk exceeds £200 billion – more than the current budget deficit. The next Government needs to build flood-proof communities by giving Local Authorities more power to block developments in areas vulnerable to flooding. RIBA has created a campaign website at www.architecture.com/buildabetterbritain enabling architects and constituents to find and make contact with their candidates. The #BuildaBetterBritain campaign is based on RIBA’s report and recommendations, Building a Better Britain: A vision for the next Government. RIBA President Stephen Hodder said: ‘The built environment is vital to the financial and social success of our communities and country and the health and wellbeing of its inhabitants. RIBA’s clear priorities for the next Government, set out in the Building a Better Britain report, is the basis for this campaign. Now is the time to talk about what that means locally and how every prospective MP can champion the built environment in their area.’ ENDS Notes to editors: 1. For further press information contact the RIBA Press Office: 020 7307 3662 pressoffice@riba.org 2. All UK voters can ask their parliamentary candidates to sign up to the RIBA #BuildaBetterBritain pledge at www.architecture.com/buildabetterbritain 3. RIBA’s Building a Better Britain: a vision for the next Government can be downloaded here: http://www.architecture.com/RIBA/Campaigns%20and%20issues/BuildingABetterBritain/BuildingABetterBritain.aspx 4. The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) champions better buildings, communities and the environment through architecture and our members www.architecture.com Follow us on Twitter for regular RIBA updates www.twitter.com/RIBA Posted on Wednesday 11th February 2015 Source link
Date, time and location 10 May 2016 through to 24 November 2016, 9:00am start and 12:30pm finish, multiple locations across England. Locations: Date Location Date Location 2016 10 May 2016 Birmingham 16 May 2016 Warrington 17 May 2016 Cambridge 17 May 2016 Bristol 18 May 2016 Gateshead 18 May 2016 Hook 24 May 2016 Melton Mowbray 26 May 2016 Sheffield 8 November 2016 Hook 9 November 2016 Cambridge 10 November 2016 Birmingham 14 November 2016 Warrington 15 November 2016 Sheffield 16 November 2016 Gateshead 17 November 2016 Bristol 24 November 2016 Melton Mowbray Event overview A half day seminar that gives health, safety and environmental co-ordinators, managers and directors everything you need to know to keep your business compliant and up to date with the latest trends and key issues across health, safety and environment. We cover key legislative developments and updates to industry standards and guidance – all with a focus on the practical implications to your business, so you know what to do and how to prepare. The briefings also cover key topical issues with a review of recent prosecutions and a ‘hot topic’ where we focus on best practice and discuss common challenges of the industry. Who should attend? Health, safety and environmental co-ordinators, Managers and directors and those responsible for these areas within their business Further information, programme and booking For further information, full programme and booking details visit the EEF HSCE briefings web page. Source link