National Lighting is celebrating the official reopening of its flagship trade counter in Park Royal (London), a meeting point for property developers, traders and specialists from the UK’s lighting and electrical industry. Park Royal is the brand’s oldest trade counter and its renovation kick-starts an ambitious expansion project for the lighting manufacturer, which will see…
Attracting talented newcomers keen to launch careers in wholesale and merchant businesses was at the heart of a recent event to announce a brand new apprenticeship standard for the sector – Trade Supplier Level 2. Hosted jointly by the Electrical Distributors’ Association (EDA) and the Builders Merchants Federation (BMF), over 50 guests from employers and…
With today’s advances in the internet of things (IoT), the digital realm’s abilities to save us more time, energy and money, means we’re becoming more efficient than ever. How we turn energy savings into a financial benefit for the long run though is another matter. Only recently the Association of British Insurers through the British…
By: Stephen Currier, UK Sales Director at Eaton LED is the future Innovation has largely centred around improving performance and efficiency for LED lighting. This is now starting to plateau as LED chip technology has started to reach its maximum potential. With that said, more and more, we are seeing various designs of products that…
Cooper Weston Electrical Contractors, a fully trained NICEIC (National Inspection Council for Electrical Installation Contracting) company, have announced they have achieved CHAS Accreditation, which completes a successful 2017 for the skilled team. Founded in 2012 by Stuart Cooper and Shane Weston, they offer contracting services throughout London and Sussex and highlight that the new accreditation…
Yet electrical safety for private renters in England is lagging behind the rest of the country. Commenting on the Government’s plan to delay implementing mandatory electrical safety checks in England’s private rented sector (PRS), Phil Buckle, chief executive of leading consumer charity, Electrical Safety First, said: “The Grenfell House tragedy clearly showed more must be…
Heating controls expert Drayton, part of Schneider Electric, is on a festive mission to find its ‘Three Wiser Men’ with the launch of a special online quiz and Christmas giveaway. Installers knowledge will be put to the test with 10 carefully selected questions, including a mixture of general knowledge, installer-related topics, and a handful of…
Yorkshire-based power engineering firm Smith Brothers has enlisted a new tendering engineer, as it prepares for further continued growth in 2018. Marc Hildreth joins the high voltage experts from Schneider Electric, bringing 12 years of electrical engineering experience to the 5-strong tendering team. As team leader of the 11kV project division in his previous role,…
Smart charging, the system that manages the recharging of electric vehicles to reduce pressure on electricity networks, could prevent the need for a costly overhaul of the nation’s electricity infrastructure to cope with the widespread adoption of EVs, according to the interim results of a UK trial. According to weekly British automobile magazine, Autocar, the…
Leading apprenticeship training specialist JTL has opened yet another dedicated training centre – this time a significant investment in a new electrical centre on the campus at Mid-Kent College in Maidstone. The official opening of the new centre was carried out by local MP Helen Grant who has recently been appointed as the new Chair…