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Commissioning & Reliability

Women wanted

Jess Costanzo, specification sales manager at Simmtronic, discusses the gender disparity within the industry, highlighting where the UK is falling short, the unsung opportunities available to young people and what we can do to not only encourage more women to get involved

13 February, 2020
Commissioning & Reliability

BS 5839-6:2019: Are you up to date? 

With revisions to the standard for domestic fire detection introduced last year, Neil Baldwin, managing director at ESP, takes a look at the key updates that contractors need to be aware of, to ensure that they are fully compliant when installing fire alarm systems.

13 February, 2020
Commissioning & Reliability

Southern Manufacturing & Electronics 2020

Southern Manufacturing & Electronics returns to Farnborough from 11 to 13 February 2020.

12 February, 2020
Commissioning & Reliability

Amazing spaces

Paul Jones, director, UK and Ireland at BEG Lighting Controls, discusses how flexible lighting controls can transform public buildings into super-efficient, multi-use spaces.

12 February, 2020
Commissioning & Reliability

Protecting the vulnerable: Electrical safety after Grenfell

ECA’s director of technical Mike Smith and director of employment and skills Andrew Eldred, highlight the continued fire risk due to under-qualified installers in response to this summer’s ‘Raising the Bar’ consultation, which followed the tragic Grenfell Tower fire of 2017.

12 February, 2020
Commissioning & Reliability

The customer’s always right

Negative reviews, we’ve all had them in one form or another, but negative reviews from customers online can have a catastrophic impact on sales. In this article Jean-Pierre Rosserot, technical director at SGS, explains how performance testing could help shield manufacturers from negative customer reviews.

12 February, 2020
Commissioning & Reliability

The road to success

Matt Evans, product engineer at Future Facilities, explains why thermal management is essential to the future success of electric cars.

12 February, 2020
Commissioning & Reliability

WEEErk it

Nigel Harvey, chief executive at Recolight Ltd explains how specifiers can work the WEEE system to get their waste lighting recycled free of charge.

11 February, 2020
Commissioning & Reliability

The rise of self-driving buildings

Jordan O’Brien, contributing editor for Electrical Review, discovers how AI and machine learning is creating a new breed of smart buildings.

17 December, 2019
Commissioning & Reliability

Raising the stakes

If introduced, the UK Government’s proposed plans for the tightening of the Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards could have major implications for building manager engineers everywhere, says Gavin Holvey, general manager, sales – UK & Ireland at Priva.

13 December, 2019