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Commissioning & Reliability

No cutting corners

Paul Nolan, national projects manager from cable management specialist, Unitrunk, discusses the need to maintain the integrity of the cable management specification while maximising other opportunities to reduce installed costs.

19 August, 2019
Commissioning & Reliability

Fire safety after Grenfell: Where is the reform?

Tom Brookes, managing director of Lindum Fire Services and chair of the FSA, discusses the drastic need for a ‘radical systemic overhaul’ when it comes to fire safety in buildings.

19 August, 2019
Commissioning & Reliability

The next steps

Cable management has constantly evolved throughout the years, from traditional methods such as on-site installation to pre-assembled cable solutions – it’s ever changing with the times. HellermanTyton takes a look at the current, and future, cable management landscape.

16 August, 2019
Commissioning & Reliability

Hot off the press

16 August, 2019
Commissioning & Reliability

Taking responsibility

Recolight explains the WEEE regulations and how they affect contractors and their customers.

16 August, 2019
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Commissioning & Reliability

New code for domestic fire alarms

A new edition of the Code of Practice for fire alarms in housing, BS 5839-6:2019, has just been published, reinforcing the importance of interconnected smoke and heat alarms as an essential first line of defence to provide early warning of fire at low cost, as Kidde Safety Europe reports.

16 August, 2019
Commissioning & Reliability

Stay in control

When it comes to your physical racks and servers, do you know who has access to your assets? Stephen O’Connell, managing director at Rack-Sec, outlines how you can utilise electronic access control to ensure fool-proof security at rack-level.

16 August, 2019
Commissioning & Reliability

Revolutionising industry with automation

Could the fully autonomous data centre be closer than we think? Matthew Beale, modern data centre architect at Ultima, explores the marriage between man and machine when it comes to establishing the data centre of the future.

16 August, 2019
Commissioning & Reliability

A step too far?

Any work at height carries risk. Preventing accidents from falls relies on all stakeholders using an informed, joined-up approach to practices and systems. James Sainsbury, fall protection sales leader for MSA Safety, explains why a holistic approach to safety is needed, and highlights the potential risks of making ill-informed changes to a defined safety system specification.

15 August, 2019
Commissioning & Reliability

Changing the landscape

Henry Lawson, BSRIA's senior market research analyst, discusses how building controls are evolving towards a future of smart, integrated buildings.

15 August, 2019