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Benjamin Maddock from Bracknell in Berkshire was crowned JTL National Apprentice of the Year 2013 in a ceremony at the Tower of London last week (Wednesday 26 February). Ben was picked from JTL’s 13 best building services engineering apprentices across England and Wales, each of whom had won ‘Regional Apprentice of the Year’ in their own area to secure their place at the national final.
To mark the ‘silver jubilee’ of the web, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is drawing attention to the huge contribution the internet has made to society while calling for a global debate about how we develop the web and improve digital skills to make sure it continues to create opportunities and enhance people’s lives over the next 25 years.
ABB has won three orders worth $60m (£36m) for internal and external telecommunication systems for three Statoil projects on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The orders were booked in the fourth quarter of 2013 and in the first quarter of 2014.
Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management, today announced the availability of three robust data centre Operation Services offerings designed to optimise and simplify data centre operations throughout each step of the data centre life cycle.
Provisional 2013 recycling figures released to WEEE schemes by the Environment Agency on 28 February 2014 show the UK lamp recycling rate increased from 39.5% in 2012 to 52.8% in 2013. The UK luminaire rate has also improved from 0.6% in 2012 to 2% in 2013.
The National Skills Academy for Environmental Technologies has extended its partnership with the Joint Industry Board for the Electrical Contracting Industry (JIB), including a range of funding streams for unemployed electricians looking to up-skill into renewables.
BSRIA is pleased to announce Andrew Eastwell, its outgoing chief executive, has been awarded Honorary Membership of BSRIA. This is only the 9th time this honour has been awarded in the 58 year history of the Association and the award is made to recognise an extraordinary contribution to the Association and the promotion of best practice in the building services industry.
Experts from the Electrical Contractors’ Association (ECA), BSRIA, Ofgem, The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and The National Grid will be grappling with the thorny problem of how to secure the UK’s future electricity supply during an open event on Thursday 27 March.
Bill Wright, head of energy solutions at the Electrical Contractors’ Association (ECA), responds to proposals from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) to set business rates for retailers based on their energy consumption: “The BRC’s proposal to set business rates based on energy consumption is an excellent way of incentivising retailers to put energy efficiency at the top of their list of priorities. Business rates represent a large proportion of their outgoings, so giving the option of reducing them, in line with their energy consumption, would provide a compelling case to be more energy conscious.”
