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Manufacturing company Attwater is mourning the loss of one of its stalwarts after technical director Tom Eland passed away following a short illness.
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.
Only 7 days remain to book onto Powerstar's free webinar which is being held on 18 March 2014 between 11:00am - 12:00pm. Any organisation interested in reducing their electricity usage and carbon emissions, can find out about the sustainable savings to be gained from voltage optimisation (on average between 12%-15%), which has an excellent payback period.
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.
As nominations open for £1m Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering there is a call for the parents of girls to look at engineering differently.
