Defra have now confirmed that from the end of 2020, most retailers will be required to provide in-store WEEE takeback. The new requirement will apply to all retailers and wholesalers with annual sales of electrical items above £100,000. Online retailers without physical retail premises, and retailers with sales below the cut off can avoid the…
Social housing ventilation experts Vent-Axia are delighted to reveal that they have been named as a finalist at the prestigious EEM Building Communities Awards 2020. Shortlisted in the Innovative Product category, the company’s PoziDry Compact Pro offers a totally new way of thinking about Positive Input Ventilation (PIV) and is the ideal solution for combating…
Following a surprise break into the electric vehicle (EV) market, Dyson’s £2 billion project came to the end of the road in October 2019. As the famed maker of vacuum cleaners and hair dryers failed to find a way to make its project commercially viable, is the EV hype fizzling out? Here, Simone Bruckner, managing…
TESP calls on industry to help light up the imaginations of the next generation The whole electrical industry is being called upon to share knowledge, insights and the reality of roles across the sector to inspire the next generation, in a new campaign from The Electrotechnical Skills Partnership (TESP). Under the launch banner of ‘Light…
Market-leading ventilation expert Vent-Axia has shown its design leadership in tackling the problems of poor indoor air quality (IAQ) in the home with three products being shortlisted in two categories each at the prestigious H&V News Awards. This impressive shortlisting success is for Vent-Axia’s PoziDry Compact Pro, the Vent-Axia PureAir Sense and the Silent Fan…
Contractor, Roc Electrical, has specified Univolt’s maxi-trunking as part of the firms M&E works on the latest phase of Quintain’s Wembley Park development ‘EO5’. Forming part of the development’s 85-acre project which sees the transformation of an abandoned industrial area into a public facing mixed use space, EO5 includes the construction of three tower block’s…
A Suffolk based charity is looking forward to a more efficient New Year thanks to the generosity of a local business. The Eye Opportunity Group, based behind the Hartismere Hospital in the town, has been running for 35 years and supports families with children under five who have disabilities or special needs. But its only…
Comments by Mark Lant, technical sales manager at ProGARM When it comes to industrial safety, all of us understand the importance of wearing a hard hat, protective gloves or steel toe-capped boots. In fact, most employers wouldn’t dream of letting their teams on-site without adequate protection, and workers themselves are more than clued up when…
With eight shows still to go, NICEIC and ELECSA’s latest TechTalk series has already been attended by a record number of electricians. Over 1,700 contractors have registered to attend the 15 regional shows happening across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The NICEIC and ELECSA team are now gearing themselves up for the second phase of…
Gira, one of the world’s leading full-range suppliers of intelligent building technology is proud to unveil its new video highlighting the benefits of a KNX Smart Home by Gira: Smart Building Technology that is convenient, secure and economically future-proof … Mark Booth Managing Director, Gira UK says “Everyone seems to know the term ‘smart home’,…