EMEX 2017 provided the perfect platform to announce the formation of Pilot Group Infrastructure. Part of Pilot Group Limited – a family run business whose main focus is introducing innovative new technologies to the market – Pilot Group Infrastructure brings together in one division more than 60 years’ experience in the electronics, electrical, heating and…
Former Olympic athlete Kriss Akabussi MBE inspired a crowd of more than 300 electricians with a rousing talk at this year’s Live North event. Akabussi hit the headlines in 1991, when he anchored the final leg of the 4×400 metres relay at the World Championships in Tokyo to win Gold for Great Britain. He was…
Sadiq turns Grenfell lessons into action in his new draft London Plan Plan to require ‘highest standards’ of fire safety at the earliest planning stages Independent ‘Fire Statement’ to accompany all major development planning applications Fire evacuation lifts to provide swift and dignified evacuation for people who require level access The Mayor of London, Sadiq…
The Chancellor might be in the builders’ ‘good books’ following the Budget, but he has missed an open goal on skills, according to the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA). Philip Hammond has been widely praised for his pledge to build 300,000 new homes a year supported by £44 billion of capital funding, loans and guarantees….
2017 marks a significant year for leading British manufacturer Drayton, as the company celebrates the 25-year silver anniversary of not one, but two of its leading products – the Lifestyle LP programmer and the iconic TRV4. Drayton’s versatile Lifestyle LP programmers and TRV4 were introduced in 1992. Over the last 25 years, Drayton has sold…
REHAU technical support engineer Michael Agyeman has been nominated for the BEAMA Young Manufacturer Award, in recognition of his achievements in developing Building Information Modelling (BIM) content for REHAU’s cable management and plumbing products. The BEAMA Young Manufacturer Award is for young people (up to 25 years old) who have excelled in research and development,…
NAPIT EXPO 2017 has impressed electrical contractors in four locations over the UK with an informative technical line-up and exhibition hall packed full of partners. According to the certification body, the free-to-attend events which took place in Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds and London featured two sessions, one in the afternoon and one in the evening, allowed…
The Government has committed significant investment to improve the charging infrastructure for next-generation vehicles. To support the transition to zero emission vehicles, the Government said it will regulate to support the wider roll-out of charging infrastructure and invest £200 million, to be matched by private investment into a new £400 million Charging Investment Infrastructure Fund…
A Paisley based utility services company has been fined for exposing four of its employees to asbestos during work at Anderson Tower in Motherwell in 2014. Hamilton Sheriff Court heard that four electricians employed by IQA Operations Group Ltd had been drilling through door transom panels to fit electric cables into each property within the…
Schools in Crawley and Horsham have joined the renewable energy revolution and are generating their own clean electricity from the sun’s rays. Three Bridges Primary School in Crawley and the Forest School in Horsham are the latest to join the West Sussex County Council Solar Power for Schools programme to install solar panels that will…