Development at Westminster Kingsway College, a further education college in the heart of central London, has seen the creation of more space and the re-fitting of existing areas in the college.

During this construction work, contractors BAM Construction Ltd have employed some 200 Bull Products’ Cygnus wireless fire alarm devices.  Linked to a central Cygnus control panel, there are 53 Cygnus call point alarms, 105 smoke detectors and 29 heat detectors, and a number of interface units which link with a new fire alarm system installed in the existing building.

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Foremans Relocatable Building Systems, part of the Portakabin Group and the UK’s largest supplier of refurbished Portakabin buildings, has started work on a contract worth in the region of £500,000 to construct a much-needed Youth Centre in the Hampshire market town of Romsey. 

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RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) is calling for more to be done to help the general public better understand the importance of major infrastructure projects to our fast paced lives and future economic growth.

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One of Poland’s premier nursing and care establishments, Dom Seniora Willmanowa Pokusa in Krzeszow, is now being protected with an industry-leading Axis EN fire system from Advanced also running its AlarmCalm false alarm management software.

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Security solutions provider, NW Systems has installed a carbon-neutral IP video solution to help leading property investment and development firm Eshton Group, showcase construction of the largest building it has ever commissioned. The 543,620 square foot Exertis Distribution Centre sits within the new 70-acre, Burnley Bridge Business Park at Junction 9 of the M65.

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Paul Whitehead, Managing Director of Alpha Building Services in Beckenham is the winner of a BMW X5 worth more than £50,000 in a Buildbase competition that rewarded those who do business with the merchant.

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Keyline, the UK’s leading distributor of construction and civils materials, has invested close to £1 million to provide Yard Grab equipment at its yards across the UK. This measure has been taken as part of an on-going Keyline programme to enhance employee health and safety.

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Mobile Mini, a leading hirer of portable accommodation and secure storage containers, with its UK headquarters in Stockton on Tees, has successfully achieved a gold level award for its growing fleet of HGV delivery vehicles, in the Fleet Operator Recognition Scheme (FORS), an initiative operated by Transport for London and assessed at Mobile Mini’s London depot.

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243 Ealing Road is a striking new residential development situated in North London using Aluprof window and curtain wall systems. Dark blue terracotta cladding is used across all 7 blocks of the development and together with the window systems offer the residents a trouble free and sustainable building envelope.

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Hyperoptic (www.hyperoptic.com), the UK’s leading Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband provider, today announces that it is the first UK telco to be awarded Q-Mark Fire Stopping Installation certification from BM TRADA (http://www.bmtrada.com/en-gb), a leading UK and international certification body.
Building owners, or those who assume the role of ‘Responsible Person’ under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety Order) are legally required to ensure that commercial premises have suitable and sufficient fire protection measures in the property and that these are properly maintained. Such measures are often compromised when services such as telecommunications are installed.

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