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  • Carbon monoxide week highlights prosecutions and death rate fall
    It is carbon monoxide awareness week (November 16-20) and while the Health and Safety Executive highlights prosecutions in 2008/9 against those who breached gas rules, a Corgi Trust's report highlights a fall in the number of CO-related deaths.
  • Construction firm failures drop in Q3
    Some 106 construction firms went into administration in Q3 2009, according to data issued by the Insolvency Service.
  • A new way of working for the M&E industry
    Collabor8 (www.collabor8online.co.uk) is a new online project management collaboration tool, developed to help M&E contractors and specifiers work smarter and more productively.
  • Freshvector from Dunham Bush
    Freshvector is an innovative new product from Dunham Bush that combines passive, natural ventilation with the company's Finvector perimeter heating system. As such it addresses the need to ensure high air quality with minimum energy consumption and low noise in a wide range of applications.
  • Hoval offers low carbon training
    Hoval's new Training Centre at the Centre of Renewable Energy (CORE) in Nottinghamshire has been created to provide an advanced training facility for specifiers and installers of low carbon technologies, as well as for end users.
  • BT rolls out Sabien's M2G following validation by AEA Technology
    BT has placed an initial order to install Sabien's M2G intelligent boiler load optimisation control. This first phase roll-out follows highly successful pilots of the M2G which delivered savings in energy consumption and CO2 emissions of up to 36%.
  • Preparing for the energy revolution!
    Britain is about to welcome a revolution that will help to meet the two current challenges of climate change and the credit crunch. Businesses and householders are rapidly realising that they can take control of the power they generate to light and heat their homes; and government-set Feed-In-Tariffs (FiTs) set to come in force next spring will help them benefit financially.
  • SAV provides green hot water solutions for the new Towers of London
    AquaCon Heat Exchange Modules from SAV Systems will supply hot water for heating and domestic services for an iconic development in the heart of the London Docklands.
  • Dalkia delivers CHP cost and carbon benefits to retail
    Dalkia is providing organisations in the retail sector, such as Tesco, with an environmental and cost effective solution to their energy needs. The installation of modular, onsite Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plants at Tesco stores throughout 2008 & 2009 has resulted in substantial carbon savings for the organisation. The scheme is delivered by Cogenco, Dalkia's specialist CHP subsidiary.
  • Thermo-Floor plays it cool in Abu Dhabi
    Thermo-Floor, the supplier of next generation energy efficient underfloor heating and cooling solutions, installed underfloor cooling at the prestigious Yas Marina Circuit at Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, home to the recent Formula 1 Grand Prix.
  • Trox UK gets new MD
    After 14 years as managing director of Trox UK, David Leatherbarrow has left the manufacturer and the md job has been taken up by Ludger Bkmann, head of International Business for the Trox group.
  • Local government suppliers exposed to postcode lottery
    The average time UK councils take to pay invoices to suppliers is almost double the 10-day target the government set it one year ago, but results varies widely from region to region.
  • Health and Safety Matters: Falling standards
    The dangers posed by working at heights are back in the spotlight following the successful prosecution of a Scottish construction firm for failing to protect a worker. Bob Towse, head of technical and safety at the HVCA, looks at the implications.
  • Editorial comment: Train managers to manage
    "Train the bosses or otherwise companies do not operate as efficiently as they should. I should have thought this was a given but it seems not, especially in building services" says Paul Braithwaite, editor of Heating and Ventilating Review.
  • Legal Matters: The truth about stress
    Do you expect employees to be "economical with the truth" to help to safeguard the company in this recession? Fergal Dowling, head of employment law at Irwin Mitchell, outlines the problems associated with employee stress.
  • Contractor Profile: Green and pleasant land
    The renewables industry is alive and well in the east of England as HVR discovered when it visited one of the region's leading m&e firms
  • Health and Safety Matters: Scalding threat has not gone away
    Changes to the Building Regulations are heavily focused on energy efficiency but Bob Towse, head of technical and safety at the HVCA, says safety must not be compromised.
  • Burning issue: Proactive approach to training maximises choices
    Calor's bulk market manager, Laura Luty, looks at ways for contractors to maximise new opportunities as well as teaming up with suppliers who give something back.
  • Company Profile: Direct and distributor routes work hard for FG Eurofred
    It has taken 18 months, a lot of confusion, some distrust and a lot of hard work, but now FG Eurofred is on track. Paul Braithwaite talks to Tony Gittings, sales director of FG Eurofred, about the partnership between Fujitsu and Eurofred and asks where the company is going.
  • Legal Matters: Don't go mad in the midday sun
    Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun but employers have a duty to protect their employees from the heat, says Fergal Dowling, head of employment law at Irwin Mitchell.
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