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The Electrical Contractors' Association (ECA) has appointed Carolyn Mason as its new head of education and training.
An investigation which concluded rats caused a collision between two trains which left 40 people injured highlights the constant battle between animal pests and man’s vital infrastructure says Dr Jeremy Hodge, chief executive of the British Approvals Service for Cables (Basec). At the beginning of July a high-speed TGV was struck from behind by a regional train in south west France. The regional train had passed a signal wrongly set on green and the potentially catastrophic malfunction was caused by rodents gnawing through trackside signal cables, an SNCF inquiry found.
Magnomatics has become part of a consortium developing new actuators for primary aircraft control systems, based upon its Pseudo Direct Drive (PDD) electric machine. The consortium is led by Triumph Actuation Systems –UK & IOM and also includes Romax Technology and the University of Sheffield.
New research from the Electrical Contractors’ Association (ECA) suggests businesses in the electrical contracting sector posted an improved performance for the first quarter of 2014.
Cibse’s Building Performance Awards 2015, now calling for entries, features a new category – the Building Control System Award. This Award recognises the importance of integrated and automated control systems in managing and maintaining optimum building performance.
The Electrical Contractors’ Association (ECA) is urging business owners in the electrotechnical sector to write to their local MPs expressing their fears about the impact of proposed changes to apprenticeship funding.
